Business Architecture defines the business strategy, governance, organization, and key business processes.

Objective of the BA is to create the Target Business Architecture that describes how the enterprise needs to operate to achieve the business goals, and respond to the strategic drivers set out in the Architecture Vision, in a way that addresses the Statement of Architecture Work and stakeholder concerns.

SOFTRAN is instrumental in above activity that addresses the statement of architecture work and stakeholders concern.

Gap analysis between the Baseline and Target Business Architectures is achieved by
SOFTRAN in a way that helps identify candidate architecture roadmap components.

SOFTRAN uses following techniques to progressively decompose a business:

• Business Capability Mapping
• Organization Mapping
• Value Stream Mapping
• Structured Analysis
• Use-case Analysis
• Process Modeling

SOFTRAN uses following Modeling Techniques:

• Activity Models (also called Business Process Models)
• Use-Case Models
• Class Models (similar to logical data models)
• The Node Connectivity Diagram - it describes the business locations (nodes), the "needlines" between them, and the characteristics of the information exchanged

The Information Exchange Matrix - it documents the information exchange requirements for an Enterprise Architecture