Business analysis design support device, business analysis design support method and non-transitory computer-readable medium containing business analysis design support program

A business analysis design support method,

• wherein a computer, which includes a storage device including a business function hierarchy storage unit storing information on a business function hierarchy where an entire business is structured in a stepwise manner and information on a business use case which is an element of a lowermost layer of the business function hierarchy, and a business use case description storage unit storing a business use case description forming the business use case, performs:
• processing of reading the business use case description from the business use case description storage unit, searching a concatenation of predetermined words defined in each of the business use case descriptions among the business use case descriptions, specifying a relation among the business use cases to associate the business use cases with each other, and generating a business use case flow according to the association;
• processing of specifying a business function which is a higher-level of each of the business use cases included in the business use case flow with the information on the business function hierarchy in the business function hierarchy storage unit, specifying a concatenation of the business use cases extending across different business functions in the business use case flow, and associating the business functions with each other according to the concatenation to generate a business flow;
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• processing of displaying the business use case flow or the business flow generated on a display device.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing a business analysis design support program, causing a computer, which includes a storage device including a business function hierarchy storage unit storing information on a structured business function hierarchy and information on a business use case which is an element of a lowermost layer of the business function hierarchy, and a business use case description storage unit storing a business use case description forming the business use case, to perform:

• processing of reading the business use case description from the business use case description storage unit, searching a concatenation of predetermined words defined in each of the business use case descriptions among the business use case descriptions, specifying a relation among the business use cases to associate the business use cases with each other, and generating a business use case flow according to the association;
• processing of specifying a business function which is a higher-level of each of the business use cases included in the business use case flow with the information on the business function hierarchy in the business function hierarchy storage unit, specifying a concatenation of the business use cases extending across different business functions in the business use case flow, and associating the business functions with each other according to the concatenation to generate a business flow;
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• processing of displaying the business use case flow or the business flow generated on a display device.