Business systems planning (BSP) is a method of analyzing, defining and designing the information architecture of organizations.
The team searches for an appropriate organizational structure as it defines business strategy, processes and data classes[4] and analyzes current information support.
Examples include: The purpose of this step is to check the applications used by an organization, evaluating the importance of each to eliminate redundancy.
In the final analytical step the team discusses its results with management to confirm (or refute) assumptions, provide missing information, reveal deficiencies in the organization and establish future priorities.
When the organization has finished its work on processes and data classes, it should explore the functions and goals of the system with a list of requested departmental changes and a cost analysis.
Final recommendations and plans are made for the organization during this step, which encompasses information architecture, IS management and information-subsystem development and includes costs, profits and future activities.
It also demonstrated the need to separate data from its applications using it, supporting the database approach to software development methodology.