Analysis of a business process involves gathering information regarding the activities involved, sequence of activities, whether there are any special situations and how they are handled, performers of activities and if the performers can be referred to as business roles, information and documents that are passed through activities, and if they can be modified by activities. The information gathered via analysis is used for modeling the process in a form suitable for Documentum.
In the hiring process example described earlier, analysis may require talking to the Human Resources managers and the interviewers to understand the details such as how resumes are screened, who the interviewers are, if there are timing constraints between receiving a resume and scheduling an interview, who needs to be notified if there are any issues, etc.