Ltd Information Systems Design oCTAVe provides a natural link between the business user, and the IS perspective of a transformed business.
Business managers can use oCTAVe to specify their requirements.
They can compare existing practices with proposed future processes, fully backed with knowledge of the operational costs and human resources that will be needed. This information can be used by IS designers to accelerate new systems development with confidence that the systems will be economic and meet the needs of the business. The process maps are a business users view of the required processes. Underlying detail can be provided so that each task that uses a computer is defined in detail as a specification for IS design.