Patent ID: 7624124

Claim:
A business specification generation assisting system for assisting generation of a business specification that implements business function specified by a user on the basis of programs to be analyzed, the business specification generation assisting system comprising: a central processing unit (CPU); a memory coupled with the CPU; and a storage device coupled with the memory, the storage device comprising: a physical model database for storing therein input and output relations between programs to be analyzed and physical data associated with the programs; a business model database for storing therein association of the business functions with logical data concerning the business functions; and an association model database for storing therein association of the physical data with the logical data and association of the business functions with programs used to execute the business functions, wherein the memory comprises a data driven analyzer responsive to a specified business function specified by a user, for acquiring logical data associated with the specified business function from said business model database, acquiring physical data associated with the acquired logical data from said association model database, acquiring paths starting from the acquired physical data and including other physical data and programs on the basis of input-output relations between programs and physical data stored in said physical model database, determining programs and physical data corresponding to the specified business function based on the acquired paths, and generating a relation diagram between the determined programs and the specified business function and a relation diagram between the determined physical data and the specified business function associated based on the association model database and the acquired paths.