Enterprise analysis provides many things for an organization.

Enterprise analysis is a knowledge area that covers the activities of identifying and defining business needs and opportunities, and determining feasible solutions to meet the organizational goals and objectives. Enterprise analysis includes the following tasks: define business need, assess capability gaps, determine solution approach, define solution scope, and define business case. Solution performance assessment is not a task of enterprise analysis, but rather a task of solution evaluation, which is another knowledge area that covers the activities of measuring and validating the value delivered by a solution. References: BABOK Guide v3, page 25; CBAP / CCBA Certified Business Analysis Study Guide, page 69.