The result of BDA Tools is a toolbox for planning and modelling of new business activities. The tools are targeted as well at new start-up companies, as at (temporary) joint ventures of otherwise already well established firms. The main innovation of the BDA Tools is the comprehensive way of how the setting up of a new business activity is supported from the finetuning of the basic idea over the analysis of psychological and group dynamics in the management board, to the direct link of financial data from the market and strategy modelling modules to the business planning module.
The toolbox will combine a highly sophisticated and complex level of performance with an easy-to-use tool interface and an easy-to-understand, multimedia-supported tutorial for the underlying methodology, thus giving professional business analyzing and planning power to just set up companies.
During the project, the tools are first tested at the projects industrial partner sites and will then be made available to an open industrial user interest group for an extended field test. The feed back of both actions is then used to improve the tools up to their full commercial availability in early 1999.