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Permalink Reply by Vasanth on June 15, 2010 at 12:14am

Here is what i think that :)

http://cognitivecorpus.blogspot.com/2007/10/critical-skills-that-ba...


http://cognitivecorpus.blogspot.com/2007/11/bewildered-state-of-bus...

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Permalink Reply by Deepak Babu P R on June 15, 2010 at 9:51am

I recently moved from a role(aligned to BI ) to BA for an analytics firm .....here's my view ... a BA would look into the data more from a business perspective however a typical BI professional( i mean BO / Cognos dev) would look more in terms of bringing out facts & figures by charts rather than generate real insights which is actionable by senior management ...
Intereted in listening to other's comments as well ....

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Permalink Reply by DataLLigence on June 15, 2010 at 11:32am

From what I have seen, the first part is a BI role. And the second part is a BA role.

As far as India is concerned, anyone with a good background in Quantitative subjects can be BAs. So we have a lot of people with backgrounds like engineering, economics, stats, and MBA. The role of a BA in my company includes understanding the business problem, understanding the data/information required, extract or collate the data, explore/visualize/measure/transform the data, build predictive models, and present the results along with insights and recommendations.

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Permalink Reply by Matthew A. Riebel on June 21, 2010 at 8:45am

I completed a Business Intelligence training program through SetFocus L.L.C., a Microsoft Gold Certified partner. The goal of the program was to help people become business analysts. It involved creating a solution for a fictional business using SQL Server Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services. I then worked in three different departments at PepsiCo, and one of them was Business Analytics. In this job, I analyzed the evils of holding too much inventory, namely that products may sell as low code rather than to full-revenue customers.

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