As the business intelligence perspective discussion continues, let us review the underlying competencies in this perspective.
The business analyst needs to have basic communication and analytical skills to be successful in collaborating with both business stakeholders and the initiative team members.
The planning of business information requirements with business intelligence systems results can also be improved by the business analyst’s competencies in areas such as:
- Business data such as terminology and rules.
- The analysis of complicated data structures and their translation into standardized format.
- Business processes which would be affected.
- Decision modelling.
- Data analysis techniques including basic statistics, data profiling,and analytics.
- Data warehouse and business intelligence concepts and architecture.
- Logical and physical data models.
- ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) best practices.
- Business intelligence reporting tools.