Business analysis role
I am pursuing a sales & business development career and i enrolled for the business analyst path because it is somehow relevant to my position, however i don't find any role for business analyst here.
can you please declare the difference between business analyst, business intelligence, and data analyst roles?
Hi Ahmed,
The Business Analyst career track would be most suitable for you based on the description of your role:
https://365datascience.com/career-tracks/business-analyst/
Best,
Ned
can you please declare the difference between business analyst, business intelligence, and data analyst roles?
Hi Ahmed and Ned,
I hope you don't mind if I join the conversation.
@Ahmed: First, let me point out that companies and individuals might attach (slightly) different interpretations to these terms/job positions, but I think it is safe to define them in the following way.
A business intelligence analyst - a person who uses a business' past/history quantitative data to analyse the past performance of a company in order to provide understanding and insights into its activity. Here, we refer to the individual using their data and visualization skills to do analysis.
A data analyst - although the profession's term is again "analyst", here the individual's job is rather to do analytics - which, differently from "analysis" is about exploring patterns and behaviour about the future of the business; i.e. it's about making predictions. Of course, to do data analytics one must be well aware with the past performance of the company and it's indeed past quantitative data that it's being used, but it is used not for analysis, but for analytics - i.e. for predicting the future.
A business analyst - This individual's job is much like the job of a BI analyst and/or a data analyst, but the data they are using is not exclusively quantitative. It can also be qualitative. For example, this can be an experienced person in the industry who has gathered decades of knowledge of different business cases in various markets (e.g. markets in different countries), who can provide insight into the business' ongoing activity beyond the outcome of the quantiative analysis, as well as provide suggestions for improvement based on experience, not only on numbers.
Then, please remember to carefully read the job desctiprions that interest you, since quite often the activity a company would need to be covered by an individual might cover several of these functions.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Martin