business analyst

Blog Post

Are you an IT professional, a business analyst, or both?

October 14, 2008 5:00am PDT

It's not enough to have an expertise in just IT anymore. IT consultants are being challenged to assume analytical roles. How will you adapt?

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Blog Post

Goldilocks and the three business analysts

April 4, 2013 5:21am PDT

John Weathington has some suggestions for you when you're surveying the landscape of business analysts to augment your team of information specialists.

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Blog Post

Strategies for enabling more effective IT-Business collaboration with business rule technology

May 7, 2008 5:40am PDT

This blog examines how a Business Rule Engine (BRE) can improve Business Process Management (BPM) by delivering more agile business processes, provide practical approach to a Services Oriented...

Blog Post

IT leader's guide to working with industry analysts

July 30, 2009 6:46am PDT

Working with industry analysts is more complicated than most IT pros expect. The hard part is putting a process in place to ensure that you are getting the most out of your deal by educating your...

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10 things you should know about hiring a business or systems analyst

March 21, 2011 12:10pm PDT

Hiring the right business or systems analyst can be a tricky undertaking because the necessary skills and experience are often hard to define. Justin James offers some basic ways to help identify...

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A cert to help with IT/business alignment?

December 21, 2009 5:48am PST

QAI Global Institute of Orlando, Florida, is now offering a cert that can help IT pros bridge the IT/business gap.

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Blog Post

Business/systems analyst jobs, week of June 26, 2011

June 28, 2011 4:09am PDT

A listing of business/systems analyst job openings for this week.

Blog Post

Poll: Developers, do you pair up with business users?

November 26, 2012 11:19am PST

Answer this one-question programmer poll to let us know whether you ever work one-on-one with business users, and if so, whether you like this approach.

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Blog Post

IDC Directions09: Analyst perspectives on IT failure

March 17, 2009 8:31pm PDT

While attending the Directions09 conference in Boston, ZDNet blogger Michael Krigsman talked to two IDC analysts to get their take on why IT projects fail. Find out what they identify as the major...

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Blog Post

Review: Jitterbit Enterprise MX 3.0

October 26, 2009 8:38am PDT

Jitterbit 3.0 can link a variety of software packages to help enterprise business analysts better manage business information.

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Blog Post

Help your analysis team draft an actionable detailed use case

December 4, 2007 11:31am PST

An analysis team writes detailed use cases to describe the steps and characteristics of business processes. While use cases are often a central feature of a software requirements specification,...

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Blog Post

Mitigate project role confusion for staff wearing multiple hats

July 23, 2012 5:01pm PDT

If you expect your developers or contractors to take on business analyst or project manager roles, here are three ways to help them be effective and stay motivated.

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Articles

Business analysts: Clear communication may curb application development failures

May 7, 2007 7:00am PDT

Application development success depends on the clarity with which business analysts -- those liaisons between the development and business sides of the house -- explain each side's needs to the other.

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Articles

Analysts define partner relationship management products

April 23, 2003 7:00am PDT

Even after a few years, it's not 100 percent clear which functions are exclusive to partner relationship management. This week's Analyst Views column examines three sets of PRM functions and...

Whitepapers

The Evolving Role of the Business Analyst: The Business Rules Analyst Emerges as a New Star in the Business World

June 3, 2008 12:00am PDT

Traditionally, the business analyst has been responsible for analyzing the business needs of companies by identifying business problems and proposing solutions. With the advent of Service-Oriented...

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Tools & Templates

Business Systems Analyst CV

January 1, 2009 12:00am PST

As more large and small businesses alike begin to discover even greater potential with the assistance of the IT industry, more employment opportunities are being created for those interested in...

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Downloads

BizTalk Server 2006 Orchestration Designer for Business Analysts 1 (Windows)

August 23, 2007 12:00am PDT

This is the self extracting executable to be used for installing the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Orchestration Designer for Business Analysts. This tool is intended for Business Analysts to...

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White Papers

What Is a Business Analyst?

January 24, 2005 12:00am PST

The term Business Analyst is synonymous with a career in the IT industry but the most successful and valuable analysts are those who understand the "Business" rather than those who understand IT....

Provided by: IRM Training

White Papers

Eight Things Your Business Analysts Need to Know: A Practical Approach to Recognizing and Improving Competencies

February 15, 2006 12:00am PST

Each year, organizations across the globe face astronomical project failure rates, often wasting millions of dollars per failed project. This paper examines the roots of project failure and...

Provided by: ESI International

Whitepapers

The Business Analyst in Model-Driven Architecture: Separating Design From Architecture

September 9, 2008 12:00am PDT

From a software development viewpoint, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) encourages efficient use of system models. It also encourages reusing best practices as families of systems are produced. One...

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