Business Analysis - Project Management -
Business Intelligence Consulting

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Business Analysis is the set of tasks, knowledge, and techniques required to identify business needs and determine solutions to business problems. Solutions often include a systems development component, but may also consist of process improvement or organizational change. It includes one or more of the following:

• Enterprise analysis focuses on understanding the needs of the business as a whole, its strategic direction, and identifying initiatives that will allow a business to meet those strategic goals.
• Requirements planning and management involves planning the requirements development process, determining which requirements are the highest priority for implementation, and managing change.
• Requirements elicitation describes techniques for collecting requirements from stakeholders in a project.
• Requirements analysis describes how to develop and specify requirements in enough detail to allow them to be successfully implemented by a project team.
• Requirements communication describes techniques for ensuring that stakeholders have a shared understanding of the requirements and how they will be implemented.
• Solution assessment and validation describes how the business analyst can verify the correctness of a proposed solution, how to support the implementation of a solution, and how to assess possible shortcomings in the implementation.

The Goal of Business Analysts are always to achieve the following outcomes:

Project Management is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives for an  endeavor (having specific start and completion dates) to create a unique product or service which brings about beneficial change or added value to a business.

• The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals and objectives while adhering to classic project constraints—usually scope, quality, time and budget. The secondary—and more ambitious—challenge is to optimize the allocation and integration of inputs necessary to meet pre-defined objectives. A project is a carefully defined set of activities that use resources (money, people, materials, energy, space, provisions, communication, motivation, etc.) to achieve the project goals and objectives.

BI – Business Intelligence refers to the sum of all technologies, applications and practices for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of business information and sometimes to the information itself. The purpose of business intelligence--is to support better business decision making. Thus, BI is also described as a decision support system (DSS):

• BI is sometimes used interchangeably with briefing books, report and query tools and executive information systems. In general, business intelligence systems are data-driven DSS.
• BI systems provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations, most often using data that has been gathered into a data warehouse or a data mart and occasionally working from operational data. Software elements support the use of this information by assisting in the extraction, analysis, and reporting of information. Applications tackle sales, production, financial, and many other sources of business data for purposes that include, notably, business performance management. Information may be gathered on comparable companies to produce benchmarks.

Business intelligence also often uses key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the present state of business and to prescribe a course of action and is extremely valuable set of metrics for any business to use.

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