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What Business Analysts Need to Know About Data?
Types and sources of data, the data life cycle, and business analytics basics to start with
What is the role of data in business analysis? Isn’t it something to worry about later, when working on design specs? Is this even a business analyst’s job?
This topic comes up regularly, and no surprise. Organizations create data at neck-breaking speed — and often it results in more data than they can manage.
Without intelligent data management practices, organizations are not able to take advantage of their data.
Business analysts play a central role in defining requirements for organizational changes — and it’s not possible to do that without considering data.
Data connects business processes and the parts of an organization to create an integrated enterprise. Every single business change involves changing business data: creating new data, sharing it, using it to make decisions or to store information for future use. We cannot analyze business processes and disregard the data that these processes will use or update.
We need data to:
- develop the right products
