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What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency

CIO

The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), a nonprofit professional association, considers the business analyst “an agent of change,” writing that business analysis “is a disciplined approach for introducing and managing change to organizations, whether they are for-profit businesses, governments, or non-profits.”

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Taking an Analytical Approach to Project Management

Perficient

More and more with tech Project Managers, we’re seeing a multi-discipline approach to the role, ditching the “old ways” of project management in favor of agility and adding extra value to the team. I originally started at Perficient as a Business Analyst, transitioning into Project Management as I continued in my career.

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Software Outsourcing: Why CEOs Love It

Gorilla Logic

To deliver on these critical technology initiatives, companies need a sourcing strategy that balances speed to market and investment. It turns out that access to talented developers may be one of the most challenging pieces of the puzzle. . Software outsourcing: the CEO’s best (not so) new business strategy. Let’s talk.

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Your BI Implementation Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated

The Kini Group

Step 2: Get a Leader from Each Major Functional Team on Board. If your BI implementation initiative is immediately siloed to the IT team, it’s doomed from the get-go. Most Business Intelligence solutions these days are geared toward the finance, sales, and marketing teams. Step 4: Clean Up Bad Data Sources.

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3 Critical Components of Smart Financial Planning

Datavail

Yet the roles are now reversed: technological developments such as BI and automation are now drivers of the financial planning process, taking it in new directions that were previously impossible. Choosing the right BI tools – and getting your team out of spreadsheets and.CSV files – will enable you to leverage new planning methods and ideas.

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Ditch that Ghastly Spreadsheet and Turn to Smarter Analytics

The Kini Group

Your company may not be using calculations on this large of a scale, but you’re still using spreadsheet-based insights to build your business strategies. 4 Ways the Spreadsheet Falls Short of Smarter Analytics. You need a smarter analytics tool that can analyze everything quickly and effectively. Yeah me too.

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How to Conduct User Acceptance Testing: Process Stages, Deliverables, and End-User Testing Place in Quality Assurance

Altexsoft

When conducting various quality assurance activities , development teams are able to look at the product from the user’s standpoint. To ensure the development team is building the right product for the actual end-users, it’s vital to conduct user acceptance testing. stakeholders involved in the development.