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Diploma in Business Analysis. Course Overview The Diploma in Business Analysis is designed to develop confident, competent, multi-skilled professional Business Analysts, who are capable of reducing organisational risk, and increasing organisational value from the deployment of technology-based solutions. Modern thinking now splits the analysis function and as a result, the traditional role of the Systems Analyst has evolved into two distinct new roles: that of the Business Analyst who often reports into the business, and the Solution or Application Architect, who is an IT specialist. The main focus of the BA is to elicit and document requirements for new business solutions that usually have a technology base. The core body of knowledge is defined in the emerging BABOK™ (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge) which is defined by the IIBA® (International Institute of Business Analysis).

The Diploma in Business Analysis does not teach a specific dogma and methodology. This course is endorsed by the IIBA®. Course Objectives: What is business intelligence (BI)? - Definition from Whatis.com. Business intelligence (BI) is a technology-driven process for analyzing data and presenting actionable information to help corporate executives, business managers and other end users make more informed business decisions. BI encompasses a wide variety of tools, applications and methodologies that enable organizations to collect data from internal systems and external sources, prepare it for analysis, develop and run queries against the data, and create reports, dashboards and data visualizations to make the analytical results available to corporate decision makers as well as operational workers. By submitting your personal information, you agree that TechTarget and its partners may contact you regarding relevant content, products and special offers.

You also agree that your personal information may be transferred and processed in the United States, and that you have read and agree to the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy. Business intelligence vs. advanced analytics. What is a Business Analyst? "Business Analysis is the process of understanding business change needs, assessing the impact of those changes, capturing, analysing and documenting requirements and then supporting the communication and delivery of those requirements with relevant parties. " Requiring straightforward automation of repetitive administrative tasks and conversion from paper to electronic data storage, IT projects of the seventies and early eighties could not fail to be successful and reap financial rewards.

Systems Analysts took responsibility for documenting existing manual paper based processes, identifying problems and new business requirements, and then automating these processes through computerised systems. This provided significant savings in staff as well as improvements to customer service through access to electronic information in fractions of a second. The reasons for failure were that projects became unfocussed, receiving (sometimes conflicting) demands from different business departments.

Improving business operations through best practice. Building a Project Management Office. In today’s complex business environment new projects are constantly being developed as organizations seek new ways to reduce costs, improve processes, increase productivity, and build their bottom line. Managing these diverse projects along with their people, resources, technology, and communication is a difficult endeavor for which the risk of failure is often far too high. An effective solution, created to establish a more centralized management structure for large groups of projects, is the Project Management Office (PMO).

The PMO provides organizations with an infrastructure of people, procedures, and tools to achieve effective project management by leveraging project management standards, allocating resources, establishing consistent performance measures, and reducing duplication of efforts. There are many benefits to establishing an effective PMO. Enlist Executive and Management Support The first step in establishing a PMO is gaining executive and management support.