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What is business analysis?

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Last Update: May 31, 2008 Asked by: JohnMathew

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Submitted by: MeghnaS

One should not restrict the Ba role to only being a link between Non-It and IT or only for development projects.
A BA is someone who is able to bring in improvements, changes(technology, process, people etc.) in an efficient manner. So a BA could be part of the marketting team who helps the marketting team in providing estimates/high level solutions for a said project which is under the process of procurement. Or he could be someone involved during the REquirement gathering/analysis once the project is initiated. Or he could be someone who brings profit to the company by performing process improvement activities ROIs at process level.
Last but not the least BAs could be domain specific as well.

So it has a very wide scope though jobs under all the above mentioned sectors is not yet widely available in India.

Hope this helps.

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February 14, 2007 08:37:37

Shridatt Kelkar

RE: What is business analysis?

Business analysis is the gap filler between the top management (Non IT) & IT, Thus a BA,s job is to understand what client wants,document it,tell the IT guy what needs to be done and deliver it to the client

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April 26, 2007 13:45:38

nidhibhatia

Member Since: April 2007 Contribution: 2

RE: What is business analysis?

Shridatt-

Could you please let me know what could be the answer to the question below-

1. Why do you feel that you fit for a BA role?

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September 14, 2007 02:42:32

Archana

RE: What is business analysis?

As for my knowledge you need to mention few of your strengths which benefits the employer. you can say like I have determination to succeed, I consider to be a good communicator and organized and have the ability to distill the critical information understandable by the user. As awhole BA is a challenging position whihc I always drive to it and also I am good at customer relationships where they become the primary interface to a business unit.

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November 05, 2007 13:39:52

RE: What is business analysis?

Business Analysis is a liason between the business user and development team.

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January 17, 2008 17:14:26

devineni.bhavya

Member Since: January 2008 Contribution: 9

What is business analysis?

Let take this in this way a business analysis is a bridge between two end,one end is the IT People and Other end is Non-IT People . He/she gets the requirement from the Non-It people and interects with the IT People.

Common Example:

Let take consider this example in general terms : We want to order the Pizza

1.We are the client who want pizza ,we call pizzahut people

2.we get the choose of what we want

3.The people who answer the call the pizza guy/gal is ba over here

4.they suggest us or tell us about the coupons or specials for the day etc,and the way they take order and present that to the pizzzamaker and also they have convience the customer based on the coupons saying if you buy large one you might get the small one for free etc.

so here the

We are the client
Pizza person who attends our call is BA
Maker of pizza is developer,tester etc
we are also the enduser as we findout the result.

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May 15, 2008 11:28:57

srikanthpullikanti

Member Since: May 2008 Contribution: 10

RE: What is business analysis?

BUsiness analysis helps an organisation to improve its performance, conuct its functions and activities in order to reduce cost and efficient use of resources with the time .It introduces the notion of process orientation of concentrating on and rethinking end-to-end activities that create value for customers, while removing unnecessary, non-value work. The person who carries out this task is called a business analyst or BA.

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May 26, 2008 06:17:08

MeghnaS

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May 31, 2008 19:20:28

Ravindra_munaganti

Member Since: May 2008 Contribution: 2

RE: What is business analysis?

Hello Friends

I am sorry to say that many of our friends did not read the question properly...they asked a simple question and they did not ask what a Business analyst does?

Business analysis is an indepth study, understanding and analysing of clinets business requirements which is usually done to help organization to get profits by using its available resources effectively and efficiently and removing duplication of work and their by saving time and efforts.

Best regards

Ravindra Munaganti

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