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What do Business Intelligence Analysts do?
Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources.
What are the Main Tasks of Business Intelligence Analysts?
- Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders.
- Synthesize current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action.
- Analyze competitive market strategies through analysis of related product, market, or share trends.
- Analyze technology trends to identify markets for future product development or to improve sales of existing products.
- Collect business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, field reports, or purchased sources.
- Conduct or coordinate tests to ensure that intelligence is consistent with defined needs.
- Create business intelligence tools or systems, including design of related databases, spreadsheets, or outputs.
- Disseminate information regarding tools, reports, or metadata enhancements.
- Document specifications for business intelligence or information technology (IT) reports, dashboards, or other outputs.
- Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications.
- Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods.
- Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users.
- Communicate with customers, competitors, suppliers, professional organizations, or others to stay abreast of industry or business trends.
- Create or review technical design documentation to ensure the accurate development of reporting solutions.
- Identify or monitor current and potential customers, using business intelligence tools.
- Maintain library of model documents, templates, or other reusable knowledge assets.
- Provide technical support for existing reports, dashboards, or other tools.
