What You'll Do

  • Provide technical support for existing reports, dashboards, or other tools.
  • Maintain library of model documents, templates, or other reusable knowledge assets.
  • Identify or monitor current and potential customers, using business intelligence tools.
  • Create or review technical design documentation to ensure the accurate development of reporting solutions.
  • Communicate with customers, competitors, suppliers, professional organizations, or others to stay abreast of industry or business trends.
  • Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods.
  • Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users.
  • Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications.
  • Document specifications for business intelligence or information technology reports, dashboards, or other outputs.
  • Disseminate information regarding tools, reports, or metadata enhancements.

Essential Skills

Reading Comprehension 4.0/5
Active Listening 3.88/5
Speaking 3.88/5
Critical Thinking 3.88/5
Active Learning 3.88/5
Writing 3.75/5
Judgment and Decision Making 3.62/5
Mathematics 3.5/5
Complex Problem Solving 3.38/5
Monitoring 3.12/5
Systems Analysis 3.12/5
Systems Evaluation 3.12/5

Career Fit Overview

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Top passions

  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.
  • Analyst: Investigating problems and finding patterns keeps you engaged.
  • Leader: Taking charge and moving ideas forward motivates you.

Common styles

Analytical Thinking, Attention to Detail, Integrity, Dependability, Adaptability/Flexibility

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Oral Comprehension 4.0/5
Written Comprehension 4.0/5
Oral Expression 4.0/5
Written Expression 4.0/5
Inductive Reasoning 4.0/5
Deductive Reasoning 3.75/5
Information Ordering 3.62/5
Category Flexibility 3.62/5

Technologies & Tools

Actuate Eclipse BIRT Adobe Acrobat Adobe ActionScript Adobe Dreamweaver Advanced business application programming ABAP Airtable AJAX Alteryx software Amazon DynamoDB Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 Amazon Redshift Amazon Web Services AWS software Apache Ant Apache Cassandra Apache Groovy Apache Hadoop Apache Hive Apache HTTP Server Apache Kafka Apache Pig

Work Environment & Style

Common Styles for This Career

  • Analytical Thinking (High importance: 4.95/5)
  • Attention to Detail (High importance: 4.59/5)
  • Integrity (High importance: 4.32/5)
  • Dependability (High importance: 4.27/5)
  • Adaptability/Flexibility (High importance: 4.09/5)

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How to Become One

Most employers require a bachelor's degree in a relevant field. Some positions may also require experience through internships, co-ops, or entry-level work to strengthen your candidacy.

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Also Known As

This career is known by many different job titles across industries. Here are all the variations:

Analytical Data Miner Business Analyst Business Consultant Business Data Analyst Business Database Analyst Business Information Analyst Business Intelligence Analyst (BI Analyst) Business Intelligence Consultant (BI Consultant) Business Intelligence Coordinator (BI Coordinator) Business Intelligence Engineer Business Intelligence Specialist (BI Specialist) Business Process Analyst Business Systems Analyst Business Systems Consultant Business Technology Consultant Competitive Intelligence Analyst Data Analyst EDI Analyst (Electronic Data Interchange Analyst) Information Analyst Information Specialist Intelligence Analyst Market Intelligence Analyst Market Intelligence Consultant Marketing Database Analyst Reporting Analyst Reports Analyst Strategic Business and Technology Intelligence Consultant