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Business Intelligence Analysts

Also called: Business Intelligence Analyst, Business Intelligence Manager, Competitive Intelligence Analyst, Manager, Market Intelligence

What they 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.
On the job, you would:
  • Analyze competitive market strategies through analysis of related product, market, or share trends.
  • Synthesize current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action.
  • Communicate with customers, competitors, suppliers, professional organizations, or others to stay abreast of industry or business trends.

Knowledge

Arts and Humanities
  • English language
Business
  • sales and marketing
  • management
Math and Science
  • arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Engineering and Technology
  • computers and electronics

Skills

Basic Skills
  • thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
People and Technology Systems
  • thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Abilities

Verbal
  • read and understand what is written
  • communicate by speaking
Ideas and Logic
  • use rules to solve problems
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
Math
  • choose the right type of math to solve a problem
  • add, subtract, multiply, or divide

Personality

They do well at jobs that need:
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Integrity
  • Attention to Detail
  • Persistence
  • Adaptability/Flexibility
  • Dependability

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Data base reporting software
  • Panorama NovaView
  • SAP BusinessObjects software
Data base management system software
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Oracle procedural language/structured query language PL/SQL
Data base user interface and query software
  • IBM DB2
  • Microsoft Access

Education

Education: (rated 4 of 5)
bachelor's degree or
master's degree
usually needed

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Job Outlook

Bright Outlook
New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
Salary
$79,930
per year, on average
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