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15-2051.01 - Business Intelligence Analysts


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.


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Tasks
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Tasks
The tasks listed below can be performed to prepare you for a career in this field.
Core
  • 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.
  • Disseminate information regarding tools, reports, or metadata enhancements.
  • Create business intelligence tools or systems, including design of related databases, spreadsheets, or outputs.
  • Conduct or coordinate tests to ensure that intelligence is consistent with defined needs.
  • Collect business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, field reports, or purchased sources.
  • Analyze technology trends to identify markets for future product development or to improve sales of existing products.
  • 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.
  • Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders.
Supplemental
  • Document specifications for business intelligence or information technology reports, dashboards, or other outputs.
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
Knowledge
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Knowledge

The items listed below are organized into sections that contain knowledge useful for pursuing a career in this field. Each section also contains a "Percentage of Importance" statistic that shows how relevant an item is to the occupation.
 English Language
  • 81%
    Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
 Mathematics
  • 67%
    Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
 Administration and Management
  • 61%
    Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
 Computers and Electronics
  • 61%
    Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
 Economics and Accounting
  • 58%
    Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
 Sales and Marketing
  • 57%
    Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
 Clerical
  • 54%
    Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
 Communications and Media
  • 54%
    Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
 Customer and Personal Service
  • 53%
    Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
Tools
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Tools
The tools listed below include machines, equipment, tools, and software that is useful for individuals who are interested in this career.
 Computers
  • Computer servers
  • Storage servers
  • Data warehouse appliances
 Duplicating machines
  • Photocopiers
  • Laser facsimile machines
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
Technology
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Technology
The technologies listed below include machines, equipment, tools, and software that is useful for individuals who are interested in this career.
 Business function specific software
  • Human resource management software HRMS
  • Oracle TaleoHOT
  • ConfluenceHOT
  • Microsoft ProjectHOT
  • Microsoft SharePointHOT
  • Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio ManagementHOT
  • Microsoft OfficeHOT
  • Google AdWordsHOT
  • Marketo Marketing AutomationHOT
 Finance accounting and enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • Fund accounting software
  • Tax software
  • Enterprise resource planning ERP softwareHOT
  • Microsoft DynamicsHOT
  • Microsoft Dynamics GPHOT
  • NetSuite ERPHOT
  • Oracle Fusion ApplicationsHOT
  • Oracle HyperionHOT
  • Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOneHOT
  • Oracle PeopleSoftHOT
  • Oracle PeopleSoft FinancialsHOT
  • SAPHOT
  • SAP Business ObjectsHOT
  • Delphi Technology
  • IBM Unica Enterprise
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Financials
 Content authoring and editing software
  • Adobe Systems Adobe Flash
  • Microsoft VisioHOT
  • YouTubeHOT
  • Google DocsHOT
  • Microsoft WordHOT
  • Google Slides
  • Microsoft PowerPointHOT
  • Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver
  • FacebookHOT
  • Google Sites
  • Microsoft ExcelHOT
  • Microsoft Publisher
 Content management software
  • Atlassian JIRAHOT
  • Adobe Systems Adobe AcrobatHOT
  • GitHOT
 Data management and query software
  • Blackbaud The Raiser's Edge
  • Oracle Eloqua
  • Oracle Siebel Marketing Resource Management
  • Salesforce softwareHOT
  • Amazon DynamoDBHOT
  • Apache CassandraHOT
  • Apache HadoopHOT
  • Apache HiveHOT
  • Apache PigHOT
  • Apache SolrHOT
  • ElasticsearchHOT
  • MongoDBHOT
  • MySQLHOT
  • NoSQLHOT
  • Oracle PL/SQLHOT
  • Relational database management softwareHOT
  • Teradata DatabaseHOT
  • Actuate Eclipse BIRT
  • Information Builders WebFOCUS
  • Microsoft Proclarity
  • Microsoft SQL Server Reporting ServicesHOT
  • Panorama NovaView
  • SAP Crystal ReportsHOT
  • SiSense Prism
  • Airtable
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2HOT
  • Amazon RedshiftHOT
  • Amazon Web Services AWS softwareHOT
  • Data entry softwareHOT
  • FileMaker Pro
  • IBM DB2
  • Microsoft AccessHOT
  • Microsoft SQL ServerHOT
  • Oracle Essbase
  • Oracle JDBCHOT
  • Oracle softwareHOT
  • Structured query language SQLHOT
  • Transact-SQLHOT
  • Data warehouse software
  • Google AnalyticsHOT
  • Informatica Data Explorer
  • SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse
  • LexisNexis
  • CA Erwin Data Modeler
  • Data modeling software
  • Hibernate ORM
  • PostgreSQLHOT
  • Apache HTTP ServerHOT
  • Customer information control system CICS
  • Apache SparkHOT
  • IBM Cognos ImpromptuHOT
  • MicroStrategyHOT
  • Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise EditionHOT
  • Qlik Tech QlikViewHOT
  • TableauHOT
 Development software
  • Adobe Systems Adobe ActionScript
  • Apache AntHOT
  • Apache KafkaHOT
  • Business Objects Data Integrator
  • C
  • Common business oriented language COBOLHOT
  • Eclipse IDEHOT
  • GoHOT
  • Integrated development environment IDE softwareHOT
  • Microsoft .NET FrameworkHOT
  • Microsoft AzureHOT
  • Microsoft PowerShellHOT
  • Microsoft Visual BasicHOT
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition VBScriptHOT
  • Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBAHOT
  • Microsoft Visual StudioHOT
  • RubyHOT
  • Extensible markup language XMLHOT
  • IBM InfoSphere DataStage
  • IBM WebSphereHOT
  • Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services SSISHOT
  • SAP BusinessObjects Data Integrator
  • Salesforce VisualforceHOT
  • Advanced business application programming ABAPHOT
  • Apache GroovyHOT
  • C#HOT
  • C++HOT
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • Microsoft ActiveX
  • Oracle JavaHOT
  • Practical extraction and reporting language PerlHOT
  • PythonHOT
  • RHOT
  • ScalaHOT
  • SwiftHOT
  • jQueryHOT
  • Hewlett Packard LoadRunner
  • Unified modeling language UMLHOT
  • AJAXHOT
  • Apache StrutsHOT
  • Apache TomcatHOT
  • DjangoHOT
  • DrupalHOT
  • Dynamic hypertext markup language DHTML
  • Enterprise JavaBeans
  • Ext JS
  • Extensible HyperText Markup Language XHTML
  • Hypertext markup language HTMLHOT
  • JavaScriptHOT
  • JavaScript Object Notation JSONHOT
  • Microsoft ASP.NETHOT
  • Microsoft Active Server Pages ASPHOT
  • Oracle JavaServer Pages JSPHOT
  • PHP: Hypertext PreprocessorHOT
  • Ruby on RailsHOT
 Industry specific software
  • PTC Creo ParametricHOT
  • IBM SPSS StatisticsHOT
  • MinitabHOT
  • Rogue Wave Software IMSL Numerical Libraries
  • SASHOT
  • StataCorp Stata
  • The MathWorks MATLABHOT
  • Epic SystemsHOT
  • Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCSHOT
  • MEDITECH softwareHOT
  • Medical condition coding softwareHOT
  • Medical procedure coding software
 Network applications software
  • GitHubHOT
  • Oracle WebLogic ServerHOT
  • Red Hat WildFlyHOT
  • Eko
  • Skype
 Network management software
  • NagiosHOT
  • WiresharkHOT
 Networking software
  • CitrixHOT
  • IBM Domino
 Operating environment software
  • BashHOT
  • Hewlett Packard HP-UX
  • Job control language JCL
  • KornShell
  • LinuxHOT
  • Microsoft Windows ServerHOT
  • Oracle SolarisHOT
  • Red Hat Enterprise LinuxHOT
  • Shell scriptHOT
  • UNIXHOT
  • UNIX ShellHOT
  • Ubuntu
 Security and protection software
  • Virtual private networking VPN softwareHOT
  • McAfee
  • SymantecHOT
 Information exchange software
  • IBM NotesHOT
  • Microsoft ExchangeHOT
  • Microsoft OutlookHOT
  • ESRI ArcGIS softwareHOT
  • Geographic information system GIS softwareHOT
 System management software
  • IBM Power Systems software
  • Splunk EnterpriseHOT
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
Certifications
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Certifications
The certifications listed below are useful to pursue if you are interested in a career in this field.
No specific certifications are listed for this career
All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
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All data sourced from US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration O*Net Database.
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