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What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency

CIO Business Intelligence

Depending on the role, a business analyst might work with data sets to improve products, hardware, tools, software, services, or process. The role often acts as a communicator between the business and IT sides of the organization, so having extensive experience in either area can be beneficial for business analysts.

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Human-centered design and data-driven insights elevate precision in government IT modernization

IBM Big Data Hub

This strategy is not based on a “gut feel” or anecdotal knowledge of a few individuals, but on a well-documented, expansive set of findings, business analysis and calculated projections. They also leverage ideas from design thinking workshops where platform users and stakeholders are encouraged to think big.

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Build a data lake with Apache Flink on Amazon EMR

AWS Big Data

This post shows you how to integrate Apache Flink in Amazon EMR with the AWS Glue Data Catalog so that you can ingest streaming data in real time and access the data in near-real time for business analysis. Downstream data consumer applications such as Amazon Athena or Amazon EMR Trino access the data for business analysis.