Business Intelligence Vs Business Analytics
One area of business intelligence that is getting more and more attention is decision making. The ETL tools of today that are very centralized and multi user based, enable people to change the data and document the processing they’re doing as they build it, it’s a rapid development tool, so if your business is very complex and quickly evolving over time, an ETL tool would be recommended.
Has an in-depth article on what that job entails; in general, they aim to use all the features of BI tools to get the data that companies need, the most important being discovering areas of revenue loss and identifying where improvements can be made to save the company money or increase profits.
While some of this can and will be learned on the job, you need to have a solid grasp of the industry’s dynamics, particularly the areas of the field that you’re …