From the course: Introduction to Business Analysis

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Sample BA, example 5: Tech data source change

Sample BA, example 5: Tech data source change

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Sample BA, example 5: Tech data source change

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- A business analyst is working on a project to integrate a new external data source and an API into an existing analytics platform. The company currently relies on internal data, but realizes it could make better decisions if some third party data was also used as part of the analytics. They have validated that the third party data is the data they want, but they've been uploading it manually. The manual uploads, they slow down reporting and decision making, as well as costing precious resources. They want to automate this upload process. Let's look at the likely BA responsibilities in this example. First, the BA needs to understand the problem of today's situation and the opportunity in fixing this, both from a business user and technology operations point of view. Next, we go deeper in understanding how the data will be used, by who, and what the users will do with the data. This will help you identify areas where the current manual process needs to be improved or changed. Next, we…

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