Reprinted with permission of 1105 Media, Inc.
There are many differences between a business intelligence (BI) mindset and a business analytics (BA) mindset. Business analytics focuses on designing an algorithm that achieves a specific business objective by leveraging data as variables. Analytics developers typically work separately from BI and data warehousing teams and seek out data that builds an analytic model to achieve business objectives. Although a business intelligence mindset is frequently concerned about where the data comes from, a BA professional