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

CIO Business Intelligence

The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), a nonprofit professional association, considers the business analyst “an agent of change,” writing that business analysis “is a disciplined approach for introducing and managing change to organizations, whether they are for-profit businesses, governments, or non-profits.”

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Volkswagen drives the automotive industry cloud forward

CIO Business Intelligence

And the phenomenon is taking hold across nearly every vertical, with availability of industry-focused clouds from AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle, as well as SaaS leaders Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, and Workday, targeting the financial, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, and design/engineering sectors, to name a few.

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Meet the techies vying for a vacant spot on the Seattle City Council

GeekWire

.” Eric Feeny Feeny is a longtime tech sales leader who worked for X2Engine, CopperTree Analytics, BuildPulse, Egraphs, Atigeo, and Oracle. In their words: “My career in business development and being an entrepreneur should lend creative solutions and partners to make them a reality.”

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