The Business Intelligence Analyst (BI Analyst) works closely with program and IT staff to turn grants data into meaningful information that informs and guides foundation decisions. One crucial component of BI— business analytics —is quietly essential to the success of companies in a wide range of industries, and more famously essential to the success of professional sports teams such as the Boston Red Sox, Oakland A’s and New England Patriots.
All companies have data, but not every company knows how to optimize it. The right business intelligence (BI) tools can provide a huge competitive advantage to organizations that use them wisely, by helping them make smarter business decisions, respond more quickly to market forces and better steer corporate strategy.
Data and tools that are wrapped in flashy packing look great and will impress many B2B buyers who know they need to get into analytics somehow, but when it comes to …