Hang Over San Francisco (1) - BI

 

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Silicon Valley is a place full of genius conceptions; while, according to my experience, the place where these ideas can turn into money is San Francisco. Just like the stock which is appreciated by Wall Street will boom next day, Business intelligence (BI) is said to have a promising future in SF investors.

 

1) What is BI?

 

2) What should I do to be in BI?

 

Generally speaking, BI is an umbrella term covering system (information system), method (statistics, maths), technology (information technology). It is reported by Yahoo! that this is a new hot cross-disciplinary area. As BI professionals, the locus of expertise shifts from programming to data analysis. In addition, as a BI professional, you have to have an excellent communication skill. If you want to get a job in BI industry, Davenport says "you need to know at least 3 languages": computer language (programming), mathmatical language (analysis), human language (communication).

 

One of largest career hunting website, Monster.com, reports business data analyst is the fastest growing industry in providing new job positions. As v all know, millions of IT jobs are being outsourced to emerging IT capitals in the world. Although IT professionals remains needed in the state, the number of positions and payment is much lower than that before 2001. CareerBuilder.com reports traditional IT human resource who can only programming will get satisfactory jobs much slower than those who are proficient in statistics and maths as well.

 

In addition, educational institutes in the state play an important role in stimulating BI market. Multiple universities have started offering BI courses to students (Princeton University, Duke University, University of Virginia, University of Michigan, University of North Texas).

 

To be continued...