What are the missions of a BI consultant?
BI is a branch of computer science dedicated to decision support. According to this brief definition, the BI consultant’s main mission is to provide his clients with certain indicators allowing them to better manage their activities. But what are the missions of a BI consultant within a company?
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The main missions of a BI consultant
Thejob of a BI consultant is both delicate and strategic since it involves the implementation of reports for decision making. Its expertise is based on decision-making tools and, of course, solid technical skills.
If we detail the missions of a Business Intelligence consultant, he/she is in charge of analyzing the reporting needs of the client company. It also deals with the localization of production data, as well as the extraction of data from a datawarehouse or datalake, while participating in its modeling.
The processing and modeling of centralized data allows it to develop intuitive and interactive reports and dashboards for decision-makers while ensuring the accuracy and relevance of the indicators they contain.
What are the personal qualities and technical skills of a Business Intelligence consultant?
To carry out all the missions mentioned above, the business intelligence consultant must havespecific technical skills and unique personal qualities. He must also have functional knowledge and master the business of his clients. He/she is able to synthesize data from different computer systems. He/she must master the retrieval of data from the various computer systems as well as the restitution of these data to the users by using certain specific tools.
He/she must have an excellent command of transactional and decisional database tools as well as a good knowledge of data processing and analysis tools (SQL, R, Python…), mathematics and statistics.
Finally, the BI consultant must also be able to manage the various stages of change management. In addition to these different skills, he/she should be rigorous, versatile, a good communicator, autonomous and have a spirit of synthesis.
What are the personal qualities and technical skills of a Business Intelligence consultant?
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