Which Business Analysis Certificate Suits Your Business Analysis Career Need? - Part II (Mid Level)

Continuing with my previous blog on comparative study on certification options available for launching a Business Analysis Career successfully, here, I am presenting the comparative study to help you to identify your mid-level career needs by selecting the correct certification to stay ahead.

This comparative study will also help a BA professional to understand the certification in terms of the syllabus to strengthen and validate Business Analysis knowledge and skills and its acceptance level.

This blog is also important to IT recruiters in understanding the value of "Certifications" presented by potential employees to align their recruitment needs.

Although the chart contains the data about all the institutes mentioned previously, the real comparison is between BCS (ISEB), UK, IIBA, Canada and IREB, Germany as PMI and Universities offer ONLY one level of certification currently.

Comparison Chart of Certificate options available for Business Analyst at mid-level:

BA Certificate Options available at mid-level

Please refer to the following pics for prerequisites for an International Diploma in Business Analysis offered by BCS, UK.

To refer to entry-level certificate options, please visit my previous blog by clicking this link: Which Business Analysis Certificate Suits YourBusiness Analyst Career Need? - Part I (Entry Level) (http://businessanalysis-anisan.blogspot.hk/2014/10/which-business-analysis-certificate2.html)

Disclaimer: This chart is provided as an independent professional and is purely compared to the data available on their official website. Please note that these websites were accessed during the time period of September 10, 2014 through October 25, 2014.

I recommend everyone visit their website to check the latest updates or verify with officials for clarifying doubts, if any.


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Which Business Analysis Certificate Suits Your Business Analyst Career Need? - Part I (Entry Level)

When we started out in a career as a formal Business Analyst (BA), there wasn’t any certification required. This requirement did not go into effect until early 2000. Most of us learned the role of a Business Analyst on the job and by exploring reading materials (mainly from IEEE for the management requirement) and case studies to strengthen our knowledge. Many of us created our own standard documents that were not part of the process.

Now, the Business Analysis field is a well-evolved field of study. There are many institutes that are working toward creating standards, as well as the options of training and certification to validate knowledge either at the beginning of one's career or as a candidate goes along.

An aspiring Business Analyst has the following options to launch their career:

· Self-Study

· Formal Training and Certification at the entry level

· On-the-job-experience

Since there is an option for aspiring Business Analysts to select entry-level education as well as certification through various private and public education systems, recruiters may prefer the candidate who has undergone formal and structured training and has proven his/her knowledge through credible certificates.

And at the mid-level section, Business Analysts who wish to keep their professional knowledge/ license up-to-date also have options to formally update their knowledge on a regular basis by keeping their certifications valid.

The following is a chart you can use as a guide for your BA career. The entry level BA certification are highlighted in yellow. In addition, there are also other certifications that may be useful at the various stages of BA career. Please note that these certification institutes (except ANISAN Technologies and university degree) do NOT offer training as it is outsourced to the private institutes who provide training and prepare for the certification.

ANISAN, on contrary offers comprehensive services such as training, valid certification, professional development units needed for certification and prepare students for the certifications exams mentioned below.

Comparison Chart of Certificate Options Available for Business Analyst at Entry Level:

BA Certificate options available at entry level

To view better, you can download this picture and view in enlarged version.

Please note that PMI-PBA has the following eligibility criteria:
1. Five years (7,500 hours) within the past eight consecutive years with project experience of 2000 hours (equivalent to 1 year).

2. Three years (4,500 hours) within the past eight consecutive years with project experience/ 2000 hours (equivalent to 1 year).

For more information, please check this link: http://www.pmi.org/Certification/PMI-Professional-in-Business-Analysis-PMI-PBA.aspx

Note for Recruiters and aspiring Business Analysts: At the entry level, the emphasis must be on candidate’s ability to perform the job and for that (initial state) BCS (British Computer Society) certificate in Business Analysis or IREB’s CPRE-FL (International Requirement Engineering Board’s Certified Professional for Requirement Engineering – Foundation Level) is adequate, as these exams make a person understand the intricacies of the requirement management process over the project lifecycle. The certified candidates are not only aware of the basics of Business Analysis, but they’re also capable of producing deliverables.

The candidates with a master’s degree in Business Analysis may have a bigger advantage, as a university degree coupled with two years of rigorous course work will create a better knowledge foundation.

Once the candidate reaches mid-level, he/she can prove the knowledge via the next level certification i.e. CPRE-AL from IREB (International Requirement Engineering Board’s Certified Professional for Requirement Engineering – Advance Level), DIP in Business Analysis, or CBAP(Certified Business Analyst Professional.

A master’s degree in Business Analysis will give a person more of an advantage over someone who has only completed certificate courses. This statement can be backed with a similar analogy I can present with Management Degrees two decades ago. In the beginning, a certificate in management could get a job, but later, a Diploma in Management Degree was preferred over those certificates and, eventually, both certificates were replaced by a full-time or part-time Master Degree or Post Graduate Diploma in Management.

Going forward, an aspiring Business Analyst can use this comparative chart along with the latest updates in the education industry (Business Analysis) to see the trend before selecting the right education course to that can help launch their career successfully.

Lastly, the Business Analyst must know that this training offered is only one third of the requirement as along with Business Analyst Knowledge, the Business Analyst must possess knowledge in the following areas:

· Finance and Economics

· Domain Knowledge (for example – for Finance domain, aspiring BA can opt for formal Education CFA, MBA or on-the-job experience)

· Business Case Development

· SMEs (Subject Matter Experts)

· Principle of Information Technology

· Organization Structure and other Management skills

· Vendor Management

Before you plan your career in Business Analysis, you must evaluate your current capability in terms of knowledge and skill, and plan carefully to acquire remaining ones.

My next blog is based on howto acquire Business and IT knowledge before launching your career in BusinessAnalysis.

Here is the blog to help you stay ahead in your Business Analysis career when you have acquired 5-7 years' experience - Which Business Analysis Certificate Suits Your Business Analyst Career Need? - Part II (Mid-Level)

Also included: How to Stay Ahead with Correct Certifications When You Are Already Working as a Business Analyst.

Disclaimer: This chart is provided by an independent professional and purely compared on the data available on their official website. Please note that these websites were accessed during the time period of September 10, 2014 through October 4, 2014.

I recommend everyone visit their website(mentioned in the picture) to check the latest updates or verify any doubt.

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Think Out of the Box; Choose Out of the Box Career - Business Analyst!!!

Steve Jobs said, “Design your Life”; that is so true to bring the meaning to one’s life and your career is big part of it.

With ample of availability of trained Engineers or Management (MBA) resources, these careers have turned into plain vanilla. We need an additional skill to stand out in the crowd.

Trend spotting is important in making intelligent career choices. A look into past trends helps in understanding the hot jobs that expected to have high demand in future. Last decade has shown success in out of the box careers in various fields such as media, movie, fashion, non-profit sector or technology…..

Business Analysis, as a career has emerged last decade in USA, primarily in finance and healthcare industry because Business experts faced difficulty in communicating their needs to technical experts and vice-a-versa

Why Business Analysis Career???

1. Recession proof jobs: It means jobs, which are strategic thinking ones, cannot be outsourced or automated. The need of new system (solution) either by improving the existing one or launching brand new system (solution), we will always need business analyst.

2. High growth: There will be growth in this field as the need of building solution will increase. As per US Labor department projection, there will be 18% growth in computer system analyst (Job code: 15-105) from 2008 till 2018. Thus this will be one of most demanding career in near future.

3. Flexibility: Business Analysis provides flexibility in career options ie

a. Multiple Entry Point: One can enter into Business Analysis Career coming from Management or Engineering, or operations or process specialization or a product specialization or Domain specialization (example: media, healthcare, pharmaceutical, finance, insurance…)

b. Multiple Exit Point: a Business Analyst can move towards Non-Technical verticals such as - SME (Subject Matter Expert), Operations, Practice Head or towards technical verticals such as - Product manager, Program manager / Release Manager…

c. Additional Exit Points could be – Corporate Strategy, Decision Control Mechanism, Change Management, Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise performance management, Finance and Accounting Management, Human Resources Management, Service Management, Shareholder Value, Supply Chain Management,

It means this career option provides more flexibility to the professionals in building their career.

4. Higher Salary: As per the recent research conducted by US based consultancy firm, CareerCast, software engineers and related jobs are the most satisfactory with average salary starting from USD 68,000 per annum. Whereas Business Analyst’s average starting salary is USD 85,000 per annum. That is higher than the software engineers or any other professionals.

5. BA knowledge for non-BA Role: One doesn’t necessarily need to become BA by acquiring the knowledge. The knowledge and skill provides enough “system thinking” and “problem solving” that can be utilized to improve their existing careers by improving the department’s operations, productivity and improve employee moral with better and effective business solution. Thus, expediting their career path.

So decide now – To Be or not To Be “a BA”

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Certified Business Analyst in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Johannesburg, London, New York City, and San Francisco

ANISAN is one of the pioneers in providing the Business Analysis Training and consulting services and created several success stories since 2006 in USA, India, Hong Kong.

Most of our students who successfully completed the certificates are working in tier one investment banks or in IT companies across the globe.

Certified Business Analyst:

This course is of five weekends (5days) duration with training only on the weekends.

This course covers A Guide to Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK guide (R) to Business Analysis version 3.0 by IIBA), BCS syllabus for Business Analysis and Requirement Engineering (CPRE FL/AL Syllabus) and involves theory, practical, case study(s), project and assignment(s).

Faculty: Average experience of our faculties is 15+ years’ in Information Technology and Management in India & abroad.

All content is reinforced through group exercises, discussions, and sharing of real-world experiences by our subject matter experts.

Brief Syllabus:


Part I : Introduction to Business Analysis, SDLC and OOPS Concepts

Part II : BA Techniques & BA Essentials

Part III : Requirement Planning, Gathering and Management (BABOK version 3.0 and BCS BA syllabus)

Part IV : Requirement Engineering (CPRE Syllabus)

Part V : Practical with Case Study on Business Analysis Deliverables

Part VI : Tools Training- UML with MS Visio

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ANISAN USP:

1. ANISAN is one of pioneer in the field of Business Analysis and providing BA related training and placement since Mar 2006.

2. Our entire training program is based on International Standards (IIBA, BCS & IREB)

3. Successful Completion of ANISAN's Certified Business Analysis certification our participants join renowned corporates like ORACLE, TCS, L&T InfoTech, Accenture, NSE, HDFC, Morgan Stanley, Well Point, Credit Suisse', Novartis, Cox and Kings....

4. Courses offer comprehensive syllabus that have practical and real world approach. All content is reinforced through group exercises, discussions, and sharing of real-world experiences by our subject matter experts.

5. Well experienced faculty with average 15 years Industry experience.

6. Faster Career growth for professionals who would like to work efficiently in IT and non-IT field by improving their productivity and expertise.

7. Produced large and successfully alumni base across the globe.

8. Placement Assistance.

ANISAN Technologies already a well-known name in Business Analysis courses is also an IREB (International Requirements Engineering Board)- recognized training provider and offers-

• Exam Preparation Training for IREB’s both CPRE Foundation and Advanced Level exams along with Certified Business Analysis (CBA) course.

• Fees covers: training + Certification + Study Material(includes BA book from BCS + case Studies)

* ANISAN is most cost effective training in the industry.

*Part Payment option is also available for course fees.

Location: Online and classroom (Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Johannesburg, London, New York City, and San Francisco)

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All content is reinforced through group exercises, discussions, and sharing of real-world experiences by our talented subject matter experts.

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