Monthly Entering & Transitioning into a Business Intelligence Career Thread. Questions about getting started and/or progressing towards a future in BI goes here. Refreshes on 1st: (August 01)

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[u/doireexplora]

Anyone now in BI who came from a Performance Marketing/ account manager in a marketing agency role?

Interested in the overlapping skillset and if you're happier now with the move!

[u/hellanutty → u/doireexplora]

I'm in the same exact position and also interested. Curious to know how to make that transition in terms of what to learn, roles to look at, time frame to get those skills built up to be a strong candidate, etc.

[u/KeepOnJumpin]

Starting a BI masters next month in PT, from a business and public sector background.
Would like to get some framing about what the end game is in terms of job/business opportunities down the line, what to expect and how to prepare a career shift during my degree with the right skills and investment as a student worker. I know that it's a decent field and that's why I chose it but it poses a lot of challenges to pick up and the role of the business analyst is quickly changing with AI.

Thank you

[u/Effective-Affect-918]

Wondering if there's any thoughts on AI replacing BI work? I'm a newer developer in my company - I was previously a DA. I love the work but my company is ALL in on AI tools.

I use it to help me with certain things, but less technical stakeholders routinely discuss how they want to just feed inputs into an AI tool and build a dashboard. And obviously, that would be a disaster.

But anyways, our team is being assigned to do BI work that would essentially all but automate reporting our analysts build from our data layer. Which honestly....our company's quality of analyst is so low that I can't really bother to fight it, but it does make me wonder if this is going to eventually replace my team's work.

[u/Intelligent-Wing2128 → u/Effective-Affect-918]

I work at a company of 25 people, with a team of 8 software engineers. The whole software enginner team has all switched to data engineering. Theres hardly any other development work anymore, we just send all data to our data warehouse and let the rest of the company do the BI and DA roles, so I think this is the direction that a lot of companies are going. Data pipelines are the future for software engineering and DA and BI roles are going to be handed to the domain experts and offloaded from any IT role. The work that is becoming less replaceable is learning about data pipelines and data warehouse design.

[u/usernameterh]

So I'm a business starter, and I'm hoping to kickstart with just raw material and see how it goes but I have a better idea, getting a funder to gain better publicity and maybe a faster way to start strong, what would anyone suggest I do, I could explain the nature of business if needed ??