About the Program

  • Why become a Business Analyst?

    Business Analysts use data to outline problems, opportunities, and solutions for businesses and report them back to stakeholders.

    The employment of management analysts, including business analysts, is expected to grow 14 percent between 2018 and 2028, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This is a higher growth rate than other professions. 

    Business Analysts use data to outline problems, opportunities, and solutions for businesses and report them back to the stakeholders in the organization. They also play a crucial role in fixing outdated processes, driving new technology adoption, and innovation, making this an in-demand role in every area of business, from consulting to product management. A Business Analyst's career path can take them in multiple directions, depending on their experience and future career goals. Simplilearn's Business Analyst is a perfect program to kick start your career, and have endless growth opportunities.  

  • What are the objectives of the Business Analyst Course?

    Business analysts are in-demand across a wide range of industries. Business analysis can be an exciting and rewarding career for people who possess the requisite skills—helping struggling companies thrive and make good companies great.

     

    Simplilearn’s Business Analyst Master’s Program will provide you with extensive expertise in business analysis. With this course, you will master the concepts and skills required for an active business analyst career. You will become an expert in Excel, CBAP, Tableau, Agile ScrumMaster, SQL, CCBA, and Agile Scrum Foundation. 

    You will also gain the skills necessary to build interactive dashboards; gain insight into business analysis planning and monitoring, understand the competencies of a business analyst, master Agile Scrum methodologies, and learn how to work with SQL databases. The entire Business Analyst Certification learning experience is tied together with real-world projects and virtual simulations to help you obtain domain experience.

    After completing all aspects of the training, you will be prepared for the role of a business analyst.

  • What important business analysis skills will you learn from this program?

    • Grasp the fundamentals of Excel analytics functions and conditional formatting
    • Apply statistical tools and concepts like moving average, hypothesis testing, ANOVA, and regression to data sets using Excel
    • Understand the tools and techniques used in business analytics planning and monitoring
    • Master the concepts of requirements life cycle management
    • Gain fundamental knowledge of the agile perspective
    • Learn to analyze data using Tableau and become proficient in building interactive dashboards
    • Master the Agile Scrum project management approach
    • Gain expertise in Agile Scrum methodologies and applications, daily scrum synchronization, sprint planning, and review
    • Understand business analysis key concepts and business analysis core concept model (BACCM)
    • Acquire advanced knowledge of identifying, defining, assessing, and completing various elements of business analysis tasks
    • Master SQL concepts such as Universal Query Tool (UQT) and SQL command
    • Plan, execute, monitor, and track scrum projects
    • Absorb agile philosophy and gain deep knowledge of scrum
    • Effectively apply scrum in your organizations

  • What all is covered as part of the Capstone project?

    The Business Analyst Capstone project provides high-touch mentoring sessions with expert industry trainers for 8 hours over a span of 4 weeks. This will enhance your Business Analysis skills with hands-on and industry-relevant projects while bringing together every course into one portfolio. The learner will get the option to choose from the following three industries to work on   in their Capstone project:

    • Hospitality: Learners will create a restaurant management system for a globally well-known Michelin-star restaurant chain
    • Retail: Learners will create a plan to launch an “online pantry” (similar to Amazon Pantry) that delivers essential products on a daily basis
    • Banking: Learners will create a plan and capture the requirements to create a feature with which a global bank can  introduce e-Fixed deposits for all the users
       

  • What is BABOK®? And what does it cover?

    BABOK is a Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide) which helps business analysts achieve better business outcomes at the strategic, tactical and operational level. BABOK covers knowledge areas, techniques and perspectives which represent the majority of tasks business analysts do and provides focus to tasks and techniques specific to the context of the initiative.

     

  • What Business Analysis areas are covered in the BABOK Guide?

    The BABOK guide describes below 6 knowledge areas that represent the daily tasks performed by a business analyst:

    • Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
    • Elicitation and Collaboration
    • Requirements Life Cycle Management
    • Strategy Analysis
    • Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
    • Solution Evaluation

  • What projects are included in this Business Analyst course?

    Project 1: Sales Performance Analysis

    Description: Build a dashboard to present monthly sales performance by product segment and product category to identify the areas that have met or exceeded their sales targets.

    Project 2: Customer Analysis

    Description: Build a dashboard that presents statistics about the customers, ranking of them by profit ratio and sales plus the profit performance by region.

    Project 3: Product Analysis

    Description: Build a dashboard that presents sales by product category over time, with the ability to drill down to the product and regional level to check if the products are correctly priced.

    Project 4: Sales Dashboard

    Description: Build a dashboard that presents metrics about products (like sales, profits, profit ratio) and the trends of statistics over time, filtering down to one or more geographic regions.

  • Who should take this Business Analyst Master’s Program?

    Business Analyst is a solid career choice for both new and experienced professionals. Aspiring professionals of any educational background with an analytical frame of mind are best suited to pursue the Business Analyst Training, including:

    • Aspiring business analysts, including recent college graduates and those looking to make a career change
    • New business analysts wanting to improve their craft
    • Other positions that are performing business analysis duties such as administrators, managers, and project leads
    • IT professionals
    • Project managers
    • Banking and finance professionals
    • Marketing managers
    • Sales professionals
    • Supply chain network managers
    • Beginners in the data analytics domain

  • What are the prerequisites for this Business Analyst Certification Master’s Program?

    This Business Analyst course covers all of the fundamentals; there is no mandated prerequisite, but some experience in business analysis is recommended.

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Program Advisor

  • Tim Jerome

    Tim Jerome

    Project Management Expert and Evangelist

    Tim Jerome is an international project management expert with over 15 years of experience at companies like Intel and Digital Network Services. A former president of the PMI Rio Grande Chapter, Tim is also a PMP instructor with over 10 years of experience in addition to his extensive project management consulting experience.

  • Bryan Campbell

    Bryan Campbell

    President at 7 C's Consulting and Agile Project and Program Manager

    Bryan Campbell is a highly respected Agile Coach and Project Manager with more than 25 years of experience managing projects, programs and PMOs around the world.  He specializes in agile transformation for enterprise, scale PMOs.

  • Jeff Allen

    Jeff Allen

    Project Management and Agile Expert, Consultant, Author

    Jeff Allen is a highly regarded project management and Agile expert with more than 15 years of experience at large companies like Compaq and HP. As an Agile Coach, he has mentored over 5000 professionals globally.

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Reviews

  • Olu Adeyinka MSc

    Olu Adeyinka MSc

    Senior Business System Analyst

    The faculty has excellent knowledge about the subject, and his ability to teach is very inspiring. The course content is comprehensive and updated.

  • Caleb Navarro

    Caleb Navarro

    The trainer was highly skilled and took the time to answer every single question, and explained how to think of the BA framework from the right perspective. The sessions were very interactive and focused on content and explained each knowledge area in detail.

  • Neha Verma

    Neha Verma

    Business Analyst

    Kudos to Simplilearn for imparting an amazing training experience. There can’t be a better mentor. The trainer is very comfortable with analogies he uses to explain the topic and this makes it easy to understand & remember things.

  • Jagadeshwari Srinivasan

    Jagadeshwari Srinivasan

    Senior Program Director @Ness Technologies

    I liked the concept of online learning. The training delivery is seamless and flawless - Thanks! Keep up the good work. I especially like the fact that the arguments are explained in detail, so that participants who are interested in the understanding can get an important contribution to their knowledge enhancement.

  • Musheer Ahmed Shaik

    Musheer Ahmed Shaik

    Project Manager @Wipro

    The program is excellent, and well designed for Project Managers. All the topics are well covered, and the added advantage is we get support from the professionals.

  • Sarang Bezalwar

    Sarang Bezalwar

    Test Manager at Doshaheen Solutions Pvt. Ltd

    Course content at Simplilearn is very well structured and relevant for today's market condition. The support staff is very helpful in selecting the course and guiding the participant.

  • Prakash Rajiv

    Prakash Rajiv

    Business Analyst at doodleblue Innovations

    I am doing the Business Analyst Master course from Simplilearn. It is a really wonderful experience with the trainers and LMS. I can learn according to my time and pace. Overall the course is really wonderful.

  • Hariharan Krishnaswamy

    Hariharan Krishnaswamy

    I was working as a business analyst at HCL. The Simplilearn course taught me to think about the bigger picture. The learnings from this course have helped me enhance my performance at work and gain a mid-term increase in my salary.

  • Harmeet Singh

    Harmeet Singh

    Manager Expert at CGI

    The complete course was a great learning experience for me and all credits go to Simplilearn and it's trainers. The trainer was highly knowledgeable and has covered all the topics. I am sure this course will help me to achieve our desired goal in my career.

  • Arjun Shinde

    Arjun Shinde

    Sr. Project Manager at Mastercard

    I could recommend Simplilearn to anyone without hesitation. The courses have great depth and they allow you do work on them at your own pace. The course content is regularly updated and the content is presented in a crisp manner. The certification helped me to get a promotion from Business Analyst and Project Manager to Senior Project Manager.

  • Tulsi Ram Sharma

    Tulsi Ram Sharma

    Scrum Master | Sapient Corporation

    Great trainer, Great training material, and everything worked well. The training sessions were impressive.

  • Arja Naveen

    Arja Naveen

    I liked the active participation, and participants were encouraged to share their experiences. The approach of allowing participants to ask questions then and there was beneficial to all.

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FAQs

  • Who is a Business Analyst?

    A Business Analyst is someone who bridges the gap between business and IT by driving the organization toward efficiency and profitability. They are mainly responsible for planning and monitoring, eliciting requirements, analyzing functional and technical requirements and communicating with various stakeholders to fulfill business needs.

  • What is the duration of Simplilearn’s Business Analyst Certification Master’s Program?

    Simplilearn’s Business Analyst Master’s Program lasts for 365 days (1 year) where learners can work at their own pace through high-quality e-learning video modules. Learners may also enroll in 75+ instructor-led online training classes for the year.

  • How do I enroll in the Business Analyst Master’s program?

    You can register for this Business Analyst Master’s Program on our website and make an online payment using any of the following options: 
    • Visa Credit or Debit Card
    • MasterCard
    • American Express
    • Diner’s Club
    • PayPal 
    Once payment is received you will automatically receive a payment receipt and access information via email.

  • What can I expect from the Business Analyst Masters Program?

    You will gain access to e-learning content for all Business Analyst courses included in the learning path, exclusive forums moderated by faculty and industry experts, and monthly mentoring sessions by faculty and industry experts. Upon completing the program requirements, you will receive the Master’s certification.

  • Do you provide a money-back guarantee?

    Yes. We provide a seven-day money-back guarantee for our master’s programs. Refer to our Refund Policy and submit refund requests via our Help and Support portal.

  • I am not able to access the online course, whom do I contact for a solution?

    Contact us using the form on the right of any page on the Simplilearn website, select the Live Chat link or contact Help & Support.

  • Who are the instructors for this program?

    All of our highly qualified instructors are industry experts with years of relevant industry experience. Each of them has gone through a rigorous selection process that includes profile screening, technical evaluation, and a training demo before they are certified to train for us. We also ensure that only those trainers with a high alumni rating remain part of our faculty.

  • What is Global Teaching Assistance?

    Our teaching assistants are a dedicated team of subject matter experts here to help you get certified on your first attempt. They engage students proactively to assure the course path is followed and to help you enrich your learning experience, from class onboarding to project mentoring and job assistance.

  • What is covered under the 24/7 Support promise?

    We offer 24/7 support through email, chat and calls. We have a dedicated team that provides on-demand assistance through our community forum. What’s more, you will have lifetime access to the community forum, even after completion of your course.

  • How can I get a copy of the BABOK book to study?

    IIBA® members receive a complimentary copy of the BABOK® Guide Version 3 PDF. If you are an IIBA member, you can download BABOK Version 3 from the IIBA website. Non-members can purchase a copy of the BABOK Guide Version 3 PDF for USD 29.95.
     

  • Does Simplilearn provide practice exams related to this Business Analyst program?

    Yes, we offer the following Business associated practice tests –

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