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All NAU employees and students should read and be familiar with the Appropriate Use of IT Resources policy. University IT policy manualEnterprise Business Analysts
In 2020, a team of Enterprise Business Analysts (EBAs) was created to support our Data Trustees on large-scale, cross-divisional strategic projects for the university. Enterprise Business Analysts will be allocated to these projects based on prioritization through the Strategic Project Review and Resourcing Committee (SPRRC) and NAU’s Data Trustees.
The Enterprise Business Analysts offers the following core services for the institution, including:
- Business analyst support for cross-divisional projects that no single area “owns”
- Business analyst support for area without BA teams
- Strategic planning support for core institutional focus areas
- Product coordination for cross-divisional applications
- Business process review and analysis
How do I request an EBA?
To request an EBA, please start by submitting a request through our ServiceNow ticketing system. Management will review your request and assign the appropriate EBA for your area. Requests for these services will be prioritized in conjunction with strategic projects requested and prioritized by the Data Trustees.
Note: Requests that look to be outside of our area of support will be routed to the appropriate BA team.
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Strategic Planning Accordion Open
What strategic planning resources are available?
The EBA team will coordinate strategic planning sessions around the eight core focus areas that we’ve identified to date. During strategic planning sessions, EBAs will facilitate workshops with key stakeholders (including business analysts) to identify upcoming projects and maintenance items for building out an area road map 18-24 months into the future. The EBAs will facilitate discussion around these area road maps to ensure appropriate prioritization and timelines are established.
Following these strategic planning sessions, the EBAs will work with divisional BA teams to identify which projects on the roadmap would fall to the divisional team vs. the enterprise team for support. Once this path forward is defined, projects will be submitted following the existing SPRRC processes for quarterly review and resourcing efforts. This will allow for adjustments to the strategic plan based on unforeseen projects that may occur due to issues like COVID, or other external impacts to our initial plans.
How do I request an Enterprise Business Analyst for any of core services?
To request an EBA, please start by submitting a request through our ServiceNow ticketing system. Management will review your request and assign the appropriate EBA for your area. Requests for these services will be prioritized in conjunction with strategic projects requested and prioritized by the Data Trustees.
Note: Requests that look to be outside of our area of support will be routed to the appropriate BA team.
Product Coordination Accordion Closed
What is Product Coordination?
At NAU, there are several applications (vendor products and custom developed applications) that are “shared” across several divisions. The EBA team will provide product coordination services for these applications including:
- Coordinating all product stakeholders to review and discuss the application
- Identification of new features/requirements
- Discussion around product deficiencies
- Maintenance planning
- Project support for cross-divisional application updates/upgrades
What products will the EBAs be coordinating?
The list of products eligible for EBA coordination includes applications such as:
- Advisor Assignment
- Appointments.nau.edu
- Directory
- JacksPath
- PeopleSoft Campus Solutions
- Program Application
- PPM module in ServiceNow
- Salesforce – general information and request
- Salesforce
- SF Marketing Cloud
- Transfer Pathways
This is not an exhaustive list of applications, so if you have questions about a specific application, please reach out to your divisional support EBA.
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What business process services are available?
The Enterprise Business Analysts are available to help with cross divisional projects or areas that don’t have a divisional business analyst team with the following:
- Map out existing business processes through workshop facilitation
- Review business process(es) for opportunities to streamline and improve the process
- Determine if a process may be automated through the application of technology
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How are EBAs allocated?
Enterprise Business Analysts are allocated to areas that have no BA support or cross-divisional projects based on an evolving set of criteria developed in conjunction with BA team Directors/Managers across NAU. This criteria includes:
- Three or more division’s resources are needed on the project team
- Multiple divisions must be consulted for input on the project
- No single division has clear “ownership” of the project (Please note – this does not refer to ownership of the product being implemented)
- Significant business analysis work is required on the project from across multiple divisions
- Area has no divisional support area
How are EBA projects identified and prioritized?
Strategic projects can come from a variety of sources including:
- Requests from our Data Trustees or other senior leadership
- Observations from analysis work identifying the need for a new system, process, or procedure
- External regulatory/legislative requirements
All of these “demands” are placed into a backlog and reviewed regularly with the Data Trustees for discussion and prioritization. Once a demand is prioritized for work in an upcoming quarter, the EBA team presents to SPRRC. During the SPRRC process, requests for additional divisional resources will be made asking managers to confirm or reject (as with all projects) each request. Resource conflicts will escalate following existing practices.
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Trainings
- SQLCourse – Free SQL training utility to learn basic and advanced skillsets
- NAU EBA Business Analyst Basic – Udemy Learning Path
- NAU EBA Business Analyst Intermediate – Udemy Learning Path
- NAU EBA Power BI – Udemy Learning Path
- NAU EBA Microsoft Excel – Udemy Learning Path on Microsoft Excel
- NAU EBA Microsoft Fabric – Udemy Learning Path – data lake etc.
- NAU EBA Salesforce Basic – Introduction to Salesforce for new users
- NAU EBA Salesforce Advanced – Salesforce Administration training with api information.
- Query Manager Training Basic – call Steven Hernandez to be added to the training
- You must have NAU_CS Query Read Write security role prior to the course
- Session 1: 12/5/2024 3-4:30 pm
- Mark Niles
- Nate Sickels
- Michele Beier
- Rebecca Richmond
- Catherine O’Malley
- Melina Sagias
- Session 2: 12/10/2024 2-3:30 pm
- Daisy Perez
- Danielle Flink
- Naga Sai Aasritha Kakulapati
- Colinda Joe
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- Teams Quick Tips – coming soon!
Other Links
- Listserv – commands
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Utilities
- Notepad++ – source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Also has several plug-ins available for data analysis
- SQLFormat.org – Free SQL formatting utilities that helps with formatting your SQL that is more advanced then the delivered Oracle or SSMS SQL delivered tool
- PoorSql.com – Free SQL formatting utilities that helps with formatting your SQL that is more advanced then the delivered Oracle or SSMS SQL delivered tool
- Privnote – utility to share secure notes