According to me Business Architect commonly same with business analyst. But if we look from their task specification, both of them are different.
Where Business Analyst is like a glue in software development and he involve for each part.So The name alone implies that a business analyst performs some form of business analysis, but that’s not very specific.
When using the term business analyst broadly it may in fact be describing any number of more specialized roles, including:
- Business Process Engineers
- Product Managers
- Systems Analysts
- Requirements Engineers
- Financial Analysts
- Business Architects
- Usability Analysts
- Data Analysts
- etc.
but a Business Architect focuses on the activity of creating and managing the business architecture
a a Business Architect create “A blueprint of the enterprise that provides a common understanding of the organization and is used to align strategic objectives and tactical demands.”
A business architecture primarily focuses on the business organizational structure, the business capabilities, the business value streams or business processes, business knowledge, and finally the business strategy.
There are certification for each part business analysis and business Architecture , where The Business Architecture Guild produces A Guide to the Business Architecture Body of Knowledge (BIZBOK™) for Business Architecture specialist
And BABOK is A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide) is the collection of knowledge within the profession of business analysis and reflects current generally accepted practices.
For more detail comparison of A business architecture and A business analyst, you can see in this link
A Guide to the Business Architecture Body of Knowledge (BIZBOK™) and
A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide)
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Sulastry Napitupulu 