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| <p>
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| <a id="1036306" name="1036306">Business Analysts&nbsp;(BA) act as the bridge between the business and IT departments,
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| by smoothing the way as corporate policy moves from definition to execution inside a software application. Business
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| Analysts must translate policy into a formal specification acceptable to developers, and must validate the formal
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| specification with policy managers who may not understand the language of the specification.</a><br />
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| Depending on their level of technical knowledge, Business Analysts may perform tasks that are described as developer
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| tasks. However, generally business analysts do not write code.&nbsp;<a id="4942" name="4942">In a BRMS&nbsp;a
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| BA&nbsp;also represents a type of user profile who is responsible for modeling business rule application projects</a>
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