Let's
write some stuff about Business Analyst (BA) and System Integrator. These two
roles should be similar.
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1. This position is not hard, but requires chatting with customers for
gathering requirements and internal technical teams for solutions.
2. Some companies also require a BA to come up with use cases and follow
development process or test progress.
3. A BA could also propose solutions based on his company products and integrate
some off the shelf product to his company product to provide a complete
solution.
4. A successful BA should stay close to development teams, so they would
propose do-able solutions to customers. Otherwise development would drop dead
with BA requirements.
5. Sometimes it's easier and faster to incorporate other devices or products
into your product for a complete solution to your customer because developing
all required expertise and time - expensive and miss market windows. For
example,
* Customer wanted a real-time position of a mobile fleet from their offices.
You could integrate a GPS modem and a 3G/4G wireless modem in your system
installed on the fleet. The GPS modem provides longitude and latitude of the
fleet, you could further process your intended features on the fleet if needed,
some required real-time passengers on the fleet, and then relay those info to
their office via a 3G/4G modem using Internet offered by data channel of a
cellular telephony network. GPS is using satellites that we don't have
expertise or ability to modify codes; 3G/4G wireless network do not allow
private modification. So, we use modems for our communications, i.e. software
to perform features and relay those by modems as required. In the office, they
could feed longitude and latitude info in a map for street location, and used
passenger info.
-> I guess, street cars in Toronto is using this method to show a street
car's location at any station display for waiting passengers.
* Sony was good at TV for its better colors and pictures. However their
peripheral devices like USB WiFi adapter was expensive as compared to generic
WiFi adapters for a PC. My Sony TV's web browser didn't work. So if they wanted
to integrate MS Windows in their TV platform to provide web surfing,
inexpensive USB WiFi adapter, USB wireless mouse and keyboard excluding touch
screen. This way they'll keep their expertise on TV display, but use MS Windows
expertise on Internet parts as well as generic computer devices. I read an
article, a Windows OS license costs a mobile manufacturer around $30 each, thus
it's not every expensive as a total cost of a TV, which was more than $500
each, but lots of additional features.
-> Notes there are many web games offered on Windows, thus with MS Windows
integrated, users could play games on Sony TV. Elementary students got lots of
educational web games from teachers to improve reading/comprehension skills and
math skills.
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I've never said it was easy to do or integrate anything, btw. If they wanted
and saw a benefit, they'd find a way to do.
P.S. GPS navigation devices are using satellites, which are owned by military.
Thus, we have to wait until our GPS device got signals. That means we can't
complain GPS navigation device's manufacturers, because military would take
back satellites if they needed those.
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