Who is a business analyst?

A business analyst is a person who mines information for business from a variety of sources. A business analyst investigates available artifacts in the organization like current processes, product documents, stakeholder meetings, customer interaction, etc. An analyst uses multiple tools and techniques to process/analyze this information and come up with strategies, changes or solutions required to address the problem. The industry has many designations for the work of a business analyst. Some of them are: 

1. System analyst 
2. Business architect 
3. Product owner 
4. Product Manager 
5. Change analyst 
6. Process analyst
7. Application analyst 
8. Module analyst  
9. Data analyst 
10. Requirement analyst  
11. Management Consultant 
12. ICT (information & communication technology) business analyst