Students generally come from a variety of backgrounds including computer science, engineering, mathematics, economics, and business.
Analytics concentrations in MBA programs are less technical and focus on developing working knowledge of statistical applications rather than proficiency.
In contrast, business intelligence traditionally focuses on using a consistent set of metrics to both measure past performance and guide business planning, which is also based on data and statistical methods.
The MSBA was a response to the increasing need of complex data analysis beyond traditional use of spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel.
[2] Harvard Business Review noted: “Much of the current enthusiasm for big data focuses on technologies that make taming it possible, including Hadoop (the most widely used framework for distributed file system processing) and related open-source tools, cloud computing, and data visualization,” the article says.