What is a Business Process Expert? and Business Analyst?

In response to Sinem Dorter's very interesting and informative blog about Composite Analytics at Whirpool, I'd like to ask how people would really define what is going on there.
Are modelers of composite applications business analysts? Business process experts? Application specialists? All of the above? None of the above?
What unique skills are required to distinguish, say, a business analyst from a business process expert?
And can a business process expert be a team of people: maybe an enterprise analyst, a business process expert and an IT application specialist?
I'm curious to read responses.
Judy

Hi Judy,
I agree with you. Sinems blog from Whirlpool is really interesting and well written.
Thanks a lot that you have the courage to open the first discussion in relation to her blog.
Now to your question what's the difference between a Business Process Expert and a Business Analyst.
<u>Definition of a Business Analyst</u>
Please find below a small section of the Roles and Responsibility Matrix of SAP xApp Analytics . You will find it also in our OKP (Online Knowledge Product) of Analytics in Service Marketplace, alias rkt-analytics.
- Responsible for assessing the business requirements
- Communicate with the business users for project
requirements
- Act as the critical link between end users business
requirements and data architecture solution together
with the Application Developer
- Possess and provide deep knowledge of current business
scenarios such as: SAP BW Business Explorer Queries
and SAP CRM, SRM, MIC
- Design and develop a data access solution
- Understand SAP Analytics models and become an expert
on Analytics
- Conduct Analytics workshops
- Create and provide business requirements documentation
- Provide content know-how and knowledge transfer
documentation
<u>Definition of a Business Process Expert</u>
Business process experts have the business knowledge and IT sway to make business process innovation happen in real time by adapting, composing, and executing end-to-end business processes using composition software tools and enterprise services.
SAP enables the business process expert to drive real-time business process innovation by providing a rich combination of industry business process and services content, and composition software tools from a proven business process platform.
More you will find here: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/bpx?rid=/webcontent/uuid/cc0bd202-0b01-0010-9fbf-da3953eed4c2 [original link is broken]
Now I am interested to hear what others say!
Also I am sure there are much more questions/comments regarding Sinems blog.
Or do you have also experiences which you want to share with the BPX-Community?
Don't hesitate to use the forum for this!
Kind regards,
Sabine

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http://www.prosci.com/tutorial-design-mod1.htm
http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2004/volume08issue04/art11_collaboration/p01_abstract.htm
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/people/lakshmikanth.adiraju/blog/2006/09/19/soa-bpm-business-applications-netweaver-happy-customer
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