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Business systems owner — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Computer Systems Engineers/Architects · Database Administrators · Computer and Information Systems Managers · Information Security Engineers · Health Informatics Specialists
In the official classification#
Computer Systems Analysts
Fit with this page: closest match, not the same job
Job Zone 4: considerable preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 15-1211.00 (Computer Systems Analysts). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Systems AnalysisVery important
- Systems EvaluationVery important
- Judgment and Decision MakingVery important
- Complex Problem SolvingImportant
- ProgrammingImportant
- Social PerceptivenessImportant
- CoordinationImportant
- TroubleshootingImportant
Knowledge
- Computers and ElectronicsExtremely important
- Customer and Personal ServiceVery important
- English LanguageImportant
- MathematicsImportant
- Administration and ManagementImportant
- Education and TrainingImportant
Work activities
- Working with ComputersExtremely important
- Getting InformationExtremely important
- Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsExtremely important
- Updating and Using Relevant KnowledgeVery important
- Processing InformationVery important
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or SubordinatesVery important
Abilities
- Deductive ReasoningVery important
- Oral ComprehensionVery important
- Written ComprehensionVery important
- Oral ExpressionVery important
- Information OrderingVery important
- Problem SensitivityVery important
Essential skills
- SpeakingVery important
- Reading ComprehensionVery important
- Active ListeningVery important
- Critical ThinkingVery important
- Active LearningVery important
Tasks O*NET proposes to add#
O*NET's analysts propose new or reworded task statements for future data collection, drawing on what surveyed workers write in, research into new technologies and professional associations. They are candidates, not yet part of the rated task list, and they say nothing about whether automation is involved. This site does not fold them into its own task judgements.
- Write code to perform desired actions.New task · 2023-08 · reported by surveyed workers · O*NET 31.0
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 5 task judgements are for: 2 backed by a verified event, 3 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.