| The System Analyst | | | | arise. Several minor responsibilities include installation of |
| A System Analyst helps a company determine what | | | | hardware and software, performing data backups, |
| hardware and software would be most beneficial to | | | | maintaining system security, managing the company's |
| their business needs. When the Analyst is presenting a | | | | network system and training staff members. |
| recommendation of this type the analyst would | | | | System Administrators perform analysis of the |
| present the steps involved with implementing the | | | | company's database in hopes of finding ways to either |
| installation and use of the program or hardware, the | | | | automate certain processes, or allow system users to |
| budget outline, and the time-frame involved. The | | | | perform functions easier and more rapidly. While |
| System Analyst also gathers user information from | | | | System Administrators are capable of handling most |
| company employees to determine if the company has | | | | day-to-day problems, there should always be a |
| the need to create a training program to address new | | | | qualified individual and trained staff to handle various |
| and unknown software or hardware functions. | | | | jobs of the System Administrator in the event of illness |
| Today's salary for a System Analyst averages | | | | or emergency. |
| $70,000 - $90,000 a year. | | | | Database Administrator |
| Software Engineer | | | | A Database Administrator (DBA) analyzes employees |
| A Software Engineer is an individual who uses | | | | at work and takes the information collected to use in |
| research and design to create and develop new | | | | finding new and better ways to organize, manage, and |
| application or system software within a team of | | | | store company data. The DBAs job is to implement |
| developers. The Software Engineer's primary job is to | | | | software to meet the needs of the employees |
| test, debug, and maintain any new software that the | | | | effectively. |
| Engineer has developed. A Software Engineer's duties | | | | DBAs install and perform tests on database |
| include designing and constantly researching | | | | management systems (DBMs) to ensure proper |
| development of new technologies; additionally, coding | | | | performance. Database security is a major |
| instructions into a computer for manipulation of a | | | | responsibility of a DBA. The integrity of the database |
| program, and testing new software programs; and | | | | system is important to any company; therefore, in |
| consulting with various clients and writing reports and | | | | order to sustain integrity, the DBA ensures that |
| technical documents. The main contact, in the event | | | | storage, archiving, backup, and recovery processes |
| that a program fails to function properly, would be the | | | | function properly. |
| Software Engineer. | | | | With increasing levels of events involving the act of |
| System Administrator | | | | "hacking" into systems and the recent rise in "natural |
| A System Administrator is in charge of managing a | | | | disasters", being able to recover sensitive company |
| company's computer system. System Administrators | | | | data, and insuring and monitoring system security have |
| have several duties of responsibility. One of the main | | | | become a vital part of the System Administrator and |
| responsibilities of a System Administrator is to | | | | Database Administrator's job function. |
| troubleshoot the company's system when problems | | | | |