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Business Analyst

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1. Mini services that exist in the cloud and can be snapped into your webpage. For example - you can include a weather gadget.






2. The ability to capture and store information gathered from a form into a database. Database integration also refers to the ability to extract and display information from a database on a website.






3. The process of copying data from many databases throughout the enterprise into the datawarehouse






4. Usually the recommended way to start a small business. If the business goes under - you are not personally liable for the businesses debts.






5. Suggests causality by plotting independent and dependent variables on the same graph.






6. Model slides that define the theme elements. The slide master defines the background elements - colors - and fonts. The layout masters provide a menu of possible layouts to apply to a slide.






7. Programs that greatly simplify the process of building a website. Google Sites is the authoring tool that we will use.






8. A built in Excel function that calculates loan payments. Inputs to the function include the loan amount (pv) - the interest rate (rate) - and the number of loan payments (nper).






9. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






10. Look like standard reports but with a major difference. They are interactive and allow the user to drill down to disover the source for the summary numbers.






11. Repear the primary key from the parent table in each corresponding record of the child table as a foreign key to link tables together






12. A giant database that contains periodic dumps from many databases throughout the company. BI systems query the data warehouse to spot patterns and trends.






13. An analysis of five key forces which profiles the attractiveness of an industry. These include the bargaining power of suppliers and buyers - barriers to entry - threat of substitutes - and the competitive rivalry of firms already in the industry.


14. The cheapest way to start a business. It is just you doing business under another name. However - you are personally liable for business debts.






15. Accessing development software that lives in the cloud. The major advantage is that the development process tends to be greatly simplified.






16. A high level management overview of the data--sometimes depicted using dials and needles similar to an automobile dashboard. In a car.






17. A presentation primarily designed to be projected which combines brief text and graphics. Presentations use few words and large fonts for audience readability.






18. An analysis of the attractiveness of the industry in which the company operates.






19. A part of the spreadsheet - usually at the top - where the key variables are given their values.






20. Defines a set of background elements - colors - and fonts as well as a set of slide layouts.






21. A wat to get information out of a database. Often a report will gather information together from multiple tables and present it as a single table






22. A form of BI reporting with which we are most familiar-- summary reports distributed at regular intervals.






23. An analysis of how the calculation results vary with changes in the initial assumptions.






24. A pre-built site with placeholder text - images - and a pre-selected theme. Site templates are the closest thing to an instant website.






25. The largest systems of all. ERP systems tie together all aspects of the business from accounting to the shop floor.






26. Systems that manage day to day transactions of the business.






27. Similar to a template but without the placeholder text and images. A theme specifies formatting--layout - colors - and fonts






28. Variable names created by capitalizing the first letter of each word and eliminating the spaces between words.






29. A marketing term that refers to the ability of a brand to stand out from the crowd.






30. These are fixed costs associated with starting a business. Often refers to one time costs.






31. The idea that a brand's power depends on it's uniqueness






32. Make very small loans (typically under 500) to entrepreneurs in developing countries. Most Loans are repaid in six months to a year.






33. The combination of people - information technology - and business processes to accomplish a business objective.






34. A cost that business incurs on each sale. For apps - the variable cost is the iTunes store commission.






35. Compares coninuous categories such as time on a common measure






36. A method for designing information systems. The life cycle proceeds through the following stages: an analysis of the current state - development of requirements - design of a solution - development from the design and finally to implementation or rol






37. A collection of one or more related tables of data stored in rows and columns






38. A group of potential customers for a product or service. Segments are typically identified by demographics.






39. The opposite of contrast. Layouts demonstrating affinity show subtle variations in color or brightness.






40. Printing horizontally rather than vertically on a piece of paper. The normal way to print is portrait or vertical orientation.






41. The process of fishing for patterns in the data using computing power because you really do not know what to look for.






42. What you make on every sale after subtracting variable costs.






43. A user-friendly way to get information into a database.






44. A cost that the business must pay whether or not they sell anything. Examples include rent - legal fees - development costs and so forth.






45. Structured Query Language is the language used by most relational database management systems. It requires very little code to accopmlish powerful operations.






46. A database that consists of related tables and nothing but tables.






47. The process of analyzing data to spot trends and opportunities.






48. The organization of items on a page. For example - a 2up layout consists of two blocks of images and/or text.






49. The amount of time between the occurrence of a transaction and the loading of that transaction's information into the business intellegence system.






50. Compares discrete (distinct) categories on a common measure