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Business Analyst

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






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






3. The delivery of accurate - useful information to the appropriate decision makers within the necessary fime frame to support effective decision making.






4. The total interest paid over the life of the loan. The finance charge is calculated by adding up all of the loan payments and then subtracting from this total the amount originally borrowed.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Describes how best to represent information






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






14. 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.






15. Describes how easy the system is to use and navigate






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






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






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






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






20. A way to categorize groups of people using age - income level - gender - education level - home ownership - and so forth.






21. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






22. Designing websites and applications to meet the needs of the user.






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






24. A way to get information into database. Each field in the form corresponds to a field in the database table






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






31. 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.

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






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






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






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






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






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






38. The process of uncovering the numbers that contribute to creating a summary number. Drill down is like being shocked at you ATM balance and then calling the bank to get a list of withdrawls and payments made against your account.






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






40. 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).






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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






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






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






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






49. This is a job title typical for an IS graduate. Business analysts work both with business units such as Human Resources and the programmers. They discover the needs of the business unit and then translate those needs into documentation for the progra






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