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1. 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.






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






3. 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).






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






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






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






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






11. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






17. A PowerPoint template well suited for creating schematic reports because of its small font size and versatile layouts.






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






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






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






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






23. Describes how best to represent information






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






25. 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






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






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






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






29. One or more fields that uniquely identify each record in the table






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






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






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






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






34. A business presentation combining concise text and graphics. Schematic reports should be brief - well organized - and easy to navigate. Though usually designed in PowerPoint - schematic reports are intended primarily to be read rather than projected.






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






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






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






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






39. A visual query tool in excel that allows you to easily group and summarize data






40. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






45. Running development software such as Dreamweaver on your workstation. The major advantage is that it runs very fast when running locally.






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






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






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






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






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







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