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Business Analyst

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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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






18. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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.


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






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






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






48. 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






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






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