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






2. 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






3. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






7. 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).






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






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







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