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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. A model report in which the theme is predefined. In some templates even some of the slides are already created. For example - the Pitchbook template includes a title slide - a table of contents slide - and a section heading slide.






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






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






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






17. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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.