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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. 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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






27. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






31. Describes how best to represent information






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






33. 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).






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






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






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. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






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