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Business Analyst

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1. 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).






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






3. 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.






4. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






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






20. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






36. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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