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1. Similar to a template but without the placeholder text and images. A theme specifies formatting--layout - colors - and fonts
Porter's five forces
cloud development
business analyst
theme
2. The amount of time between the occurrence of a transaction and the loading of that transaction's information into the business intellegence system.
pivot table
Porter's five forces
information systems
latency
3. The delivery of accurate - useful information to the appropriate decision makers within the necessary fime frame to support effective decision making.
business intelligence
gadgets
usibility
affinity
4. A presentation primarily designed to be projected which combines brief text and graphics. Presentations use few words and large fonts for audience readability.
PowerPoint presentation
layout
sensitivity analysis
industry Analysis
5. A way to get information into database. Each field in the form corresponds to a field in the database table
affinity
site template
enterprise systems
form
6. Printing horizontally rather than vertically on a piece of paper. The normal way to print is portrait or vertical orientation.
static reports
payment (PMT) function
landscape orientation
differentiate
7. The largest systems of all. ERP systems tie together all aspects of the business from accounting to the shop floor.
master
enterprise resource planning
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
business intelligence
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.
database integration
enterprise resource planning
microfinance
market segment
9. Structured Query Language is the language used by most relational database management systems. It requires very little code to accopmlish powerful operations.
contribution margin
cloud development
SQL
drill down
10. An analysis of the attractiveness of the industry in which the company operates.
data mining
industry Analysis
page template
report
11. Variable names created by capitalizing the first letter of each word and eliminating the spaces between words.
enterprise systems
pivot table
camelback notation
line graph
12. The process of fishing for patterns in the data using computing power because you really do not know what to look for.
layout
Doing Business As (DBA) license
data mining
enterprise systems
13. Systems that manage day to day transactions of the business.
industry Analysis
enterprise systems
contribution margin
dynamic reports
14. Compares discrete (distinct) categories on a common measure
extract - transform - load (ETL)
bar graph
demographics
drill down
15. Describes how easy the system is to use and navigate
Pitchbook
market segment
site template
usibility
16. Programs that greatly simplify the process of building a website. Google Sites is the authoring tool that we will use.
website authoring tools
data mining
Doing Business As (DBA) license
static reports
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.
user centered design
data mining
business intelligence
template
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
relational database
finance charge
report
master
19. A way to categorize groups of people using age - income level - gender - education level - home ownership - and so forth.
demographics
user centered design
business intelligence
scatterplot
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.
SQL
usibility
finance charge
singularity
21. The combination of people - information technology - and business processes to accomplish a business objective.
singularity
information systems
relational database
bar graph
22. A marketing term that refers to the ability of a brand to stand out from the crowd.
finance charge
differentiate
system development life cycle
client side development
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.
PowerPoint presentation
schematic report
enterprise resource planning
market segment
24. Mini services that exist in the cloud and can be snapped into your webpage. For example - you can include a weather gadget.
finance charge
gadgets
form
Porter's five forces
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.
pivot table
landscape orientation
market segment
demographics
27. An unfortunate reuse of the word template
data mining
page template
affinity
database
28. The idea that a brand's power depends on it's uniqueness
singularity
page template
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
layout
29. A database that consists of related tables and nothing but tables.
startup costs
relational database
singularity
pie chart
30. A cost that the business must pay whether or not they sell anything. Examples include rent - legal fees - development costs and so forth.
drill down
fixed cost
contribution margin
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
31. Describes how best to represent information
analytical design
foreign key
differentiate
microfinance
32. Make very small loans (typically under 500) to entrepreneurs in developing countries. Most Loans are repaid in six months to a year.
site template
website authoring tools
primary key
microfinance
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).
variable cost
theme
Doing Business As (DBA) license
payment (PMT) function
34. What you make on every sale after subtracting variable costs.
theme
demographics
contribution margin
foreign key
35. A cost that business incurs on each sale. For apps - the variable cost is the iTunes store commission.
gadgets
camelback notation
variable cost
line graph
36. A pre-built site with placeholder text - images - and a pre-selected theme. Site templates are the closest thing to an instant website.
site template
industry Analysis
data mining
cloud development
37. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.
relational database
singularity
market segment
pie chart
38. The opposite of contrast. Layouts demonstrating affinity show subtle variations in color or brightness.
industry Analysis
foreign key
Pitchbook
affinity
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.
data warehouse
dynamic reports
Doing Business As (DBA) license
website authoring tools
40. A user-friendly way to get information into a database.
bar graph
system development life cycle
form
startup costs
41. Running development software such as Dreamweaver on your workstation. The major advantage is that it runs very fast when running locally.
master
cloud development
camelback notation
client side development
42. A part of the spreadsheet - usually at the top - where the key variables are given their values.
assumptions area
startup costs
affinity
pivot table
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
camelback notation
foreign key
cloud development
analytical design
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.
drill down
Doing Business As (DBA) license
dynamic reports
dashboard
45. Accessing development software that lives in the cloud. The major advantage is that the development process tends to be greatly simplified.
data warehouse
dashboard
template
cloud development
46. A form of BI reporting with which we are most familiar-- summary reports distributed at regular intervals.
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
form
scatterplot
static reports
47. An analysis of how the calculation results vary with changes in the initial assumptions.
sensitivity analysis
database integration
variable cost
information systems
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.
contribution margin
drill down
primary key
data mining
49. Compares coninuous categories such as time on a common measure
demographics
line graph
cloud development
system development life cycle
50. These are fixed costs associated with starting a business. Often refers to one time costs.
startup costs
client side development
sensitivity analysis
affinity