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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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).






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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 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.






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






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






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. 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.






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






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






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 discrete (distinct) categories on a common measure






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







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