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Business Analyst

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






11. 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.






12. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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