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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






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.


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






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






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






13. Describes how best to represent information






14. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. One or more fields that uniquely identify each record in the table






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






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






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






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 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






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






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






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






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






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