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Business Analyst

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






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






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






4. 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).






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






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






10. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Describes how best to represent information






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






36. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






50. 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.






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