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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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.






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






18. 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.






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






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






21. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. 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).






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






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






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






35. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






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