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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






5. 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).






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






7. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Describes how best to represent information






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






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






37. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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. 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.






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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