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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






16. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






50. 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