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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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