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Business Analyst

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1. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






15. 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).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






31. 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.






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






33. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






36. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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