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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. 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.


3. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






21. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






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