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Business Analyst

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






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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






25. 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.






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






27. 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






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






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






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






31. 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






32. 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.






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






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






35. Describes how best to represent information






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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.






40. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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