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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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).






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






29. 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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






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






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







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