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Business Analyst

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. 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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24. What you make on every sale after subtracting variable costs.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






38. 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).






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






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






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






42. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. An unfortunate reuse of the word template