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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






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






27. 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).






28. Describes how best to represent information






29. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






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






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