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Business Analyst

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1. 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.






2. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






6. 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).






7. 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.






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






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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Describes how best to represent information






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






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






47. 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.






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






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






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