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Business Analyst

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






2. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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.






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






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






34. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






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






49. 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.






50. 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