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Business Analyst

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






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






41. Describes how best to represent information






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






43. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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