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Business Analyst

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






28. 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.






29. Describes how best to represent information






30. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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).






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