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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. 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.






3. 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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4. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






26. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






41. 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






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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