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Business Analyst

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1. 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.






2. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






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






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






12. 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






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






14. 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.






15. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






35. 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).






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






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






38. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






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