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Business Analyst

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1. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






37. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. 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).






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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