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Business Analyst

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






14. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. Describes how best to represent information






48. 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).






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






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