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






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. Describes how best to represent information






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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







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