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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






11. 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






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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







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