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Business Analyst

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






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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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40. An analysis of the attractiveness of the industry in which the company operates.






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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