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Business Analyst

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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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.






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






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






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






15. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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).






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






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