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Business Analyst

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1. 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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






26. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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