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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






5. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






13. 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






14. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






16. 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.






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






18. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. 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).






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






34. A user-friendly way to get information into a database.






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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