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Business Analyst

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






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






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






4. 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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5. Systems that manage day to day transactions of the business.






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






30. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






45. 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).






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






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






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






49. 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






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