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Business Analyst

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






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






50. 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