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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. 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






8. 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






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






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






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






12. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Describes how best to represent information






50. 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).