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1. 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






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






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






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. 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.






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






7. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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).






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






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






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






18. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






48. 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






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







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