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Business Analyst

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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






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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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






18. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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. 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.






37. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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).






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