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Business Analyst

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1. 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.






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






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






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






5. Describes how best to represent information






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






7. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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).






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






50. 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.