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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. 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






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






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






16. 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.






17. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Describes how best to represent information






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






30. 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






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. 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).






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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







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