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






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






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






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






7. 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






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






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






12. 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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13. Compares discrete (distinct) categories on a common measure






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






34. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






47. 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.






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






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






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