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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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






17. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






18. 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.


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






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






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 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






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