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1. A cost that the business must pay whether or not they sell anything. Examples include rent - legal fees - development costs and so forth.
Porter's five forces
fixed cost
user centered design
affinity
2. 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
enterprise resource planning
system development life cycle
usibility
data warehouse
3. Compares coninuous categories such as time on a common measure
line graph
usibility
payment (PMT) function
SQL
4. A PowerPoint template well suited for creating schematic reports because of its small font size and versatile layouts.
industry Analysis
sensitivity analysis
Pitchbook
Porter's five forces
5. 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.
business analyst
master
differentiate
pie chart
6. Variable names created by capitalizing the first letter of each word and eliminating the spaces between words.
usibility
latency
camelback notation
singularity
7. The delivery of accurate - useful information to the appropriate decision makers within the necessary fime frame to support effective decision making.
startup costs
landscape orientation
camelback notation
business intelligence
8. An unfortunate reuse of the word template
page template
system development life cycle
gadgets
PowerPoint presentation
9. 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.
10. The process of analyzing data to spot trends and opportunities.
form
business intelligence
primary key
enterprise resource planning
11. A user-friendly way to get information into a database.
startup costs
form
dynamic reports
pie chart
12. A pre-built site with placeholder text - images - and a pre-selected theme. Site templates are the closest thing to an instant website.
site template
startup costs
master
dynamic reports
13. Defines a set of background elements - colors - and fonts as well as a set of slide layouts.
data warehouse
pivot table
theme
extract - transform - load (ETL)
14. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.
database
website authoring tools
latency
pie chart
15. Programs that greatly simplify the process of building a website. Google Sites is the authoring tool that we will use.
Doing Business As (DBA) license
assumptions area
website authoring tools
Pitchbook
16. Describes how best to represent information
business intelligence
dashboard
finance charge
analytical design
17. The opposite of contrast. Layouts demonstrating affinity show subtle variations in color or brightness.
theme
primary key
SQL
affinity
18. Usually the recommended way to start a small business. If the business goes under - you are not personally liable for the businesses debts.
scatterplot
user centered design
assumptions area
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
19. A way to get information into database. Each field in the form corresponds to a field in the database table
master
theme
form
finance charge
20. A marketing term that refers to the ability of a brand to stand out from the crowd.
variable cost
differentiate
market segment
site template
21. 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
sensitivity analysis
dashboard
report
site template
22. One or more fields that uniquely identify each record in the table
affinity
primary key
business intelligence
enterprise resource planning
23. A presentation primarily designed to be projected which combines brief text and graphics. Presentations use few words and large fonts for audience readability.
form
PowerPoint presentation
industry Analysis
relational database
24. 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.
theme
dynamic reports
schematic report
database
25. Accessing development software that lives in the cloud. The major advantage is that the development process tends to be greatly simplified.
enterprise systems
layout
contribution margin
cloud development
26. A giant database that contains periodic dumps from many databases throughout the company. BI systems query the data warehouse to spot patterns and trends.
theme
template
dashboard
data warehouse
27. A group of potential customers for a product or service. Segments are typically identified by demographics.
sensitivity analysis
pie chart
singularity
market segment
28. A form of BI reporting with which we are most familiar-- summary reports distributed at regular intervals.
page template
static reports
Porter's five forces
data mining
29. Similar to a template but without the placeholder text and images. A theme specifies formatting--layout - colors - and fonts
Porter's five forces
gadgets
theme
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
30. Printing horizontally rather than vertically on a piece of paper. The normal way to print is portrait or vertical orientation.
drill down
fixed cost
landscape orientation
Porter's five forces
31. Structured Query Language is the language used by most relational database management systems. It requires very little code to accopmlish powerful operations.
singularity
SQL
schematic report
gadgets
32. A part of the spreadsheet - usually at the top - where the key variables are given their values.
enterprise systems
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
assumptions area
system development life cycle
33. Suggests causality by plotting independent and dependent variables on the same graph.
scatterplot
database integration
Pitchbook
enterprise resource planning
34. Designing websites and applications to meet the needs of the user.
foreign key
usibility
website authoring tools
user centered design
35. A cost that business incurs on each sale. For apps - the variable cost is the iTunes store commission.
variable cost
information systems
drill down
fixed cost
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
system development life cycle
business analyst
foreign key
analytical design
37. Systems that manage day to day transactions of the business.
enterprise systems
microfinance
database integration
differentiate
38. Running development software such as Dreamweaver on your workstation. The major advantage is that it runs very fast when running locally.
client side development
drill down
landscape orientation
system development life cycle
39. A way to categorize groups of people using age - income level - gender - education level - home ownership - and so forth.
theme
demographics
cloud development
pie chart
40. The process of copying data from many databases throughout the enterprise into the datawarehouse
SQL
PowerPoint presentation
usibility
extract - transform - load (ETL)
41. 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.
scatterplot
bar graph
template
master
42. Compares discrete (distinct) categories on a common measure
bar graph
differentiate
SQL
pie chart
43. What you make on every sale after subtracting variable costs.
line graph
demographics
fixed cost
contribution margin
44. A high level management overview of the data--sometimes depicted using dials and needles similar to an automobile dashboard. In a car.
enterprise systems
dashboard
Doing Business As (DBA) license
master
45. The idea that a brand's power depends on it's uniqueness
singularity
fixed cost
PowerPoint presentation
site template
46. An analysis of the attractiveness of the industry in which the company operates.
database
industry Analysis
demographics
line graph
47. The largest systems of all. ERP systems tie together all aspects of the business from accounting to the shop floor.
variable cost
database
enterprise resource planning
foreign key
48. A visual query tool in excel that allows you to easily group and summarize data
pivot table
market segment
variable cost
enterprise resource planning
49. Look like standard reports but with a major difference. They are interactive and allow the user to drill down to disover the source for the summary numbers.
layout
microfinance
data mining
dynamic reports
50. These are fixed costs associated with starting a business. Often refers to one time costs.
user centered design
startup costs
finance charge
differentiate