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Business Analyst

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






2. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






13. Running development software such as Dreamweaver on your workstation. The major advantage is that it runs very fast when running locally.






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






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






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






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






18. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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).






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






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