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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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 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.






17. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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).






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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. Describes how best to represent information






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






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






50. 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.