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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






5. 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).






6. 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.






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






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






9. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






11. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. 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.