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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






19. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. 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






48. 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.






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






50. 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).