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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






12. 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).






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






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






15. 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






16. 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.






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






18. Describes how best to represent information






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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