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Business Analyst

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






17. 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.






18. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






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