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Business Analyst

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






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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).






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






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






35. 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






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






37. 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.






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






40. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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