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Business Analyst

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1. Describes how best to represent information






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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






34. 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).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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 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






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