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Business Analyst

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1. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






22. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






28. 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).






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






30. 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






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






50. 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