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Business Analyst

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1. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






2. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






6. 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






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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).






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






45. 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






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






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






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






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






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