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Business Analyst

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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






6. 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).






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






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






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






11. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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.






27. 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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






37. 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






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






39. An analysis of five key forces which profiles the attractiveness of an industry. These include the bargaining power of suppliers and buyers - barriers to entry - threat of substitutes - and the competitive rivalry of firms already in the industry.


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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






50. Describes how best to represent information