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Business Analyst

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






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






3. 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.

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. 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.






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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






36. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






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






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