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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. Describes how best to represent information






50. An unfortunate reuse of the word template