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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






35. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






42. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






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