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






2. 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






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






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






5. Describes how best to represent information






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






22. 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






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






24. 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






25. 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).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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







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