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1. The combination of people - information technology - and business processes to accomplish a business objective.
master
affinity
sensitivity analysis
information systems
2. Describes how easy the system is to use and navigate
usibility
report
drill down
primary key
3. What you make on every sale after subtracting variable costs.
fixed cost
form
payment (PMT) function
contribution margin
4. Make very small loans (typically under 500) to entrepreneurs in developing countries. Most Loans are repaid in six months to a year.
microfinance
report
data mining
fixed cost
5. The process of copying data from many databases throughout the enterprise into the datawarehouse
extract - transform - load (ETL)
information systems
website authoring tools
cloud development
6. Mini services that exist in the cloud and can be snapped into your webpage. For example - you can include a weather gadget.
static reports
gadgets
payment (PMT) function
business intelligence
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.
pie chart
drill down
template
sensitivity analysis
8. A way to get information into database. Each field in the form corresponds to a field in the database table
form
bar graph
finance charge
schematic report
9. Usually the recommended way to start a small business. If the business goes under - you are not personally liable for the businesses debts.
affinity
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
fixed cost
dynamic reports
10. Compares discrete (distinct) categories on a common measure
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
bar graph
PowerPoint presentation
database integration
11. Programs that greatly simplify the process of building a website. Google Sites is the authoring tool that we will use.
theme
website authoring tools
foreign key
latency
12. 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
drill down
singularity
system development life cycle
schematic report
13. 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
affinity
scatterplot
system development life cycle
business analyst
14. A way to categorize groups of people using age - income level - gender - education level - home ownership - and so forth.
singularity
primary key
demographics
system development life cycle
15. 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).
drill down
payment (PMT) function
SQL
template
16. 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.
database
singularity
template
enterprise resource planning
17. A collection of one or more related tables of data stored in rows and columns
database
user centered design
layout
analytical design
18. Variable names created by capitalizing the first letter of each word and eliminating the spaces between words.
theme
camelback notation
microfinance
data warehouse
19. 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.
singularity
payment (PMT) function
variable cost
finance charge
20. Structured Query Language is the language used by most relational database management systems. It requires very little code to accopmlish powerful operations.
SQL
Doing Business As (DBA) license
business intelligence
theme
21. Defines a set of background elements - colors - and fonts as well as a set of slide layouts.
theme
analytical design
demographics
database
22. Printing horizontally rather than vertically on a piece of paper. The normal way to print is portrait or vertical orientation.
enterprise resource planning
static reports
latency
landscape orientation
23. Designing websites and applications to meet the needs of the user.
relational database
landscape orientation
SQL
user centered design
24. The process of analyzing data to spot trends and opportunities.
pie chart
business intelligence
assumptions area
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
25. Systems that manage day to day transactions of the business.
differentiate
enterprise systems
layout
Porter's five forces
26. The idea that a brand's power depends on it's uniqueness
singularity
user centered design
scatterplot
data mining
27. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.
site template
payment (PMT) function
pie chart
affinity
28. The opposite of contrast. Layouts demonstrating affinity show subtle variations in color or brightness.
database
system development life cycle
affinity
cloud development
29. An analysis of the attractiveness of the industry in which the company operates.
website authoring tools
industry Analysis
data mining
pie chart
30. A group of potential customers for a product or service. Segments are typically identified by demographics.
primary key
analytical design
market segment
variable cost
31. 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
enterprise systems
report
landscape orientation
startup costs
32. The largest systems of all. ERP systems tie together all aspects of the business from accounting to the shop floor.
Pitchbook
enterprise resource planning
camelback notation
user centered design
33. Accessing development software that lives in the cloud. The major advantage is that the development process tends to be greatly simplified.
line graph
user centered design
usibility
cloud development
34. A form of BI reporting with which we are most familiar-- summary reports distributed at regular intervals.
pie chart
landscape orientation
static reports
startup costs
35. These are fixed costs associated with starting a business. Often refers to one time costs.
schematic report
startup costs
line graph
database
36. The process of fishing for patterns in the data using computing power because you really do not know what to look for.
data mining
dynamic reports
business intelligence
extract - transform - load (ETL)
37. Compares coninuous categories such as time on a common measure
line graph
variable cost
market segment
theme
38. 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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39. Suggests causality by plotting independent and dependent variables on the same graph.
demographics
affinity
pie chart
scatterplot
40. Running development software such as Dreamweaver on your workstation. The major advantage is that it runs very fast when running locally.
schematic report
website authoring tools
client side development
industry Analysis
41. A high level management overview of the data--sometimes depicted using dials and needles similar to an automobile dashboard. In a car.
cloud development
line graph
user centered design
dashboard
42. An analysis of how the calculation results vary with changes in the initial assumptions.
fixed cost
sensitivity analysis
analytical design
user centered design
43. Similar to a template but without the placeholder text and images. A theme specifies formatting--layout - colors - and fonts
theme
microfinance
enterprise resource planning
Porter's five forces
44. An unfortunate reuse of the word template
scatterplot
page template
relational database
microfinance
45. 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.
dynamic reports
Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
foreign key
Doing Business As (DBA) license
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
business intelligence
form
foreign key
market segment
47. A user-friendly way to get information into a database.
foreign key
form
microfinance
singularity
48. 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.
microfinance
gadgets
master
demographics
49. A database that consists of related tables and nothing but tables.
analytical design
primary key
static reports
relational database
50. 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.
pie chart
database integration
relational database
enterprise systems