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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






26. Describes how best to represent information






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. Compares coninuous categories such as time on a common measure






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






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






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






32. 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.






33. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. 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.






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. 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).






49. 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.






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