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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






32. 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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33. 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.






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






49. 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






50. 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