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Business Analyst

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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.


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






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






50. 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