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Business Analyst

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






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






3. 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






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






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






6. 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.






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






8. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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






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






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






12. 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.






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






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






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






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.






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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






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






26. 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






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






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






29. 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.


30. 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).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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