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Business Analyst

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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






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






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






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






10. An unfortunate reuse of the word template






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. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






26. 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






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






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






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