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Business Analyst

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1. 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






2. 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.


3. 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






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






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






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






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






8. Compares discrete categories on a common measure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






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






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






34. Describes how best to represent information






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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.