Information Systems

These are the combination of people, information technology and business processes to accomplish a business objective.

This describes how to best represent quantitative information so it communicates clearly and truthfully.

Graphic Design

This describes how to create a visually appealing and organized user interface

- Analysis

- Requirements

- Design

- Development

- Implementation

What are the five phases of the SDLC?

Non-functioning pages of a website or app that are generated in a drawing program such as Photoshop, Omnigraph, or even PowerPoint

- Enterprise Systems (SCM) (CRM) (ERM) (SCM)

- Knowledge Management Collaboration

- Business Intelligence

What are the three main areas of the systems architecture diagram?

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 

This type of system controls communications with the customer to advance marketing goals?

Supply Chain Management (SCM)

This type of system controls the flow of raw materials and finished products into and out of the business

Collaboration Systems

This type of system allows users to work on projects together – even when geographically separated

To-Be Business Process

You create this type of deliverable during the Requirements phase of the SDLC

This principle is used to call attention to a particular piece of a design and highlight it

This principle is used to group items in a design and establish a relationship between them

This is the market segment chosen by a company for sending promotional campaigns to

This is a narrow and highly defined target market

Tagline 

(not one of the standard/required pieces of an app)

On a website, this should be included near the logo

Should the navigation menu on a website include a home link?

Build It – Building your own system means it is specifically tailored to fit the needs and wants of your specific business, making it highly customizable.

If you are looking to implement a highly customized information system, should you consider building it or buying it first?

One of the major advantages is that the software can run fast when run locally on the client user base. 

What’s an advantage to client-side development?

Intermediary

How can you characterize the role of the business analyst relative to other business professionals?

What is it? – Hiring another firm to do a job that traditionally might have been done in-house.

How do you know? – The offshoring process is imperfect and some U.S. companies have found that documentation requirements are so extensive, and communication problems are so prevalent, that it is almost cheaper in the end to hire a local programmer somewhat familiar with the business already.

What is outsourcing? How do you know if you should outsource?

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

-        AppleCommission

-        CamelBack

-        FinalExam

A mathematical operation that normally references the values contained in other cells in the spreadsheet. If the cells are referenced by name, then their values will not change when copied. If the cells are referenced by location (e.g. B6) then the values will change when copied as Excel tries to guess a pattern.

Function

A function is similar to a stored formula. However functions usually hide details of the formula from the user. 

Sensitivity Analysis

What is the analysis of how an output will change as the inputs vary?

What-If Analysis or Data Table

This is used to create a sensitivity analysis in Excel

- Rivalry Among Existing Competitors

- Barriers to Entry

- Bargaining Power of Buyers

- Bargaining Power of Suppliers

- Threat of Substitutes

What are Porter’s Five Forces?

- Top Half – Strengths and Weaknesses

- Bottom Half – Opportunities and Threats

What is the difference between the top and bottom halves of the SWOT analysis?

This is a high level management overview of the data.

Relational Database

This is used to store data using tables and relationships

This uniquely identifies a row in a database table.

This relational database model was created by an IBM engineer named?

Structured Query Language (SQL)

This is the language used by most relational database systems.

- It helps keep everyone on one page

- Easy integration of text and graphics

- Themes allow the presentation to take on a slick and unified look

- Allows you to encapsulate a complete idea

What is a main advantage of creating a schematic report in PowerPoint?

- You should master your content instead of demanding your audience to read and learn it for themselves

- You want their attention to be on you and not on the slide

- If you know your content you can look at the audience

Why is it best to put few words on a slide?