Business Buzzwords
A project outcome where a system or process is successfully moved into production use.
What is a go-live (or cutover)?
This type of system manages a company’s core business processes like accounting, procurement, and billing
What is an ERP?
This singer is known for albums like 1989, Folklore, and Midnights.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This chess piece can move only diagonally.
What is the bishop?
This 1803 land purchase from France nearly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The process of ensuring financial or operational data matches across systems or reports.
What is reconciliation?
This tool is used to tighten or loosen hexagonal bolts and often comes in an L-shape.
What is an Allen wrench?
This long-running reality show features contestants trying to outwit, outplay, and outlast each other.
What is Survivor?
The largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This 1920 amendment gave women the right to vote nationwide.
What is the 19th Amendment?
A documented set of step-by-step instructions designed to ensure consistency and repeatability in a process
What is a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)?
This metric represents earnings after accounting for capital expenditures, often used to evaluate a company’s ability to generate cash for debt repayment.
What is free cash flow (FCF)?
This MTV show featured Ashton Kutcher tricking celebrities with elaborate pranks.
What is Punk’d?
The Olympic Games originated in this city.
What is Olympia?
This president appears on both Mount Rushmore and the $20 bill.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
A transaction where a division of a company is separated, requiring standalone financials, systems, and operations to support a sale or investment.
What is a carve-out?
A large-scale storage system that holds raw, unstructured, and structured data in its native format.
What is a data lake?
This MLB player broke Roger Maris’s single-season home run record in 1998.
Who is Mark McGwire?
The national animal of Scotland is this mythical creature.
What is the unicorn?
This U.S. president was the only one never elected as either president or vice president.
Who is Gerald Ford?
The practice of selling a portfolio company to another private equity firm rather than a strategic buyer or public market.
What is a sponsor-to-sponsor sale?
A method of structuring data transformations in layers (e.g., raw, cleaned, and curated) to improve scalability and maintainability.
What is a layered data model (or medallion architecture)?
This 1980s TV show followed the lives of wealthy oil families in Texas, including the Ewing family.
What is Dallas?
The only letter that does not appear in the periodic table is this one.
What is J?
This state was the first to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
What is Delaware?