Definitions about information technology management including compliance vocabulary, business terminology, words about security, storage, network and software management and search engine optimization (SEO).
Business software
Terms related to business software, including definitions about billing and words and phrases about supply chain, CRM, POS, ERP, accounting, payroll and inventory.
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- Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP) - Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP) is a global business outsourcing services provider headquart...
- enterprise mobility management (EMM) - Enterprise mobility management (EMM) is an all-encompassing approach to securing and enabling bus...
- BPaaS (Business Process as a Service) - Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) is a form of business process outsourcing (BPO) that employ...
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Business terms
Terms related to business, including definitions about project management and words and phrases about human resources, finance and vertical industries.
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- authorized service provider (ASP) - An authorized service provider (ASP) is an individual or an organization that is permitted to ser...
- hosted services - Hosted services are outsourced information technology (IT) systems and functions. A hosted servic...
- VAR agreement (value-added reseller agreement) - A VAR agreement is a legal contract between a manufacturer and a value-added reseller that specif...
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Call centers
Terms related to call centers, including definitions about inbound and outbound call center and words and phrases about customer relationship management (CRM).
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- social media analytics - Social media analytics is the practice of gathering data from blogs and social media websites and...
- Director of First Impressions - Director of First Impressions is a job title that is increasingly replacing that of receptionist.
- Web self-service - Web self-service is a type of electronic support (e-support) that allows customers and employees ...
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Compliance
Terms related to compliance, including regulatory definitions and words and phrases about governance and mitigating IT risk.
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- data sovereignty - Data sovereignty is the concept that information which has been converted and stored in binary di...
- FTC (Federal Trade Commission) - The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is a U.S. federal regulatory agency designed to monitor and pr...
- FPCA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) - The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) is a federal U.S. law aimed at preventing the bribery of...
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Government IT
Terms related to government IT, including definitions about specific federal, state and local government programs as well as words and phrases about policy and compliance.
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- European Cloud Computing Strategy (ECCS) - The European Cloud Computing Strategy (ECCS) is an initiative established by the European Commiss...
- Chief Social Scientist (Senior Social Scientist) - A Chief (or Senior) Social Scientist is a sociologist who provides advice to government officials...
- G-cloud (government cloud) - G-Cloud, or Government Cloud Computing, is a U.K. government program aiming for government-wide a...
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Healthcare IT
Terms related to healthcare IT, including definitions about healthcare information and management systems and words and phrases about electronic health records, meaningful use, government regulations and medical technology.
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- VistA EHR - VistA EHR, more formally known as the VistA Computerized Patient Record System, is an open source...
- accountable care organization (ACO) - An accountable care organization (ACO) is an association of hospitals, providers and insurers in ...
- discrete event simulation (DES) - Discrete event simulation (DES) is the process of codifying the behavior of a complex system as a...
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Network administration
Terms related to managing computer networks, including definitions about LANS or WANS and words and phrases about network design, troubleshooting, security and backups.
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- hosted services - Hosted services are outsourced information technology (IT) systems and functions. A hosted servic...
- managed hosting - Managed hosting is an IT operations model in which a service provider leases dedicated servers an...
- I/O contention (input/output contention) - I/O contention (input/output contention), occurs when virtual machines compete for I/O resources ...
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Project management
Terms related to project management, including definitions about project management methodologies and tools.
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- vendor neutral - Vendor neutrality is a business and design approach that seeks to ensure broad compatibility and ...
- story point (story points) - A story point is a metric used in agile project management and development to determine the impor...
- distributor agreement (distribution agreement) - A distributor agreement, also known as a distribution agreement, is a contract between a vendor a...
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Search engine optimization (SEO)
Terms related to search engine optimization, including definitions about SEO and words and phrases about bots, spiders, organic traffic and all areas of search engine marketing (SEM).
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- Google Trends - Google Trends is a free service provided by Google that displays how often specific keywords, sub...
- linkbaiting - Linkbaiting is the practice of crafting content that is designed to compel people who view it to ...
- meta description tag - A meta description tag is the snippet of HTML code that belongs inside the header of a web page. ...
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Security management
Terms related to security management, including definitions about intrusion detection systems (IDS) and words and phrases about asset management, security policies, security monitoring, authorization and authentication.
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- virtual NAS - Virtual NAS is a virtual machine (VM) that acts as a file server for network-attached storage (NA...
- erasure coding - Erasure coding (EC) is a method of data protection in which data is broken into fragments, expand...
- DCPromo (Domain Controller Promoter) - DCPromo (Domain Controller Promoter) is a tool in Active Directory that installs and removes Acti...
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Software management
Terms related to software management, including definitions about licensing and words and phrases about software lifecycle management and software asset management.
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- WebOps (Web operations) - WebOps, short for Web operations, is the area of IT systems management that deals with the comple...
- application awareness - Application awareness is the capacity of a system to maintain information about connected applica...
- stack overflow - A stack overflow is an undesirable condition in which a particular computer program tries to use ...
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Storage management
Terms related to data storage management, including definitions about enterprise storage and words and phrases about storage infrastructure, storage capacity and hierarchical storage management (HSM).
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- capacity sprawl - Capacity sprawl, in a storage context, is a situation in which multiple, under-utilized or badly ...
- Amazon ElastiCache - Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed caching service. ElastiCache is protocol-compliant with Mem...
- shared storage - Shared storage is a medium accessible by all of the subscribers in a network, intended for file s...
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