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| Name for business technology in the 1970s; included technology that supported an existing business and was primarily used to improve the flow of financial information |
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| Technology that helps companies do business; includes such tools as automated teller machines (ATMs) and voice mail. |
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| Information Technology (IT) |
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| Technology that helps companies change business by allowing them to use new methods. |
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| Business Intelligence (BI) |
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| Any of a variety of software applications that analyze an organization's raw data and take out useful insights from it. |
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| A companywide network, closed to public access, that uses Internet-type technology. |
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| A semiprivate network that uses Internet technology and allows more than one company to access the same information or allows people on differene servers to collaborate. |
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| Virtual Private Network (VPN) |
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| A private data network that creates secure connections, or "tunnels," over regular Internet lines. |
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| Technology that offers users a continuous connection to the Internet and allows them to send and receive mammoth files that include voice, video, and data much faster than ever before. |
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| The private Internet system that links government supercomputer centers and a select group of universitie; it runs more than 22,000 times faster than today's public infrastructure and supports heavy-duty applications. |
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| The set of tools that allow people to build social and business connections, share information, and collaborate on projects online (including blogs, wikis, social networking sites and other online communities, and virtual worlds). |
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| Networking Computing System (or client/server computing) |
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| Computer systems that allow personal computers (clients) to obtain needed information from huge databases in a central computer (the server). |
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| A process that allows networked computers to run multiple operating systems and programs through one central computer at the same time. |
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| A form of virtualization in which a company's data and applications are stored at offsite data centers that are accessed over the Internet (the cloud). |
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| Software that is copyrighted but distributed to potential customers free of charge. |
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| Public Domain Software (or freeware) |
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| Software that is free for the taking. |
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| A piece of programming code inserted into other programming to cause some unexpected and, for the victim, usually undesirable event. |
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| Pieces of information, such as registration data or user preferences, sent by a Web site over the internet to a browser software is expected to save and send back to the server whenever the user returns to that Web site. |
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