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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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| Technology that helps companies change business by allowing them to use new methods |
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| Accessibility through technology that allows business to be conducted independent of location |
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| Any of a variety of software applications that analyze an organization's raw date and take out useful insights from them |
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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 allwos people on different 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 mammouth files that include voice, video,a nd data much faster than ever before |
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| The private Internet system that links gov't supercomputer centers and a select group of universities; it runs more than 22,000 times faster than today's public infrastructure and supports heavy-duty applications |
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| Network Computing System (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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| Software that is copyrighted but distributed to potential customers free of charge |
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| Public Domain Software (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 Web browser that the browser software is expected to save and send back to the server whenever the user returns to that website |
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Information charged with enough intelligence to make it relevant and useful. Adds a layer of intelligence to filter appropriate information and deliver it when it is needed |
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| A way business can organize data into useful information |
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| Stores data on a single subject over a specific period of time |
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| Looking for hidden patterns in a data warehouse. Discovers previously unknown relationships among data |
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