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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 tool 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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| Accessibility through technology that allows business to be conducted independent of location. |
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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 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 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 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 inserting 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 Web site. |
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