Glossary Archive

A distributed ledger technology and cryptocurrency designed for the Internet of Things (IoT), providing secure and feeless transactions between connected devices.

A programming language used for building Web based applications.

Tasks that are central to the success of a business and show, when measured, whether the business is advancing toward its strategic goals.

The process of finding, selecting and organizing the 'intellectual capital' of a company; whether that is files in a database, or the information lodged in each employee’s brain; and then presenting that knowledge in a way that helps employees understand and act on that information.

The delay or time lag between the sending and receiving of data or information in a network or system.

A software application that allows the creation delivery and management of learning and training resources and content.

A legacy system, in the context of computing, refers to outdated computer systems, programming languages or application software that is used instead of available upgraded versions. The term used to describe an old system that has been replaced by something more suitable to the current operation, but still holds data that is needed. The term...

Covers the processes of managing a software application from implementation through testing, deployment, support, upgrading and ultimately retirement. Additionally, archiving of data is also considered to be part of lifecycle management.

The date the system has been fully tested and is put into production or implemented for actual use by all end users.

A technique in computer networking to spread work between computers, network links or CPU’s in order to get optimal resource utilization from the network.