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- 1. software written to solve problems such as payroll processing, financial analysis or creation of contracts. Usually this type of software is purchased, however there are free open-source versions.
- 5. Rather than needing to buy application software and host it on a corporate computer systems which entail high up-front costs, SAAS is a lease and pay as you payment option. The key difference is the software resides at the software vendor’s data center which can be problematic for certain contexts (such as hospitals). SAAS has helped many small businesses reduce their start-up costs and complexity.
- 6. a principal that computers double in speed ever 18 to 24 months
- 9. a roadmap created by an organization to describe its current processes, and goals, and focuses on ensuring the data, apps, and technology infrastructure support business operations and strategy
- 13. glass ‘wire’ tubes (made from melted beach sand) that were installed in the walls of homes and businesses, by the side of roads and underground (and under oceans) for super fast data transmission.
- 15. software that can read an image such as a pdf and turn it into a document that can be edited.
- 16. the brain of the computer that accepts programmed instructions, data to control tasks and perform calculations
- 18. the measurement of actual data transmission spped
- 19. older information system including hardware, operating system, and application software which remains in use because it still works.
- 21. language a programming language that builds objects such as a button, input box, or chart and gives them attributes and capabilities (such as printing, displaying data or validating data entry) or that leverages programming objects built by others. The idea is that the code is organized when it is embedded in the objects.
- 23. copper wires that were installed in the walls of homes and businesses used for higher speed cable TV and cable modems
- 24. A group of interconnected computing devices tht can share resources and communicate data using standard (rather than proprietary meaning company owned) protocols. Inside a building another name is local area network which use Ethernet wired technology or WIFI
- 25. the copper wires of old telephone networks which were installed in the walls of homes and businesses. It was an engineering feat to use these wires for DSL (highspeed) data transmission
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- 2. an in-home or business computing device that connects to the fiber optics or cable coaxial cable modem and creates a WIFI network used to connect devices to the Internet.
- 3. a data storage, processing and transmitting technology embedded into labels that is used to track the location and movement of assets such as pallets of inventory.
- 4. software used to write computer programs which are instructions to process data. Popular examples are Python, C#, C++, and Visual Basic.
- 7. written instructions that control computer data processing and hardware. The software controls the hardware and tells it what to do such as calculating payroll using different business rules to implement different tax structures.
- 8. the maximum BPS that a network channel can transmit. Slang usage is a meaure of the capacity of a person or department to get work done.
- 10. software that controls and connects the different parts of the computer such as disk storage, RAM, the keyboard, screen and the CPU to the application software.
- 11. the data transmission protocol invented by Americans and UK engineers that created the Internet
- 12. as opposed to disk drives, and solid state memory which are used for permanent storage, RAM computer chips are used to temporarily store and manipulate data. Data is copied from permanent storage into RAM for ‘in-memory’ processing such as calculation of metrics.
- 14. a computer generated bot that uses AI to support your information needs, for example to choose the best flight to Florida.
- 17. software modules (such as a print driver) that are created by programmers and can be freely used by other programmers to build new application software.
- 20. voice over internet protocol a technology that enables telephone calls over the internet rather than private networks managed by telephone companies.
- 22. rather than rely of copper or glass ‘wires’ WIFI uses radio waves emitted from a system of cellular towers.
- 23. an electronic device that can be programmed to accept data input, store it, manipulate it and output data.
- 26. transmission the ability to transmit data without wires either long distances (5G networks) or short distances (bluetooth).