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NEW YORK, NY  — Tradeify has officially unveiled Tradeify 3.0 with 40% off coupon code “FUTURE”, a major platform upgrade...
Webopedia Staff
New York, NY — Vetted Prop Firms, the independent trading industry review platform known for analysing and vetting proprietary trading...
Forex trading platforms connect traders to the currency market, offering real-time charts, order panels, and account management tools for informed...
Sal Miah
Forex brokers connect individual traders to global currency markets, enabling trades that would otherwise require access to banks and institutions....
A CFD broker lets you trade price movements without owning the asset. CFDs allow speculation on rising and falling markets...
Cryptocurrency remains a nascent industry with ongoing regulatory debates, highlighting the need for advocacy groups to influence policy. Prominent crypto...
Tasho Tashev
Crypto whales are wallets that hold a significant enough amount of cryptocurrency to influence the market. Whales can signal market...
Tasho Tashev
Structured data is highly organized, typically quantitative, and stored in databases or spreadsheets. Unstructured data is unorganized and often qualitative,...
Tasho Tashev
A crypto wallet is a device, document or piece of software that stores the private keys for your cryptocurrency. Different...
Crypto adoption is rising alongside scams: Around 562 million people now own cryptocurrency, and as the ecosystem grows, scams and...
Kirsty Moreland
What is the Bitcoin halving? The Bitcoin halving is an event on the Bitcoin protocol, in which the block reward...
Tasho Tashev
P2P VPN meaning: what’s a peer-to-peer VPN? A P2P VPN is a type of Virtual Private Network that has servers...
Maheen Kanwal
ScalaHosting is a leading managed hosting provider that offers secure, scalable, and affordable cloud VPS solutions for businesses. It claims...
Siji Roy
In the world of digital transformation, organizations are being compelled to integrate technology into their business strategies and operations to...
Siji Roy
In the world of digitalization, every business needs to invest in technology to achieve its business objectives cost-effectively. Implementing managed...
Olivia Chakraborty
KPMG is a professional services firm that helps its clients with a variety of financial, tax, business development, and technology...
Sam Ingalls
Burn up and burn down charts are visual representations of progress in the scope of a project, showing the amount...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is a global, edge-to-cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) company in the IT, internet, software, and services industry. It...
Amanda Scheldt
When changes need to be made to a project after the project has already been approved by the client, a...
Jenna Phipps
Container registry software is designed to store container images while inactive and offers automation features for container management. The software...
Organizations of all sizes can outsource their management of security devices and systems to a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP)....
Olivia Chakraborty
As employees and customers alike have changed their IT usage habits as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, IT service...
Brenna Miles
Deloitte is a global professional services firm that offers auditing, consulting, advisory, and tax services to companies in a variety...
Amanda Scheldt
Stealth mode is a business term that is commonly used to describe taking on new business opportunities, projects, or company...
Sam Ingalls
Venture capital (VC) offers startups and developing businesses growth opportunities with funding from private investors for an agreed-upon stake in...
Alice Musyoka
A third-party application is an application provided by a vendor other than the device or operating system (OS) manufacturer. For...
Ali Azhar
Ernst & Young Global Limited, commonly known as EY, is a multinational professional services company with headquarters in London, England....
Sam Ingalls
Founded in 2005, Smartsheet is a leading cloud-based project management solution that offers robust features, workflows, and automations to help...
Maheen Kanwal
Google Professional Certificates, offered as online certification programs through Coursera, help students and professionals of varying backgrounds build Google and...
Brenna Miles
Facebook Business Manager is a platform that enables businesses to manage all of their Facebook marketing and advertising elements, including...
Alice Musyoka
Social media monitoring helps companies leverage the full potential of social media for their brand. If used efficiently, it can...
Ali Azhar
Accurate, precise, and reliable sales forecasting can make the difference between success and failure for a business, as several functions...
Brenna Miles
Pipedrive is customer relationship management (CRM) software designed for sales. The software focuses on the sales pipeline, enabling sales teams...
Amanda Scheldt
Many companies have had to evolve their businesses to meet consumer wants and needs in new ways. One area that...
Siji Roy
Live streaming has grown in popularity due to the quick evolution of audiovisual and streaming technology over the past decade....
Maheen Kanwal
Social media platforms are websites or applications that allow users to create and share content or to participate in social...
Alice Musyoka
There are about 4.6 billion active social media users globally, as of early 2022, and Facebook (Meta) is one of...
Maheen Kanwal
Coursera is an online education platform that offers a variety of courses and certificate programs from top universities and leading...
Jen Gannon
A sales funnel is a visual representation of the strategy businesses use to stratify and target their sales tactics to...
Jenna Phipps
A quality management system (QMS) is a centralized system for managing business processes. QMS systems support the goal of meeting...
Aminu Abdullahi
Customer service software helps businesses run their customer service department easily and efficiently while keeping track of all relevant conversations,...
Ali Azhar
Social listening is the process of monitoring and analyzing digital interactions and communications on the internet, primarily on social media...
Jenna Phipps
Apptivo offers web-based and mobile applications for sales, marketing, product, and service teams. Although it’s mainly known as a CRM...
Brenna Miles
Mailchimp is a popular marketing automation platform and email marketing service. While Mailchimp began as an email marketing tool in...
Amanda Scheldt
Digital marketing agencies are businesses that provide marketing services to clients across digital mediums like social media and websites. These...
Ali Azhar
Continuous delivery (CD) is a repeatable and automated process used in software development to expedite the launch of modified or...
Ali Azhar
Continuous integration (CI) is a software development practice used by DevOps teams to regularly or continuously update code into a...
Alice Musyoka
MOFU, or Middle of the Funnel, is a content marketing term that describes the second stage in the marketing funnel...
The Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Certification enables networking professionals to prove their skills and knowledge in enterprise networking solutions....
Siji Roy
Gated content is a type of marketing content that is significant to the B2B industry, as it can generate potential...
Ali Azhar
Sentiment analysis—an audience analysis method that relies on text analysis, natural language processing (NLP), and other data mining methods—is increasingly...
Aminu Abdullahi
A product manager is someone involved in all areas of production, including setting strategies; developing products; and working with relevant...
Aminu Abdullahi
Companies looking for a business process management or customer relationship management (CRM) tool may wonder if Kintone is the right...
Ali Azhar
Geotargeting is a method of delivering data or content to users based on their geographic locations. Depending on the application...
Jenna Phipps
Agile project management enables business teams to approach their projects and tasks with a flexible mindset, allowing for both expected...
Shelby Hiter
A private 5G network is a private local area network (LAN) that utilizes 5G cellular technologies and edge device connections...
Shelby Hiter
Rich communication services (RCS) is a mobile messaging approach in which session initiation protocol (SIP) and hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)...
Siji Roy
Organizations often need cybersecurity-certified IT professionals who can design, develop, implement, and manage information security programs at an enterprise level....
Sal Miah
Symmetric encryption uses one key for encryption and decryption, while a asymmetric encryption algorithm uses a key pair and public...
Brenna Miles
ClickUp is a cloud-based work and project management platform that enables teams to manage tasks, collaborate in real-time, gain insights...
Siji Roy
To become certified CCSK means that an IT professional has passed examinations for the Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK)....
Aminu Abdullahi
A cloud service provider (CSP) is an information technology (IT) services vendor that allows clients to manage applications and data...
Jenna Phipps
Change control helps enterprises standardize the request and approval process for any organizational change. It also helps businesses stay compliant...
Amanda Scheldt
The National Security Agency (NSA) is the most important intelligence agency in the United States. The NSA’s mission is to...
Alice Musyoka
Project management software is business software that is used to plan and schedule projects, allocate resources, and manage change. Read...
Jenna Phipps
IT service management (ITSM) is a critical component of organizational growth because it centralizes technology resources, issues, and improvements in...
Ali Azhar
Digital technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and it is getting increasingly better at simulating reality. Deepfakes use...
Siji Roy
Wrike is project management software that helps businesses and other organizations to manage their project workflows smoothly. Take a closer...
Maheen Kanwal
Lean manufacturing is a modern approach to manufacturing that eliminates process and resource inefficiencies. Becoming lean has grown into an...
Amanda Scheldt
The term digital native describes younger generations that grew up in the technology age. Most people who are digital natives...
Siji Roy
REvil was a Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) ransomware attack that affected a number of larger corporations and famous individuals. Read this article...
Ali Azhar
Tunneling is used in information technology (IT) to move data or communications across a network using protocols that are not...
Amanda Scheldt
A contingency plan is a plan of action or “Plan B” for businesses to implement in extraordinary circumstances. Contingency plans...
Aminu Abdullahi
Fintech, also known as “financial technology,” is a term used to describe companies that use innovative technology to create more...
Jen Gannon
More and more businesses are adopting an agile approach to achieving their goals, from operations to IT to marketing. The...
Jenna Phipps
What Is Mobile CRM? Mobile CRM software enables sales, marketing, and customer service teams to handle customer relationships and sales...
Brenna Miles
Agile and waterfall are two popular methodologies or processes for project management. While both methods are similar in that they...
Siji Roy
Every project has to deal with a certain amount of risk, no matter how carefully planned. To make risk management...
Ali Azhar
A rolling release is a type of update or improvement to an existing computer application, mobile app, or software solution....
The AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification program provides skills and knowledge essential for managing the AWS platform securely. Learn...
Shelby Hiter
NetOps, or network operations, is a network management strategy for automating and optimizing processes across nearly any network type in...
Amanda Scheldt
Conversational AI is an artificial intelligence technology that comprehends human speech and corresponds with human interaction. Conversational AI is increasingly...
Maheen Kanwal
A virtual agent (VA) is an artificial intelligence (AI) program that mimics human conversations. Learn more in this definition. What...
Alice Musyoka
The CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control) certification is a qualification that shows proficiency in risk management. It’s...
Ali Azhar
A flat network is a type of computer network architecture that aims to reduce maintenance, administration, and cost through its...
Jenna Phipps
The waterfall methodology is a project management strategy for projects that already have a predetermined end result and/or a series...
Ali Azhar
A codebase is a collection of source code for an application, software component, or software system that can be stored...
Siji Roy
Businesses are increasing their workloads in ways that can lead to performance issues for various systems, servers, and databases. Performance...
Aminu Abdullahi
Virtualization software is a digital solution used to create an abstraction layer for hardware. The software creates multiple instances, or...
Shelby Hiter
An agile coach is someone trained in technical or procedural change management who helps to set up agile teams during...
Maheen Kanwal
Cloud data warehouses (DWs) enable organizations to store massive amounts of data across cloud servers and access them from anywhere...
Ali Azhar
A point release is a minor or small update to an existing application or software product. It is typically intended...
Ali Azhar
In a blockchain network, data is kept in several network nodes that are located at various locations. Decentralization in blockchain...
Ali Azhar
The Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack was a major ransomware attack perpetrated against the oil and gas company, Colonial Pipeline, in...
Siji Roy
AutoIt is a popular and easy-to-learn scripting language used by developers since 1999 for quick software development. Here’s more about...
Shelby Hiter
As enterprise networks become increasingly distributed with growing numbers of remote workers, unified endpoint management (UEM) has become an important...
Aminu Abdullahi
Decision intelligence combines business intelligence (BI) and artificial intelligence (AI) models to improve organizations’ decision-making processes. Learn more about how...
Brenna Miles
Mobile workforce management (MWM) refers to the tools and software used to manage remote, field, and other employees who work...
Prakash Kumar
The Ryuk ransomware is a strain of malware that attempts to infect and encrypt victims’ files, rendering them inaccessible to...
Siji Roy
Snowflake is a data management platform that offers data management and data warehouse services with unique capabilities to handle data....
Jenna Phipps
RIA software helps Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) and financial advisory firms track client data, documentation, and sales contact history. With...
Siji Roy
The Computing Technology Industry Association, abbreviated as CompTIA, is a U.S.-based nonprofit association formed to provide professional certifications in the...
Alice Musyoka
IT Service Management (ITSM) tools are the tools involved in designing, delivering, and managing IT services. These tools support IT...
Amanda Scheldt
Unified communications as a service (UCaaS) is a cloud-based communications solution that provides the same functionality as an on-premises private...
Aminu Abdullahi
The bring your own device (BYOD) phenomenon has changed how businesses interact with employees and, as a result, how companies...
Amanda Scheldt
What Is a CRM Manager? A customer relationship management (CRM) manager is a person that oversees all customer and client...
Siji Roy
AdamLocker ransomware, or RW.adm_64, is a screen-locking virus designed to prevent access to a computer system and rename the files...
Ali Azhar
SHA-256 is an algorithm used for hash functions and is a vital component of contemporary cybersecurity. It is part of...
Jen Gannon
A document management system is an automated software solution businesses and organizations use to organize, share, and secure the documentation...
Ali Azhar
Conti ransomware first emerged in 2020. It uses a ransomware as a service (RaaS) model in which a malicious group...
Siji Roy
Crypt888, also known as Mircop, is ransomware that encrypts files on desktops, downloads, pictures, and documents with RSA algorithms. The...
Siji Roy
AutoLocky is ransomware written in the popular AutoIt scripting language. It uses strong RSA and AES ciphers to encrypt files...
Alice Musyoka
Data governance is a term used to refer to the management of processes, roles, policies, standards, and metrics related to...
Amanda Scheldt
Capacity planning is a process that helps organizations determine the resources needed to meet the demand of consumers. It is...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense...
Siji Roy
XiaoBa is a type of file-encrypting ransomware that runs on Windows and encodes victims’ files using RSA and AES algorithms....
Aminu Abdullahi
Team management software is a type of organizational software that supports remote team management. These tools enable users to assign...
Ali Azhar
The 2021 ransomware cyberattack on U.S.-based software solutions company, Kaseya, is known as the Kaseya ransomware attack. The attack affected...
Jen Gannon
A sales CRM, or customer relationship management (CRM) tool for sales, is frequently the centerpiece of sales operations for a...
Ali Azhar
On March 13, 2002, the ExecuPharm ransomware attack was used to encrypt and steal corporate and employee data of ExecuPharm,...
Ali Azhar
DarkSide ransomware, first discovered in August 2020, is used to perform sensitive data theft and send threats to reveal that...
Jenna Phipps
What is contact center CRM?  Contact center CRM tools, or call center CRM tools, help businesses with call centers manage...
Sam Ingalls
LogMeIn Rescue is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that offers remote desktop software and communication technology support. Founded in 2003 as...
Ali Azhar
Proof of Work (PoW) is a consensus mechanism that secures blockchains by requiring miners to solve complex computational puzzles in...
Ali Azhar
Blockchain networks are essentially distributed databases of digital transactions or events. The network’s nodes must reach an agreement to complete...
Aminu Abdullahi
LastPass is a cloud-based password manager that stores users’ login information online in a secure database and allows users to...
Ali Azhar
Zero-knowledge proof is a concept of cryptography. It enables a given entity to prove that a particular statement is true,...
Ali Azhar
On December 11th, 2021, Kronos announced that its application had been attacked by hackers who exploited the security protocols to...
Forrest Stroud
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects that feature an IP address for internet connectivity and...
Forrest Brown
Robotic process automation (RPA) is a way to automate repetitive, time-consuming tasks using software with machine learning (ML) and artificial...
Ali Azhar
Brave is an open-source web browser built on the Chrome web browser with a focus on user privacy. How Is...
Shelby Hiter
Blockchain as a service (BaaS) is a service model provided by third-party vendors to help companies optimize existing blockchain technologies...
Ali Azhar
A sidechain is a type of blockchain network that allows cryptocurrency to be transferred between multiple blockchains.  What is a...
Ali Azhar
The base blockchain layer of a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin is called the mainchain.  What does the mainchain do? This...
Siji Roy
Data poisoning is a type of adversarial attack in which attackers try to manipulate training datasets of machine learning (ML)...
Aminu Abdullahi
DevSecOps encompasses two similar but different approaches to software development and often features references to security. First, DevOps is a...
Aminu Abdullahi
A cryptocurrency trading platform is an online portal (exchange) that facilitates crypto-to-crypto transactions. They support the trading of digital assets,...
Brenna Miles
Adaptive web design is an approach to developing websites that uses a separate page layout adapted to the screen proportions...
Amanda Scheldt
Trolling describes the action of someone trying to antagonize others online with intentionally inflammatory or negative statements. The history of...
Sam Ingalls
Qualcomm is a global technology company specializing in telecommunications intellectual property (IP), including next-generation networks, smart devices, semiconductors, and mobile...
Kirsty Moreland
Horizen is a privacy-centered blockchain scalability platform. What does Horizon do? Horizen uses sidechains to scale its network. This network...
Shelby Hiter
Adversarial machine learning (ML) involves the disruption of machine learning practices, which can stall business processes or even cause serious...
Amanda Scheldt
Business intelligence (BI) powers the new economy, but BI acronyms and abbreviations seem to power BI. Whether you’re new to...
Yemisi Awobode
Hyperautomation refers to the advanced automation of IT platforms within an organization to enhance the speed and accuracy of work...
Ali Azhar
Log4Shell was a zero-day vulnerability found in Log4j, a popular Java logging framework used on several Java platforms. Log4j, a...
Ali Azhar
Reaper is the world’s first antivirus program, although at the time it was made, in the early 1970s, there was...
Jenna Phipps
IoT (Internet of Things) security helps enterprises protect their networks from threats exacerbated by internet-connected devices, which often aren’t designed...
Vangie Beal
IT outsourcing is the practice of using external resources by subcontracting some or all of the information technology (IT) functions...
Lucas Ledbetter
A chatbot, chat bot, or chatterbot, is an application that conducts automated conversation through an online messaging platform. The application...
Amanda Scheldt
The human resources (HR) industry uses countless abbreviations and acronyms. Whether you’re new to the HR category, you’re part of...
Sam Ingalls
Alibaba Group is an international technology company with a deep portfolio of companies offering global buyers and sellers platforms to...
Ali Azhar
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) compromises several protections, protocols, and procedures that shift...
Ali Azhar
A CTF event, the acronym for Capture-the-Flag event, is a computer security competition that requires individual and team contestants to...
Ali Azhar
Creeper is considered the first ever computer virus. Learn more with this definition.
Jenna Phipps
Ransomware as a service (RaaS) is a business model similar to SaaS, in which individuals or organizations pay ransomware developers...
Jenna Phipps
Internet of Things (IoT) companies provide networking, device, and sensor technology to organizations to connect all devices to the internet...
SMO
Vangie Beal
Social media optimization (SMO) is the process of increasing awareness of a product, brand, or event on social media. SMO...
Kelvene Requiroso
MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) is an engineering function of a team composed of programmers, data scientists, and DevOps engineers tasked...
Yemisi Awobode
Training data is used to increase the accuracy of machine learning algorithms with examples of desired and undesired outcomes. As...
Kelvene Requiroso
AIOps is a multi-layered platform using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies to manage complex IT operations and...
GRC
Forrest Stroud
Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) refers to a company’s strategy for managing the issues of corporate governance, enterprise risk management...
Sam Ingalls
Cryptocurrency has quickly become a digital alternative to state-backed traditional currencies thanks to distributed crypto mining rigs built to validate...
Kelvene Requiroso
Machine code is the language of digital computers consisting of instructions expressed in a string of binary digits or bits...
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), passed in 1999, outlines regulations related to financial data protection that must be followed by financial...
Al Mahmud Al Mamun
In the computing world, full stack refers to the entire set of software solutions and technologies applied to build a...
Kelvene Requiroso
RoboForm is a password manager application capable of generating and remembering passwords, logging into saved websites in the browser, and...
Web Webster
A hacker is a person who uses computer programming to overcome a problem or challenge within a computer system. While...
Ali Azhar
A hacker is a person who uses computer programming to overcome a problem or challenge within a computer system. While...
A programmer is a professional who writes software code for computer applications and software programs according to a software developer’s...
Amanda Scheldt
Digital human as a service (DHaaS) is an AI technology interface that physically looks, sounds, and behaves like real-life humans....
Shelby Hiter
Data discovery is the process of bringing together disparate datasets and creating new threads of meaning with the data. As...
Kelvene Requiroso
Machine learning software (MLS) is a tool for creating advanced computer applications that employ massive datasets and complex algorithms to...
Vangie Beal
Predictive analytics is a proactive approach to harnessing enterprise data, detecting patterns, and helping businesses prepare for events that are...
Ali Azhar
A dataset is a structured collection of data in the form of documents, videos, images, or other types of files....
Shelby Hiter
End-to-end encryption (E2EE) involves encrypting data and information between sending and receiving devices, so no other interceptors without the correct...
Sam Ingalls
Arctic Wolf Networks (AWN) is a cybersecurity company offering cloud-native managed security operations solutions as an alternative to a traditional...
Sam Ingalls
Fortinet is a cybersecurity vendor with two decades of experience and an extensive stack of solutions for channel partners, service...
The best PLM software systems support all of a business’s product-related processes, from the first product idea all the way...
6G
Shelby Hiter
6G is the acting name that refers to what will be the sixth generation of cellular technology. Current 6G theoretical...
Shelby Hiter
Quantitative data is any set of numerical data, typically used for mathematics or statistics, that can be analyzed and measured...
Shelby Hiter
Statistical data analysis, also known as descriptive analysis, involves collecting and analyzing categorical data based on a predetermined method for...
Sam Ingalls
Sucuri is a web application security company specializing in comprehensive website security for individual sites up to enterprise web content...
Sam Ingalls
Raspberry Pi (RP) is the educational charity and namesake line of microcomputers offering customers a low-cost, single-board computer for lightweight...
Siji Roy
A watering hole attack, or strategic website compromise attack, is a hacking technique used to compromise a site that is...
Shelby Hiter
Qualitative data is any set of data, including text, images, and video, that expresses the subjective and interpretive qualities of...
Vangie Beal
Ubiquitous in early computing from 1970 until the early 2000s, the floppy disk is a portable storage device that has...
Siji Roy
As the term implies, a human firewall is a group of people or employees who are committed to following the...
Ali Azhar
Userpilot is a cloud-based product experience and end-user engagement platform. Who is Userpilot for? It is typically used by freelancers...
Jenna Phipps
Network monitoring software is an application that observes traffic and device behavior on a network, either the internet or an...
Ali Azhar
Net promoter score (NPS) measures customers’ loyalty, satisfaction, and willingness to recommend a company’s services or products to others. The...
Shelby Hiter
Data annotation involves processing a set of raw data for text, images, sounds, and videos to be used in AI...
Sam Ingalls
Imperva is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting web applications, APIs, data, cloud networks, and edge networks for business clients....
Sam Ingalls
Barracuda Networks is a multinational cybersecurity company specializing in email and web security with industry-recognized web application firewalls (WAF) and...
Sam Ingalls
Merkle proofs describe the verification process for identifying the components of cryptographic data structures known as Merkle trees. Merkle proofs...
Sam Ingalls
Merkle trees—or hash trees—are cryptographic algorithms allowing for the efficient validation of large data structures and are critical to the...
Lucas Ledbetter
Nimble CRM is a social CRM (customer relationship management) with sales and marketing features. Nimble CRM is used for organizing...
Lucas Ledbetter
Insightly CRM is customer relationship management (CRM) software that focuses on an intuitive, friendly, and easy-to-understand user interface. It has...
Sam Ingalls
When a system administrator finds anomalous or malicious behavior within network traffic, evidence could show it is an indicator of...
Vangie Beal
A disk drive is a device that allows a computer to read from and write data to a disk. The...
Sam Ingalls
For the cloud-first organization, Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) brings all the features of next-generation firewalls to a convenient and...
Sam Ingalls
Abnormal Security is an email security vendor offering organizations cloud-native solutions to guard against phishing, malware, and account takeover and...
Lucas Ledbetter
Freshsales CRM, formerly known as Freshworks CRM, is a customer relationship management (CRM) platform designed specifically for sales. Freshsales is...
Lucas Ledbetter
Oracle CRM is a customer relationship management (CRM) tool that provides lead and contact management, reporting and analytics, AI, sales...
Lucas Ledbetter
Sugar Sell (formerly SugarCRM) is a customer relationship management (CRM) solution for medium to large enterprises. Its key advantages are...
Vangie Beal
Hybrid cloud storage is any data storage environment that combines at least one public cloud solution with at least one...
Lucas Ledbetter
Freshdesk CRM is a cloud customer relationship management (CRM) service that offers email ticketing, live chat, and phone support for...
From A3 to ZZZ we list 1,697 SMS, online chat, and text abbreviations to help you translate and understand today’s...
Lucas Ledbetter
Copper CRM, formerly known as ProsperWorks CRM, is a customer relationship management (CRM) software designed specifically for integration with Google’s...
UEBA is an acronym that stands for User and Entity Behavior Analytics. It is a category of security solutions that...
Ali Azhar
The clawback provision is a clause in an employment or business contract that allows the company to reclaim the money,...
Vangie Beal
FOMO is an acronym for Fear Of Missing Out, which is a feeling of envy or anxiety over missing out...
The world of project management is full of abbreviations and acronyms, and it’s important to understand what they mean. We’ve...
Kaiti Norton
Litecoin is a peer-to-peer, open-source cryptocurrency that was developed as an alternative to Bitcoin. Litecoin is nearly identical to Bitcoin...
Sal Miah
Dogecoin, born as a meme in 2013, has grown into a widely used digital currency backed by an enthusiastic and...
A chief information security officer (CISO) is one of the latest additions to enterprise C-suite roles, offering executive oversight, strategic...
Vangie Beal
A storage area network (SAN) is a high-speed network that provides access to data storage at the block level. It...
Sam Ingalls
A brute force attack is a frequently used cryptographic method where threat actors rely on computing power to estimate potential...
Vangie Beal
Information technology (IT) is the field concerned with all aspects of managing and processing information, especially within a large organization...
Vangie Beal
RSA SecurID is multi-factor authentication (MFA) technology used to protect network resources, such as applications and websites. Its purpose is...
Ali Azhar
Microsoft Edge Chromium is a web browser that is built on Chromium instead of Microsoft’s own web browser technology. It...
Siji Roy
A stack is a collection of items or elements used in programming languages. It is usually referred to as an...
Siji Roy
Software engineering is the systematic and disciplined approach to the design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of application software and...
Siji Roy
Adobe Connect is a digital learning and collaboration software suite developed by Adobe Systems that allows users to securely set...
Ali Azhar
A silent install is when an application or program is loaded to a user’s computer without any dialogs or user...
Amy Yang
Webroot is a cybersecurity software company that offers internet security for individual consumers and businesses. It provides antivirus and internet...
Ali Azhar
The metaverse is the concept of a centralized virtual world that can be used for a variety of purposes, such...
Ali Azhar
An applicant tracking system (ATS) is a software application designed to automate and streamline the hiring process, collecting on one...
Ali Azhar
Password fatigue is the term given to the feeling of exhaustion or resistance to creating and using complex passwords. This...
Ali Azhar
The Melissa virus is a type of mass-mailing macro virus that has been around since 1999. It is designed to...
Chika C Uchendu
An on-screen display (OSD) is the graphic image, text, or information shown on TVs, cameras,  monitors, DVDs, and VCRs. It...
Chika C Uchendu
A hotfix, also known as quick-fix engineering (QFE) update, is a term used by software developers or programmers to describe...
Kaiti Norton
Cold calling is the process of contacting sales leads without any prior interaction. It is contrasted with warm calling, where...
Kaiti Norton
Skillshare is a project-driven online learning community. Skillshare users have access to a large library of video courses and guided...
Chika C Uchendu
An iterative process is a sequence of procedures that facilitates the creation of a more refined product or application. What...
Chika C Uchendu
A vendor is an individual or organization that sells goods or services to another individual or organization through a stable...
Sam Ingalls
Dropshipping is an e-commerce business model where organizations take online customer orders for specific products, find wholesale suppliers that can...
Lucas Ledbetter
Microsoft Dynamics is a line of customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and digital marketing applications for small...
Vangie Beal
Launched in 1996, Hotmail was one of the first public webmail services that could be accessed from any web browser.
Amy Yang
Baidu is China’s dominant internet search engine company. It is one of the largest artificial intelligence (AI) and internet companies...
Amy Yang
Hootsuite is a social media management tool designed to help its users manage all of their social media activity in...
Kelvene Requiroso
Glassdoor is an online job search and review platform for people seeking new opportunities. They can search for jobs that...
Kelvene Requiroso
GitLab is a DevOps platform where software development and IT operations teams collaborate in one place. It aims to increase...
Kelvene Requiroso
Udemy is a massive open online course (MOOC) platform offering a range of learning courses designed for students and professionals...
Kelvene Requiroso
Workday is a human capital management (HCM) tool that leverages data analytics, combining HR, finance, management, and enterprise planning in...
Kelvene Requiroso
Firebase is development software for building mobile and web applications. When Google acquired it in 2014, the tech giant made...
Kelvene Requiroso
eFax is a digital platform for sending and receiving faxes digitally via email, mobile app, and a secure online portal....
Siji Roy
A Packet Inter-Network Groper, or ping, is a software utility network program used to test and verify the reachability of...
Kelvene Requiroso
A Chief Financial Officer or CFO is a senior executive in charge of overseeing a company’s finances. As a member...
Siji Roy
Kotlin is an open-source, object-oriented, and cross-platform programming language developed by JetBrains.  Launched in July 2011, Kotlin is now maintained...
Siji Roy
Uber Technologies Inc. (Uber) is a technology-based company in America popularly known for its ride-hailing services. Being one of the...
Siji Roy
An entity name can be anything referred to with a proper noun that constitutes a specific type of lexical unit...
Sam Ingalls
Contrast Security is a cybersecurity company specializing in application security testing, embedded systems, and threat prevention for organizations relying on...
Vangie Beal
Cloud backup refers to the practice of copying files or databases to a cloud-based server so it can be restored...
Kaiti Norton
In internet jargon, a catfish is a user who assumes a false identity for purposes of deception. A catfish might...
Kelvene Requiroso
Ethereum is an open-source blockchain and cryptocurrency platform that hosts applications, digital currency, and payment systems. It uses Ether (ETH)...
Kaiti Norton
Bluehost is a top web hosting provider for businesses looking to create a website. The company is known best for...
Kaiti Norton
Telehealth, also known as telemedicine, describes the use of digital communication technologies to access health-related services and information. It is...
Amy Yang
TaskRabbit is an online and mobile on-demand marketplace that connects freelance labor with those who need assistance for a variety...
Amy Yang
SurveyMonkey is an online survey tool used to create online surveys, polls, and quizzes. Overall, SurveyMonkey is effective for individuals,...
Shelby Hiter
A non-fungible token (NFT) is a digital asset that has been tokenized with unique digital certificates by its creators, making...
Lucas Ledbetter
InfusionSoft (rebranded as Keap as of January 2019) is a SaaS company offering email marketing, e-commerce, and customer relationship management...
Lucas Ledbetter
The General Data Protection Regulation, commonly referred to as GDPR, is an EU regulation concerning data protection and privacy in...
Lucas Ledbetter
HubSpot CRM is a SaaS-based customer relationship management (CRM) service that integrates with HubSpot’s inbound marketing, sales, and customer service...
Lucas Ledbetter
Salesforce is a SaaS company and cloud customer relationship management (CRM) software platform. It includes an ecosystem of applications for...
Lucas Ledbetter
Oracle NetSuite is a cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform with robust financial management solutions. NetSuite also includes customer relationship...
Jenna Phipps
Integrated risk management (IRM) is a comprehensive approach to risk management strategies that involves all internal and external factors that...
Sam Ingalls
Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source container management software developed to help organizations in orchestrating machines that power modern cloud applications....
Amy Yang
Adobe Acrobat DC is Adobe’s all-in-one PDF solution that lets its users, on desktop and mobile, create and convert, edit,...
Siji Roy
Deployment refers to the process of installation of software or going live with new websites, which includes all the steps—installation,...
Siji Roy
What is Absolute Location? Absolute location refers to an exact location of a place based on the geographic grid system...
Siji Roy
Calendly is an SaaS platform that allows people to schedule meetings and events at a mutually workable time without the...
Vangie Beal
Business intelligence (BI) refers to the tools, systems, and strategies that create analysis and planning processes within a corporation. Comprehensive...
Chika C Uchendu
Visual Studio (VS) Code is an open-source code editor primarily used to correct and repair cloud and web applications coding...
Chika C Uchendu
A SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Certificate is a digital license that ensures an encrypted data connection between a website or...
Kelvene Requiroso
Collaboration software is a platform where teams can interact and share information, knowledge, diagrams, photographs, documents, files, etc. It’s a...
Kelvene Requiroso
Facial recognition software is a category of applications designed to identify or confirm a person’s identity in photos, videos, or...
CEO
Kelvene Requiroso
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the highest-ranking individual in a company in terms of leadership roles and responsibilities. The...
Ali Azhar
Adobe Spark is a suite of apps by Adobe Systems used to create websites, social posts, short videos and other...
Ali Azhar
To render an image is to use software to convert code into a two- or three-dimensional image so it can...
Ali Azhar
Fastly is a US-based cloud computing service provider. It offers an edge cloud platform designed to extend the core cloud...
Chika C Uchendu
RingCentral is a voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) that helps business owners communicate seamlessly with their customers and employees over the internet...
Chika C Uchendu
Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) or consumer packaged goods (CPG) are occasional or everyday consumer products that sell out fast and...
Siji Roy
A platform, in general, can be defined as a hardware or software architecture that acts as a basic structure upon...
Siji Roy
A vector image is a digital image in which points, lines, and curves based on mathematical equations are used to...
Kaiti Norton
Snail mail, also called direct mail, is a slang term for paper mail that is delivered through the postal system....
Kaiti Norton
CC and BCC are two options to add third-party recipients to an email. Unlike regular recipients in the “To” field,...
Ali Azhar
  Eventbrite is an online event posting, event management, and ticketing website. Eventbrite can be used by businesses to create,...
Ali Azhar
Docker is an open-source platform used for developing and running applications by allowing users to package the software application into...
Ali Azhar
Blockchain is one of the core technologies behind cryptocurrency. Blockchain is a system of recording digital transactions making it virtually...
Ali Azhar
Cached data is designed to improve the user experience when browsing the internet or using an app. When a user...
Chika C Uchendu
A CCTV or closed-circuit television is a system of interconnected cameras that capture images that can be recorded or viewed...
Vangie Beal
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a protocol developed by Netscape for providing a secure connection between two or more devices...
Sam Ingalls
Malwarebytes is a cybersecurity company specializing in network and internet security software, offering one of the top endpoint security solutions...
Sam Ingalls
Sophos is a cybersecurity company specializing in network security and unified threat management through its detection and response, firewall, cloud,...
CRM
Vangie Beal
What is CRM? Customer relationship management (CRM) describes all aspects of sales, marketing, and service-related interactions that a company has...
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offers scalable...
Lucas Ledbetter
Deprecated or deprecation is the discouragement of the use of a programming language feature. It should not be confused with...
Lucas Ledbetter
A software-as-a-service (SaaS) company delivers applications to customers over the internet as an ongoing service. SaaS companies provide and manage...
Lucas Ledbetter
2FA is a login protocol that improves security for organizations and individuals. It is increasingly adopted by enterprises and governments...
Jenna Phipps
Supply chain management (SCM) software tracks products as they move through the manufacturing and fulfillment process. It allows businesses to: ...
Kaiti Norton
Microsoft Paint is a raster-based graphic design application exclusively available on the Windows operating system. It allows amateur users to...
Alice Musyoka
ZipRecruiter is a popular online job board and recruitment platform that was founded in 2010 by Ian Siegel. It has...
Alice Musyoka
ZoomInfo is a software as a service (SaaS) company that provides detailed information on millions of businesses and business professionals....
Alice Musyoka
Threatware (malware, spyware) is a category of malicious computer programs designed to harm computers. The programs are spread by cybercriminals...
Jenna Phipps
1Password is a password management system employed by enterprises to store employee passwords. 1Password allows users to save complex, strong...
Jenna Phipps
Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based mobile device management and mobile application management solution. Available through Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Intune is...
Jenna Phipps
Business continuity software provides a centralized digital platform for maintaining business continuity plans, keeping them updated based on the organization’s...
Kaiti Norton
Adobe Stock is a service that provides access to high quality, royalty-free stock assets for content creators. Adobe Stock offers...
Vangie Beal
Big Data is a phrase used to mean a massive volume of both structured and unstructured data that is so...
Alice Musyoka
JavaScript is a lightweight programming language used to build and manage dynamic and interactive web elements. It is considered both...
Kelvene Requiroso
Wireshark is an open-source network protocol analyzer that allows users to capture packets and see protocols or web traffic on...
Kelvene Requiroso
WeTransfer is an electronic file transfer service that allows users to upload and send large files. It leverages Amazon’s cloud...
Sam Ingalls
GoToMeeting is LogMeIn’s communications software for online meetings, video conferencing, desktop sharing, and collaboration for organizations working with geographically distant...
Kelvene Requiroso
Cloudflare is a content delivery network (CDN) that ensures the security, integrity, and reliability of a company’s IT infrastructure, applications,...
Kelvene Requiroso
AnyDesk is a remote desktop (RDP) application that connects and allows access to a computer device, such as a desktop...
Kelvene Requiroso
An SDK or software development kit, also known as devkit, is a software developer’s toolkit that provides a range of...
Kelvene Requiroso
Artificial intelligence software is a computer application capable of intelligent behavior like learning, reasoning, and problem-solving. It performs a range...
Lucas Ledbetter
A cyber attack is an attack on a computing system, environment, or infrastructure that occurs in cyberspace with the intent...
Kelvene Requiroso
QLED, or quantum dot light-emitting diode (LED), is a display panel used in high-definition TVs (HDTV). The quantum dots or...
Sam Ingalls
Gumroad is an online platform enabling creators and resource producers with a convenient, storefront-free marketplace to sell products like software,...
Sam Ingalls
Trello is a collaboration and project management solution provider offering easy-to-use visualization tools to track, analyze, and optimize workflows for...
Vangie Beal
Often referred to simply as peer-to-peer, or abbreviated P2P, a type of network in which each workstation has equivalent capabilities...
Chika C Uchendu
PeopleSoft is a SaaS platform that that large corporations use to streamline their day-to-day human capital management (HCM), enterprise resource...
Chika C Uchendu
What is tokenization? Tokenization involves replacing sensitive data with non-sensitive or anonymized elements, often referred to as “tokens”. What is...
Chika C Uchendu
Webex is an enterprise-level web conferencing, communication, and collaboration tool designed by Cisco that gives room for people to host...
What is HTTP? The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the foundation of the World Wide Web. It’s an application layer...
Chika C Uchendu
Box.com is a secure, easy-to-use content cloud storage platform built for the entire content lifecycle from file creation and sharing...
Chika C Uchendu
A sales development representative (SDR) is an internal sales rep who deals with outreach, prospecting, and lead qualification. Their core...
Chika C Uchendu
The ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is a strategic approach or guidance geared towards improving overall organization services by focusing...
Chika C Uchendu
Xcode is Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE) used in developing software for macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS. The Xcode IDE...
Sam Ingalls
Wide-area networks (WAN) and local-area networks (LAN) describe how physically close devices are within a computer network – which influences...
Abby Braden
There are multiple ways to send a text message (also called SMS) to a phone or wireless device on a...
Ali Azhar
Prometheus software is an open-source application for system monitoring and alerting of hardware and kernel-related metrics. It helps users understand...
Ali Azhar
Any unauthorized access to a computer network, computer data, devices, or applications is considered a security breach. Typically, a security...
Ali Azhar
Productivity software is a broad term used for software applications that increase the efficiency of the user or group of...
Siji Roy
Third-party logistics, typically referred to by the acronym 3PL, is the process a company uses to outsource logistics services, including...
Siji Roy
Citrix Workspace, formerly known as Citrix Receiver, is a cloud-based software platform where users can securely access applications, files, services,...
Siji Roy
Single Sign-On (SSO) refers to the user authentication method in which users can access multiple SaaS applications by using one...
Sampada Ghimire
The two most common data streaming techniques used in recent times are unicast and multicast. Multicast communication exchange occurs between...
Amanda Scheldt
Infosec, shortened from information security, is the field of protecting digital data and information from unauthorized or malicious access or...
Amanda Scheldt
LegalZoom is an online legal resource that provides legal document resources to individuals and small businesses. This online legal documentation...
Amanda Scheldt
Trustpilot is a consumer review platform that collects and publishes reviews alongside business data. By providing a global community for...
Sampada Ghimire
TIFF (Tag Image File Format) is an image format for editing and storing high-resolution digital images. Because it allows color...
Sampada Ghimire
iPaaS stands for Integration Platform as a Service. With iPaaS, businesses can build cloud-native data integrations. The platform integrates various...
Siji Roy
Streamlabs is a full-stack open-source software application for streaming and broadcasting live videos to a variety of platforms, including YouTube,...
Sam Ingalls
SAP is an end-to-end enterprise solution provider specializing in enterprise resource planning (ERP), business processes, and organization management tools for...
Sampada Ghimire
The chief operating officer (COO) is a member of a company’s senior executive management committee. In the decision-making role, the...
Amanda Scheldt
Kanban is a workflow management method intended to define, manage, and improve services resulting in knowledge work deliverables. Kanban was...
Jenna Phipps
What is GroupMe? GroupMe is a group messaging application that provides useful and interactive features for group communications. GroupMe chats...
Kaiti Norton
Airtable is a no-code, cloud-based tool that helps businesses create custom databases. Companies of all types and sizes use Airtable...
Ali Azhar
Figma is a web-based digital design and prototyping tool. It can be used to create mobile app interfaces, websites, social...
Kaiti Norton
Basecamp is an online tool that helps teams collaborate, communicate, and manage projects. Teams use Basecamp to keep track of...
Vangie Beal
An array is a data structure in computer programming that organizes data. Arrays hold elements with the same data type,...
Abby Braden
What is Pardot? Pardot is a B2B marketing automation (MA) solution by Salesforce that enables organizations to track and measure...
Sam Ingalls
Veeam Software is a global vendor of backup and disaster recovery solutions for service providers and organizations to protect network...
Sam Ingalls
Akamai Technologies is a global web technology company specializing in content delivery network (CDN) solutions, cloud services, and cybersecurity for...
Kaiti Norton
A podcast is an episodic form of digital audio content that a user downloads locally to a device or streams...
Ali Azhar
Upwork is one the most popular and biggest online platforms for clients and freelancers to connect and conduct business. Although...
Ali Azhar
A headless content management system (CMS) is a type of back-end content management system that makes the content accessible through...
Vangie Beal
SPOOL (an acronym for Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On-Line) is a buffering mechanism in which data is sent to and stored...
Kaiti Norton
Zapier is a no-code automation tool that translates APIs among hundreds of web applications to simplify integrations and complex workflows....
Kaiti Norton
What is DocuSign? DocuSign is an agreement management application that enables businesses to create, send, and automate a wide variety...
Ali Azhar
Kerberos is a computer network authentication protocol used for service requests over an untrusted network like the internet. It is...
Ali Azhar
The C suite (also “c-suite” or “c-level”) refers to a collection of high-level business executives whose primary responsibilities are for...
Jenna Phipps
HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure), the secure update of HTTP, uses an authentication process to encrypt the connection between web browsers (or clients) and servers. This process overlays Transport...
Abby Braden
In Microsoft Excel, a drop-down list is used to enter data into a spreadsheet from a predefined items list, limiting...
Vangie Beal
A password manager is a software application or a hardware device used to store and manage a person’s passwords and...
Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is a File Transfer Protocol governed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to ensure...
Siji Roy
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an electronic authentication process that provides extra layers of security to an application or service against...
Siji Roy
Machine Learning (ML) is a sub-branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that enables computers to learn, adapt, and perform the desired...
Siji Roy
Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) is a threat management strategy that identifies security threats against organizations and responds to...
Ali Azhar
Jotform is an online application for building and managing custom online forms. Jotform provides an easy-to-use and intuitive drag-and-drop interface...
Kelvene Requiroso
A brand ambassador is the human face of a brand, representing, promoting, and building its credibility to attract customers.  Brand...
Kelvene Requiroso
Stack overflow is an error in programming that a user-mode thread encounters when attempting to write more data but the...
An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is software designed to simplify the development process of applications by coordinating all programming and...
Kelvene Requiroso
Convergence is the merging and integration of two or more distinct technologies in a single system. For example, a smartphone...
Kelvene Requiroso
Whitelisting is a cybersecurity strategy that only allows an approved list of applications, programs, websites, IP addresses, email addresses, or...
Chika C Uchendu
Pycharm is a dedicated and cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for the Python programming language. It incorporates a wide range...
Kelvene Requiroso
Marketo is a data-driven marketing automation platform offered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). With its advanced, AI-powered application tools, Marketo provides businesses...
Chika C Uchendu
Biotechnology leverages biological systems to create valuable products and industrial processes. This innovative approach to solving problems has an immense...
Chika C Uchendu
Soft skills are non-technical attributes, characters, and interpersonal skills that define how a person relates with their professional colleagues and...
Chika C Uchendu
A SIM card (Subscriber Identity Module) card is a tiny, portable memory chip or integrated circuit containing unique information that...
Chika C Uchendu
Army Knowledge Online (AKO) is an enterprise-level information resource or portal used to share and disseminate knowledge to authorized military...
Jenna Phipps
Zendesk is software as a service that offers CRM and IT help desk solutions for businesses. Zendesk simplifies help desk...
Sam Ingalls
Cyber security tools are software programs or hardware appliances built and sold to organizations and consumers to facilitate, manage, or...
Remote monitoring and management (RMM) software performs and automates IT tasks for managed service providers (MSPs) and other enterprises. IT...
Sam Ingalls
CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company dedicated to stopping breaches through endpoint security and cloud-native network security solutions for SMBs to...
Jenna Phipps
Fios is Verizon Wireless’s bundle solution for internet, phone, and television services. Fios is an abbreviation of Fiber Optic Service...
Jenna Phipps
Web hosting makes a web server available to businesses with varying degrees of provider management. Customers host their websites on...
Vangie Beal
What is a Denial of Service (DoS) Attack? A Denial of Service, or DoS as it is often abbreviated, is...
Jenna Phipps
Agile project management tools use an approach to project management that focuses on improvement, regular assessment, tasks, and the people...
Jenna Phipps
Asana is a cloud-based project and work management software company that streamlines project design and implementation through a collaborative digital...
Siji Roy
DDoS software protects a server or network against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The DDoS attack, a type of...
Vangie Beal
Flash is a vector-graphic animation technology. Introduced in 1995 as FutureSplash, Flash was designed to be bandwidth-friendly and browser-independent approach to...
Vangie Beal
What’s a DDOS attack? A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a type of cyber attack in which a hacker...
Sam Ingalls
Mimecast is an information security company focused on protecting digital consumers’ email security through a suite of commercial cybersecurity solutions. ...
Kaiti Norton
Grayscale is a visual art characteristic in which an image is composed exclusively of shades of gray. Each shade of...
Vangie Beal
A petabyte is 1015 bytes of digital information. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB. It is a measure...
Vangie Beal
Internet protocol (IP) is a primary set of communication protocols for exchanging data packets or datagrams across internet-connected networks. The...
Siji Roy
Performance management software is a platform for organizations to measure employee productivity in alignment with the organization’s business objectives. It...
Kelvene Requiroso
NoSQL (Not Only SQL) is a type of database for web applications and big data which allows users to store...
Abby Braden
In graphical user interfaces, to “zoom” or “zoom in” is to make a window larger to see the window’s contents...
Kelvene Requiroso
The Pareto Principle holds that 80 percent of consequences can come from 20 percent of causes. Named after the Italian...
Kelvene Requiroso
A thumb drive, or USB flash drive, is a small device with flash memory used for storing, reading, writing, and...
Jenna Phipps
A pipeline is a figurative measurement of client or customer progress through a set of business-defined stages. The term is...
Kaiti Norton
Direct marketing is a strategy for selling products and services directly to customers. Direct marketing materials are crafted with a...
Web Webster
A compact disc (CD) is a polycarbonate disc measuring 120 mm in diameter with one or more metal layers capable...
LED
Web Webster
A light emitting diode (LED) is an electronic component that emits (gives off) light when an electrical current is passed...
Vangie Beal
Management software is a general phrase used to describe a category of computer software designed to help streamline the complexity...
Kaiti Norton
monday.com is a cloud-based work operating system that can be used for a variety of needs, including project management, collaboration,...
Sam Ingalls
The secure socket tunneling protocol (SSTP) is a VPN protocol where communications between two points use the transport layer security...
Jenna Phipps
Telecommunication refers to telephony and cellular network technology. However, the broader definition includes all wired and wireless networks, such as...
Abby Braden
What is spoofing? As it pertains to cybersecurity, spoofing is when a person disguises themself as a trusted source to...
Jenna Phipps
A webcam, short for web camera, is a piece of video hardware that is either external or internal to a...
Jenna Phipps
The binary system in computing uses the base 2 number system to power the majority of  computational processes. Unlike the...
Sam Ingalls
Piracy is when a malicious person or group steals goods or resources from another person or group. Applied to the...
PPT
Sam Ingalls
One of Microsoft Office’s core products, PowerPoint – abbreviated to PPT based on its file extension “.ppt” – is a...
Sam Ingalls
The public domain describes the status of intellectual property or copyrighted work that is freely available for use and reproduction...
Abby Braden
VMware Workstation is a line of hosted hypervisor products running on x64 computers that allows users to run virtual machines,...
CSV
Jenna Phipps
A CSV or .csv is a comma separated values file that separates data values using commas or another common delimiter....
Sam Ingalls
A web application is a software program (or website) capable of receiving dynamic content requests and delivering resources over the...
Jenna Phipps
A framework in software development is a construct, built on a specific programming language, that simplifies application development. A framework...
Jenna Phipps
A regular expression, abbreviated as RegEx or regex, is a pattern for locating a character string in a program. A...
Kaiti Norton
A USB port is a connection point for devices that support wired Universal Serial Bus (USB) connections. It was introduced...
Kaiti Norton
A rich text format (RTF) file is a word processing document that can be accessed by most major word processors....
Vangie Beal
Short for commercial off-the-shelf, an adjective that describes software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale to...
Kyle Guercio
Scraping is the process of using automated tools to collect large amounts of data output from an application, website or...
Forrest Stroud
OpenShift is an open source hybrid cloud application Platform as a Service (PaaS) developed by Red Hat. Red Hat also...
Sam Ingalls
Data science is an interdisciplinary study of data using advanced tools and techniques to detect patterns, extract information, and inform...
Abby Braden
Near Field Communication Near field communication (NFC) is a protocol that allows two devices to communicate wirelessly via radio signal...
Abby Braden
Gap analysis is the process of assessing and comparing the differences between actual performance and potential or desired performance to...
Sam Ingalls
Copyright infringement is the illegal use, production, or sale of materials copyrighted by another person or organization. When rights granted...
Kyle Guercio
What is a passphrase? A passphrase is a string of words used to help users remember longer, more complex passwords....
Vangie Beal
Updated by Jenna Phipps Google Hangouts is a cloud-based messaging and video chat application developed by Google. It started as...
Sam Ingalls
Superword level parallelism (SLP) is an advanced method of traditional vectorization that facilitates parallelism across loop iterations, SIMD, and basic...
Sam Ingalls
Gross revenue is the total amount of money (income) earned by a company over a period of time.  The term...
Abby Braden
What is Hello World? A Hello World program is a computer program that outputs or displays the message, “Hello, World!”...
Kyle Guercio
Over-the-air (OTA) refers to the wireless transmission of information. It is most commonly used for sending information to Internet-of-things (IoT)...
Sam Ingalls
Digital Darwinism is the application of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution to the digital economy, where an organization’s success or failure...
James Payne
Instantiation is a computer programming term, used by developers, that is usually related to Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). At its core,...
Kaiti Norton
An iFrame, short for inline frame, is an HTML document embedded within another HTML document. Web developers frequently use iFrames...
Jenna Phipps
E-commerce, or electronic commerce, is online-conducted business, including marketing, sales, and fulfillment. Consumers and businesses place and track orders at...
Web Webster
  The acronym TaaS stands for Testing-as-a-Service, a service delivery model where software testing and validation is provided by an...
Abby Braden
What is a hackerspace? A hackerspace, also known as a hacklab, incubator, or hackspace, is a flexible workspace designed for...
Vangie Beal
Random access memory (RAM) is a high-speed component in devices that temporarily stores all information a device needs for the...
Vangie Beal
OEM – Original Equipment Manufacturer reviewed by Web Webster What is OEM? OEM (pronounced as separate letters) is short for...
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is business process management software that allows an organization to use a system of integrated applications...
Vangie Beal
  Service Set Identifier (SSID) reviewed by Web Webster The internet is an essential tool for billions of people, with...
CPU
Vangie Beal
Reviewed by Jenna Phipps   What is a CPU? CPU (pronounced as separate letters) is the abbreviation for central processing...
Vangie Beal
Reviewed by Web Webster A key fob is a physical device that uses radio frequency identification (RFID) and symmetric encryption...
Reviewed by Web Webster Early computers were large, power-hungry machines that used vacuum tubes and required manual programming with punched...
Vangie Beal
  What’s the OSI model? The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is a framework that conceptualizes how computers within a...
Abby Braden
A network security key is a form of a physical, digital, signature, or biometric data used to authorize a user...
Sam Ingalls
Digital transformation is an organizational process that enhances the effectiveness of systems to take advantage of the efficiency, scalability, and...
Kyle Guercio
What is file locking? File locking is a mechanism used to secure the integrity of files being shared between users....
Kaiti Norton
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The service enables companies to deliver data, applications,...
Kaiti Norton
Parallel computing is a type of computer structure in which multiple processes are executed at the same time. It is...
Abby Braden
What is a gig worker? A gig worker, or non-traditional worker, is a worker whose income-earning activities are outside of...
Kaiti Norton
What’s a VPN concentrator? A VPN concentrator is a tool that helps manage numerous simultaneous remote virtual private network connections....
Kaiti Norton
Amazon is a technology company that’s primarily focused on ecommerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. According to the...
5G
Jenna Phipps
5G is the fifth generation of cellular networks, offering higher frequency waves and greater bandwidth on wires and wireless connections....
Vangie Beal
What is phishing? Phishing is a type of cybercrime in which a hacker poses as a trustworthy entity to obtain...
Jenna Phipps
No-code development is a method of application development that allows people without programming experience to design apps. Along with low-code...
Jenna Phipps
DMVPN is a type of virtual private network designed by Cisco that uses multiple networking protocols to create secure tunnels...
Abby Braden
Risk management is the process of identifying, analyzing, and responding to risk factors to minimize the effects of risk on...
Kaiti Norton
The Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) division of the FBI provides relevant data and tools to law enforcement and intelligence...
Kaiti Norton
An artificial neural network (ANN) is a part of a computer system based on artificial neurons that mimic the behavior...
Kaiti Norton
Data scientists are interdisciplinary experts who use a range of skills to synthesize, process, and interpret large volumes of structured...
Kaiti Norton
Microlearning is an education model in which lessons are typically delivered in condensed, hyper-focused segments. It’s a form of e-learning,...
Kyle Guercio
Wikipedia is a multilingual, free online encyclopedia. The information is crowd-sourced and can be openly edited by people all around...
Jenna Phipps
Network infrastructure is a term for everything that comprises a computer network. This includes hardware (wires, routers, and software) which...
Jenna Phipps
Deep packet inspection is a networking technology for analyzing data packets in more detail than traditional packet filtering. Deep packet...
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Vangie Beal
Interactive voice response (IVR) is a telephony technology that filters phone calls based on callers’ responses through either vocal feedback...
Kaiti Norton
TypeScript is an open source programming language that was developed by Microsoft as a superset of JavaScript. This means that...
Jenna Phipps
A data plane, or forwarding plane, is the part of a router that examines an incoming data packet and sends...
Jenna Phipps
Microsoft SQL Server (pronounced by each letter or as sequel) is a relational database management system managed by Microsoft. It...
Abby Braden
An applet is a small, supplemental program that supports a larger program. It typically performs one specific task and runs...
Jenna Phipps
Network segmentation is the division of an entire network into smaller segments or sub-networks (subnets). For example, if a business...
Vangie Beal
  By Vangie Beal A router is a piece of hardware (or software) that receives, filters, and sends data packets...
Kaiti Norton
Legacy code refers to source code that has been inherited from a previous version of a website or software application....
Jenna Phipps
Cybersecurity awareness training informs employees of the attack surfaces and vectors in their company and how they can avoid falling...
Abby Braden
A supply chain is a network between an organization and its suppliers to deliver goods and/or services to the final...
What is COBOL? COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language. It is a 60-year-old programming language that is still widely used...
Kaiti Norton
Shared hosting is a web hosting model in which multiple sites occupy the same server. Each website is hosted privately...
Jenna Phipps
Database integration consolidates data from multiple sources to provide businesses with more comprehensive views and opportunities to use that data....
Kaiti Norton
A serial number is a unique product identifier that enables a manufacturer to recall information about the individual item. Hardware...
Jenna Phipps
A software developer manages the creation of code, the facets of software or an application, and its deployment and updates....
Jenna Phipps
A message authentication code (abbreviated MAC), used in symmetric cryptography, is attached to a message so that a recipient can...
Jenna Phipps
Direct current is electrical current that flows steadily in one direction between two ends of a circuit. In an electrical...
Jenna Phipps
OpenOffice is an open source software for word processing, spreadsheets, and other office-suite applications. The software mainly utilizes the C++...
Abby Braden
A singleton is a software design pattern that restricts the instantiation of a class to one single instance. Instantiation is...
Jenna Phipps
A transformer is a system that uses the principle of electromagnetic induction to increase or decrease voltage in adjacent electrical...
Abby Braden
Also referred to as DNS cache poisoning, Domain Name Server (DNS) spoofing is a form of computer security hacking in...
Jenna Phipps
SQL Developer is a free database management software offered by Oracle, one of the leading database management companies in the...
Abby Braden
A startup, sometimes written start-up, is a company or project undertaken by one or more entrepreneurs to develop a unique...
Abby Braden
Adobe Flash Player is software used to run content created on the Adobe Flash platform, such as viewing multimedia content,...
Kaiti Norton
A dofollow link (or follow link) is one that indicates to search engines that the destination page should be crawled....
Jenna Phipps
Altcoin refers to any brand of cryptocurrency that is not Bitcoin. It encompasses all of the hundreds of cryptocurrencies that...
Kaiti Norton
A nofollow link is a hyperlink that does not influence the search engine ranking of the destination page. This is...