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The entire spectrum of technologies for information processing, including software, hardware, communications technologies and related services. In general, information technology (IT) does not include embedded technologies that do not generate data for enterprise use.

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Company: Gartner

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Collectives are aggregations of people who are outside the control of the enterprise, bound by a common action or opinion, and who affect the enterprise’s success. Mobs, formal communities, and ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

An approach where the responsibility for a specific activity or outcome is vested with an informal affiliation of individuals or organizations whose participation is secured only because each member ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an organization formed in 1992 to advocate more effective use of information management in healthcare, and to meet the ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

A column-store database management system (DBMS) is a DBMS that indexes each column of a table, storing the indexes in lieu of row data — unlike traditional relational DBMSs using a row-store, where ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Comanagement processes are “a set of shared processes that enable internal and external IT service providers and business clients to continuously align IT service delivery to changing internal and ...

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Combined heat and power (CHP) is a specific form of distributed generation (DG) that refers to the placement of electric-power-generating units at or near customer facilities to supply on-site energy ...

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Commerce everywhere is a marketing strategy for facilitating sales transactions across customer touchpoints via a set of technologies that promotes products and enables sales in physical locations ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

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