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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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Enterprises often purchase software from different vendors to obtain the best-of-breed offering for each application area. For example, enterprises may purchase a human-resource package from one ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Best-in-class is defined as the superior product within a category of hardware or software. It does not necessarily mean best product overall, however. For example, the best-in-class product in a ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Best practice is defined by Gartner as a group of tasks that optimizes the efficiency (cost and risk) or effectiveness (service level) of the business discipline or process to which it contributes. ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Behavioral/gestural analytics reflects the automated analysis of real-world human activity captured by video systems to track human movement and gestures to assess intentions and to identify specific ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Behavior learning engines (BLEs) are platforms intended to enable the discovery, visualization and analysis of recurring, complex, multiperiod patterns in large operational performance data sets. If ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Baud is a unit of signaling speed. The speed in bauds is the number of discrete changes per second in some aspect of a signal (e.g., voltage in a wire). Transmission speeds are now more commonly ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

There are two types of battery-powered radio frequency identification (RFID) tags: battery-assisted passive (BAP) tags and active tags, which are used to collect and communicate asset-level ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

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