Business Rules
Definition: A business rule is a regulation, policy, or procedure within an organization (or outside sources such as government regulations) that is translated into a software application. What This Means: Business rules enforce data quality, which is why they are important to ...
Business Rule Logic
Definition: Business Rule Logic is a narrative statement of the rule. This may be "pseudo-code" statement(s). This text is intended for the rule implementers or developers. What This Means: A term that is functional for users of ESP's metadata dictionary tool, called ...
Business Continuation Plan
Definition: The business continuation plan specifies how the agency will perform essential tasks after a disaster has disabled its software applications, network, and/or information system. What This Means: Above and beyond disaster prevention and recovery, the business continuation plan details how tasks ...
Broadband
Definition: Broadband typically means high-speed Internet access via cable or DSL. What This Means: Speed is everything to schools and other education entities trying to access huge amounts of data or use on-line applications. The T1 is no longer the most affordable ...
Bread Crumbs
Definition: Breadcrumbs typically appear horizontally across the top of a web page, usually below title bars or headers. They provide links back to each previous or parent page from the path the user has taken to get to the current screen ...
Boolean Data
Definition: Boolean data are values that can be only Yes or No, True or False, or On or Off. Boolean data may be stored as one byte or as little as one bit (1 or 0). What This Means: Computers use Boolean ...
Blog
Definition: A blog is a web site that contains text entries in reverse chronological order (most recent first) about a particular topic. What This Means: Blogs serve many purposes from online newsletters to personal journals to "ranting and raving." They can be ...
BI (Business Intelligence)
Definition: Business intelligence encompasses applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and analyzing data for the purpose of supporting Data-Driven Decision Making (D3M). What This Means: The business world has contributed the term “business intelligence” to information technology, but for an ...
Beta Testing
Definition: Testing an application in the phase just before it is placed into production. What This Means: Beta testing is not performed until an application is almost ready to launch. The beta test, coming after the earlier alpha test, may be distinguished ...
Batch
Definition: A group of similar items produced, processed, or gathered together and treated as a single unit. What This Means: Tasks performed by a computer, in which processing-intensive activities are grouped and processed as units, rather than being processed immediately on demand. ...
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