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• business process outsourcing (BPO)

  Business process outsourcing, or BPO, is a business practice in which one organization hires another company to perform a process task that the hiring organization requires for its own business to operate successfully. Continue Reading

• chief data officer (CDO)

  A chief data officer (CDO) is a C-level executive who is responsible for an organization's data use and data governance. Continue Reading

• 4 steps to a blockchain implementation

  If you're not experimenting with blockchain, you're behind the curve. Our step-by-step guide on implementing blockchain dissects the challenges, best practices and payoffs. Continue Reading

• AI in IT infrastructure transforms how work gets done

  Cutting through the hype around AI has become a major job for IT leaders. Our in-depth guide on where and how to add AI to your IT infrastructure will help. Continue Reading

• Build a digital transformation strategy with software at its core

  What is a winning digital transformation strategy? For many companies, it starts with an overhaul of their software environments. Our comprehensive guide explains how it's done. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • business process outsourcing (BPO)
  • chief data officer (CDO)
  • Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)
  • business process management (BPM)

  • entrepreneur (entrepreneurship)
  • business process reengineering (BPR)
  • synthetic data
  • Six Sigma

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• The shift to edge computing is happening fast -- here's why

  Whether you call it the Fourth Industrial Revolution or digital transformation, enterprise IT is being changed fast, and forever, and edge computing is a big reason why.Continue Reading

• High-performance computing use cases and benefits in business

  High-performance computing has moved from the rarified realm of research and government and into the enterprise. Learn how systems are evolving to handle data and deliver profit.Continue Reading

• Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is a federal law that established sweeping auditing and financial regulations for public companies.Continue Reading

• business process management (BPM)

  Business process management (BPM) is the discipline of improving a business process from end to end by analyzing it, modelling how it works in different scenarios, executing improvements, monitoring the improved process and continually optimizing it.Continue Reading

• entrepreneur (entrepreneurship)

  An entrepreneur is an individual who identifies a need in the marketplace and works to fulfill it.Continue Reading

• business process reengineering (BPR)

  Business process reengineering (BPR) is an approach to change management in which the related tasks required to obtain a specific business outcome are radically redesigned. An important goal of BPR is to analyze workflows within and between ...Continue Reading

• synthetic data

  Synthetic data is information that's artificially manufactured rather than generated by real-world events.Continue Reading

• Enterprise data analytics strategy: A guide for CIOs

  This Essential Guide explores enterprise data analytics strategies and how to select the right infrastructure, management tactics and technologies for your organization.Continue Reading

• Six Sigma

  Six Sigma is an approach to data-driven management that seeks to improve quality by measuring how many defects there are in a process and systematically eliminating them until there are as close to zero defects as possible.Continue Reading

• migration

  In information technology (IT), migration is the process of moving from the use of one operating environment to another operating environment that is, in most cases, thought to be a better one.Continue Reading

• e-procurement (supplier exchange)

  E-procurement is the business-to-business purchase and sale of supplies and services over the Internet.Continue Reading

• data collection

  Data collection is a process for gathering information from different sources. In business, data collection helps organizations answer relevant questions and evaluate possible business outcomes.Continue Reading

• workflow

  Workflow is the series of activities that are necessary to complete a task.Continue Reading

• Enterprise architecture for big data: Build it or buy it?

  CIOs looking to make mountains of big data actionable are deliberating whether it's best to build their own enterprise architecture for big data or source the necessary technology from providers. There are pros and cons to each approach, as ...Continue Reading

• CIO vertical: Using digital technologies to shake up healthcare

  What does the digital enterprise look like in healthcare? In this SearchCIO video excerpt, CTCA CIO Kristin Darby talks past, present and future care.Continue Reading

• coopetition (co-opetition)

  Coopetition is a business strategy that uses insights gained from game theory to understand when it is better for competitors to work together. Continue Reading

• Big data is not little data writ large -- it changes everything

  Make no mistake, big data is not small data on steroids, warns SearchCIO expert Harvey Koeppel. Big data changes how we live, work and play.Continue Reading

• Quiz: Managing a data center in a cloud-centric world

  Managing a data center comes with more options than ever, including a raft of cloud-based offerings. Are you up to date on the latest offerings?Continue Reading

• Big data trends, storage and technologies: An IT quiz for CIOs

  Is your organization on top of the latest big data trends? Take our latest IT quiz for CIOs to test your knowledge of data analysis and storage.Continue Reading

• glocalization

  Glocalization is the concept that in a global market, a product or service is more likely to succeed when it is customized for the locality or culture in which it is sold. For example, the international fast food chain McDonalds illustrates the ...Continue Reading

• Data collection and analysis methods: A strategy quiz for CIOs

  Do you know the best data collection and analysis methods for your IT organization? Take our quiz on business intelligence and analytics to find out.Continue Reading

• data latency

  Data latency is the time it takes for data packets to be stored or retrievedContinue Reading

• Enterprise virtualization strategies quiz for CIOs

  Have you read our latest news, tips and research on enterprise virtualization strategy? Take our enterprise virtualization quiz to find out.Continue Reading

• B2G (Business2Government or Business-to-Government)

  On the Internet, B2G is business-to-government (a variation of the term B2B or business-to-business), the concept that businesses and government agencies can use central Web sites to exchange information and do business with each other more ...Continue Reading

• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)

  The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act or GLBA), also known as the Financial Modernization Act of 1999, is a federal law enacted in the United States to control the ways that financial institutions deal with the private information of individuals.Continue Reading

• Enterprise data center management guide for CIOs

  CIOs charged with creating an enterprise data center strategy are weighing strategic investments in colocation and the cloud. Learn more about data center options in this guide.Continue Reading

• Section 508

  Section 508, an amendment to the United States Workforce Rehabilitation Act of 1973, is a federal law mandating that all electronic and information technology developed, procured, maintained, or used by the federal government be accessible to people...Continue Reading

• IT in 2010: Keeping up with the latest IT management trends

  Running IT in 2010 requires CIOs to consider ITSM methodologies, vendor contract renegotiations and investments in new technologies. Have you kept up with IT management trends?Continue Reading

• Review the latest trends in ITSM and ITIL best practices

  Many enterprises find that implementing ITSM and ITIL best practices leads to improved efficiencies and lower costs. Review our latest ITSM and ITIL content and take our quiz.Continue Reading

• Project and portfolio management quiz for enterprise CIOs

  Project and portfolio management (PPM) creates visibility and helps CIOs direct spending and resources toward the proper goals. Read these stories on PPM and take our related quiz.Continue Reading

• Data center virtualization quiz for enterprise CIOs

  Do you know the benefits of data center virtualization for your enterprise organization? Take the following quiz and find out whether you're a virtualization expert.Continue Reading

• CVO (chief visionary officer)

  Chief Visionary Officer (CVO) is a new title being used in corporations to differentiate the holder from other corporate executives including the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), the Chief Information Officer (CIO), ...Continue Reading

• CCO (Corporate or Chief Compliance Officer)

  A Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) is a corporate official in charge of overseeing and managing compliance issues within an organization, ensuring, for example, that a company is complying with regulatory requirements and that the company and its ...Continue Reading

• vertical portal (vortal)

  Vortal is also short for voice portal.Continue Reading

• Master and Commander: Do you speak business?

  A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.Continue Reading

• offshore outsourcing

  Offshore outsourcing, a type of business process outsourcing (BPO), is the exporting of IT-related work from the United States and other developed countries to areas of the world where there is both political stability and lower labor costs or tax ...Continue Reading

• Tibco

  Tibco makes integration server software for enterprises.Continue Reading

• integration server

  An integration server is a computer server used to facilitate interaction between diverse operating systems and applications across internal and external networked computer systems.Continue Reading

• enterprise architecture (EA)

  An enterprise architecture (EA) is a conceptual blueprint that defines the structure and operation of an organization.Continue Reading

• conformance

  In information technology, a state or acts of adherence to a certain specification, standard, or guideline.Continue Reading

• LOB (line-of-business)

  An LOB (line-of-business) application is one of the set of critical computer applications that are vital to running an enterprise, such as accounting, supply chain management, and resource planning applications.Continue Reading

• Believe it or Not (Answers)

  This one is false -- in fact, the Difference Engine was powered by steam.Continue Reading

• redact

  To redact is to edit, or prepare for publishing.Continue Reading

• net metering

  Net metering is a utility resource usage and payment scheme in which a customer who generates their own power is compensated monetarily.Continue Reading

• Safe Harbor

  Safe Harbor is the name of a policy agreement established between the United States Department of Commerce and the European Union in November 2000. The agreement, which regulated the way that U.S. companies could export and handle the personal data...Continue Reading

• metered services (pay-per-use)

  Metered services (also called pay-per-use) is any type of payment structure in which a customer has access to potentially unlimited resources but only pays for what they actually use.Continue Reading

• e-services (electronic services)

  E-services, a business concept developed by Hewlett Packard (HP), is the idea that the World Wide Web is moving beyond e-business and e-commerce (that is, completing sales on the Web) into a new phase where many business services can be provided for...Continue Reading

• portal software

  Portal software is a type of development tool used to create a portal (starting point) on a company's intranet so that employees can find a centralized starting place for access to consolidated enterprise-related functions, such as e-mail, customer ...Continue Reading

• Napster

  Napster is a controversial application that allows people to share music over the Internet without having to purchase their own copy on CD. After downloading Napster, a user can get access to music recorded in the MP3 format from other users who are...Continue Reading

• Information and Content Exchange (ICE)

  Information and Content Exchange (ICE) is an XML-based standard protocol for electronic business-to-business (B2B) asset management.Continue Reading

• bricks and mortar

  Bricks and mortar refers to businesses that have physical (rather than virtual or online) presences - in other words, stores (built of physical material such as bricks and mortar) that you can drive to and enter physically to see, touch, and ...Continue Reading

• e-speak

  E-speak is an open software platform designed by HP to facilitate the delivery of e-services (electronic services) over the Internet.Continue Reading

• Superdome

  Superdome is a high-end 64-bit, Hewlett-Packard (HP) PA-8600 processor-based UNIX server designed for e-commerce customers using very large databases.Continue Reading

• End User License Agreement (EULA)

  An End User License Agreement (EULA) is a legal contract between a software application author or publisher and the user of that application.Continue Reading

• ISBN (International Standard Book Number)

  The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is a unique number assigned to a book title by its publisher for tracking and ordering purposes.Continue Reading

• request for quotation (RFQ)

  A request for quotation (RFQ) is a document that an organization submits to one or more potential suppliers eliciting quotations for a product or service.Continue Reading

• Routers: Do you speak geek?

  by Kara GattineAre you a real Know-IT-All? How many of these router-related terms can you guess without peeking? 1. This is network bridge and a router combined in a single product.Continue Reading

• e-tailing (electronic retailing)

  E-tailing (less frequently: etailing) is the selling of retail goods on the Internet.Continue Reading

• knowledge

  In information technology, knowledge is, to an enterprise or an individual, the possession of information or the ability to quickly locate it.Continue Reading

• EISA (Extended Industry Standard Architecture)

  EISA is a standard bus (computer interconnection) architecture that extends the ISA standard to a 32-bit interface.Continue Reading