IT Glossary

Online collaboration involves the use of digital tools and platforms to enable individuals or groups to work together on projects, share information, and communicate in real-time, regardless of geographical location.

Commonly used in General IT, Communication, Collaboration

Software applications and platforms that enable remote teams to work together, share information, and collaborate on projects over the internet.

Commonly used in Collaboration, Communication, General IT

A group of people who interact and communicate with each other over the internet, often sharing common interests or goals.

Commonly used in Social Networking, Collaboration, General IT

The process of moving data from one location to another, one format to another, or one application to another, while it remains accessible to users or applications.

Commonly used in Data Management, Cloud Computing

Video games played over the internet, typically involving multiplayer interaction and competition.

Commonly used in Gaming, Entertainment, General IT

A web-based support system that provides assistance and troubleshooting to users of a product or service.

Commonly used in Customer Support, IT Support, General IT

Education delivered over the internet, typically through web-based platforms and resources.

Commonly used in Education, E-Learning, General IT

Marketing strategies and tactics conducted over the internet to promote products or services and attract customers.

Commonly used in Digital Marketing, Advertising, General IT

A digital platform that connects buyers and sellers, facilitating transactions of goods and services over the internet.

Commonly used in E-Commerce, Retail, General IT

A service that authorizes payment transactions for online purchases, facilitating secure transfer of funds between buyers and sellers.

Commonly used in E-Commerce, Finance, General IT

The process of managing and curating a brand or individual’s presence on the internet and digital platforms, including social media, websites, and online advertising.

Commonly used in Online Marketing, Brand Management

The protection of personal information and data transmitted over the internet from unauthorized access or disclosure.

Commonly used in Security, Privacy, General IT

Strategies and techniques used to monitor, influence, and control the online perception of individuals, organizations, or brands.

Commonly used in Marketing, Brand Management, General IT

The sale of goods and services conducted over the internet through digital platforms or e-commerce websites.

Commonly used in E-Commerce, Retail, General IT

The delivery of multimedia content, such as video or audio, over the internet in real-time, allowing users to consume the content as it is being delivered.

Commonly used in Media Streaming, Entertainment, General IT

A data collection method conducted over the internet, typically through web-based questionnaires or forms, to gather information from respondents.

Commonly used in Market Research, Data Collection, General IT

Online transaction processing (OLTP) is a type of transaction processing that emphasizes fast response times and real-time data processing for handling high volumes of online transactions in databases and systems.

Commonly used in General IT, Database Management, E-commerce

A formal representation of knowledge, typically organized in a hierarchical structure, used in knowledge-based systems and AI.

Commonly used in AI, Knowledge Management, General IT

The portion of a machine language instruction that specifies the operation to be performed. Beyond specifying the operation, an opcode may also specify the data to be used by the operation.

Commonly used in Programming, Computer Engineering

A technique to improve PHP script performance by storing precompiled script bytecode in shared memory, eliminating the need for PHP to load and parse scripts on each request.

Commonly used in Web Development

A technique used in virtualization that involves intercepting and emulating sensitive operations of a virtual machine to maintain control over the virtualized environment.

Commonly used in Virtualization, Security

The practice of providing unrestricted access to research publications and data, typically facilitated by digital technologies and the internet.

Commonly used in Education, Research, General IT

An application programming interface that is publicly available and allows developers to access certain features or data of a software application.

Commonly used in Software Development, Web Development, General IT

A security principle that uses a decentralized authentication protocol, allowing users to be authenticated by cooperating sites using a third party service, without exposing passwords.

Commonly used in Security, Cybersecurity

A protocol that allows an end user’s account information to be used by third-party services, such as Facebook, without exposing the user’s password.

Commonly used in Cybersecurity, Web Development

An open standard for access delegation, commonly used as a way for Internet users to grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites but without giving them the passwords.

Commonly used in Security, Web Development

An initiative launched by Facebook to share more efficient server and data center designs with the general IT community.

Commonly used in Data Center Management, Hardware

Data that can be freely accessed, used, modified, and shared by anyone.

Commonly used in Data Science, Data Analysis, General IT

Efforts to promote the availability and use of open data across organizations and sectors, typically driven by government or industry initiatives.

Commonly used in Data Science, Government, General IT

A technology platform that enables the storage, management, and analysis of open data from various sources.

Commonly used in Data Science, Data Analysis, General IT

A repository of data that is freely available for anyone to use, often maintained and curated by a community or organization.

Commonly used in Data Science, Data Analysis, General IT

A standard API for accessing database management systems (DBMS). It allows for a standardized way of interfacing with databases to perform SQL operations.

Commonly used in Database Management, Application Development

A multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links that was maintained by a community of volunteer editors but is no longer active.

Commonly used in Web Development, Online Community

Freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.

Commonly used in Education, Digital Resources

Firmware that is open source and can be modified by anyone, often used in embedded systems, network devices, and computers to control hardware operations.

Commonly used in Hardware, Open Source

Firmware that is open source and can be modified by anyone. It is often used in computing and electronic devices to control hardware operations.

Commonly used in Hardware, Firmware

A technology first introduced by Facebook that allows integration between Facebook and its user data and a third-party website. By adding specific HTML tags to your web page, you can turn your web pages into rich objects in a social graph.

Commonly used in Web Development, Social Media

A protocol that allows developers to integrate their pages into the social graph. Web pages can become rich objects in a social graph.

Commonly used in Web Development, Online Marketing

A framework for enterprise architecture that provides a comprehensive approach to design, planning, implementation, and governance of an enterprise information architecture.

Commonly used in Enterprise IT, Architecture

A consortium of technology and mobile companies that was formed to develop open standards for mobile devices. One of the most well-known products to come from the OHA is the Android operating system.

Commonly used in Mobile Development, Standards

A collaborative approach to innovation that involves sharing ideas, resources, and knowledge with external partners or the broader community.

Commonly used in Research and Development, Collaboration, General IT

An ecosystem or framework that facilitates collaboration, idea generation, and knowledge sharing among participants to drive innovation.

Commonly used in Research and Development, Collaboration, General IT

An industry forum for developing market-driven specifications for interoperable mobile service enablers that facilitate global user adoptions of mobile multimedia services.

Commonly used in Mobile Technology, Standards

A software defined networking (SDN) OS for service providers that has scalability, high availability, high performance and abstraction to support a diverse set of network devices.

Commonly used in Networking, Cloud Computing

A non-profit organization dedicated to the transformation of network infrastructure and carrier business models using network disaggregation, white box economics, and open source software.

Commonly used in Networking, Standards

An open source, general-purpose policy engine that enables unified, context-aware policy enforcement across the entire stack.

Commonly used in Security, Cloud Computing

A set of specifications that define a dynamic component system for Java, aiming to create a modular architecture for Java applications and services.

Commonly used in Software Development, Java

A routing protocol for Internet Protocol (IP) networks that uses a link state routing algorithm and falls into the group of interior gateway protocols.

Commonly used in Networking

Software that is freely available and can be modified and redistributed by anyone, typically developed collaboratively by a community of users.

Commonly used in General IT

Platforms like OpenStack that provide an open-source framework for cloud services, enabling businesses and individuals to set up and manage cloud computing environments.

Commonly used in Cloud Computing, Open Source