Business software

HR management

• What is segregation of duties (SoD)?

  Segregation of duties (SoD) is an internal control mechanism designed to prevent errors and fraud by ensuring at least two individuals are responsible for the separate parts of any task.

• What is team collaboration?

  Team collaboration is a communication and project management approach that emphasizes teamwork, innovative thinking and equal participation to achieve objectives.

• What is talent management? Definition, basics and strategy

  Talent management is a strategic approach organizations use to attract, develop, retain, and optimize employees.

Marketing and CX

Terms related to business software, including definitions about billing and words and phrases about supply chain, CRM, POS, ERP, accounting, payroll and inventory.

• What are customer service and support?

  Customer service is the support organizations offer to customers before, during and after purchasing a product or service.

• What is a remote desktop and how does it work?

  A remote desktop is a program or an operating system feature that allows a user to connect to a computer in another location, see that computer's desktop and interact with it as if it were local.

• What is conversational commerce?

  Conversational commerce integrates messaging and communication tools into the online buying process. Businesses engage with customers through real-time, personalized interactions.

Microsoft

Definitions for Microsoft Windows, including terms about bugs or patches and words and phrases about Microsoft operating systems.

• What is the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) utility?

  The Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) utility is a command-line interface (CLI) for working with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), a Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) framework for accessing and managing information about Windows computers in enterprise environments.

• What is Microsoft Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK)?

  The Microsoft Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) is a set of tools that IT professionals can combine to prepare, assess and launch image-based Windows deployments.

• What is Active Directory (AD)?

  Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft's proprietary directory service that enables network admins to manage users, permissions and their access to networking resources.

Software applications

Definitions related to software applications, including tech terms about software programs for vertical industries and words and phrases about software development, use and management.

• What is emergent medical data?

  Emergent medical data (EMD) is health information gathered about an individual from seemingly unrelated online user behavior data.

• What is distributed tracing?

  Distributed tracing is a method used to track the journey of requests as they flow through a distributed system or microservices architecture.

• What is the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) utility?

  The Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) utility is a command-line interface (CLI) for working with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), a Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) framework for accessing and managing information about Windows computers in enterprise environments.