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Information technology

The acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of information by electronics-based of computing and telecommunications.

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commerce everywhere

Technology; Information technology

Commerce everywhere is a marketing strategy for facilitating sales transactions across customer touchpoints via a set of technologies that promotes products and enables sales in physical locations ...

combined heat and power (CHP)

Technology; Information technology

Combined heat and power (CHP) is a specific form of distributed generation (DG) that refers to the placement of electric-power-generating units at or near customer facilities to supply on-site energy ...

comanagement processes

Technology; Information technology

Comanagement processes are “a set of shared processes that enable internal and external IT service providers and business clients to continuously align IT service delivery to changing internal and ...

column-store database management system (DBMS)

Technology; Information technology

A column-store database management system (DBMS) is a DBMS that indexes each column of a table, storing the indexes in lieu of row data — unlike traditional relational DBMSs using a row-store, where ...

College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)

Technology; Information technology

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an organization formed in 1992 to advocate more effective use of information management in healthcare, and to meet the ...

collective competency

Technology; Information technology

An approach where the responsibility for a specific activity or outcome is vested with an informal affiliation of individuals or organizations whose participation is secured only because each member ...

collective

Technology; Information technology

Collectives are aggregations of people who are outside the control of the enterprise, bound by a common action or opinion, and who affect the enterprise’s success. Mobs, formal communities, and ...

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