Information technology

Information technology

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

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client management tools

Technology; Information technology

Client management tools (previously known as PC configuration life cycle management (PCCLM) tools) manage the configurations of client systems. Specific functionality includes OS deployment, ...

client computing hardware services

Technology; Information technology

This segment includes PC services and workstation services.  Personal computer services — PCs are single-user systems and include desk-based, notebook and ultraportable PCs. This also includes ...

client appliance

Technology; Information technology

A type of computing appliance that provides end-user access to applications. Examples include network computers and certain handheld computers. See computing appliance.

A system or a program that requests the activity of one or more other systems or programs, called servers, to accomplish specific tasks. In a client/server environment, the workstation is usually the ...

click-through rate (CTR)

Technology; Information technology

The number of times a Web page advertisement is clicked, compared to the number of times it is displayed. Royalties are often based on CTR. This term is also used in reference a website’s ability to ...

click-through

Technology; Information technology

Term applied to the act of clicking with a mouse button on a Web page advertisement, which brings the user to the advertiser’s site.

clickstream analysis

Technology; Information technology

A form of Web analytics (see separate entry), clickstream analysis is the tracking and analysis of visits to websites. Although there are other ways to collect this data, clickstream analysis ...