Back-Up
Definition: Databases must be backed up to duplicate data for disaster prevention and recovery purposes. What This Means: Business continuation planning requires that data stores be backed-up to allow timely recovery from disasters, continuous operations after problems, and even prevention of disasters ...
Balanced Scorecard
Definition: Balanced Scorecard is a strategic management approach developed in the 1990's by Robert Kaplan and David Norton with four perspectives to view an organization: learning and growth, operational, customer, and financial. What This Means: For education agencies, the balanced scorecard has ...
Bandwidth
Definition: The capacity of a network or data connection to transmit data. Need another definition?
Batch
Definition: A group of similar items produced, processed, or gathered together and treated as a single unit. What This Means: Tasks performed by a computer, in which processing-intensive activities are grouped and processed as units, rather than being processed immediately on demand. ...
Beta Testing
Definition: Testing an application in the phase just before it is placed into production. What This Means: Beta testing is not performed until an application is almost ready to launch. The beta test, coming after the earlier alpha test, may be distinguished ...
BI (Business Intelligence)
Definition: Business intelligence encompasses applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and analyzing data for the purpose of supporting Data-Driven Decision Making (D3M). What This Means: The business world has contributed the term “business intelligence” to information technology, but for an ...
Big Data
Definition: Big Data refers not only to the volume of data accumulated by an agency by all its systems but also to the derived statistics, metrics, and data created from those original data. What this means: The variety of data has ...
BIOS
Definition: Basic Input/Output System. Need another definition?
Bits Per Second (or bps)
Definition: A measure of data transmission for a modem or network, expressed as the number of bits that pass a certain point in one second. Need another definition?
Blog
Definition: A blog is a web site that contains text entries in reverse chronological order (most recent first) about a particular topic. What This Means: Blogs serve many purposes from online newsletters to personal journals to "ranting and raving." They can be ...
