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The entire spectrum of technologies for information processing, including software, hardware, communications technologies and related services. In general, information technology (IT) does not include embedded technologies that do not generate data for enterprise use.

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Applications portfolio analysis (APA) is a tool to divide current and proposed applications into three categories — utility, enhancement and frontier — based on the degree to which they contribute to ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is a chip on which the pattern of connections has been set up exclusively for a specific function.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

An application-specific standard product (ASSP) is an integrated circuit (IC) dedicated to a specific application market and sold to more than one user. A type of embedded programmable logic, ASSPs ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Architected rapid application development (ARAD) has developed from object-oriented analysis and design tools, and incorporates analysis and design patterns and frameworks. Typically, organizations ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

AMD is the most sophisticated end of the SOA modeling spectrum. It focuses on quality, performance and reuse. It comes in two “flavors”: AMD composition and AMD development. AMD composition presumes ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Architecture is defined as:   In reference to computers, software or networks, the overall design of a computing system and the logical and physical interrelationships between its components. The ...

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A wide-ranging discipline of computer science that at its core seeks to make computers behave more like humans. The term was coined by John McCarthy of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

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