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ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange is the most common format for text files in computers and on the Internet. In an ASCII file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special character is represented with a number.
AIS
- Automated Information System - A combination of computer hardware and software, data, and communications that perform functions for an organisation.
API
- Application Program Interface - The prescribed method by which a computer program can make requests of an operating system or another application.
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Business Rules
- Declarations of constraints on the presentation, storage, and processing or other aspects of entities defined in the environment(s) that an application is intended to support.
Business Process
- A set of interacting activities that produce products or services.
BPR
- Business Process Re-engineering - The act of analysing and optimising the processes required for a company to produce its product.
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C
- A structured, procedural programming language that has been widely used both for operating systems and applications and that has had a wide following in the academic community. Many versions of UNIX-based operating systems are written in C.
C++
- An object-orientated programming language that is viewed by many as the best language for creating large-scale applications. C++ is a superset of the C language. A related programming language, Java, is based on C++ but optimised for use on the Internet. Learn more about C++ from its author Bjarne Stroustrup.
Cleanse (data)
- The act of applying rules, logic and other transformations to both remove bad (invalid) data and enhance the value of good data.
CRM - Customer Relationship Management
- software designed to help companies manage their relationships with their clients in a more efficient manner.
CSV - Comma Separated Value
- A data file which has a physical ASCII file structure that contains records whose values are delimited or separated by commas.
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