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| EAI—enterprise application integration |
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The
plans, methods, and tools aimed at modernizing, consolidating, and coordinating
the computer applications in an enterprise, usually with an eye toward transitioning
from legacy applications to those that install e-business processes within
the organization. |
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| ebXML |
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A
markup language for conducting business over the internet. |
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| ECMA |
|
An international industry
association founded in 1961 dedicated to the standardization of information
and communication systems and focusing on standards for multimedia computing,
high-capacity storage media, high-speed telecommunications, software engineering,
IT security, and application portability. |
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| edge |
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In
database modeling, an element of a cube. Each edge contains values from
one or more dimensions. See also cube. |
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| Edge
Side Includes (ESI) |
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A
simple markup language for defining Web page fragments, enabling dynamic
content to be cached to speed assembly and delivery of personalized Web
pages. |
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| EDI—Electronic Data Interchange |
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An
ANSI standard format for exchanging business data. |
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| EJB—Enterprise JavaBeans |
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In
Java, a componenet architecture for the development and deployment of object-oriented,
distributed, enterprise-level applications. |
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| EJB
container |
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In
Java, a container that implements the EJB component contract of the J2EE
architecture. This contract specifies a runtime environment for enterprise
beans that includes concurrency, deployment, lifecycle management, securtiy, transaction, and other services. |
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| EJB
object |
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In
Java, an object whose class implements the enterprise bean's remote interface. |
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| Electronic
Data Interchange (EDI) |
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An
ANSI standard format for exchanging business data. |
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| else |
|
In
programming, a keyword used to execute a block of statements when the test
condition using the "if" keyword evaluates to false. |
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| embedded
total |
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A
predefined level of aggregation built into a dimension for which a hierarchy
exists. For example, in a TIME dimension, each quarter represents the total
for the months in the quarter. |
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| encapsulation |
|
In
programming, the localization of knowledge within a module. |
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| End
User Layer (EUL) |
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The
user interface for multidimensional structures. |
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| enterprise |
|
A
group of departments, divisions, groups, or companies that make up an entire
business. |
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| enterprise
application integration (EAI) |
|
The
plans, methods, and tools aimed at modernizing, consolidating, and coordinating
the computer applications in an enterprise, usually with an eye toward transitioning
from legacy applications to those that install e-business processes within
the organization. |
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| enterprise
bean |
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In
Java, a component that implements a business task or business entity, either
an entity bean or a session bean. |
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| enterprise
data warehouse |
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A
single repository holding data from several operational sources that serves
many different users, typically in different divisions or departments. |
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| Enterprise
JavaBeans (EJB) |
|
In
Java, a component architecture for the development and deployment of object-oriented,
distributed, enterprise-level applications. |
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| Enterprise Manager
(Oracle Enterprise Manager) |
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An
Oracle product that provides a GUI to systems and databases for enterprisewide
systems management. |
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| enterprise
model |
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A
model of the business. |
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| enterprise portal
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A
personalized single point of information including relevant applications
internal and external to a company. |
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| enterprise resource
planning (ERP) |
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The
broad set of activities--and the software that supports them--that
helps a company manage key business flows, including product planning,
purchasing, inventory maintenance, supplier management, order tracking,
finance, and human resources. |
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| entity bean |
|
In
Java, an enterprise bean that represents persistent data maintained in a
database and identified by a primary key. If the container in which an entity
bean is hosted crashes, the entity bean, its primary key, and any remote
references survive the crash. |
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| entity
relationship diagram (ERD) |
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A
diagram that pictorially represents entities, the relationships between
them, and the attributes used to describe them. |
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| entity
relationship model (ERM) |
|
A
type of data model. Part of the business model that consists of many entity
relationship diagrams. |
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| ERD—entity relationship diagram |
|
A
diagram that pictorially represents entities, the relationships between
them, and the attributes used to describe them. |
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| ERM—entity relationship model |
|
A
type of data model. Part of the business model that consists of many entity
relationship diagrams. |
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| ERP—enterprise resouce planning |
|
The
broad set of activities--and the software that supports them--that
helps a company manage key business flows, including product planning,
purchasing, inventory maintenance, supplier management, order tracking,
finance, and human resources. |
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| ESI—Edge Side Includes |
|
A
simple markup language for defining Web page fragments, enabling dynamic
content to be cached to speed assembly and delivery of personalized Web
pages. |
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| ETL—extraction,
transformation, and loading |
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The
methods involved in populating a data warehouse. See also extraction, load,
and transformation. |
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| ETT—extraction, transformation, and transportation |
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The methods involved in accessing and manipulating source data and loading it into a data warehouse. |
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| EUL—End User Layer |
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The user interface for multidimensional structures. |
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| exception |
|
An
event during program execution that prevents the program from continuing
normally; generally, an error. |
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| exception handler |
|
A
block of code that reacts to a specific type of exception. If the exception
is for an error that the program can recover from, the program can resume
executing after the exception handler has executed. |
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| expression |
|
One
or more data values that can be expressed as arguments to programs or functions.
An expression can be a single, constant value (e.g., 10); a variable or
formula that contains one or more values; a function that returns one or
more values; or a calculation that combines values, such as variables, formulas,
or functions, with arithmetic or Boolean operators. |
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| extensibility |
|
The
ability to easily add new functionality to existing services without major
software rewrites or without redefining the basic architecture. |
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| Extensible
Markup Language (XML) |
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The World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C) markup language
for Web documents that lets programmers create their own customized tags. |
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| external
data |
|
Data
originating from outside the central processing complex. |
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| extract processing |
|
The
process of selecting data from one environment and transporting it to another
environment for use by individual users or departments. |
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| extraction |
|
The
process of selecting and pulling data from the operational and external
data sources, in order to prepare it for a data warehouse. |
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| extraction, transformation,
and loading (ETL) |
|
The methods involved in populating a data warehouse. See also extraction, load, and transformation. |
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| extraction,
transformation, and transportation (ETT) |
|
The methods
involved in accessing and manipulating source data and loading it into a
data warehouse. |
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