BUZZ WORD DICTIONARY
Some Common Tech Buzzwords Explained
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Application Programming Interface (API)
A bit of technology that helps software applcations communicate with each other. - Artificial Intelligence (AI): Computer systems built to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making.
- Chatbots: It started with Microsoft Word’s famous paperclip helper, and now numerous instant messaging programs and clients offer DIGITAL CHATBOTS that can offer customers help and support. Slack is one example of this, while other companies have pop-up windows within a webpage to offer support for customers.
Machine learning and language analytics can help enable the chatbots to seem more human in their interactions with consumers.
- Cloud Computing: Storing and accessing data and software programs over the internet instead of on your computer’s hard drive.
- Digital Transformation: A broad term for updating a company’s business processes and operations by integrating modern digital technology.
- Disruptive: An innovation that completely changes or upends an existing market and forces older companies to adapt. [1]
- Internet of Things (IoT): Everyday physical objects—like thermostats, watches, and appliances—that connect to the internet to send and receive data.
- Net Neutrality
Net neutrality is the concept of treating the internet as a utility, like water or electricity, meaning that no company’s content should be prioritized over another. Without net neutrality, it is possible for companies to pay internet service providers a premium to ensure that their content loads faster for consumers than other content. -
Pivot
As in, “Let’s pivot from strategy A to strategy B.”
- Quantum Computing: An advanced type of computing that uses quantum mechanics to process complex information much faster than traditional computers.
- Full Stack
Developers of websites that can design and build a site from the database through the User Interface. They can do all or part of any project. Multimedia Designs is a Full Stack Develpment Company.
Zero Trust: A security model requiring strict verification for every person and device trying to access a network, assuming nothing is safe by default.
