A group o adjacent bits that is treated as a single unit by the computer.
Business Process Reengineering (BPS)
The thorough analysis and complete redesign of business processes and info systems to achieve dramatic performance improvements
Business Intelligence
The process of accessing the data contained in a data warehouse and using it for strategic decision making. Two main techniques are online analytical processing and data mining.
Bus Network
Type of network organization in which all devices are attached to a main channel called a bus
Buffer
A temporary storage area, usually RAM, that holds data before or after being processed by the microprocessed.
Boundary Protection
On a magnetic disk, more than one file may be stored on a single disk, and this is the separator
Border Router
A device that connects an organization's information system to the Internet.
Bits per Second
A unit or measurement describing the number of bits of data transmitted electronically in one second.
BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)
An interface between the hardware and the operating system that interprets the electronic signals sent from the software applications to hardware devices.Click to flip
Benchmark Problem
A data processing task that is executed by different computer systems, then they are measured for performance.
BCD
Binary Coded Decimal, a method for representing each of the decimal digits 0 to 9 by a distinct group of binary digits.