Jargon Buster

E-Learning

is any form of learning that utilizes a network for delivery, interaction, or facilitation. The network could be the Internet, a school or college Local Area Network (LAN) or even a corporate Wide Area Network (WAN) .The learning could take place individually (guided or instructed by a computer) or as part of a class. Online classes meet either synchronously (at the same time) or asynchronously (at different times)

e-mail

Electronic mail is content sent from one person to another via computer over the internet

EDA

The term Event Driven Architecture (EDA) referes to any applications that react intelligently to changes in conditions, whether that change is the impending failure of a hard drive or a sudden change in stock price.

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs) are management information systems (MISs) that integrate and automate many of the business practices associated with the operations or production and distribution aspects of a company engaged in manufacturing products or services.

ESA

Enterprise Service Architecture defines an architectural concept for Web services that provide enterprise-level business functionality. They may range from very simple lookup services (like finding a company’s location or product offerings) to more complex and composite services — but what they have in common is that they're highly integrated into the business process or scenario.Typically enterprise services are high-level components that take more granular Web services and aggregate them into reusable elements with business value.

Ethernet

common method of networking computers in a Local Area Network (LAN)

exe

the file extension given to an executable file. Examples of this can include programs downloaded from the internet which require installation, games etc