Category: Technology
Company: Gartner
Created by: consultant
Number of Blossarys: 2
A wide-ranging discipline of computer science that at its core seeks to make computers behave more like humans. The term was coined by John McCarthy of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in ...
Architecture is defined as: In reference to computers, software or networks, the overall design of a computing system and the logical and physical interrelationships between its components. The ...
AMD is the most sophisticated end of the SOA modeling spectrum. It focuses on quality, performance and reuse. It comes in two “flavors”: AMD composition and AMD development. AMD composition presumes ...
Architected rapid application development (ARAD) has developed from object-oriented analysis and design tools, and incorporates analysis and design patterns and frameworks. Typically, organizations ...
An application-specific standard product (ASSP) is an integrated circuit (IC) dedicated to a specific application market and sold to more than one user. A type of embedded programmable logic, ASSPs ...
An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is a chip on which the pattern of connections has been set up exclusively for a specific function.
Applications portfolio analysis (APA) is a tool to divide current and proposed applications into three categories — utility, enhancement and frontier — based on the degree to which they contribute to ...