Documentation Verbiage describing a system, application, database, procedure, etc.
Document fracturing In textual disambiguation, the process of sequentially processing
text looking for text that satisfies such criteria as stop word processing, stemming,
homographic resolution, and so forth
Download The movement of a bulk amount of data from one environment to another
Drill down processing The analytic activity of examining an element of data at a lower
level of detail after examining the value of data at a higher level
Ed Yourdon An information technology pioneer who started the “structured” movement
Electronic text Text in a form where the words of the text are recognized by the
computer
ELT Extract/load/transform—the process of extracting, loading, and transforming data.
The problem with ELT is that many organizations only extract and load the data but fail
to transform the data
E-mail Messages from one party to another carried on an electronic medium
Encoding The process of encryption of text into a form unrecognizable by an outsider
Encryption The process of scrambling data into a form that is not recognizable
Entity A broad classification of data; a subject area
ERD Entity relationship diagram—a logical description of how the major subject areas of
the corporation fit together
ERP Enterprise resource planning—the name given to technology where applications are
written by a vendor where there are multiple users of the software
ETL Extract, transform, and load—the process in which data are taken from the source
system, configured, and stored in a data warehouse or database. ETL tools automate data
integration tasks
Event The demarcation or recording made of the passage of some activity
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