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The entire spectrum of technologies for information processing, including software, hardware, communications technologies and related services. In general, information technology (IT) does not include embedded technologies that do not generate data for enterprise use.

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Company: Gartner

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Social profiles are a description of individuals’ social characteristics that identify them on social media sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook, when using tools such as digg and Delicious as well as ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

The capability for the masses to accumulate their individually developed content (versus shared development via a wiki) into a usable repository and shared channel for social use and feedback.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Social search uses elements of user behavior, implicit and explicit, to improve the results of searches inside and outside enterprises. Such elements are typically stored as metadata, making social ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Gartner defines social softwareas the tools that encourage, capture, and organize open and free-form interaction between employees, customers, and partners. It is a “socializing” technology—sometimes ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Social software standards are protocols and data formats that have been agreed on by industry bodies or are, in practice, used by several products or services to support interoperability and for ...

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The context for the way everyone works. Social systems emerge from the people, processes, tools, organizations, relationships, skills and information associated with a group of individuals.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Social tagging also known as “folksonomies”, are user-defined metadata collections. Users do not deliberately create folksonomies and there is rarely a prescribed purpose, but a folksonomy evolves ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

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