ICT usage in enterprises

Information and communication Technology (ICT)

is a concept which describes the technology for collection, storing, processing and presentation of information, as well as use of technolgy for communication and sharing the information.

Digital signature

A digital signature is some kind of electronic information attached to or associated with a contract or another message used as the legal equivalent to a written signature.

Homepage

A homepage is a presentation on the Internet. This type of presentation often contains information about a person or an establishment. A homepage can be constructed in many different ways, from a simple page with text to many pages with text, pictures, sound and video.

DSL

DSL is an abbreviation for Digital Subscriber Line, and is a collection of different technologies designed to increase bandwidth over standard copper telephone wires.

Mobile broadband

Mobile connection to the Internet over telephone networks

Intranet

Homepages which only are accessible within the enterprise.

Broadband telephony

Broadband telephony is a technology for having telephone conversations over the Internet with speech transferred as data packets.

Electronic commerce

Electronic commerce includes orders via electronic networks, both Internet and other connections between computers in different enterprises. Payment and delivery must not necessarily be arranged via electronic networks. Electronic commerce may be done via homepages or automated data exchange between enterprises, but it excludes normal e-mail messages that are written individually by hand.

Automated data exchange

Automated data exchange between the enterprise and other ICT systems outside the enterprise means exchange of messages (e.g. orders, invoices, payment transactions or description of goods) via the Internet or other computer networks in an agreed format which allows its automatic processing (e.g. XML, EDIFACT, etc.) without the individual message being manually typed.

Social media

is the social interaction among people/enterprises in which they create, share or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and Networks.

Cloud computing services

refers to ICT services that are used over the Internet to access software, computing power, storage capacity.

Internet of Things (IoT)

refers to interconnected devices or systems, often called “smart” devices or systems. They collect and exchange data and can be monitored or remotely controlled via the internet.

Artificial Intelligence

refers to systems that use technologies such as: text mining, computer vision,
speech recognition, natural language generation, machine learning, deep learning to gather and/or use data to predict, recommend or decide, with varying levels of autonomy, the best action to achieve specific goals. Artificial intelligence systems can be purely software based or embedded in devices.

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2007)