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1 month ago | 
techtarget.com | Scott Robinson |Ben Lutkevich |Wesley Chai
A general ledger (GL) is a set of numbered accounts a business uses to keep track of its financial transactions and to prepare financial reports. Each account is a unique record summarizing a specific type of asset, liability, equity, revenue or expense. A chart of accounts lists all of the accounts in the general ledger. A large business can have thousands of accounts in its GL. Certified public accountants (CPAs) and bookkeepers typically access and use general ledgers.
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2 months ago | 
techtarget.com | Paul Kirvan |Ben Lutkevich
A supercomputer is a highly advanced computer that performs at or near the highest operational rate for computers. Traditionally, supercomputers have been used for scientific and engineering applications that must handle massive databases, perform a great amount of computation or both. Advances like multicore processors and general-purpose graphics processing units have enabled powerful machines that could be called desktop supercomputers or GPU supercomputers.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
techtarget.com | Katie Hanna |Ben Lutkevich
Social media refers to websites and applications that focus on communication, community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. Over the past decade, social media has evolved beyond just a tool for connecting with friends and family. It now serves as a platform for news dissemination, entertainment, and even commerce, becoming a significant part of both personal lives and business operations.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
techtarget.com | Ben Lutkevich
By Ben Lutkevich, Site Editor Lazy loading is a design pattern in web development that only loads necessary code components immediately, deferring nonessential components. This approach aims to improve an application's initial load time and overall performance by only loading the functionality when a user needs it.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
techtarget.com | Ben Lutkevich
In the 20-plus years since its inception, Agile has grown into the predominant school of thought in software development. The framework has spawned dozens of techniques, derivative frameworks and methodologies that have shaped the way modern developers approach their work. More than that, Agile has generated a language all its own.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
techtarget.com | Rahul Awati |Ben Lutkevich
System software is a type of computer program designed to run a computer's hardware and application programs. Thinking of the computer system as a layered model, the system software is the interface between the hardware and user applications. The operating system (OS) is the best-known example of system software. The OS manages all the other programs in a computer.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
techtarget.com | Rahul Awati |Ben Lutkevich
In general, a framework is a real or conceptual structure intended to serve as a support or guide for the building of something that expands the structure into something useful. In computer systems, a framework is often a layered structure indicating what kind of programs can or should be built and how they would interrelate. Some computer system frameworks also include actual programs, specify programming interfaces, or offer programming tools for using the frameworks.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
techtarget.com | Ben Lutkevich
Automation fears have long haunted the future of work. Generative AI is now the latest technology to inspire fear and optimism. AI will augment jobs in the future. But the argument could be made that job augmentation for some means job replacement for others. For example, if a worker's job is made 10 times easier, the positions created to support that job might become unnecessary. A June 2023 McKinsey report stated that generative AI (GenAI) would automate 60% to 70% of employee workloads.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
techtarget.com | Cameron Hashemi-Pour |Ben Lutkevich |Jacqueline Biscobing
By Cameron Hashemi-Pour, Site Editor Ben Lutkevich, Site Editor Jacqueline Biscobing, Senior Managing Editor, News A sales funnel, also called a purchase funnel, is the visual representation of the customer journey, depicting the sales process from awareness to action. The funnel, which is also referred to as a marketing funnel or revenue funnel, illustrates the idea that every sale begins with many potential customers and ends with a much smaller number of people who make a purchase. In...
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
techtarget.com | Kinza Yasar |Ben Lutkevich |Nicholas Rando
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