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3 weeks ago | techtarget.com | Paul Kirvan |Wesley Chai |Irwin Lazar

Video conferencing is a live, visual connection between two or more remote parties over the internet that simulates a face-to-face meeting. Video conferencing is important because it joins people who would not normally be able to form a face-to-face connection. At its simplest, video conferencing involves transmitting static images and text between two locations. At its most sophisticated, it provides transmission of full-motion video images and high-quality audio between multiple locations.

1 month ago | techtarget.com | Rahul Awati |Wesley Chai |Alexander Gillis

Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft's proprietary directory service that enables network admins to manage users, permissions and their access to networking resources. It runs on Windows Server and stores information about objects, such as shared network resources, on a corporate network in a logical, hierarchical format. This enables administrators to manage those resources, as well as the users who need to access those resources to get their work done.

2 months 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.

Feb 6, 2025 | techtarget.com | Paul Kirvan |Wesley Chai |Rachel Lebeaux

An IT project manager is a professional charged with overseeing the process of planning, executing and delegating responsibilities related to an organization's information technology (IT) pursuits and goals. IT project managers may work in a variety of industries, as nearly all organizations rely on computing technologies. Some organizations establish IT project management offices to guide the completion of large-scale initiatives. What does an IT project manager do?

Feb 3, 2025 | techtarget.com | Rahul Awati |Wesley Chai |Kevin Ferguson

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is a set of rules that govern how information will be transferred between networked devices, specifically web servers and client browsers. First developed between 1989 and 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTTP is an application layer protocol whose older versions (prior to HTTP/3) ran on top of the TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/internet protocol) suite of protocols.