Coding conventions are a set of guidelines for a specific programming language that recommend programming style, practices and methods for each aspect of a piece program written in this language. These conventions usually cover file organization, indentation, comments, declarations, statements, white space, naming conventions, programming practices, programming principles, programming rules of thumb, architectural best practices, etc. These are guidelines for software structural quality. Software programmers are highly recommended to follow these guidelines to help improve the readability of their source code and make software maintenance easier.

A programming language that predictably transcompiles to JavaScript. Programs can be written with less code and in more human-readable terms, without sacrificing runtime performance, compared with JavaScript.

IBM's Business intelligence (BI) and performance management software suite. The software is designed to enable business users without technical knowledge to extract corporate data, analyze it and assemble reports.  

A set of standards defining the transmission of multimedia over the Internet. CoIP can be considered an expansion of VoIP to include text, images, video and other forms of digital data as well as voice information.

A database backup when the database is offline and thus not accessible for updating. This is the safest way to back up because it avoids the risk of copying data that may be in the process of being updated. 

A backup server whose purpose is solely to be there in case the main server is lost. The cold server is turned on once to have software installed and configured, and then is turned off until needed.

A set of products for building Web sites and serving pages to users. It provides the ability to build Web sites as "piece parts" that can be stored in a database and then reassembled for Web pages, e-mail newsletters, and other uses.

Microsoft's technology for building messaging or collaboration applications or adding these capabilities to existing applications. 

A category of business software that adds social networking capabilities to work processes. It incorporates knowledge management into business processes so employees can share information and solve business problems more efficiently.

An approach to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in which the various departments of a company, such as sales, technical support, and marketing, share any information they collect from interactions with customers.

An integration tool from SAP designed to solve the widespread challenges of data integration from multiple systems. It collects and integrate data from SAP and non-SAP  to obtain a single view of data.

Collaborative software or groupware is an application software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve goals.

A care-of address is a temporary IP address for a mobile node (mobile device) that enables message delivery when the device is connecting from somewhere other than its home network. 

A hosting option that allows the placement of server in a colocation provider's rack and share their bandwidth. It cost more than Web hosting, but consumes less bandwidth.

A colocation centre is a type of data centre where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers. Colocation facilities provide space, power, cooling, and physical security for the server, storage, and networking equipment of other firms and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers with a minimum of cost and complexity.

In computer graphics, a color gradient (sometimes called a color ramp or color progression) specifies a range of position-dependent colors, usually used to fill a region. The colors produced by a gradient vary continuously with position, producing smooth color transitions.