The Business Explorer (BEx) is a component of SAP BI that provides flexible reporting and analysis tools that we can use for strategic analysis and supporting the decision-making process in an organization. These tools include query, reporting, and analysis functions.

A protocol for exchanging routing information between gateway hosts in a network of autonomous systems. BGP is often the protocol used between gateway hosts on the Internet. 

Oracle BI Publisher is the reporting solution to author, manage, and deliver all your reports and documents easier and faster than traditional reporting tools. Use your web browser or familiar desktop tools to create everything from pixel-perfect customer facing documents to interactive management reports against practically any data source. View reports online or schedule them and deliver tens of thousands of documents per hour with minimal impact to transactional systems.

The voluminous amount of unstructured and semi-structured data a company creates -- that takes too much time and cost too much money to load into a relational database. The term is often used when speaking about petabytes and exabytes of data.  

The process of examining large amounts of data of a variety of types (big data) to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations and other useful information. Such information can provide competitive advantages over rival organizations.

  A term that describes the order in which a sequence of bytes are stored in computer memory. It is the order in which the "big end" (most significant value in the sequence) is stored first (at the lowest storage address).

Bigcommerce is a privately held technology company that develops e-commerce software for businesses.

BigQuery is a RESTful web service that enables super-fast, SQL-like queries on massively large datasets using the processing power of Google Infrastructure. It is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) that may be used complementarily with MapReduce.

A software designed to keep track of time, billing, and invoicing activities of an organization.

BillQuick offers some of the most flexible time billing and accounting solutions on the market, both in terms of functionality and deployment. Available as a stand-alone solution, self-hosted or a cloud service, BillQuick offers comprehensive business accounting, project management and business intelligence in a system flexible enough to support a variety of industries, including construction, architecture, engineering, accounting, consulting, graphic and interior design and more.

A file whose content must be interpreted by a program/hardware processor that understands exactly how it is formatted. The file is not in any identifiable format. A progam has to know how the data inside the file is laid out to make use of the file.

A Point-Of-Sale (POS) technology that uses biometric authentication to identify the user and authorize the deduction of funds from a bank account. 

The program a personal computer's microprocessor uses to get the computer system started after you turn it on. It also manages data flow between the computer's operating system and attached devices.

The authentication information that is sometimes required to log into a computer's basic input/output system (BIOS) before the machine will boot up.  A BIOS password can help prevent unauthorized use of a computer.

A.k.a. Persistent BIOS attack, is an exploit in which the BIOS is flashed (updated) with malicious code. A BIOS rootkit is programming that enables remote administration.  

The exploitation of biological processes for industrial and other purposes, especially the genetic manipulation of microorganisms for the production of antibiotics, hormones, etc.