The following glossary defines 290 terms related to the IT Industry.  
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E-Business

Using web and Internet technologies in conducting the business activities. Also expanding end enhancing traditional business practices by means of the Internet.

e-Commerce

The conducting of business communication and transactions over networks and through computers. As most restrictively defined, electronic commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services, and the transfer of funds, through digital communications. However e-Commerce also includes all inter-company and intra-company functions (such as marketing, finance, manufacturing, selling, and negotiation) that enable commerce and use electronic mail, EDI, file transfer, fax, video conferencing, workflow, or interaction with a remote computer.

EDI

EDI can be formally defined as 'The transfer of structured data, by agreed message standards, from one computer system to another without human intervention'. Most other definitions used are variations on this theme. Even in this era of technologies such as XML web services and the World Wide Web, EDI is still the data format used by the vast majority of electronic commerce transactions in the world.

EFT

Electronic Funds Transfer. Transfer of money initiated through electronic terminal, automated teller machine, computer, telephone, or magnetic tape. In the late 1990s, this increasingly includes transfer initiated via the World-Wide Web. The term also applies to credit card and automated bill payments.

EIA

(Enterprise Integration Applications). In most events, it's still usually easier to create an integration link than to develop a custom coded solution in-house. Major ERP vendors such as SAP, Oracle and Baan themselves are beginning to address the need to link their products to front-office applications a to improve their integration options.

Electronic Mail (E-Mail, email)

One of the most popular Internet services. Basically it's the transmission of text based messages. An email message can also contain more structured elements, like tables, images and multimedia. It can also be used to send various data files, by means of attachments. You have to have an email account in order to be able to use this service.

Email Client

The software, a frontend computer program, such as Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Opera, Spicebird, Pegasus or Eudora used to send and receive email messages on your computer, usually by configuring the POP3 protocol.

EMail Server

A computer (mail server) used to direct email messages to the appropriate destination. When you send an email using your client software, it is sent, first to your email-server, which sends it after a validation process to the appropriate party, the destination email server, that saves the message in a mail account after a reception validation.

Encryption

Encryption means encoding data using a cryptographic cipher. Encrypted data can be read (decrypted) only by an authorized entity.

Ethernet

Local Area Network (LAN) protocol invented by Xerox Corporation. It is a broadcast protocol that uses CSMA/CD method and utilizes electrical cables. It can run at various speeds: 10Mbps, 100Mbps and even 1000Mbps. IEEE 802.3 standard describes Ethernet. Word Ethernet is also sometimes used to describe the implementation that runs at the speed of 10Mbps.

Extranet

A part of the company's network that is made accessible for some group of people. Sometimes protected by a password or some other kind of authentication. It allows users to access some of the non-public data, eg. a person's credit card balance.