Encryption
The process of using an algorithm to transform information to make it unreadable for unauthorized users. The process of converting plaintext into ciphertext using cryptographic algorithms to protect data confidentiality and integrity.
Energy Management Platforms
Platforms or systems that enable the monitoring, control, and optimization of energy usage and resources.
Energy Trading Platforms
Digital platforms that facilitate the buying and selling of energy resources, enabling more efficient and transparent energy markets.
Enhancement
Any improvement made to a software package or hardware device.
Enterprise Application Integration
A term for the plans, methods, and tools aimed at modernizing, consolidating, and coordinating separate and distinct software applications in an enterprise. Used to describe a way an organization’s principal software products integrate and communicate with each other.
Enterprise Application Suite
A software system that facilitates the flow of your businesses information by pulling business information together and making it quickly and easily accessible to those who need it. It integrates all facets of the business such as Human Resources, Finance, Procurement, Manufacturing, document management and customer relationship management.
Enterprise Architecture
Refers to the structured way in which an organization’s software applications are arranged.
Enterprise Resource Planning
A collection of software programs that is typically tightly integrated, which ties together all of an enterprise's various functions - HR, finance, manufacturing, sales, etc. This software also provides for the analysis of this data to plan production, forecast sales, analyze quality, and so on.
Enterprise Service Buses
Middleware tools or platforms that facilitate communication, integration, and interaction between different enterprise applications and systems.
Entity
"Any singular, identifiable and separate object. The term is used in a number of programming languages/concepts, database management and systems design. In relation to a database, an entity is a single person, place, or thing about which data can be stored. In data modeling (a first step in the creation of a database), an entity is some unit of data that can be classified and have stated relationships to other entities."
