B2B –Business to Business
On the Internet, B2B (business-to-business), also known as e-biz, is the exchange of products, services, or information between businesses rather than between businesses and consumers. Although early interest centered on the growth of retailing on the Internet (sometimes called e-tailing), forecasts are that B2B revenue will far exceed business-to-consumers (B2C) revenue in the near future. According to studies published in early 2000, the money volume of B2B exceeds that of e-tailing by 10 to 1.
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A backbone is a larger transmission line that carries data gathered from smaller lines that interconnect with it. At the local level, a backbone is a line or set of lines that local area networks (LAN) connect to for a wide area network (WAN) connection or within a local area network to span distances efficiently (for example, between buildings).
Bandwidth has a general meaning of how much information can be carried in a given time period (usually a second) over a wired or
Wireless communications link. For example, a link with a broad bandwidth - that is, a broadbandlink - is one that may be able to carry enough information to sustain the succession of images in a video presentation. More technically, bandwidth is the width of the range of frequencies that an electronic signal occupies on a given transmission medium. Any digital or analog signal has a bandwidth.
In digital systems, bandwidth is expressed as
Bits (of data) persecond (bps) or Kbpsor Mbps.
BAPI –Business Application Program Interface
Interface BAPI is a set of interfaces to object-oriented programming methods that enable a programmer to integrate third-party software into the proprietary R/3 product from
SAP. For specific business tasks such as uploading transactional data, BAPI's are implemented and stored in the R/3 system as remote function call (
RFC)
A barcode is the image of lines (bars) and spaces that is affixed to retail store items, identification cards, products, documents, postal mail, etc. to identify a particular product number, person, or location. The code uses a sequence of bars and spaces to represent numbers and other symbols, known as a
Symbology.
See
Symbologies (List) for a list of common symbologies.
A barcodel abeling software package from Seagull Scientific.
Baseband is a network or other telecommunication system in which information is carried in digital form on a single un-multiplexed signal channel on the transmission medium.
This usage pertains to a baseband network such as
Ethernet and
Token Ring local area networks (
LAN).
See also
Broadband.
BASIC –Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BASIC was an early programming language that is still among the simplest and most popular of programming languages. Variations of this language include QBASIC, QuickBASIC,
Visual Basic, and Visual Basic for Appliations (VBA).
1) In automatic data collection, batch refers to a way that data is collected. Batch devices do not have a wired or
Wireless Real-Time connection to a host machine or application. They run a software application that prompts the user for data. Data is collected and stored in memory or in a data file. At the end of the day or the user’s shift, the device is placed in a dock, cradle or otherwise connected to a PC or other host machine and the stored data is then downloaded to the host.
2) In production, a lot or given quantity processed at the same time with the same process parameters. A batch may consist of more than one item number but all items are considered to have the same characteristics for purposes of traceability.
Standard, published operating methods found to produce the best performance and results in a given industry or organization.
In computers, all data is represented at the lowest level with the binary number system which consists of 0s and 1s. A bit is a single 0 or 1. There are 8 bits in a Byte.
Bluetooth is the
IEEE 802.15a specification that describes how mobile phones, computers, personal digital assistants (
PDAs), and other devices can easily interconnect with each other and with home and business phones and computers using a short-range (usually 10 to 20 feet)
Wireless connection. Uses the 2.4GHz frequency band.
A structured list of the items used in making a parent assembly that reflects the actual production process in terms of timing and quantities consumed. It is constructed in conjunction with the routing, which describes the individual production steps and rates used.
BPCS –Business Planning and Control System.
BPCS is a popular system of application programs for manufacturing and other industries that is developed and sold by Systems Software Associates (SSA). SSA reports that BPCS is installed at over 8,000 business sites worldwide.
In networking, a bridge extends the maximum distance of your network by connecting network segments which can be of dissimilar types. For example,
RF to
Ethernet.
Access Points are bridges. Bridges determine the physical (
MAC) address of the destination of a packet and will then rebroadcast the signal only if it resides on the other segment, there by reducing overall network traffic.
In general, broadband refers to telecommunications in which a wide band of frequencies are available to transmit information. Because of this, information can be multiplexedand sent on many different frequencies or channels within the band concurrently, allowing more information to be transmitted in a given amount of time (much as more lanes on a highway allow more cars to travel on it at the same time).
See also
Baseband.
Bumpy Bar Code (BBC) is any linear Barcode Symbology that has been marked on material to be read without the use of contrast. Typically barcodes are read by readers that detect the difference between the bars and the background by the amount of visual contrast (or black and white difference) between them. Bumpy Bar Codes are those marks that are created to utilize their relief or "bumpy" aspect to determine where the bars and spaces reside within the code. This technology allows a mark with zero-contrast (white bars and white spaces or black bars and black spaces) to be read without paint, ink or special lighting.
Bumpy barcodes are created with a dot-peen marking system. Bumpy barcodes cannot be read with typical barcode reader, they must be read with bumpy barcode readers.
In computers, all data is represented at the lowest level with 0s and 1s. A single 0 or 1 is a
Bit. A byte consists of 8 bits. Each half (4 bits) of a byte is known as a nibble.
Each nibble can represent a hexadecimal number from 0 to F (15). A byte consists of two hexadecimal numbers.
An
ASCII character is represented by a byte.
For example:
The A character is represented in hexadecimal 41 which is 0100 0001 in binary.