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Encyclopedia > Buzzword compliant

In the technology industry, being buzzword compliant means that a particular product supports features that are currently in vogue. Examples would include: It has been suggested that Techie be merged into this article or section. ... In geographic information systems, a feature comprises an item of feature data. ... A buzzword (also known as a fashion word or vogue word) is an idiom, often a neologism, commonly used in managerial, technical, administrative, and sometimes political environments. ...

Buzzword compliance is a modern version of the old practice of being checkbox compliant: making sure that a product gets a check in all the common feature lists in reviews in computer magazines. Today most software is sold as custom development or to venture capitalists, so the marketing is aimed at other technical staff (typically middle management of the technical staff) as opposed to consumers reading reviews. For these reviewers, many of them only semi-literate in technical terms, the use of buzzwords makes a product sound more interesting. Among the technically literate, the phrase is sometimes used in a sardonic way, as in: "I have no idea what it does, but it sure is buzzword compliant", implying that perhaps the effort on the product has gone into marketing rather than the technology. Client/Server is a network application architecture which separates the client (usually the graphical user interface) from the server. ... See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the very late 1980s and from 2000 and beyond. ... In computing, Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard for software componentry, created and controlled by the Object Management Group (OMG). ... COM can refer to: .com, Internet top-level domain COM file (short for command), a simple MS-DOS executable format Hardware Communication Ports (COM:), prefix in Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS operating system Component Object Model, popularized by Microsoft COM (manga magazine), an alternative manga magazine founded by Osamu Tezuka... Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... This section does not cite its references or sources. ... Web 2. ... Look up Review in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A Lego RCX Computer is an example of an embedded computer used to control mechanical devices. ... A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising and/or purchase by readers. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Venture capital is a general term to describe financing for startup and early stage businesses as well as businesses in turn around situations. ... Marketing is a social and managerial function associated with the process of researching, developing, promoting, selling, and distributing a product or service. ... The word term refers to either a word unit or a time unit with specified boundaries or limits. ... A buzzword (also known as a fashion word) is an idiom, often a neologism, commonly used in technical, administrative and political environments, consisting of an over-used word or phrase. ...


Technical staff, and those involved in recruiting and hiring them, also speak of a résumé or CV being "buzzword compliant" when it contains a large number of such terms. This can be a matter of some practical importance to a job-seeker. In many organizations those who receive applications for employment will not be familiar with the domain of the job, and therefore can only assess buzzword compliance with the job description when deciding which applications the hiring manager will see. Look up Résumé in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


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Buzzword - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (318 words)
A buzzword (also known as a fashion word or vogue word) is an idiom, often a neologism, commonly used in managerial, technical, administrative, and sometimes political environments.
A buzzword may or may not appear in a dictionary, and if it does, its meaning as a buzzword may not match the conventional definition.
A generous view allows that buzzwords have the same function as jargon in scientific disciplines: newly-minted terms to describe new concepts, without the danger of over-simplification and confusion that can arise from using words and phrases with previously established, commonplace meanings.
Buzzword - SourceWatch (396 words)
Buzzword, as Merriam-Webster provides the definition, is "an important-sounding usually technical word or phrase often of little meaning used chiefly to impress laymen".
Buzzwords in this sense are a commercialized variant of Newspeak, used to reinforce a particular mindset, but one that is economic in nature, rather than political ("We'll cut 20% off our TCO by switching to UDDI and SOAP").
Very often the use of buzzwords extends far beyond any defensible use, such as an exhortation by a manager that a project be "37% Object-Oriented", or that a given project use Java and XML, whether or not these two technologies are the ideal solutions to the problem at hand.
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