Definition of terms: Information Technology Environment and IT Audit

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) refers to a type of software that organizations use to manage day-to-
day business activities such as accounting, procurement, project management, risk management and
compliance, and supply chain operations.

What Is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is the delivery of different services through the Internet.
These resources include tools and applications like data storage, servers, databases, networking, and
software.

Mobile Device Management is any software that allows IT to automate, control, and secure
administrative policies on laptops, smartphones, tablets, or any other device connected to an
organization’s network. Employees have become increasingly accustomed to using the device, operating
system, and application of their choice. Because of the diversity of mobile devices, IT departments face a
unique set of challenges while deploying and connecting internal content and resources. Typically,
mobile device management deploys an aggregate of corporate guidelines and certificates, on-device
configurations, apps, backend software, and hardware to manage end-user devices. The goal of mobile
device management is to maximize device support, organizational functionality, and security while
allowing a degree of user flexibility, such as the use of BYOD.

Bring your own device (BYOD) refers to the trend of employees using personal devices to connect to
their organizational networks and access work-related systems and potentially sensitive or confidential
data. Personal devices could include smartphones, personal computers, tablets, or USB drives. As more
and more organizations support employees working from home, maintaining a flexible schedule, or
connecting on the go while on work travel or commutes, BYOD solutions have become more prevalent.
Some companies may sanction BYOD, while others may consider it part of “shadow IT,” which refers to
software or hardware not supported by IT.

The internet of things, or IoT, is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital
machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers (UIDs) and the ability to
transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.

The definition of big data is data that contains greater variety, arriving in increasing volumes and with
more velocity. This is also known as the three Vs. Put simply, big data is larger, more complex data sets,
especially from new data sources.