Glossary

• Administrative rules
  Rules passed by state agencies that implement relevant sections of state law and are codified in the Texas Administrative Code.

• E-Discovery
  Electronic discovery, a phase in the litigation process through which a party to a lawsuit seeks to obtain information in electronic format that is relevant to its case.

• E-government 
  Electronic government, government services offered over the Internet.

• EIR
  Electronic and Information Resources

• E-learning 
  Instruction and training offered over the Internet.

• Encryption 
  A process applied to text messages or other data that alters the information to make it humanly unreadable except by a decryption device or someone who knows how to decrypt it.

• ERP 
  Enterprise Resource Planning

• GIS 
  Geographic Information Systems

• Green IT 
  Energy-conserving technologies or strategies.

• HB 
  House Bill

• IaaS
  Infrastructure as a Service

• ICT
  Information and Communications Technology

• Interoperability 
  The ability of two or more technologies to exchange information and use the information that has been exchanged.

• IP 
  Internet Protocol

• IR 
  Information Resources

• IR Deployment Review 
  Information Resources Deployment Review

• IRM 
  Information Resources Manager

• ISO 
  Information Security Officer

• IT 
  Information Technology

• IVR 
  Interactive Voice Response

• NASCIO 
  National Association of State Chief Information Officers

• NIEM 
  National Information Exchange Model

• PaaS 
  Platform as a Service

• RMICC 
  Records Management Interagency Coordinating Council

• RSS 
  “Really simple syndication” or “rich site summary,” a type of web feed

• SaaS 
  Software as a Service

• SB 
  Senate Bill

• Social media 
  Media formed mainly by the public, in a social way, rather than media produced by journalists or media organizations

• TAC 
  Texas Administrative Code

• Tex-AN 
  Texas Agency Network

• Thin client 
  A computer or software that depends upon the central server for processing activities and primarily focuses on transporting input and output between the user and the server

• Virtualization 
  Creation of a virtual, rather than physical version, of an operating system, server, storage device, or network resource.

• Web 2.0 
  Term that describes changes in the use of the World Wide Web that enhance communication, collaboration, creativity, and functionality, e.g., blogs and wikis.