Trends in IT

created or done for a particular purpose as necessary

• Ad hoc 
• Agile
• Asynchronous 
• appropriate

using biometric traits (fingerprints, eye retina, etc.) to verify users’ claimed identities when accessing devices, networks, networked or Web applications

• Cutting-edge 
• Biometric 
• bionic
• ad hoc

a group of loosely coupled computers that work together closely

• Cloud 
• cobot
• Cluster 
• AI (abbr) Artificial Intelligence 

(of computing processes) that can start or stop independently of other processes, which maximizes computing resources by utilizing idle times 

• agile
• ad hoc
• best practices
• Asynchronous

the second (pre-release) phase of software testing in which a sampling of the intended audience tries the product out and reports bugs back to the developers

• Best practices 
• Beta test 
• Bricks and clicks 
• Channel integration 

business that existed pre-Internet which now also uses the e-commerce selling technology via the Internet 

• Bricks and clicks 
• Channel integration 
• beta  test
• Cluster

a robot that has been designed to work in collaboration with a human, as a co-worker would

• android
• human ressemble robot
• Cobot
• robot

related to technological devices, techniques or achievements that employ the most current and high-level IT developments

• breakthrough
• ad hoc
• asynchronous
• Cutting-edge 

make partial or minor changes to sth

•  Modify 
• change
• improve
• modifi

any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency,  solves an everyday problem in an inspired, ingenious manner

• problem decision
• solving problem
• Life hacker 
• amplify