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Business transaction management (BTM), also known as business transaction monitoring, application transaction profiling or user defined transaction profiling, is the practice of managing information technology (IT) from a business transaction perspective. It provides a tool for tracking the flow of transactions across IT infrastructure, in ...
Two-phase locking. In databases and transaction processing, two-phase locking ( 2PL) is a pessimistic concurrency control method that guarantees conflict-serializability. [ 1][ 2] It is also the name of the resulting set of database transaction schedules (histories). The protocol uses locks, applied by a transaction to data, which may block ...
Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations. [ 1][ 2] Accounting measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of stakeholders, including investors, creditors, management, and ...
PDCA. PDCA or plan–do–check–act (sometimes called plan–do–check–adjust) is an iterative design and management method used in business for the control and continual improvement of processes and products. [ 1] It is also known as the Shewhart cycle, or the control circle / cycle. Another version of this PDCA cycle is OPDCA. [ 2]
Record to report. Record to report or R2R is a Finance and Accounting (F&A) management process which involves collecting, processing and delivering relevant, timely and accurate information used for providing strategic, financial and operational feedback to understand how a business is performing. [ 1] It also covers the steps involved in ...
A Transaction Processing System (TPS) is an information system that collects, stores, modifies, and retrieves the data transactions of an enterprise. Transaction processing systems also attempt to provide predictable response times to requests, although this is not as critical as real-time systems.
A management process is a process of setting goals, planning and/or controlling the organising and leading the execution of any type of activity, [ 1] such as: An organization 's senior management is responsible for carrying out its management process. However, this is not always the case for all management processes, for example, sometimes it ...
Transaction processing is designed to maintain a system's Integrity (typically a database or some modern filesystems) in a known, consistent state, by ensuring that interdependent operations on the system are either all completed successfully or all canceled successfully. For example, consider a typical banking transaction that involves moving ...