Glossary
Clear terms for global technology lifecycle decisions.
Use this glossary to understand the language behind technology deployment, lifecycle management, ITAD, sustainability reporting, supplier consolidation and governance.
Built to support clearer buyer conversations across procurement, IT operations, ESG, finance, security and compliance.
Shared language helps buying committees move faster.
Global technology lifecycle decisions involve many stakeholders. Procurement, IT operations, ESG, finance and security often use different words for connected problems.
The glossary makes key terms easy to understand, cite and reuse in internal planning, RFPs and supplier evaluation.
Core terms to define.
B
- Blue Stripe Guarantee
- Egiss' contractual assurance that price, quality and delivery time are as expected across every service and solution within agreed scope.
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C
- Chain of custody
- Documentation showing asset handoff, transport, receipt and disposition so stakeholders can understand what happened to an asset after return.
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- Circularity
- Extending the useful life and value of technology through reuse, refurbishment, remarketing and responsible recycling instead of treating retirement as disposal.
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- CO2e reporting for IT assets
- Reporting that estimates or documents carbon dioxide equivalent impact connected to technology lifecycle activity using a defined methodology, data sources and reporting scope.
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D
- Data sanitisation
- The process of removing data from technology assets according to agreed methods and evidence requirements before reuse, resale, recycling or disposal.
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- Deploy, Manage, Retire
- Egiss' lifecycle model for explaining how technology is sourced and delivered, kept visible and governed, then securely recovered, sanitised, refurbished, recycled and reported.
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G
- Global lifecycle services
- The operational, commercial, logistical, technical and governance services that help enterprises deploy, manage and retire technology consistently across countries.
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- Global technology lifecycle management
- The structured sourcing, deployment, management, retirement and reporting of enterprise technology across countries. It connects hardware access, provisioning, logistics, governance, ITAD, sustainability reporting and commercial accountability into one operating model.
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I
- Infrastructure technology
- Servers, storage, networking and related infrastructure technology sourced and delivered through a governed global model.
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- IT asset disposition
- The secure recovery, data sanitisation, refurbishment, remarketing, recycling and reporting of used IT assets.
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L
- Lifecycle visibility
- The ability to see technology status across ordering, deployment, stock, asset data, refresh planning, recovery, retirement and reporting.
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O
- One global standard with local execution
- An operating model where standards, contracts, governance and reporting are managed globally while country-level delivery realities are handled locally.
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- Operational technology
- Technology used in frontline, logistics, production, industrial and business-critical operating environments. Category scope depends on the agreed service and customer requirement.
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R
- Residual value recovery
- The process of recovering remaining commercial value from used technology through refurbishment, remarketing or other approved recovery routes.
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S
- Supplier consolidation
- Reducing supplier fragmentation by moving from many local or disconnected vendors toward a more governed global operating model.
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W
- Workplace technology
- End-user technology such as laptops, desktops, accessories, peripherals, mobility devices and related services used by employees and teams.
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