Batch Up

What Does Batch Up Mean?

The term “batch up” is used to describe the process of managing a set of small tasks or procedures in batches. The idea is that this sort of batch processing promotes efficiency. “Batch up” is using IT in many different ways, to avoid iterative repetitions or to make processes more efficient.

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Techopedia Explains Batch Up

In a general sense, people using the term “batch up” in IT may talk about batching up all sorts of tasks such as data handling tasks or implementing code functions. They might talk about taking in batches of data points and working with them as a group. There is also the common use of the term batch file, where a series of commands are sent to a system. All of this embraces the idea of mass managing incremental work, or a kind of “mass manufacturing” for data processes.

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Margaret Rouse is an award-winning technical writer and teacher known for her ability to explain complex technical subjects to a non-technical, business audience. Over the past twenty years her explanations have appeared on TechTarget websites and she's been cited as an authority in articles by the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine and Discovery Magazine.Margaret's idea of a fun day is helping IT and business professionals learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages. If you have a suggestion for a new definition or how to improve a technical explanation, please email Margaret or contact her…