Batch Up

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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
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Margaret Rouse
Technology Specialist

Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.