Capterra Glossary
Push Technology
Push technology is software that automates information delivery. A push environment sends information to a person proactively through email, web browser, app, pager, or voicemail. In other words, the person receives information without requesting it. An example of this is a news app that sends notifications to users on their smartphones after a breaking news story.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Push Technology
SMBs can use push technology to communicate exeternally with clients or internally to deliver time-sensitive information to employees.
Related Terms
- Synchronous
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Intranet
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Scalability
- Data Center
- Authorization
- Multitenancy