Modern businesses increasingly depend on the free data flows between business units, customers and third parties. As new legislation and developments shake up the existing principles of cross- border data transfer, many internationally operating organisations turn to Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs).
1. data processing - (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information. computer science, computing-the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures.
Data are any facts, numbers, or text that can be processed by a computer. Today, organizations are accumulating vast and growing amounts of data in different formats and different databases. This includes: 1  operational or transactional data such as, sales, cost, inventory, payroll, and accounting.