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.
Interesting question. I think that, in a sense, what we generally think of as parallel processing is simply gestalt/holistic serial processing. In parallel processing it's not that data streams are processed separately, but that disparate data streams are unified into a single stream where elements of each are integrated and affect each other.