- Industry: Consulting
- Number of terms: 1807
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A permanent code placed in a file on a computer’s hard disk by a website that the computer user has visited. The code uniquely identifies, or “registers,” that user and can be accessed for number of marketing and site-tracking purposes.
Industry:Technology
Makes it possible for social media participants to share information through Web-based applications designed to help them create, post and share text, pictures, audio and video. Examples are blogging software, software for sharing photos and presentations and audio/video sites.
Industry:Technology
Initially, convergent charging addressed the integration of mobile intelligent network (IN)-based and IT-based billing, rating and charging on a single platform to enable seamless movement between prepaid and postpaid. Recently, communications service providers (CSPs) have broadened this concept to address services outside their walled garden. This allows CSPs to combine Internet Protocol (IP)-based services from content providers with their own mobile and fixed-line postpaid services.
Industry:Technology
The delivery of voice, data, video and other forms of network services with the following characteristics:
1. Services are usually from a customer premises-based access concentrator, owned by a network service provider (NSP) that converts traffic to an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) or Internet Protocol (IP) stream
2. Service is delivered via one means of access, transmitted via one facility, with one switching infrastructure
Industry:Technology
An approved list of terms coded in a fashion that facilitates the use of the computer. Controlled vocabularies are essential if clinical applications are to function as intended. Widely used systems include the American College of Radiology (ACR) Code, Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) and the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9).
Industry:Technology
COBIT, which is owned by ISACA, originated as an IT control framework, and has evolved into a broader IT governance and management framework for the purpose of ensuring that the organization’s investment in IT will enable the achievement of its goals. COBIT 4.1 is used by many midsize to large organizations across a wide range of industries, but adoption in higher education is relatively low.
Industry:Technology
A control code is a multibit code reserved for controlling hardware, such as printers.
Industry:Technology
A time series chart showing performance against upper and lower control limits (also known as tramline charts) that is generally associated with the practice of statistical quality control (SQC) or statistical process control (SPC).
Industry:Technology
A character inserted into a data stream to signal the receiving station to perform a function or to identify the structure of the message. Newer protocols are moving away from character-oriented control procedures toward bit-oriented control procedures.
Industry:Technology
Contract life cycle management (CLM) is a solution and process for managing the life cycle of contracts created and/or administered by or impacting the company. These include third-party contracts, such as outsourcing, procurement, sales, nondisclosure, intellectual property, leasing, facilities management and other licensing, and agreements containing contractual obligations now and in the future.
Industry:Technology
