- Industry: Consulting
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A Gartner framework that classifies enterprises or their subdivisions according to a technology adoption profile. Classification is based not only on an enterprise’s current technology adoption strategy, but also on whether the strategy is supported by senior management and is adequately funded.
Type A enterprises are typically technically aggressive and well-funded, and use IT to gain a competitive advantage.
Type B enterprises, which are in the majority, are mainstream IT users with adequate funding that use IT for productivity.
Type C enterprises are technologically conservative and risk-averse, and seek to control IT costs.
Recognizing an enterprise’s type offers company strategists a meaningful way to compare an enterprise’s use of technology against that of competitors, and to make decisions about when, how and where to adopt new technologies.
Industry:Technology
Provides services on a point-to-point basis without the necessity to change the data to accommodate differing network types or protocols.
Industry:Technology
The process of adjusting computer system control variables to make a system divide its resources most efficiently for a workload.
Industry:Technology
A trunk media gateway (TMG) serves as the bridge between a circuit-based trunk switch and a packet-based IP or ATM backbone network. In certain implementations, it completely bypasses the tandem switch (Class 4). It takes care of the PSTN-to-packet-network transition at the trunk level and is connected to the local or trunk exchange. A TMG has a Class 4 interface and supports VoIP and/or VoATM.
Industry:Technology
A record of a customer complaint or problem, usually created in a call or contact center. The ticket remains active until the issue has been resolved.
Industry:Technology
A TMS (transportation management system) is used to plan freight movements, do freight rating and shopping across all modes, select the appropriate route and carrier, and manage freight bills and payments.
Industry:Technology
Internet-based transaction security provided by the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
Industry:Technology
Transmitter-receiver device on a satellite that transmits signals automatically when it receives predetermined signals. The term “satellite transponder” refers collectively to a transmitter-receiver subsystem on board the satellite that processes, amplifies and retransmits a range of frequencies (the transponder bandwidth) to another location/terminal/antenna on the earth. There are many transponders on a typical satellite, each capable of supporting one or more communication channels. In a few limited instances, satellite transponders can transmit directly to other satellites; this is known as satellite mesh topologies. These systems tend to be more expensive to build, and services are more expensive for end users.
Industry:Technology
If a signal passes through a network or facility unchanged, that network or facility is said to be transparent to it.
Industry:Technology
Any point in a transmission system at which the power level of the signal is measured.
Industry:Technology
