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Branded, finished, new products sold directly to end users or leased for the first time during the year in question. Products distributed by manufacturers into a country or region (“sell in”) — but not connected to networks in that region — are excluded. Conversely, products sold by a manufacturer to a distributor in one region but sold by that distributor in another region are counted as sales (“sell through”) to end users in the latter region.
Industry:Technology
Direct sales software builds on the attributes of technology, functionality and value of order management systems and also includes the functionality for sales execution and sales operations. The direct B2B sales organization is the traditional sales channel, composed of internal sales resources focused on the selling of products or services directly into the client, customer and prospect base as employees of the provider company. Direct sales resources may be field-based, calling on customers face to face at their locations, or inside sales, selling from a desk environment over the phone.
Industry:Technology
The activities, systems, processes and information that support and promote knowledge-based sales interactions with client and prospects.
Industry:Technology
These systems are used to configure ship-to-order, assemble-to-order and engineer-to-order products and to configure nonproduct information and customized financing plans.
Industry:Technology
Sales analytics is used in identifying, modeling, understanding and predicting sales trends and outcomes while aiding sales management in understanding where salespeople can improve. Specifically, sales analytic systems provide functionality that supports discovery, diagnostic and predictive exercises that enable the manipulation of parameters, measures, dimensions or figures as part of an analytic or planning exercise.
Industry:Technology
Geographic area designation used for the allocation of 1,900MHz cellular licenses to mobile service providers in the U.S. that determines where they can operate. An RSA is a non-urban area. There are 306 MSAs and 428 RSAs in the U.S. There is considerable overlap with the older BTA and MTA designations. See also BTA, MSA and MTA.
Industry:Technology
Runtime application self-protection (RASP) is a security technology that is built or linked into an application or application runtime environment, and is capable of controlling application execution and detecting and preventing real-time attacks.
Industry:Technology
Measure (in milliseconds) of the latency of a network — that is, the time between initiating a network request and receiving a response. High latency tends to have a greater impact than bandwidth on the end-user experience in interactive applications, such as Web browsing. See also latency.
Industry:Technology
The rotary heat exchanger (also known as a Kyoto Wheel) is a form of air-side economizer that solves some of the problems associated with air-side economizers. Instead of introducing exterior air directly into the server room, the heat wheel transfers heat between separated data center ducts and outside air ducts. The heat wheel is bisected by two parallel ducts. Outside air flows across the top half of the wheel, while inside air flows across the bottom half. The wheel itself is a big honeycomb. A cold honeycomb cell enters the hot duct at 0 degrees of angle. The inside air warms the cell (and the wheel) as it rotates through the duct, until, at the 180-degree mark, the cell is hot at the front and cool at the back, effectively cooling the air passing over it. The now-warm cell rotates into the outside air duct, where it is cooled through a half-rotation. Then, the cool cell enters the warm side, and the cycle begins again.The Kyoto Wheel ranges between 12 and 20 feet in diameter. Rotation is slow—just a few revolutions per minute (rpm)—to optimize the heat transfer. In this design, there is minimal air transfer between the outside air and the computer room air (new designs reduce air transfer to 1% or less), eliminating the humidity and particulate contamination problems associated with direct-transfer, air-side economizers.
Industry:Technology
The rotary heat exchanger (also known as a Kyoto Wheel) is a form of air-side economizer that solves some of the problems associated with air-side economizers. Instead of introducing exterior air directly into the server room, the heat wheel transfers heat between separated data center ducts and outside air ducts. The heat wheel is bisected by two parallel ducts. Outside air flows across the top half of the wheel, while inside air flows across the bottom half. The wheel itself is a big honeycomb. A cold honeycomb cell enters the hot duct at 0 degrees of angle. The inside air warms the cell (and the wheel) as it rotates through the duct, until, at the 180-degree mark, the cell is hot at the front and cool at the back, effectively cooling the air passing over it. The now-warm cell rotates into the outside air duct, where it is cooled through a half-rotation. Then, the cool cell enters the warm side, and the cycle begins again.The Kyoto Wheel ranges between 12 and 20 feet in diameter. Rotation is slow—just a few revolutions per minute (rpm)—to optimize the heat transfer. In this design, there is minimal air transfer between the outside air and the computer room air (new designs reduce air transfer to 1% or less), eliminating the humidity and particulate contamination problems associated with direct-transfer, air-side economizers.
Industry:Technology
