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Gartner, Inc.
Industry: Consulting
Number of terms: 1807
Number of blossaries: 2
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Gartner delivers technology research to global technology business leaders to make informed decisions on key initiatives.
HTTP 2.0 is the next-generation successor to HTTP 1.1, the protocol that governs the transfer of documents between servers and clients on the World Wide Web. HTTP 2.0 stems from an initiative of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to address perceived problems in performance and efficiency, and possibly provide enhanced security as well.
Industry:Technology
HTML5 is a collection of proposed specifications for the next generation of HTML. Beyond this, HTML5 is used as a short-hand label for all that’s new with the Web, including CSS3 and changes to HTTP.
Industry:Technology
HR shared-service tools enable organizations to manage HR shared-service operations more effectively. This includes ticketing, policy and knowledge management, incident routing, SLA monitoring, and elements of manager and employee self-service portals. HR shared-service tools often manage sensitive employee data, such as disciplinary data or medical information. Typically, the solutions integrate with core HR management system (HRMS) solutions.The larger HRMS providers typically offer some HR shared-service tools. In the case of ERP vendors, these solutions are modifications of their CRM call center capabilities—for example, with the SAP Employee Interaction Center and new Shared Services Framework, as well as Oracle’s PeopleSoft HR HelpDesk. A small number of specialist vendors, such as Enwisen (now Lawson) and Neocase Software, focus on HR shared services, and successfully compete with the ERP-based offerings.
Industry:Technology
The practice of bypassing the HR department to define and implement technology practices to support human capital management (HCM) issues. When no clear HCM strategy is in place, business leaders formulate departmental plans and adopt the technologies they feel they need to support individual and group responsibilities for enterprise performance.
Industry:Technology
Area, often public, such as an airport, coffee shop or convention center, that is covered with a WLAN service. This service is available for the public to use for a nominal charge, for free or as a premium service.
Industry:Technology
A hosted virtual desktop (HVD) is a full, thick-client user environment, which is run as a virtual machine (VM) on a server and accessed remotely. HVD implementations comprise server virtualization software to host desktop software (as a server workload), brokering/session management software to connect users to their desktop environment, and tools for managing the provisioning and maintenance (e.g., updates and patches) of the virtual desktop software stack.
Industry:Technology
Hosted PC virtualization software enables a user to run multiple OSs simultaneously on top of a single, host PC OS.
Industry:Technology
The IT applications used to manage hospital operations (e.g., patient financials, registration, scheduling, general financials, back-office systems and order communications).
Industry:Technology
A system of planning that focuses resources on attainment of both strategic and tactical objectives. Also known as “policy development” or hoshin kanri.
Industry:Technology
A home-area network (HAN) connects in-home digital devices, such as PCs, mobile phones, entertainment technology, thermostats, home security systems and smart appliances, into a common network. In the context of energy utilities, HAN is a means for utility companies to extend their reach beyond the meter, and to incorporate the “smart thermostat,” direct load control appliances, smart appliances and in-home energy display into utility systems, as well as to enable demand response (DR) and energy efficiency programs.
Industry:Technology
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