- Industry: Consulting
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Ambient and glanceable displays and devices are a distinct category of information appliances that are designed to be integrated into the home and work environments. They convey minimum and specific information in a way that is designed to exploit the “preattentive” processing ability of the human brain. This enables users to absorb the information without having their attention distracted from foreground tasks.
Industry:Technology
Alternative delivery models are approaches to acquire, package and deliver IT in nontraditional ways. Traditional methods of IT acquisition and delivery are wrapped in well-honed internal processes whereby the IT organization develops or acquires technology (hardware or software), deploys it, supports it and retires it. Alternative delivery and acquisition models include new channels for acquisition, use and payment. In some enterprises, alternative models involve only users and business units, bypassing the IT function.
Industry:Technology
An alternative card network carries payment messaging (or payment instructions) across a communications network (for example, an IP-based network) for authorization, clearing and settlement processes, and has its own scheme (arrangements among participating entities, such as issuers, acquirers, processors and operators of the payment system network).
Industry:Technology
Gartner defines all-in-one (AIO) PCs as desk-based PCs that have the monitor housed within the system casing. The monitor is a flat screen, which can be a touchscreen. Examples include Apple’s iMac, HP’s TouchSmart, Lenovo’s ThinkCentre Edge, Dell’s Inspiron One, Acer’s Z5801, Asus’ E-Top and Sony’s VAIO VPC.
Industry:Technology
Alliance and relationship management is the set of practices and tools required to reinforce alliances/relationships with partners, outsourced functions or activities, and to maintain visibility into a relationship with another business entity. Relationships include entities that are part of creating and delivering the value proposition of an organization.
Industry:Technology
This type of project approach applies agile methods, such as extreme programming. Models are sketches, rather than first-class development artifacts. There are few concerns about standardization in terms of reusing analysis and design patterns and frameworks. There is little model-based code generation.
Industry:Technology
Agile marketing project management is a method that applies tools, processes and organizational design concepts, inspired by software development methodology, to make marketing programs more relevant, more adaptive and efficient.
Industry:Technology
Agent portal solutions deliver agent portal capabilities, such as workflow and transaction capabilities including quote, binding and service. Solutions support upload and download capabilities as well, including advanced features such as collaboration and case management to support distributor needs in complex product lines, such as specialty and commercial property and casualty (P&C) insurance.
Industry:Technology
Agent collaboration tools provide an electronic virtual workspace where agents and consumers can collaborate using secure email, secure document sharing and communication tools, and secure instant messaging. These tools help agents interact with specialists in the home office, consumers or third parties (such as accountants and attorneys) on complex life insurance cases or planning scenarios. Agent collaboration tools include the ability to make customers’ financial plans and account data accessible via agent websites.
Industry:Technology
Affective computing technologies sense the emotional state of a user (via sensors, microphone, cameras and/or software logic) and respond by performing specific, predefined product/service features, such as changing a quiz or recommending a set of videos to fit the mood of the learner. Affective computing tries to address one of the major drawbacks of online learning versus in-classroom learning _ the teacher’s capability to immediately adapt the pedagogical situation to the emotional state of the student in the classroom.
Industry:Technology
