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Aerial and digital imagery is the use of digital images, including those in 3D, by home/property insurers to view properties, as well as the software that analyzes the images to estimate size, proximity to risks, and location for physical locations or properties. It is usually offered via an Internet service of data as a service (DaaS) in which users, such as homeowners or commercial property insurers, pay monthly subscription fees or pay by use to get information on the risks they are underwriting or claims they are investigating.
Industry:Technology
Advocacy marketing is a discipline for activating a brand’s advocates with unprecedented scale over the social Web. When advocacy marketing is enabled with digital techniques and advocate stories, then endorsements and recommendations are amplified to potentially millions of people, given the exponential nature of social networks. Advocacy marketing has been used effectively to acquire new customers but is now actively being used in loyalty and retention initiatives.
Industry:Technology
Advertisement action is any activity associated with an advertisement that enables interaction and communication between the advertiser and the audience, such as clicking on a phone number to call the advertiser or using a hyperlink that takes the customer to an advertiser’s website.
Industry:Technology
Advanced Web services use Web services standard capabilities that go beyond those that have become commonplace. The original definition referred to any Web-services-related standards beyond the basic SOAP, WSDL and UDDI capabilities. However, the advent of the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization profiles and the common acceptance of standards, such as WS-Security, BPEL and related components, mean that those capabilities, once considered advanced, are now part of the basic Web services bundle.Basic Web services have reached the Plateau of Productivity, and are in widespread and common use in a variety of situations. The truly advanced Web services capabilities deal with complex security interactions, such as WS-Trust and WS-Federation, as well as asynchronous behavior, such as WS-ReliableMessaging. Web services using these types of advanced standards have been adopted more slowly, in part due to the slow pace of the ratification of the standards and rollout of their behavior (see “‘That’s All’ for Web Services” G00209765), and in part because many of the interactions using Web services don’t require these capabilities or use other methods to achieve them.This definition of advanced Web services is a change from the definition used in earlier Hype Cycles, and more accurately represents the current state of these capabilities. Because of this change, the position and speed of adoption have also shifted.
Industry:Technology
Advanced threat detection (ATD) appliances are used as an extra security approach to examine all communications that standard layers of security controls have allowed to pass. These appliances look at combinations of source reputation, executable analysis and threat-level protocols to detect advanced targeted threats that existing controls cannot detect.
Industry:Technology
Advanced Technology Group is a Management and Technology Consultancy focused on optimizing the entire business lifecycle from strategy to implementation. The role of the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) is to provide a continuing stream of technology opportunities to the enterprise. It typically takes the lead in prototype and pilot projects.
Industry:Technology
A technology that is still immature but promises to deliver significant value, or that has some technical maturity but still has relatively few users. Among current examples: artificial intelligence, agents, speech and handwriting recognition, virtual reality and 3D visualization, smart cards, real-time collaboration, enhanced user authentication, data mining, and knowledge management.
Industry:Technology
An advanced shipment notice (ASN) is an electronic data interchange (EDI) message sent from the shipper to the receiver prior to the departure of the shipment from the shipper’s facility. The message includes complete information about the shipment and its contents. In today’s environment, this message is more often an “as shipped notice” sent after the departure of the shipment.
Industry:Technology
Energy consumption in individual data centers is increasing rapidly, by 8% to 12% per year. The energy is used for powering IT systems (for example, servers, storage and networking equipment) and the facility’s components (for example, air-conditioning systems, power distribution units and uninterruptible power supply systems). The increase in energy consumption is driven by users installing more equipment, and by the increasing power requirements of high-density server architectures. While data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools monitor and model energy use across the data center, server-based energy management software tools are specifically designed to measure the energy use within server units. They are normally an enhancement to existing server management tools, such as HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) or IBM Systems Director. These software tools are critical to gaining accurate and real-time measurements of the amount of energy a particular server is using. This information can then be fed into a reporting tool or into a broader DCIM toolset. The information will also be an important trigger for the real-time changes that will drive real-time infrastructure. Hence, for example, a change in energy consumption may drive a process to move an application from one server to another.
Industry:Technology
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the forerunner of the Internet, was a pioneering long-haul network funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). It served as the test bed for many areas of internetworking technology development and testing, and acted as the central backbone during the development of the Internet. The ARPANET was built using packet-switching computers interconnected by leased lines.
Industry:Technology
