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- UPS Topologies and Standards
- With the vast increase in the number and types of sensitive loads, the term UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply is now used to identify devices with power ratings ranging from a few hundred VA, designed to protect desktop computer hardware, up to several million VA MVA, for large computer and telecommunication...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Standards, Telephony, Performance Management, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 1999-12-01
- Lessons From the Field: Developing Standards
- Developing UML standards is an important first step in achieving consistency and efficiency in an enterprise. Consistent modelling means consistent understanding between the modellers and their audience. Consistent modelling practices also make for easy movement of resources between teams without extended learning curves. Some of the lessons Xpdian has learned...
- Tags: Standards, Quality, UML, Business Operations, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Case studies
- MSDN Webcast: Web Service Standards Past, Present, and Future - Level 200
- XML, SOAP, and WSDL are the minimum standards needed to connect two components running on disparate platforms. While these standards make possible what could never be done before they do not provide the protocols needed to allow web services to integrate enterprise systems in an infrastructure neutral fashion. This webcast...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Web, Webcast, Web Service, Standards, Quality, Business Operations
- Webcasts
- Standards Compliant Web Design
- There was a time not long ago when many drivers thought nothing of tossing empty bottles out the windows of their cars. Years later, these same citizens came to realise that littering was not an acceptable way to dispose of their trash. The web design community is now undergoing a...
- Tags: Web, Standards, Web Design, Web Design Community, Channel Management, Quality, Marketing, Business Operations
- White papers 2005-05-11
- Leading the Way on Standards-Based E-Learning
- As the next generation Course Management Systems CMS begins, Blackboard believes it is critical to have individual specification compliance and compatibility, but, more importantly, for any CMS architecture to support current as well as future standards. This paper explores the current standards landscape, Blackboard's strategy for successfully navigating the complicated...
- Tags: E-learning, Standards, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Why Standards Are Important
- A standard is a widely accepted and/or officially approved common language that allows devices or software to communicate. Using standards leads to reduced effort, cost, risk, and time requirements. Standards allow to be independent of particular vendors, ensuring price drops due to competition, everlasting access to data and high quality,...
- Tags: Standards, Quadrox, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-02-21
- IT Service Management Standards: A Reference Model for Open Standards-Based ITSM Solutions
- This paper describes the critical importance of open standards1 for IT Service Management ITSM. The paper presents an overview of ITSM, including underlying elements such as ITIL and autonomic computing; an architecture for the realization of ITSM; many of the key standards - existing, emerging and yet to be developed...
- Tags: Open Standard, Information Technology, Standards, Service Level Management, It Services, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Policy Support
- This paper provides an overview of standards and standard-setting processes. It describes the economic effect of technology standards - de facto as well as de jure - and differentiates between the impact on competition and welfare that various levels of standards have. It argues that most of what is claimed...
- Tags: Software, Open Standard, Open-source Software, Standards, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2005-10-12
- 1394 Standards and Specifications Summary
- With the quickening introduction of products based on IEEE 1394 Firewire or iLink depending on your religious preferences has come a proliferation of specifications, standards, architectures, and guidelines for these products. This article is intended to be a guidebook to those various documents, with an emphasis on how they...
- Tags: Standards, Quality, FireWire, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers
- Cabling Terminology and Standards
- This document puts into perspective the various terms and standards associated with structured cabling. It is not conclusive and will evolve as the standards gain additions and new terminologies emerge. As you will see, some of the terms have yet to be explained and are presently listed as a reminder...
- Tags: Terminology, Standards, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers
- The CDISC Business Case for Industry Data Standards
- This webcast presents a summary of the findings from early and ongoing implementations of the clinical data interchange standards. Based upon work in other industries, Gartner has reported that automating processes and using data interchange standards can produce significant benefits in process efficiencies. To help address the change management issues...
- Tags: Industry, SAS Institute, Standards, Change Management, Quality, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Business Operations
- Webcasts
- IT Security Management Standards for Today's Businesses
- The variety of standards presented during the event provides companies and organisations with several sets of guidelines for good IT security. Rather than a competitive field, these standards make up a full range of complementary references that companies can use to improve visibility, streamline IT security approaches and comply with...
- Tags: IT Security, Information Technology, IT Security Management, Standards, LSEC, Quality, Security, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-04-05
- SOA-Enabling Standards: An Overview
- The goal of this paper is to identify standards that help enable the creation of service-oriented architectures. Nowadays, the primary "Building materials" for SOA are known as Web services standards. This paper provides a brief overview of these standards, focusing specifically on how they enable and contribute to SOA principles....
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., SOA, Standards, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Quality, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-06-01
- CONVERT FROM TEXT TO DOUBLE IN VB.NET
- I'm working on a class project (VB.Net 2003). I'm trying to program my Calculate button, and in so doing I have to convert a field value from text to number double. Here's what I have so far:Private Sub btnCalculate_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnCalculate.Click ...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, .NET, ByVal
- Q&A 2005-09-13
- Use Rational Data Architect to Define and Enforce Data Object Naming Standards
- Data object naming standards promote a common understanding of data, sharing of data across organizational boundaries, and reduction of data redundancy through the consolidation of synonymous and overlapping data elements. As organizations search for ever greater efficiency these days, they are embracing naming standards in data management and have started...
- Tags: Standards, IBM Corp., Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-01-11
- Labor Standards, Human Capital, and Economic Development
- This paper will discuss the nature and importance of human capital, present an overview of human capital-labor standards linkages, and the rationale for making core international labor standards a part of the rules governing the global economy, and evaluate some of the criticisms of those rationales; the paper concludes with...
- Tags: Labor Standards, Labor Relations, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Standards for Success: IBM Commitment to SOA and Standards for the Insurance Industry
- Standards-based collaboration is helping insurance companies achieve their business goals by making it easier for people, systems, and processes to work together and for businesses to communicate and interoperate within an ecosystem. The insurance industry is evolving away from monolithic, silo-based organizations towards networked models where enterprises combine to deliver...
- Tags: SOA, Standards, IBM Corp., Insurance Industry, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Insurance, Quality, Financial Planning, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Comparing Oracle and SAP Support of Standards
- This paper compares and contrasts open standards and standards specifications support in Oracle Fusion Middleware and SAP NetWeaver, as well as the standards initiatives that Oracle supports, documenting the significant difference in approach between the architectures of these two product families. For example, because of Oracle's open standards approach, enterprises...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Standards, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management
- White papers 2006-12-01
- Demystifying Web Services and Other Standards and the Role They Play in an SOA
- While Service Oriented Architectures SOA and Web services have moved into the mainstream, relevant SOA standards are still evolving. This creates confusion regarding the functional role Web services and other standards play in an SOA. This webcast discusses the value each standard brings to SOA; benefits and shortcomings of each...
- Tags: Web, Web Service, SOA, Standards, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Quality, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
- Webcasts
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