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- Functionalism: A New Approach to Web Analytics
- Despite dramatic improvements in the reporting and measurement capabilities of common web analytic tools, the actual practice of web measurement has not shown similar advances. The results of many analytic efforts are disappointing, and the usefulness of web measurement to an organization is still very dependent on having an outstanding...
- Tags: Web, Analytics, Web Analytics, Tool, Web Measurement, Channel Management, Productivity, Marketing
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Web site success is no accident with these measurement hacks
- Success is not an accident. To truly be successful with your online business, you need to treat Web measurement as a business practice and be willing to invest time, effort, and money as necessary.This sample chapter from the Web Site Measurement Hacks discusses best practices that will help you identify...
- Tags: accident, Web, Web Measurement, Web site, Web Site Measurement Hacks, Web site success
- Download resources 2005-11-02
- Web Site Measurement Hacks: Best Practices for Web Measurement
- Web measurement is not a silver bullet; in fact, outside the realm of law enforcement and werewolf hunting, there are no silver bullets. In order to be successful with the web measurement program, the user has to treat it like any other business process through such things as Customer Relationship...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Best Practice, Web Measurement, Channel Management, Marketing
- Book chapters 2005-09-02
Additional Resources
- Negotiate for Successful Web Measurement
- Web measurement solutions are complex products with almost everything individually priced. To get a contract that will enable an organization to effectively use a web measurement solution requires an integrated, team effort of Purchasing and Technology advised by a web measurement expert. The team needs to maps costs to functionality...
- Tags: Web, Team, Channel Management, Team Management, Marketing, Management
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Web site success is no accident with these measurement hacks
- This sample chapter, taken from Web Site Measurement Hacks, discusses how to integrateWeb measurement into your overall business via the continuous improvement process. Success is not an accident. To truly be successful with your online business, you need to treat Web measurement as a business practice and...
- Tags: Web, Success, Accident, Web Site, Web Site Success, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing
- Book chapters 2005-11-02
- IT Service Management and Measurement Best Practices
- IT has never lacked for measurement. In fact, measurement is a key part of any IT Service Management initiative. However, most IT measures focus on technical metrics that remain a mystery to business users. This webinar describes the best practices that IT executives need to deliver a more business-oriented approach...
- Tags: Measurement, Information Technology, Best Practice, Service Level Management, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Webcasts
- Measurement for Maturity and Process Improvement Using DataDrill EXPRESS
- This white paper presents an overview of an effective measurement process, including guidance for implementing measurement within the CMMI, a popular process improvement framework. To help put the information here into action, the use of automated measurement tools is described using Distributive's DataDrill Express product as an example.
- Tags: Measurement, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-11-15
- How to Evaluate SLA Compliance
- Compliance measurement is essential for any reseller who has purchased Web hosting services under the rubric of a service level agreement. Measurement ensures that higher-level service providers are offering the quality of service agreed upon under the SLA arrangement. While many hosts will provide their own online mechanisms to assist...
- Tags: Measurement, SLA, Reseller, Compliance Measurement, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers
- Improve Service Levels With Meaningful Measurement
- Measuring service levels is one of the most important aspects of Service-Level Management SLM. If one cannot accurately measure service levels, one will never be able to improve them. Managing something that is not being measured is not only difficult, it is impossible to quantify success without proof points verifying...
- Tags: Service Level, Service Management, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers
- Towards a Service-Oriented Measurement Infrastructure
- The importance of software measurement during the software development process is generally accepted, nowadays. Unfortunately, in practice common software measurement tools find small acceptance due to their high costs, inflexible structures, and therewith-unclear cost/benefit ratio. On this account this paper introduces a framework creating a measurement infrastructure by means of...
- Tags: Ontology, Object-oriented, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- White papers 2006-05-24
- On Accurate Measurement of Link Quality in Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks
- This paper presents a highly efficient and accurate link-quality measurement framework, called EAR (Efficient and Accurate link-quality monitoR), for multi-hop wireless mesh networks, that has several salient features. It exploits three complementary measurement schemes: passive, cooperative, and active monitoring. EAR maximizes the measurement accuracy by dynamically and adaptively adopting one...
- Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, EAR, Mesh Networking, Linux, Networking, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-09-26
- Measurement Data Logging Via Bluetooth
- The implementation of measurement data logging with data communication based on Bluetooth technology is described. The design, implementation and testing of two applications are presented. The first application is an alarm system to monitor alarm sensors and warning systems on a mobile device. The second application is a temperature and...
- Tags: Application, Measurement Data, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2005-04-16
- Inline Bandwidth Measurements: Implementation Difficulties and Their Solutions
- This paper has proposed the concept of inline network measurement, which involves the concept of "Plugging" an active bandwidth measurement into an active TCP connection. Mechanisms using this method have the advantage of requiring no extra traffic for measuring available bandwidth, whereas other active measurement tools cannot fundamentally avoid adding...
- Tags: Network, TCP, IEEE, Tcp/Ip, Networking
- White papers 2007-04-12
- Skills Measurement for IT Talent - How Government Agencies Are Putting Commercial Best Practices to Work
- From April 22 - 29, 2002, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management OPM held its first IT Virtual Job Fair. The online skills measurement approach used in the IT job fair achieved some important goals. First, the measurement system supported a new competency-based approach to defining job qualifications. Traditionally, government...
- Tags: Job, Agency, Information Technology, Government, Best Practice, Brainbench, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- Case studies
- KMB Conversion Utility (zip)
- KMB Conversion Utility converts a unit of measurement into another unit of measurement. KMB Conversion Utility will convert 14 different categories of measurements, and 152 different units of measurement. This is a handy little tool to have around. The last conversion is always saved. Now with definitions of all units....
- Tags: Measurement, Unit, Conversion, KMB Conversion Utility, Productivity
- Software downloads 2007-11-28
- Sarbanes-Oxley Closing the Gaps: Expert Panel on Implementing COBIT
- COBIT provides a framework of IT control objectives that can be implemented and monitored within an enterprise to ensure the delivery of reliable information. This webcast explains how implementation of COBIT can improve collaboration between IS/IT auditors and IT management on security, audit and control issues, define performance measurement requirements,...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Performance, Performance Measurement, COBIT, Performance Measurement Requirement, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts
- Opportunistic Measurement: Extracting Insight From Spurious Traffic
- While network measurement techniques are continually improving, representative network measurements are increasingly scarce. The issue is fundamentally one of access: either the points of interest are hidden, are unwilling, or are sufficiently much that representative analysis is daunting if not unattainable. In particular, much of the Internet's modern growth, in...
- Tags: Measurement, Network, Stanford University, Internet, Firewalls, Productivity, Networking
- White papers
- Seeking Traffic Generation & Measurement
- I am seeking software to measure the traffic carried by a local areanetwork. Can you direct me to an artificial network traffic generator? The features that I need are: The ability to provide a uniform packet stream at up to a 54 Mb/s ...
- Tags: NETWORKING
- Q&A 2005-03-30
- Inline Network Measurement: TCP Built-In Techniques for Inferring End-to-End Bandwidth
- This paper introduces a method for measuring the available bandwidth in a network path between two end hosts using an active TCP connection. First it constructs a new measurement algorithm that uses a relatively small number of probe packets yet provides periodic measurement results quickly. Then it applies the proposed...
- Tags: Technique, Bandwidth, Network, TCP, ImTCP, Tcp/Ip, Networking
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Graphical Representation of Mean Measurement Over Time
- A graph of mean measurement over time is one of the most commonly used statistical graphs for data exploration and presentation. It can be as simple as a line plot, or can be a complex graph involving lots of annotation. This paper illustrates some useful techniques provided by SAS/GRAPH and...
- Tags: Measurement, SAS Institute, Plot, Productivity
- White papers 2007-05-14
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