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Gartner, Inc.
Industry: Consulting
Number of terms: 1807
Number of blossaries: 2
Company Profile:
Gartner delivers technology research to global technology business leaders to make informed decisions on key initiatives.
Gartner’s CORE risk assessment and reporting steps are used to define business operational risks, to report risks to management, investors, regulators and customers in a consistent form, and to determine when contingency and recovery strategies are required.
Industry:Technology
The combination of a compressor at one point in a communications path, for reducing the volume range of signals, followed by an expandor at another point, for restoring the original volume range. It is designed to improve the ratio of the signal to the interference entering the path between the compressor and expandor.
Industry:Technology
A compact disc-rewritable (CD-RW) drive permits the user to back up data to compact discs (CDs).
Industry:Technology
People associated and interlinked in a communication or knowledge network because of their shared interest or shared responsibility for a subject area. Examples are people who hold similar job functions (project managers, department managers, team leaders or customer service agents); all the people on a project team; and people interested in specific technologies (e-commerce or network management). Communities continually emerge and dissolve, and their membership, processes and knowledge continually change and evolve.
Industry:Technology
A constantly changing group of people collaborating and sharing their ideas over an electronic network (e.g., the Internet). Communities optimize their collective power by affiliation around a common interest, by the compression of the time between member interactions (i.e., communicating in real time), and by asynchronous “postings” that potentially reach more participants and permit more reflection time than real-time interactions.
Industry:Technology
Communities of interest and communities of practice (CoP) exhibit more structure and more purpose than open social-networking sites. As with their precedents (bulletin boards or list servers), the people who participate in communities are linked by their interest in a topic. When CoP form within a company, it has identified members and expects to produce a result.
Industry:Technology
Includes all service providers offering telecommunication services or some combination of information and media services, content, entertainment and applications services over networks, leveraging the network infrastructure as a rich, functional platform. CSPs include the following categories: Telecommunications carrier, content and applications service provider (CASP), cable service provider, satellite broadcasting operator, and cloud communications service provider.
Industry:Technology
A port that allows an application to access a modem.
Industry:Technology
A mainframe material requirements planning product from IBM.
Industry:Technology
This is communications functionality that may include telephony, messaging, conferencing, presence and notification, based on assets owned, managed and colocated by third parties.
Industry:Technology