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ALSO CALLED: Protocols, Specifications, Application Protocols, and Technical Standards
DEFINITION: In information technology, a protocol (from the Greek protocollon, which was a leaf of paper glued to a manuscript volume, describing its contents) is the special set of rules that end points in a telecommunication connection use when they communicate. Protocols exist at several levels in a telecommunication connection. For example, there are protocols for the data interchange at the hardware
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Optimizing Processes in Medicaid Communications Management
| sponsored by Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software
WHITE PAPER:
State Medicaid agencies are required to continually improve their services. A number of State and Federal initiatives have been launched to lower costs and improve services. Communications Management is an integral part of this important effort.
Posted: 01 Dec 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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eBook - Chapter 2: Planning Your Server Room
| sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
WHITE PAPER:
Chapter 2 of Windows Servers and Storage (Revised edition, November 2008) discusses the physical aspects of server installation and topics include what a server room should contain, installation efficiency, and environmental factors.
Posted: 12 Nov 2008 | Published: 12 Nov 2008
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Operational Performance Management 101: Everyone Measures KPIs
| sponsored by Actuate
WEBCAST:
View this webinar to learn how Operational Performance Management provides the framework necessary to align different parts of an organization using proven methodologies and techniques to ensure individual business units are performing.
Posted: 08 May 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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SOA Best Practices: The BPEL Cookbook
| sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Cookbook highlights SOA best practices and challenges, detailing the importance of BPEL and other standards-based technologies in accelerating the adoption of an SOA.
Posted: 02 Aug 2007 | Published: 02 Aug 2007
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ActionWorks® for Manufacturing: Standards Compliance-ActionWorks® Standards Coordinator
| sponsored by Action Technologies, Inc.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:Modern standards-and governance requirements-focus more and more on the processes behind achieving compliance. Posted: 18 Jul 2004 | Published: 01 Jul 2004
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STANDARDS DEFINITION (continued): … device level and protocols for data interchange at the application program level. In the standard model known as Open Systems Interconnection ( OSI), there are one or more protocols at each layer in the telecommunication exchange that both ends of the exchange must recognize and observe. Protocols are often described in an industry or international standard. On the Internet, there are the TCP/IP protocols, consisting of: |
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