The key thing is that there will be increasing pressure for users to automate tasks. The long-term goal is to standardize business processes and it's not a one- or two-year journeyit's multiple years.
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We've made the argument before about hybrid vigor -- the more homogeneous the environment and the more you standardize on any single vendor's products, the higher the environment's susceptibility to threats. We're not trying to single out Microsoft here, but rather note that heterogeneity allows businesses to tolerate threats more effectively, just as biological diversity allows populations to better tolerate disease.
This industry is lagging behind others when it comes to technology, so it's taken a while for it to realize that there's not one integrated technology platform that will solve the problem. There are simply too many software providers out there to standardize the product, so we have to standardize the way they communicate with each other.
It is clear that the commingling of Internet Explorer and Windows provides few real-world benefits - and several significant real-world costs and risks - for corporate customers that do not standardize on Internet Explorer.
Unlimited Edition is a very important development. Companies have had a very fragmented view of business processes there hasn't been anything that allows them to get a 360 degree view of the customer. Now those using Unlimited Edition can standardize on the same kind of environment for all occasions. They can have integrated processes from one end of the enterprise to the other so that the problem of information silos can begin to abate.
The proposed OPES charter has since been modified to clarify that the parties that modify content do require explicit authorization. However, there are still indications that some OPES proponents are wanting to standardize an interface by which unauthorized modifications can be made.
If you now go off and develop new standards, and standardize certain processes, you don't have to worry about IBM coming in and asserting our patents. We are not going to be a roadblock. What we hope this encourages people to do is bring health care and educational standards up a notch.
Most software lets you set formatting so that it stays consistent, no matter how it's entered by the end user. The problem with Microsoft CRM was that there was no such formatting. If you made a mistake, if you put a dash in the wrong place or didn't put a bracket around the area code, you couldn't search for the phone number because it didn't recognize it. In version 3.0, they've fixed that so you can standardize formatting.
We are very concerned about homeowners who willingly violate the regional plan and environmental policies. We don't want to standardize a potential fine and have people include it into the cost of buying or building their home.
Who has the authority to do this Well, the people that make the maps ... you've got to standardize things at some point.
A number of factors have combined to make outsourcing one of the fastest growing federal market segments over the past few years. In a time of war, a deficit, and tightening federal budgets, Input expects the federal IT outsourcing to remain one of the healthiest federal markets. Generally speaking, the business challenges and market factors driving the decision to outsource are similar between the private and public sectors. Most often, outsourcing is prompted by the need to supplement internal technical resources, reduce cost, infuse new technology, or standardize and streamline operations.
We found no consensus among physicians about what is customary or appropriate. Despite efforts to standardize many aspects of the doctor-patient relationship, patients are likely to encounter very different approaches.
Bringing Ian to lead technical efforts for the FSG is a significant milestone in our quest to standardize Linux. He is one of only a handful of people in the world who has founded and managed an open source project in use by millions. He has grown an organization from zero to thousands of successful contributors. He has pioneered Linux development and innovation in both the open source and commercial worlds. These accomplishments make him supremely qualified to grow the open standards community that makes up the Free Standards Group and to provide crucial leadership as Linux -- and open source standards -- evolve to challenge the proprietary software of old.
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
A huge problem facing the mid market, particularly with fast-growing companies is, 'how can we standardized best practices, methodologies and templates, so we don't have re-create the wheel every time we have a new project or initiative' Typically these kinds of companies are using ad-hoc methods and have simply outgrown them. Solutions in a Box provides an automated, cost effective way to standardize, but at the same time is completely customized and configured to their business needs.
To minimize some of the challenges we try to standardize the process with our pre-departure orientation, binders full of information on housing, registration, financial aid and other Northeastern logistics and contact details.