- Industry: Computer
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Sometimes referred to as “Big Blue” IBM is a multinational corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York. It manufactures computer hardware and software and provides information technology and services.
A metaphor that presents customers with a series of multiple-choice questions, where each answer determines the next question and eventually refines the search to a smaller list of products. The guided sell metaphor is intended for customers who are not sure where to start.
Industry:Software
A list of all the actions used in a particular voice application. A component of DirectTalk.
Industry:Software
A method by which a large number of memory records are stored and can then be efficiently searched. This is accomplished through the use of a tailored index that organises the memory records. This arrangement of records is called a hash table.
Industry:Software
A list of all the prompts used in a particular voice application. Used by the state table to play the requested voice prompts.
Industry:Software
A method employed by some high-level languages, such as C and Fortran, to determine actions for handling conditions. Whereas Language Environment condition handling actions are defined at the stack frame level, actions defined using the global error table apply to an entire application until explicitly changed.
Industry:Software
A list of associated resources and their corresponding privileges per user.
Industry:Software
A method for application programmes to communicate on a local system, or between a local system and a remote system using the intersystem communications function (ICF). Examples of these communications methods include (a) asynchronous communications, (b) binary synchronous communications (BSC), (c) intrasystem communications, or (d) Systems Network Architecture (SNA), such as advanced program-to-program communications (APPC) and SNA upline facility (SNUF).
Industry:Software
A method for communication between programs. Messaging can be synchronous or independent of time.
Industry:Software
A list of courses available; also, the module where administrators manage course masters and offerings.
Industry:Software
A method for controlling access to storage devices from multiple host systems. Any host that wants to access a storage device configured to use disc leasing registers for a lease; in the event of a perceived failure, a host system can deny access, preventing I/O operations with the storage device until the preempted system has reregistered.
Industry:Software
