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Bar codes can be used to encode URLs, business cards and product information. Bar code marketing allows people to download content onto a mobile phone. For example, companies can print bar codes on advertisements, billboards, posters, brochures and product packages; users can scan the bar code with a phone camera to get the corresponding information. Bar codes can be 1D, 2D or 3D.
Industry:Technology
Bank tiers can be defined as follows:
Tier 1 includes between 20 and 25 global bank assets and/or capital markets price makers with daily trading volume exceeding 50,000 transactions. These banks want software using open architecture on a framework on which they can leverage tools, such as analytics.
Tier 2 constitutes about 200 international and national banks and/or capital markets price takers, as well as trading volume averaging about 30,000 transactions daily. Such banks seek new technology with a complete vertical integration of functions. Cross-asset functionality is not a concern, except for structuring deals because of the specialized focus of their trading businesses. They desire analytics and a front- to back-office suite to improve transparency and risk management.
Tier 3 consists of approximately 1,000 banks, including smaller national and regional banks, and capital markets price takers. These banks want cross-asset platforms, but don’t have the requisite IT resources in-house and must rely on vendors. Their biggest concern is implementation risk.
Tier 4 comprises smaller regional institutions with a primary focus on core banking and limited capital markets trading. Such firms often source their capital markets requirements through third parties and tend to use an ASP approach.
Industry:Technology
Bandwidth can be defined as follows:
The range of frequencies that can pass over a given transmission channel. The bandwidth determines the rate at which information can be transmitted through the circuit: the greater the bandwidth, the more information that can be sent in a given amount of time. Bandwidth is typically measured in bits per second. Increasing bandwidth potential has become a high priority for network planners due to the growth of multimedia, including videoconferencing, and the increased use of the Internet.
The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a modulated signal is tested within a range of frequencies on either side of the carrier frequency. This range is also called a bandwidth. In the case of videodiscs, it is often 15 kilohertz (kHz) on either side.
Industry:Technology
Band can be defined as follows:
The range of frequencies between two defined limits.
In wide-area telephone service (WATS), the specific geographical area in which the customer is entitled to call.
Industry:Technology
A balanced scorecard (BSC) is a performance measurement and management approach that recognizes that financial measures by themselves are not sufficient and that an enterprise needs a more holistic, balanced set of measures which reflects the different drivers that contribute to superior performance and the achievement of the enterprise’s strategic goals. The balanced scorecard is driven by the premise that there is a cause-and-effect link between learning, internal efficiencies and business processes, customers, and financial results.
Industry:Technology
Backup/recovery software products are designed to provide backup of storage to tape, disk or optical devices and to recover that data when needed. This segment also includes products focused specifically on supporting the recovery process, such as virtual tape libraries. Also included are media management, deduplication and backup reporting products, as well as archiving products that are included with the backup application. Media management activities include allocating, labeling, tracking, recycling and monitoring media, as well as storage pool management.
Industry:Technology
A backup server is a software or hardware system that copies or “shadows” the contents of a server, providing redundancy.
Industry:Technology
A backplane is the physical connection between the interface cards and the data and power distribution buses in a network device such as a router, hub or switch.
Industry:Technology
A backhaul is the terrestrial link between an earth station and a switching or data center.
Industry:Technology
A background task is a task performed by a system during the time when its primary application is idle.
Industry:Technology
