With customers doing their own ordering and billing through the Internet, databases must be able to handle vast numbers of concurrent users and provide information fast.
Every assignment was urgent and mainly focused on how much you could provide for whom and how fast.
What if you can't fulfill orders fast and provide excellent service at the same time?
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The fulfillment center enables Urban Outfitters to provide fast and effective next-day delivery to the western states.
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The high performance switches combined with the keyboard's 100% anti-ghosted matrix, 20-key rollover and 1000Hz reporting rate provide fast, accurate input for gaming.
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With innovations such as wireless fidelity, commonly known as wi-fi, and other low-cost technologies and business models that are now being explored, we should aim to provide cheap, fast, and eventually free access to the internet.
In addition, Siemens will provide highly efficient and fast on-board and off-board charging systems.
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Turner says it's very difficult to provide hard-and-fast earnings estimates for Northern Peru in these early days.
Available in silver, black, white and red, the E-PM2 offers an intuitive vertical touch navigation menu displayed by pressing the MENU button to provide a fast and easy way to switch modes with fewer steps.
Dedicated picture modes for film and gaming: In addition to the default adaptive picture mode, these new modes provide gamers with lightning-fast responsiveness and film lovers with white balance just like the director set it.
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Add to this the realities of changing regulations and potential environmental tracking requirements, and you need information systems that provide the flexibility to evolve, deliver fast time to value, and that can integrate with our suppliers and customers.
The ability to manipulate large, complex and fast-changing data can provide a competitive advantage, Bain told Processor.com.
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And 5% is not fast enough to provide the 2.5m new jobs a year needed to contain Arab unemployment, let alone reduce it from its current level of perhaps 18%.
James Glanz has an excellent piece in the Sunday New York Times and continuing today on how much power is consumed by data centers in the U.S. To provide fast response time, they operate near full capacity much of the time, and waste up to 90 percent of their energy consumption.
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What it does provide is a fast rather than a slow and torturous adjustment.
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More importantly, the US market is a shrinking market while the emerging markets provide a green field alternative for fast food and high level growth.
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There are no hard-and-fast rules that determine if an IaaS cloud will provide savings to your business.
Fast and Energy Efficient: All three Micro USB Chargers provide customers with a faster charge time - charging phones at least 20% faster and up to 50% faster than standard chargers (depending on the phone).
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This real-time Fast Data collection and analysis can help optimize traffic management, provide forensic analysis, identify traffic hotspots or help with crime prevention.
Fast-food and other chain restaurants are now required to provide clearly visible calorie data to their customers, in menus, on signs and pretty much everywhere.
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By 2015 it is hoped the investments in UK cities will provide ultra-fast broadband coverage to 1.7 million households and high-speed wireless broadband for three million residents.
Sperotto Rimar, Mr Fochi's firm, sprouted originally because of the sustaining presence in the region of Marzotto and Lanerossi, two textile firms that some 150 years ago found in the steep hills north of Vicenza fast-flowing streams to drive their looms, and sheep to provide wool.
We expect additional partners and customers to benefit from the higher return-on-investment that our fast interconnect solutions provide to them.
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While there are no hard and fast rules, option pools for early stage companies with high-growth potential often provide for a pool of option shares that would represent between 15%-20% of the total outstanding shares of the company.
Christian texts in Arabic (or in some cases, Greek and Arabic side by side) provide tantalising evidence of the process by which Christian subjects of the fast-growing Muslim empire began to worship, and theologise, in the language of their new political masters.
The beautifully crafted Nokia Asha 311 is a fast and fluid 3.5G capacitive touchscreen device, powered by a 1GHz processor to provide a great internet experience.
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These purpose-built apps provide only the most essential functionality to ensure that these 3 customer segments have as fast and efficient a mobile experience as possible.
One is to learn how to multitask and prioritize, but the other is to provide an exit route to get out of a stalled project fast.
Provide a lightweight device with a large screen, fast processor, connectivity, lots of memory, and a full range of applications and you have a winning product.
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