Here are the six performance strategies, moving left to right: eliminate waste, drive top priorities, leverage purchasing scale, close the IT performance gap, open government to get results and finally, attract and motivate top talent.
ScaleOut drives performance close to the CEP timeframe, seconds or minutes rather than hours of a batch processing system.
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Davies ran newly crowned 600cc champion Jamie Hacking close, a performance that persuaded Yamaha-supported Celtic Racing to sign him for the 2007 season.
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It will close with a performance by the Junior Conservatoire Orchestra.
By combining HDD storage capacity with the higher performance of flash memory, a total system performance close to flash memory can be achieved with storage costs close to those of HDDs.
The Felixstowe Spa Pavilion will close after the final performance of Aladdin on Sunday night.
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The only state to come close to this dismal performance level is Mississippi.
And very quickly I started to get excited, because it was a very close fit to past performance starting in 1960.
Castleford's record score eclipsed their 36-8 rout of Whitehaven in the 2005 final and coach Matterson admitted his side's performance was close to perfection.
Paul Lavin of WestLB Mellon Asset Management has found a close correlation between the performance of hedge funds investing in shares and the breadth of the stockmarket.
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Just as they are used to checking their progress on leader boards when playing video games, so Net Geners want to keep close tabs on their performance at work, too.
After 10 hours, 21 acts and a crowd of 63, 000, London's leg of Live Earth drew to a close with a tremendous performance by the Queen of pop herself, Madonna.
Influential investment advisers, such as Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), have started advising clients to vote against members of compensation committees or against compensation plans that exceed certain competitive benchmarks or don't have close enough ties to performance.
"When SIM2 decided to embark on the 4K challenge, it was clear that we had to offer a product with performance as close as possible to a true movie theater experience, " stated Maurizio Cini President and CEO of SIM2 Multimedia.
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Students in cities such as Chicago, Atlanta and Houston posted double-digit gains on several exams since 2002, helping close the chasm between their performance and that of districts nationwide.
Today, with the proliferation of hedge funds, an alternative course exists when performance falters: simply close up shop and start another firm.
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And while fans will decide whether Scorsese has fulfilled his aim to make "something that's as close as possible to a live performance, " Keith Richards believes Scorsese got the gold.
Crumbs also indicated that certain locations "incapable of reaching acceptable levels of financial performance" would need to close.
Close by is Vaudeville Mews, a performance space for indie rock shows.
No one came close to my brother's trumpet performance.
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs, which was close to the bottom in terms of performance during the period, has seen its shares get whacked because the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 16 charged Goldman and one of its vice presidents with fraud.
After the sale, expected to close in the first quarter of 2013, Performance Coatings will still develop colors and paint for cars.
The performance clock starts running at the close of the deal.
But none of the banks still due to report, not even a resurgent JP Morgan Chase, is expected to come close to Goldman's blow-out performance.
DePaul went 12 of 24 from the free throw line, and hurt its chances of staying close with a 9-for-20 performance from there in the second half.
Oberweis likes the economic outlook and says that if the economy continues to gather steam as 2003 comes to a close, his portfolios should continue its strong performance.
Another misjudged performance by Mr Obama could indeed come close to sealing his fate.
In one, judges evaluate how close a stereo comes to sounding like a live performance.
As we know, the actual performance of the economy has not come close to those initial forecasts.
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