The survey also found that the majority of respondents lack a comprehensive vision of how enterprise-wide information and technology infrastructure will work with current and future smart grid deployments.

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An EA is the explicit description and documentation of the current and desired relationships among business and management processes and information technology.

WHITEHOUSE: CIRCULAR NO. A-130 Revised

This makes sense given that the guidelines in current form are meant to apply only to data on information technology systems rather than hard-copy storage, with portal providers receiving and making use of some of the heaviest volume of customer data in China.

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"Enterprise software sales have gone down because the products are just too hard to implement, " he says, "information technology departments shouldn't increase their spending" from current levels.

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To provide answers that aren't already in Google's ever-expanding database, the company will blend new semantic-search technology with its current system to better recognize the value of information on websites and figure out which ones to show in search results.

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Agencies should assess current device inventories and usage, and establish controls, to ensure that they are not paying for unused or underutilized information technology (IT) equipment, installed software, or services.

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