Visa is just the one who markets it and processes it and takes their pound of flesh.
"You've studied it all day, and it's almost like it processes in your sleep, " he said.
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Unless IT has a vision for the processes it wants to implement using this new generation of applications, much time will be wasted as too much data is collected, resources are squandered on unnecessary and misguided customization, and use falls off after implementation because the application provides little value.
The right hemisphere is more involved in holistic perception and as a result it processes information by integrating it into perceptual models (visual, spatial, auditory, etc).
Mountain View was also quick to highlight how responsive it's been to industry concerns -- citing the fact that it receives and processes more copyright complaints in a day than it did in all of 2009 combined.
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One has attempted to extend it beyond the straightforward manufacturing processes for which it was, in its early form, most suited.
Intel is generally a step ahead of its rivals when it comes to new manufacturing processes that allow it to shrink the size of the features on its processors.
It collects a fee based on the number and dollar value of the transactions that it processes.
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Depending on whether it was just a fluke occurrence or a sign that the constitution of the oil sands it processes is changing, the company could either retool its extraction process or, if the problem is a short-term one, blend the rich ore with more normal inputs.
Mistakes are inevitable when humans manage important IT processes and systems, and therefore human error is present in almost every aspect of IT.
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At present, the plan is for it to be reprocessed using solvents and chemical processes to separate it into high-level and low-level components.
It is relatively easy to change a company's resources and processes, but it is far harder to change a firm's values and culture.
For this client, the inflexibility of labor laws and the power of labor unions is a far bigger constraint to her IT agility than is the complexity of IT systems or internal processes.
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The bank is not planning on changing the way that it processes transactions.
It processes sensory information from the mouth and nose--wow, that pizza smells good!
The left hemisphere is highly involved in language production and as a result it processes information linearly, literally, and semantically.
Sabritas buys milled corn from Azteca Milling, which buys the corn from farmers and processes it in its Plainview, Tex.
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Already, companies that implement autonomic expert systems are removing humans from 40 and up to 80 percent of IT processes.
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Unlike the other processes it cannot be retrofitted to existing power stations.
In contrast with offshoring, nearshoring is the transfer of business or IT processes to companies in a nearby country, typically with one which shares borders.
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If you have consolidated IT processes and systems and generated significant savings, this translates especially well to the other shared services such as finance and HR.
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The company makes money by providing transaction information and resources between the customer, merchant and their respective banks, collecting a fee based on the number and dollar value of transactions that it processes.
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The firm says that the proportion of contractors on the 80, 000 small-business payrolls it processes every month has nearly doubled over past six years, rising to 6.7% last month from 3.4% in February 2007.
But Yahoo, ranked second in the search advertising business, says the number of financial transactions it processes daily equals the number of trades on the New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt and Geneva stock exchanges put together--times four.
Plus, because autonomics can perform routine IT processes much more reliably and efficiently than humans, implementing autonomics often means drastic reductions in mean time to resolution (MTTR), more consistent business-related outcomes and a huge amount of time that can now be dedicated to other more creative pursuits.
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The medical recommendations it creates based on a learning process of digesting case histories from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), Cleveland Clinic, and other institutions can only be as good as the data that are input and the decision-making processes it is charged to recreate.
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Joe Navarro, a veteran FBI special agent and the author of Louder Than Words, says that for every question we ask someone, we have three opportunities to determine whether that person is lying: when he first hears the question, when he processes it and when he delivers an answer.
Ornate mechanisms have been created to get data out, clean it, massage it, optimize it, and deliver it at high speed to those who need it to support decisions or the execution of processes.
One of the results of better IT management is a clear understanding of how IT supports the crucial value creating processes in a company.
It routinely processes over 100 million transactions a day and has over 2, 100, 000 subscribers.
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