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Show Me The Money: Contracts And Agents In Service Level Agreement Markets
White Papers Delivering real-time services (Internet telephony, video conferencing, and streaming media as well as business-critical data applications) across the Internet requires end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees, which requires a hierarchy of...
[August 4, 2006, 0:00]
MSDN Webcast: Windows Communication Foundation Top To Bottom (Part 02 Of 15): Contracts (Level 200)
White Papers The presenter of this webcast provides practical guidance for designing service contracts, data contracts, and message contracts - showing one when and how to employ each. Clients communicate with services by exchanging messages that are serialized...
[August 28, 2007, 0:00]
Contracts And Quality Attributes Of Software Components
White Papers The authors therefore translate the "Design-by-contract"-principle to components; it also generalises component contracts to parameterised contracts, taking the mentioned context-dependencies of components into account; the authors finally...
[May 11, 2007, 0:00]
E-Support System Helps Microbiology Firm Stay On Top Of Its Contracts
White Papers Managing the hardware maintenance contracts for Oxoid's IT infrastructure was a complicated and unwieldy exercise, and when the Basingstoke headquarters took over the contract management for additional equipment in its subsidiaries in France...
[July 24, 2006, 0:00]
Consulting Company For Nonprofits Manages Bigger Contracts With Accounting Solution
White Papers However, the company anticipates two new multi-million dollar contracts, requiring eight or nine more consultants. Based in Pasadena, California, Hanson & Company, a management consulting firm for nonprofit organizations, consists of owner Noel...
[September 12, 2006, 0:00]
BT Nails Down Contracts For Next-generation Network
News The telco announced on Monday that it had reached agreement with Alcatel, Cisco, Ericsson and Fujitsu over contracts for the 21st Century Network (21CN). The four companies were initially awarded their contracts in April 2005, along with Lucent...
[March 7, 2006, 15:55]
Criminal Justice IT Contracts Up For Grabs
News The Department for Constitutional Affairs is set to replace its main IT contracts covering key projects in the modernisation of the criminal justice system, it has emerged. The department is planning to issue a tender notice in the spring for the...
[January 19, 2005, 15:50]
Ad Groups Come To Terms On Web Contracts
News Two top advertising industry groups on Monday issued guidelines for interactive ad contracts, the latest effort aimed at untangling the Web's marketing woes. The new contracts include guidelines for working through opposing ad counts if they differ...
[April 30, 2002, 12:38]
Nordea Life Uses TIBCO To Streamline And Improve Processes For Handling Contracts And Claims
White Papers To achieve its goal, Nordea Life turned to one of the leading business process management (BPM) providers, the TIBCO BPM Group, and its partner Accenture, for a solution that would streamline and improve its processes for handling contracts and...
[November 8, 2005, 23:00]
Finding Implicit Contracts In .NET Libraries
White Papers Are contracts inherent in reusable libraries, or just one design technique among others? To help answer this question, the authors performed an empirical study of library classes from the .NET Collections library, which doesn't use Design by...
[July 3, 2007, 0:00]
NHS Awards Big Contracts
News Both contracts, which cover different regions, run until 2013. Accenture and Computer Sciences announced contract wins on Tuesday, with the British government making their holiday seasons cheerier. Both information technology services companies...
[December 24, 2003, 8:10]
PCG Offers Help With IR35-proof Contracts
News The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) has created a series of draft contracts that it believes self-employed workers could use to avoid falling foul of IR35. The PCG has updated the draft contracts following its recent unsuccessful judicial...
[September 25, 2001, 10:20]
From Contracts To Aspects In UML Designs
White Papers This paper explores a possibility to organize all of these features around the central notions of quality of service contracts (for specifying non-functional properties a la QML) and aspects for describing how they can be implemented.
[July 23, 2004, 0:00]
Prudential Archives Thousands Of Contracts With The HP 9100c Digital Sender
White Papers Prudential's CTS Contracts group maintained thousands of paper documents, which meant locating and distributing information was a tedious, time-consuming process. The Contracts group is now storing all their contracts on the HP 9100C Digital Sender.
[February 17, 2005, 23:00]
Accounts And Contracts In IBM WebSphere Commerce V5.6.1
White Papers This paper gives a broad understanding of the use of contracts in WebSphere Commerce. It pays particular attention to business accounts and contracts that are only available in IBM WebSphere Commerce Business Edition.
[December 22, 2005, 23:00]
HP And MediTract: The Best Medicine For Managing Healthcare Contracts
White Papers Healthcare-related organizations that lack control over contracts and other documents used in the operation of their business often make payments on expired contracts, incur late fees, and miss opportunities to renegotiate or terminate service...
[May 20, 2004, 0:00]
Candidates For New NHS IT Contracts Revealed
News Connecting for Health has published a candidate list of 116 companies for a series of "framework" contracts aimed at creating access to a broader base of ICT suppliers. CfH expects that most of the final contracts will be awarded at the end of the...
[August 15, 2007, 15:51]
Parametric Performance Contracts For Software Components And Their Compositionality
White Papers Hence, classical component contracts allowing to state the component's performance as a post-condition, if the environment realises a specific performance stated in the precondition, do not help. The performance of a software component heavily...
[June 2, 2006, 0:00]
Compaq Scores Two Mammoth Contracts
News Compaq Computer has snared two mammoth three-year contracts, one with defence contractor Raytheon for $200m to $250m and one with Swedish cell phone maker Ericsson for $150m. Blackmore hopes two more major contracts will be announced by the end of...
[December 20, 2001, 14:45]
Online Retailers Rapped Over Unfair Contracts
News Computer supplier Micro Anvika is among a dozen online retailers to have stopped including what the Office of Fair Trading called "unfair terms" in the contracts they formed with their customers. All 12 companies are understood to have ceased to...
[June 13, 2003, 16:38]
