ITIL is an acronym for Information Technology Infrastructure Library. ITIL are a series of books and training manuals that outline and explain the practices that are the most beneficial to IT services (usually manager focused). The goal of ITIL is for managers to have extremely high standards in IT
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All major credit card companies require businesses that process, store, or transmit credit card data to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS). The PCI Security Standards Council sets the requirements that the stakeholders from all major corporations such as Visa, Ma
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Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of a connection of numerous different businesses that brings a raw resource and converts it into a final product that is then delivered to a customer. In other words, it is the process in which the supply of a good is provided. It starts as an idea, mo
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Most businesses and organizations rely on their documents to store data and keep information readily available. Some corporations create millions of documents each year. Filing data that is collected, storing it safely, indexing it properly, making it easily accessible and protecting it from outside
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FISMA is the Federal Information Security Management Act. The FISMA Implementation Project was established during early 2003 in order to develop a range of crucial security guidelines and standards as required by Congressional legislation. Such publications constitute FIPS 200 and FIPS 199 together
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In the information age, the process of input, delivery, storage, receipt, and categorization of data is critical. Companies, government entities, and individuals have to rely more and more on automated, reliable solutions in order to keep their information safe and readily accessible. A document
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ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is a process in which business management is integrated with technology. ERP systems, therefore, allow this integration to be done effectively and without fault. An effective ERP system requires that many aspects of the business are connected. To have the best arch
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MTBF stands for Mean Time Between Failures. MTBF numbers represent a statistical approximation of how long a set of devices should last before failure. MTBF numbers are not valuable at determining when a specific device will fail. MTBF numbers are usually stated in terms of hours. MTBF is ofte
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A growing business of a company brings lots of effects with it and huge amount of data that needs to be stored and tracked is one of them. So, in order to deal with this data, new and sophisticated methods of data processing are required and OLAP or as others say, "On Line Analytical Processing", is
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Value stream mapping is a popular manufacturing technique. It analyzes the flow of materials and information necessary to create a product or provide a service. The technique originated at the Toyota Corporation and is referred to as material and information flow mapping. It can be applied to any pr
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