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Defining The Business Value Of Technology
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June 7, 1999 E-Commerce With Definition Anyone who's ever tried to order a technology product for a company E-commerce project has probably experienced the tangle of proprietary jargon from various vendors--overblown descriptors that have probably caused more than one IT manager to receive something other than what was ordered. Those poor IT managers may be interested a new dictionary developed by the corporate members of RosettaNet, the not-for-profit organization started last year to develop E-commerce standards. The dictionary features some 3,600 entries. The goal is to eliminate instances in which multiple vendors use multiple proprietary words to describe the same technologies or components. The dictionary "allows everyone to share a common language from which do business," says Fadi Chehade, CEO of RosettaNet. Key to the dictionary's development were RosettaNet members pcOrder, Ingram Micro, and Tech Data. The dictionary can be accessed on RosettaNet's Web site. Go to the "Visitors" section, then click on the "Dictionaries" button that appears afterward. |
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