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Tech Trivia Challenge - product lifecycle management

Our WhatIs.com Tech Term is
Product lifecycle management (PLM) is a process for overseeing the manufacturing of a product, from its design and development to its ultimate disposal.

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Secret Word of the Day
This is arguably the most important part of a PLM software application. It’s a collection of data items that can accessed or reassembled in many different ways. What’s the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge
ABB requires anything in an organization that incurs costs to be recorded and its relationship to other costs, analyzed. What does ABB stand for?
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Tech Trivia
When it comes to manufacturing, sometimes necessity is the mother of invention. What storage medium did William Powell Lear, founder of Learjet, invent and patent?
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Manufacturers set sights on PLM
A focus on business process improvement around product development is fueling steady growth in the PLM market at a time when the economy is stalled and corporate budgets are tight.

As PLM gains ground, PLM-ERP integration moves to forefront
As product lifecycle management gains traction beyond the engineering and product development groups, companies are focusing on integrating the platform with other core business systems.

Tech quiz of the day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about data mining?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is data mining.

Tech Trivia
What controversial software did AT&T develop for data mining telephone records?
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Secret Word of the Day
This is a body of tools used to discover and analyze patterns in data so that past behavior can be used to forecast likely future behavior. What’s the Secret Word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
Consumer data is increasingly being gathered at POS. What does POS stand for?
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Tech quiz of the day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about Drizzle?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Drizzle.

Tech Trivia
The first version of this language was developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce in the early 1970s. What is it?
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Secret Word of the Day
This is an integrated circuit (IC) to which two or more processors have been attached for enhanced performance, reduced power consumption, and more efficient simultaneous processing of multiple tasks. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
MySQL is an RDBMS based on SQL that runs on virtually all platforms, including Linux, Unix, and Windows. What does RDBMS stand for?
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Tech quiz of the day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about the CRUD cycle?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is CRUD cycle.

Tech Trivia
Who’s known as the father of the relational database?
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Secret Word of the Day
In 1977, this became the first commercial relational database management system. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
A BLOB is a large file that must be handled in a special way because of its size. What does BLOB stand for?
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Tech quiz of the day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about enterprise content management?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is enterprise content management (ECM).

Tech Trivia
What do you call data that isn’t currently either in transit or in temporary storage?
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Secret Word of the Day
In business accounting, this refers to expenses that aren’t directly related to production; in computing it’s the amount of processing time required for system software such as the OS and utilities. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
DBA certification has been a good career choice for a long time and demand continues to increase. What does DBA stand for?
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Tech quiz of the day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about marketecture?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day for September 11th was marketecture.

Tech Trivia
In IT, this term is applied to both the process and the outcome of thinking out and specifying the overall structure, logical components, and the logical interrelationships of a computer, its operating system, a network, or other conception. What’s the secret word?
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Secret Word of the Day
What “clean” protocol allows a program running in one kind of operating system to communicate with a progam in the same or another kind of an operating system using XML and the World Wide Web?
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IT Acronym Challenge
SCA is a group of specifications intended for the development of applications based on service-oriented architecture (SOA). What does SCA stand for?
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Tech Quiz of the Day from WhatIs.com: What do you know about Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day today is Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR).

Tech Trivia
What’s the new, cool name for the delivery model we used to call ‘apps-on-tap?’
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Secret Word of the Day
In this backup mode, the functions of a system component are assumed by a secondary component when the primary one becomes unavailable. What’s the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge
BIA is designed to reveal vulnerabilities and develop strategies for minimizing risk. What does BIA stand for?
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Tech Quiz of the Day from WhatIs.com: What do you know about array-based memory?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day today is array-based memory.

Tech Trivia
What law does array-based storage break?
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Secret Word of the Day
The prefix for this unit of storage capacity comes from a Greek word meaning “monster.” What’s the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge
WORM technology allows data to be written to a disk a single time and prevents erasure. What does WORM stand for?
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