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SLA

ALSO CALLED: Service Level Agreements and SLAs
DEFINITION: A service-level agreement (SLA) is a contract between a network service provider and a customer that specifies, usually in measurable terms, what services the network service provider will furnish. Many Internet service providers (ISP)s provide their customers with an SLA. More recently,  … 
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Comprehensive Services for IT Security and Risk Mitigation
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WHITE PAPER: The gap between the enterprise's needs and the service provider's understanding comes in SLAs and network reliability.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2006
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Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 10 Jul 2008
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WHITE PAPER: This impact brief covers two April 2008 announcements by Opalis Software Inc. The first announced the general availability of Opalis Integration Server 5.5 and the second introduced an OEM partnership between Opalis and CA.
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Posted: 10 Jun 2008 | Published: 06 Jun 2008
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Critical Success Factors Deploying Pervasive BI
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WHITE PAPER: Pervasive BI is the ability to deliver integrated right-time DW information to all users - it also provides an enterprise with the necessary visibility, insight, and facts to make smarter decisions in all processes at all times.
Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2007
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SLA DEFINITION (continued): …  IS departments in major enterprises have adopted the idea of writing a service level agreement so that services for their customers (users in other departments within the enterprise) can be measured, justified, and perhaps compared with those of outsourcing network providers.

Some metrics that SLAs may specify include:

  • What percentage of the time services will be available
  • The number of users that can be served simultaneously
  • Specific … 
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