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ALSO CALLED: Data Quality Control, Total Quality Management, TQM, Quality Standards
DEFINITION: Total Quality Management (TQM) is a comprehensive and structured approach to organizational management that seeks to improve the quality of products and services through ongoing refinements in response to continuous feedback. TQM requirements may be defined separately for a particular organization or may be in adherence to established standards, such as the International Organization for Standardization's  … 
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Quality Control Reports
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IBM Smart Products Webcast: The Payoff of Driving Requirements Management Across Product Development
sponsored by IBM
WEBCAST: This webcast discusses how to implement a structured approach to requirements management based on IBM Rational software -- a primary driver for quality improvement. A panel of experts share real-world examples and proven best practices for delivering innovative, high quality products to market in shorter timeframes.
Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Premieres: 23 Nov 2009


CA Spectrum Service Assurance Product Brief
sponsored by CA
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Read this brief paper for specifics about the CA Spectrum Service Assurance product's features and benefits.
Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009


Virtualization For Better, Faster, More Cost-Effective Quality Assurance
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how adding Surgient VQMS to HP Quality Center helps you centrally manage and allocate test lab resources from HP Quality Center across multiple and distributed teams according to business policies and quotas, and more.
Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009


Understanding How Technology Can Support Manufacturing Quality
sponsored by Apriso Corporation
PODCAST: In this expert podcast, industry analyst Simon Jacobson discusses the best starting point for a quality improvement initiative within a manufacturing plant, explores what types of software and technology can be used for support, explains why the IT team plays a key role in its success, offers tips on how to reduce error rates, and more.
Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 02 Nov 2009


Video Whitepaper: Rapid Bottleneck Identification: A Better Way to do Load Testing
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WEBCAST: Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 28 Oct 2009


Tactical Data Quality Projects Deliver Quick ROI
sponsored by DataFlux Corporation
PODCAST: This expert podcast offers advice for deploying and completing tactical data quality projects from Forrester's Rob Karel.
Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 21 Oct 2009


Informatica 9. Transform your business. Transform your world.
sponsored by Informatica
WEBCAST: This webcast will show you how to access and deliver relevant, trusted data to your business to drive competitive advantage. Discover how to get business and IT on the same page, make data quality issues a thing of the past and leverage SOA effectively.
Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 15 Oct 2009


Value-Driven Healthcare: Transforming the Environment with Business Intelligence
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Find out why the benefits from applying business intelligence (BI) in the healthcare environment are tremendous. Learn how leveraging the wealth of information to understand patients and physicians, to monitor operational performance, and to anticipate the need for action or change are strong incentives for adopting BI.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009


Presentation Transcript - Best Practices: Protect Your Online Revenue Through Web Performance Testing
sponsored by Gomez
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This transcript will discuss optimizing application performance and quality, and various strategies that IDC sees in its research to help you improve your decision making about how you approach quality, management and performance optimization. Read on to learn more about how to protect your online revenue through web performance testing.
Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009


IBM Cognos Online Conference for Retailers and Manufactures
sponsored by IBM
VIRTUAL SEMINAR: This 2-hour complimentary virtual seminar on performance management (PM) takes place on October 21 and continues on November 4th — Join us to learn how PM can help you improve visibility into your manufacturing business so you can reduce costs, speed delivery and efficiency, satisfy customers and create innovative new products.
Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009


Data privacy best practices: time to take action!
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the steps you need to consider when developing your privacy strategy and implementing your first data privacy project. Find out how you can help your organization implement best practices in privacy protection and make your privacy project successful from start to finish.
Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2009


Increasing Operational Efficiency and Agility with BPM
sponsored by Esker Inc.
PODCAST: In this expert podcast, find out why many companies are turning to business process management (BPM) to automate processes, optimize workflows and improve operational efficiency and agility.
Posted: 20 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 20 Aug 2009


Building Mission Critical Aerospace and Defense systems with IBM Rational Quality Management Products
sponsored by IBM
WEBCAST: Start smart: get powerful techniques to improve your mission critical systems and product development process by viewing the On Demand Webcast, Building Mission Critical Aerospace and Defense systems with IBM Rational Quality Management Products.
Posted: 13 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 13 Aug 2009


Quality begins with Requirements
sponsored by IBM
WEBCAST: Learn about the new integration between IBM® Rational® DOORS and IBM® Rational® Quality Manager and how it enables you to implement a successful requirements based testing approach to your development lifecycle.
Posted: 05 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 05 Aug 2009


Be Prepared! Leverage SAP PLM to Navigate Through Uncertain Times - Podcast
sponsored by SAP America Inc
PODCAST: This podcast explores the business value of product lifecycle management (PLM) in an uncertain economy and explores SAP's approach to becoming more innovative, agile and efficient.
Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Premiered: 24 Jul 2009


Be Prepared! Leverage SAP PLM to Navigate Through Uncertain Times
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WEBCAST: This webcast explores the business value of product lifecycle management (PLM) in an uncertain economy and explores SAP's approach to becoming more innovative, agile and efficient.
Posted: 08 Jul 2009 | Premiered: 08 Jul 2009


eBook: Building A Center Of Excellence
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
EBOOK: HP's approach to application lifecycle management and the Center of Excellence model for quality, performance, SOA, and security eliminates repetitive processes and work. And it improves business results by helping leading organizations integrate knowledge, processes, and resources.
Posted: 18 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Feb 2009


Automated testing ROI: fact or fiction? A customer's perspective: What real QA organizations have found
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: The white paper explores the fundamentals of automated software testing, explains how such an endeavor is actually an investment for a company, and details how a company can get a return on their investment.
Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009


Best Practices and State of the Art Tools for Modern GUI Creation
sponsored by Instantiations
WHITE PAPER: GUI building tools allow developers to spend less time and money creating Java GUIs, because they can focus on creating application-specific functionality rather than coding the low-level logic required for GUIs to run.
Posted: 04 Feb 2009 | Published: 04 Feb 2009


Making Quality a Deliverable in Eclipse-Based Java Development
sponsored by Instantiations
WHITE PAPER: CodePro AnalytiX as part of a continuous or nightly-build process, seamlessly integrate it into any Eclipse-based Java development environment, or use a combination of the two implementation approaches.
Posted: 04 Feb 2009 | Published: 04 Feb 2009


Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Management and Continuous Improvement
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise.
Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 26 Jan 2009


Observing Data Quality Service Level Agreements: Inspection, Monitoring, and Tracking
sponsored by DataFlux Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how implementing a DQ SLA via formalized processes can transform data quality management from a constant "fire-fighting" mode to a more consistent, proactive approach.
Posted: 05 Jan 2009 | Published: 05 Jan 2009


The Executive Guide to Business Analyst and Project Management Terminology
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: In this guide you will learn the most commonly used business analysis and project management terms and it helps you better communicate with business analysis and project management professionals.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008


Qos: What Is It? Why Do We Need It?
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: QoS can be used in converged networks to provide voice packets priority access to resources, or it can be used to differentiate data packets from different application stream and provide access to resources according to policy.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008


Using Virtualization for Testing and Development Environments
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
PODCAST: In this podcast, virtualization expert Anil Desai talks with WhatIs.com's Alex Howard about the many ways virtualization can be used to improve software testing and development.
Posted: 04 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 04 Dec 2008

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QUALITY CONTROL DEFINITION (continued): …  ISO 9000 series. TQM can be applied to any type of organization; it originated in the manufacturing sector and has since been adapted for use in almost every type of organization imaginable, including schools, highway maintenance, hotel management, and churches. As a current focus of e-business, TQM is based on quality management from the customer's point of view.TQM processes are divided into four sequential categories: plan, do, check, and act (the PDCA cycle). In the planning phase, people define the problem to be addressed, collect relevant data, and ascertain the problem's root cause; in … 
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