WGU - C850 Emerging Technologies

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62 terms tess Practice questions for this set Learn1 / 7Study using Learn A person or entity that holds property in trust for third parties while a transaction is finalized or a disagreement is resolved.Executive SponsorshipA role in project management, usually the senior member of the project board and often the chair. The executive sponsor will be a senior executive in a corporation (often at or just below board level) who is responsible to the business for the success of a project.Choose an answer 1Escrow Agent2Executive Sponsorship 3Emerging Technology4Perpetual License Don't know?

due diligenceReasonable steps taken by an organization in order to satisfy a legal requirement, especially in buying or selling something.Escrow AgentA person or entity that holds property in trust for third parties while a transaction is finalized or a disagreement is resolved.Customer Success Organization (CSO)A person or entity that holds property in trust for third parties while a transaction is finalized or a disagreement is resolved.Subscription modelA business model where a customer must pay a subscription price to have access to a product or service.Perpetual LicenseA type of software license that authorizes an individual or organization to use a program indefinitely.MITRE's STEP ToolkitThe Standardized Technology Evaluation Process (STEP) outlines a rigorous process for technology evaluations of one or more commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products.STREET Technology Adoption ProcessA disciplined, proven approach to choosing and timing the right innovations for an organization's success.Emerging Technology Group (ETG)Organization workgroup that brings creative and critical thinkers together to ponder business problems and offer up potential solutions.Aggressive organizationsOrganizations that are willing to gamble high stakes in order to gain significant rewards when they are successful.Mainstream Organizations:Organizations that are willing and able to accept moderate risks with regard to the adoption of emerging technologies.Conservative OrganizationsOrganizations that are cautious in their approach to anything resembling the adoption of an emerging technology.ComparatorsAn organization that is used to judge the performance of another similar organization.Emerging TechnologyTechnology that are not yet mature in the marketplace and so entail higher-than- average risk for implementation.Disruptive TechnologyA technology that displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry or a ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry.Cloud computingThe practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS "zass")A collective term said to stand for a number of things including "X as a service," "anything as a service" or "everything as a service." The acronym refers to an increasing number of services that are delivered over the Internet rather than provided locally or on-site. XaaS is the essence of cloud computing.

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)A software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted.