Many enterprises have launched initiatives and benefited from improving their position as stewards of the environment. Strategies that help determine where to focus investments and resources in order to improve the environment are also becoming more common. Not surprisingly, methodologies designed to reduce waste are well suited to help companies that have environmental impact objectives such a...

Leaders want to align their organizations around strategic goals and metrics. Knowledge workers need ready access to data about what is happening right now. IT seeks to make information available and useful to the business, and yet observe appropriate security policies. For many organizations, all of these goals are coming together in a single focal point: Dashboards. SAS is known for its advan...

This workshopoutlines the progress that has been made on the TAUS Dynamic Quality Framework (DQF) in the past year and introduces the TAUS Quality Dashboard where all stakeholders in the global translation services can monitor their performance using industry-shared metrics and benchmark themselves against industry average productivity and quality. The TAUS DQF integration with translation tool...

In SpeechDat-Car, speech databases for speech driven devices and services for mobile environments are collected for nine European languages. The German SpeechDat-Car installation was the first fully equipped platform within the project. It has served as a testbed for the recording software for the entire project, and as an opportunity to perform technical and organizational feasibility tests fo...

The learning assessment in e-learning contexts is one of the latest challenges for educational technology researchers. One of the main issues to be addressed is the definition of dimensions that should be used to measure the learning effectiveness. In this perspective, the research work aims at defining the engagement indicators useful to assess the active participation of students in social le...