Which of the following saves time and efforts of creating own programs and services by purchasing the products from a third-party vendor?

Question

Options

• ACollaboration platform
• BEnd-to-end solution
• CChange Management
• DCOTS product

• A
  2% (1)
• B
  2% (1)
• C
  7% (3)
• D
  89% (39)

Explanation

COTS stands for Commercial Off-The-Shelf products. These products save time and efforts of creating own programs and services by purchasing these products from a third-party vendor. COTS products speed up and reduce the cost of system construction. Answer option A is incorrect. Collaboration platform is an unified electronic platform that supports both synchronous and asynchronous communication using a variety of devices and channels. It offers a set of software components and services. These components and services enable users to communicate, share information, and work together for achieving common business goals. A collaboration platform consists of the following core elements: - Messaging (email, calendaring and scheduling, contacts), - Team collaboration (file synchronization, ideas and notes in a wiki. task management, full-text - Real-time communication (presence, instant messaging, Web conferencing, application/desktop sharing, voice, audio and video conferencing) Answer option C is incorrect. Change Management is used to ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient handling of all changes. A change is "an event that results in a new status of one or more configuration items (CI's)" approved by management, cost effective, enhances business process changes (fixes)-with a minimum risk to IT infrastructure. The main aims of Change Management are as follows: - Minimal disruption of services - Reduction in back-out activities - Economic utilization of resources involved in the change Answer option B is incorrect. An end-to-end solution (E2ES) suggests that the supplier of an application program or system provides all the hardware and software components and resources to meet the customers requirement and no other supplier is required to be involved.

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