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Technologies and tools, such as email, messaging, workflow, and document and content management, that enable NIH users to access vital information resources, share information, and work and communicate effectively and efficiently with peers, customers, and the public.

Technology Architecture

Collaboration:41 related definitions

Brick

Desktop Web Conferencing Brick:
Desktop Web Conferencing is defined as applications that enable Internet-based synchronous, real-time meetings with participants in multiple,....
Digital Identity/Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Brick:
Digital Signature systems are defined as applications that provide identification and storage of digital signatures along with validation against a....
Document Imaging Brick:
Document imaging devices can be standalone or embedded into the organization’s existing, fax, copy or duplication systems. Imaging systems take....
Document Management Tools Brick:
Document management includes software systems that allow enterprises to generate, produce, store, manage, retrieve, and distribute electronic files....
Email Client Software Brick:
Messaging client software includes applications that run on workstations and enable peer-to-peer, asynchronous communications.
Email Servers Software Brick:
Messaging servers are enterprise applications that run on a central computer and enable synchronous and asynchronous, peer-to-peer communications.
Enterprise Directories Brick:
Enterprise directories list and/or describe users and services on the NIH network and are typically used in conjunction with the enterprise messaging....
Enterprise Reporting Tools Brick:
An enterprise reporting tool is one that allows NIH to gain a better understanding of its operations by putting critical information in the hands of....
Identification and Authentication Brick:
This standard establishes NIH Login as the required method of implementing authentication in web-based applications at the NIH. Authenticated....
Internet/Extranet Desktop Client Web Browsers Brick :
Web browsers are programs that “read” hypertext and display it as formatted text and images. Browsers allow users to view the contents of a site and....
Internet/Extranet Mobile Client Web Browsers Brick:
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Web browsers are programs that “read” hypertext and display it as formatted text and images. Browsers allow users to view the contents of a....
Intranet/Employee Desktop Client Web Browsers Brick:
​Web browsers are programs that “read” hypertext and display it as formatted text and images. Browsers allow users to view the contents of a site and....
Intranet/Employee Mobile Client Web Browsers Brick:
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Web browsers are programs that “read” hypertext and display it as formatted text and images. Browsers allow users to view the contents of a....
Messaging Protocols Brick:
Messaging protocols are the formal specifications that define data exchange procedures.
Resource Scheduling Brick:
Resource Scheduling is a utility or feature that facilitates commitment of any resource(s) (person, room, office, subjects, equipment, etc.) for....
RETIRED - Email Client Operating Systems (OSs) Brick:
This standard is obsoleted by the Email Client Software Brick. Email client operating systems (OSs) allocate system resources at individual....
RETIRED - Email Server Operating Systems (OSs) Brick:
This standard is obsoleted by the Email Servers Software Brick. Email server operating systems (OSs) allocate system resources for the....
RETIRED - Instant Messaging Client Brick:
The Instant Messaging (IM) Client is the user’s desktop-resident software that enables users to send short, text-based messages or files to other....
Search Engines Brick:
A search engine includes a robot or crawler that goes to every page or representative pages on a Website, or the whole Web, and creates an index. It....
Shared Virtual Workspace Brick:
Shared virtual workspaces are team-oriented collaboration tools that provide services for sharing files and supporting asynchronous and real-time....
Staff Digital Certificate Brick:
A Staff Digital Certificate is a digital certificate that is issued to an individual staff member of NIH. A staff member is defined as anyone who....
Unified Communications - Conferencing Communications:
The purpose of this brick is to define the technologies that provide conferencing capabilities to the NIH.  This capability allows....
Unified Communications - EndPoints Brick:
The purpose of this brick is to define the technologies that serve as endpoints for multiple UC capabilities described in the previous bricks.....
Unified Communications - Voice Communications:
The purpose of this brick is to define the technologies that provide telephony or other voice communications (voice messaging) to the NIH. ....
Unified Communications Instant Messaging and Presence Brick:
The purpose of this brick is to define the technologies that provide instant messaging and presence capabilities to the NIH.  This capability....
Web Content Management Systems Brick:
Web Content Management Systems (WCMS) consist of applications used to create, manage, store and deploy content on the Web, including text,....
Workflow/Business Process Management (BPM) Tools Brick:
Business Process Management (BPM) is a general term describing a set of services and tools that provide for explicit BPM (for example, process....

Pattern

Active Directory Pattern:
The NIH Enterprise Active Directory is a shared enterprise directory for NIH within the DHHS Forest. NIH is a multi-faceted enterprise serving a....
Complex Resource Scheduling Pattern:
Complex resource scheduling allows users to invoke their email client software to schedule resources for meetings, events (which could include a....
Data Reporting Pattern:
This solution presents multiple options for data reporting at NIH. An NIH user can access NIH data repositories including individual databases....
Document Management Service Pattern:
This pattern shows how document management tools can be used to provide computerized production, storage, management and distribution of documents.....
Enterprise Messaging Pattern:
The Enterprise Messaging Pattern is of a future-state of a single consolidated NIH-wide e-mail system, Central e-Mail Services (CES), which combines....
Shared Virtual Workspace Pattern:
This pattern shows how shared virtual workspace technologies provide formal, structured synchronous and asynchronous collaboration through, or....
Standalone Instant Messaging Pattern:
Instant messaging (IM) can be incorporated into other collaborative products such as portals, shared virtual workspaces and/or desktop web....
Unified Communications Pattern:
​Unified Communications is orchestrated communication and collaboration across locations, time, and medium to accelerate business results. UC is....
Web Collaboration Solution Pattern:
The Web Collaboration Solution pattern shows how Web conferencing and shared virtual workspace technologies provide formal, structured synchronous....
Web Conferencing Solution Pattern:
The Web Conferencing Solution Pattern shows how web conferencing technologies provide formal, structured synchronous collaboration instead of formal....
Web Content Management Service Pattern:
Web Content Management Systems (WCMS) consist of applications used to create, manage, store and deploy content on the Web, including text, graphics,....
Web Information Access Pattern:
This solution provides access to Web information resources via a desktop Web browser. An NIH user can access NIH intranet, portal, and Internet....
Workflow/Business Process Management (BPM) Service Pattern:
This pattern shows how business process management (BPM) tools can be used to implement business processes through the orchestration of activities....

Principles

Collaboration Principles:
High level statements of NIH's fundamental values that guide decision-making for collaboration technology.

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