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NCS Pearson.


NCS (Network Call Signaling) CableLabs version of MGCP. See MGCP/MEGACO.

NCS - Network Computing System: Apollo's RPC system used by DEC and Hewlett-Packard.The protocol has been adopted by OSF.
 Pearson (formerly National Computer Systems) has brought out a new payroll software solution, Data Collection Suite for Payroll, that it says uses the Internet or a company intranet to "sharpen the performance of existing payroll processing systems." Featuring TimePiece[TM] software, the suite collects and "cleanses" payroll data and easily integrates with most third-party payroll systems, NCS Pearson says.

The Minneapolis-based vendor says the software significantly reduces or eliminates manual payroll data entry, automating the collection of employee time and attendance data through a combination of collection technologies. These include Internet/intranet, optical mark read (OMR (Optical Mark Reader) A scanner that reads marks on specific areas of the page. See mark sensing.

OMR - Optical Mark Reader
) scanning, intelligent character recognition In computer science, intelligent character recognition (ICR) is an advanced optical character recognition (OCR) system that allows fonts and different styles of hand writing to be learned by a computer during processing to improve accuracy and recognition levels.  (ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition or Image Character Recognition) The machine recognition of hand-printed characters as well as machine printing that is difficult to recognize. ) scanning, fax, time clock and interactive voice response. Specific business protocols automatically validate the payroll data.

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Publication:Financial Executive
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Nov 1, 2001
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