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  2. Professional services - Wikipedia

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    Professional services can be provided by sole proprietors, partnerships or corporations. A person providing the service can often be described as a consultant. In law, barristers normally organise themselves into chambers. Businesses in other industries, such as banks and retailers, can employ individuals or teams to offer professional services ...

  3. Are 'provider women' the opposite of 'trad wives'? They're ...

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    Now, meet the "provider women." A new term has emerged online − and unlike "trad wives," which describes women who embrace cooking, cleaning and often subservience to their husbands, this one ...

  4. Service provider - Wikipedia

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    Service provider. A service provider (SP) is an organization that provides services, such as consulting, legal, real estate, communications, storage, and processing services, to other organizations. Although a service provider can be a sub-unit of the organization that it serves, it is usually a third-party or outsourced supplier.

  5. Single sign-on - Wikipedia

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    The user requests a web resource protected by a SAML service provider. The service provider, wishing to know the identity of the user, issues an authentication request to a SAML identity provider through the user agent. The identity provider is the one that provides the user credentials. The service provider trusts the user information from the ...

  6. Managed services - Wikipedia

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    Managed services is the practice of outsourcing the responsibility for maintaining, and anticipating need for, a range of processes and functions, ostensibly for the purpose of improved operations and reduced budgetary expenditures through the reduction of directly-employed staff. [1][2][3] It is an alternative to the break/fix or on-demand ...

  7. Third-party source - Wikipedia

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    In commerce, a third-party source means a supplier (or service provider) who is not directly controlled by either the seller (first party) nor the customer / buyer (second party) in a business transaction. [1] The third party is considered independent from the other two, even if hired by them, because not all control is vested in that connection.

  8. Net neutrality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Other broadband providers proposed to start charging service and content providers in return for higher levels of service (higher network priority, faster or more predictable), creating what is known as a tiered Internet. [245] In 2005, North Carolina ISP Madison River Communications blocked the voice-over-internet protocol (VOIP) service Vonage.

  9. Web service - Wikipedia

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    Web services architecture: the service provider sends a WSDL file to UDDI. The service requester contacts UDDI to find out who is the provider for the data it needs, and then it contacts the service provider using the SOAP protocol. The service provider validates the service request and sends structured data in an XML file, using the SOAP protocol.