Of these four, platforms represent IT's main role in supporting the business - any equipment and technology used by the
business function to carry its activities.
Summary: A report published by Econsultancy and Blue Latitude this week looks at the effect of rapidly evolving digital technology on a range of different
business functions.
Much like the CTA
business functions document, the SEM includes use cases, which describe the processes, activities and tasks associated with each
business function.
The Information Security Forum (ISF), a not-for-profit organisation of over 260 organisations, has published a new report, stressing the unique risks to information presented by outsourcing critical and non-critical
business functions.
Under each
business function will be sub-functional areas for retention purposes.
Courts, in general, have failed to place much (if any) burden on the tax commissioners to explain the
business function, other than solicitation, such activities serve prior to declaring them unprotected.
4(9)(iv) states that "[t]he solicitation of orders includes offering tangible personal property for sale or pursuing offers for the purchase of tangible personal property and those ancillary activities, other than maintaining an office, that serve no independent
business function apart from their connection to the solicitation of orders.
Many of the public relations professionals who participated in the Carrington Associates survey emphasized the need to teach public relations as a
business function -- that there is more to the business than writing press releases and pitch letters.
The New York amendments specifically provide language from the case, including the directive that "ancillary activities, other than maintaining an office, that serve no independent
business function apart from their connection to the solicitation of orders" will be protected.
