Automatic data processing
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automatic data processing
(¦öd·ə¦mad·ik ¦dad·ə ′präs′əs·iŋ)
(engineering) The machine performance, with little or no human assistance, of any of a variety of tasks involving informational data; examples include automatic and responsive reading, computation, writing, speaking, directing artillery, and the running of an entire factory. Abbreviated ADP.
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ADP Europe
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31, avenue Jules Quentin 92016 Nanterre Cedex, France Tel. +33-1-55-63-50-00 Fax +33-1-55-63-50-76 |
Type: Subsidiary
On the web:
http://www.europe.adp.com
A unit of US-based Automatic Data Processing, ADP Europe specializes in outsourced employer services such as payroll, benefits, and human resources management. As a leading international payroll processing provider, the company serves 9 million employees in more than 50 countries located throughout Africa, the Asia/Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East. ADP Europe also offers information processing services and outsourced accounting services for brokerage firms and car dealers. More than 9,000 European auto dealers have used its outsourced administration services.
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Managing Director: Professional Services Sector
Competitors:
Ceridian
HP Enterprise Services
Northgate Information Solutions
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automatic data processing
(DOD) 1. Data processing largely performed by automatic means. 2. That branch of science and technology concerned with methods and techniques relating to data processing largely performed by automatic means.
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Automatic data processing
For the company, see Automatic Data Processing.
In telecommunication, the term automatic data processing (ADP) has the following meanings:
- An interacting assembly of procedures, processes, methods, personnel, and equipment to perform automatically a series of data processing operations on data. (The data processing operations may result in a change in the semantic content of the data.)
- Data processing by means of one or more devices that use common storage for all or part of a computer program, and also for all or part of the data necessary for execution of the program; that execute user-written or user-designated programs; that perform user-designated symbol manipulation, such as arithmetic operations, logic operation, or character string manipulations; and that can execute programs that modify themselves during their execution. Automatic data processing may be performed by a stand-alone unit or by several connected units.
- Data processing largely performed by automatic means.
- That branch of science and technology concerned with methods and techniques relating to data processing largely performed by automatic means.
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This article incorporates public domain material from the General Services Administration document "Federal Standard 1037C" (in support of MIL-STD-188).- This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Department of Defense document "Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms".
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