(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.
Automatic data processing
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A unit of US-based Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Automatic Data Processing Limited, or ADP Europe, specializes in outsourced employer services such as payroll, benefits, and human resources management. It also offers information processing services for brokerage firms and car dealers. The company serves corporate clients throughout Europe and is one of the region's leading payroll services providers. ADP also does business in Europe through its ADP Clearing unit, which uses its MAESTRO software to process airline tickets worldwide.
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Managing Director: Alan Brennan
Head of Technology: Transaction, Credit & Collections
Competitors:
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EDS
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(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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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).- Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
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