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Business & Management Practices^®

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Last Update To Bluesheet: March 31, 2011

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File Description	Dialog File Data	Special Features	Sample Record	Sort
Subject Coverage	Database Content	DIALINDEX/OneSearch Categories	Basic Index	Rank
Tips	Document Types Indexed	Contact	Additional Indexes	Predefined Format Options
Print Counterparts	Geographic Coverage	Terms and Conditions	Limit	Rates

File Description [top]

Business & Management Practices^TM (BAMP^TM) database contains information dealing with the processes, methods, and strategies of managing a business. BAMP coverage focuses on those source publications that deal with management issues or business methodology from a practical approach. The database includes abstracts and full text of articles, and is enhanced with rich indexing that enables highly specific retrieval of relevant articles. Table of Contents records for core source publications contained in the database are also included.

Tips [top]

USE FILE 13

to find complete-text articles focusing on management issues critical to business today.

USE IN=

to focus your search on any specific industry.

EXPAND IN=

for a complete list of industries.

USE CT=

to specify a particular concept, such as BUSINESS PLANS or BUDGETING.

EXPAND CT=

to see a complete list of Concept Terms. North America & all countries outside Europe: COMBINE CONCEPT TERMS with company names, industry names, or product codes to easily find information:

SELECT IN=SOFTWARE and CT=BUSINESS STRATEGIES

Subject Coverage [top]

Business & Management Practices^TM is derived from over 300 source publications and should be used when searching for information dealing with management of activities and issues within the corporate environment. Information included in the file covers:

Broad management issues:

Corporate Culture
Decision Making
Training
Benchmarking
Long Range Planning

Specific departments within a company:

Information Technology
Human Resources
Marketing & Sales
Operations

Topics or issues that affect those departments:

Intranet
Information Management
Network Management
Telecommuting
Promotion

Print Counterparts [top]

None

Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered:	1995 to present
File Size:	936,405 records as of March 2011
Update Frequency:	Daily

Database Content [top]

Bibliographic Records
Complete Text Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

Journal Articles

Geographic Coverage [top]

International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

None

Special Features [top]

ERA Available
Graduate Education Program
KWIC and HILIGHT Available
DIALOG Alert Available
Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
CURRENT Feature Available

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM	CATEGORY NAME
BUSECON	Business Economics
LABOR	Labor
MANAGE	Management
MULTIIND	General Industry Information

Contact [top]

Business & Management Practices is provided by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. Questions concerning Electronic Search Assistance should be directed to:

Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
Electronic Search Assistance
27500 Drake Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48331-3535

Telephone:	1-800-877-4253, press 5 (USA & Canada)
E-Mail:	gale.contentQA@cengage.com

Questions concerning Technical Support should be directed to:

Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
Technical Support
27500 Drake Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48331-3535

Telephone:	1-800-877-4253, press 4
Fax:	800-676-2345
E-Mail:	gale.technicalsupport@cengage.com

Terms and Conditions [top]

Business & Management Practices is copyrighted by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. Selected articles in the database are copyrighted by individual publishers whose names are included with each appropriate record. Content from this database is provided for internal use as a single copy by the customer or patron and may only be duplicated, stored in machine-readable form, or optical form or redistributed with the proper license agreements from Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, or its agents, or through Dialog's ERA program. For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive policy, enter HELP ERA online.

Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

	`DIALOG(R)File 13:BAMP`
	`((c) 2003 Resp. DB Svcs. All rts. reserv.`

AA=	`1506200 Supplier Number: 03816909 (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT)`
/TI	`Oracle Reveals Future of Government Sales -- The senior VP of`
	`government sales speaks about security policies, wireless`
	`applications, health-care opportunities and e-mail solutions.`

JN=	`VAR Business, p NA`
PD=	`May 12, 2003`
DT=, SN=	`DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal ISSN: 0894-5802 (United States)`
LA=, RT=	`LANGUAGE: English RECORD TYPE: Fulltext`
WD=	`WORD COUNT: 2088`
AU=	`Byline: Dennis McCafferty`

	`ABSTRACT:`
/AB	`(LEAD PARAGRAPH) Although the industry is well familiar with`
	`Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle as a commercial-side star`
	`the world's largest enterprise software company, for starters`
	`-its origins are actually rooted in federal government sales:`
	`Oracle was founded a quarter century ago as a project for U.S.`
	`intelligence agencies. Dubbed, appropriately enough, Project`
	`Oracle, the venture resulted in the first commercial SQL relational`
	`database-management system.`

	`Today, Oracle is still a top player in government sales, and Kevin`
	`Fitzgerald is the executive who oversees all of it. As the senior vice`
	`president over Oracle's government sales-as well as the education and`
	`health-care markets-Fitzgerald has 1,000 employees targeting the`
	`public-sector market across the United States. Government sales worldwide`
	`now represent up to 25 percent of the company's total revenue, which, for`
	`the most recent fiscal year, was $9.7 billion. Oracle is the largest`
	`software-only provider for federal customers, most recently recording $318`
	`million in annual GSA sales.`

	`TEXT:`
/TX	`Fitzgerald is chiefly responsible for all government contracts at Oracle,`
	`covering everything from relatively small county commission purchases to`
	`state-budget appropriations to sales agreements with virtually every`
	`federal agency in existence. Those agencies include heavyweights such as`
	`the departments of defense, health, energy and transportation. Among the`
	`top government VARs teaming up with Oracle is its largest partner, Herndon,`
	`Va.-based DLT, as well as Blue Bell, Pa.-based Unisys and Virginia Beach,`
	`Va.-based Mythics. But, as Fitzgerald explains in a recent interview with`
	`VARBusiness, Oracle is eager to provide plenty of exposure for the smaller`
	`VARs seeking a growing presence in the government marketplace.`

	`( . . .)`
	`In his conversation with VARBusiness, Fitzgerald explains how this era of`
	`homeland defense and global reach has translated into a wealth of`
	`partnership activity between Oracle and its VAR partners-activity that`
	`continues to evolve rapidly every day.`

	`( . . . )`
	`Copyright 2003 CMP Media, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of`
	`this information may be reproduced, republished or redistributed`
	`without prior written consent of CMP Media, Inc.`

/CO, CO=	`COMPANY NAMES: ORACLE CORP`
/DP, DP=	`COMPANY DEPARTMENT NAME: General Business; Marketing & Sales`
/IN, IN=	`INDUSTRY NAMES: Software`
/PN, PN=, PC=	`PRODUCT NAMES: Prepackaged software (737200)`
/CT, CT=	`CONCEPT TERMS: Marketing strategies; Trends`
/GN, GN=, GC=	`GEOGRAPHIC NAMES: North America (NOAX); United States (USA)`

BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH SUFFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
None	None	All Basic Index Fields	Word	S GOVERNMENT(W)CONTRACTS
None	None	Basic Document	Word
/AB	AB	Abstract¹	Word	S GOVERNMENT(W)SALES/AB
/BT	BT	Book Title	Word	S INTERNET(W)TRAINER(1W)GUIDE/BT
/CO	CO	Company Name²	Word	S ORACLE?/CO
None	CR	Cited References
/CT	CT	Concept Term³	Word & Phrase	S MARKETING(W)STRATEGIES/CT S MARKETING STRATEGIES/CT
/DE	DE	Descriptor^3,9	Word & Phrase	S MARKETING(W)STRATEGIES/DE S MARKETING STRATEGIES/DE
/DP	DP	Company Department Name^2,3,8	Word & Phrase	S MARKETING(1W)SALES/DP S MARKETING & SALES/DP
/GN	GN	Geographic Name^2,9	Word	S UNITED(W)STATES/GN
/IN	IN	Industry Name³	Word	S SOFTWARE/IN
/LP	LP	Lead Paragraph⁴	Word	S ENTERPRISE(W)SOFTWARE/LP
/NM	NM	Named Person²	Word	S BARKSDALE(W)JAMES/NM
/PN	PN	Product Name^2,9	Word	S PREPACKAGED(W)SOFTWARE/PN
/TI	TI	Title and Enhanced Title	Word	S GOVERNMENT(W)SALES/TI
/TN	TN	Brand Name²	Word	S NORTON(W)NAVIGATOR/TN
/TX	TX	Text	Word	S PURCHASING(2N)BEHAVIOR/TX
/XF	None	All Basic Index Fields Except Full Text	Word	S INFLUENCE/XF

¹The Extract suffix (/XT) also searches the Abstract field.

²Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

³/DE includes Concept Terms, Company Department Names, and Industry Names.

⁴Effective from July 2000 forward, abstracts are no longer produced for records having the complete text of the article; use /LP to search the first paragraphs of text.

⁵Codes can be searched at the 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-digit levels.

⁶Display includes Journal Name, Volume, Issue, Pagination, and Publication Date.

⁷Special Feature will cease indexing as of 15 March 2002, but backfile data will remain online.

⁸Department Name will cease indexing as of 15 March 2002 but backfile data will remain online.

⁹Field may not be present in every record.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH PREFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
AA=	AA	RDS Accession Number	Phrase	S AA=01011818
None	AN	DIALOG Accession Number
AU=	AU	Article or Book Author	Phrase	S AU=OLENICK, DOUG
BT=	BT	Book Title	Phrase	S BT=THE INTERNET TRAINER'S GUIDE
CO=	CO	Company Name²	Phrase	S CO=LOCKHEED MARTIN?
CT=	CT	Concept Term³	Phrase	S CT=CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
DP=	DP	Company Department Name^2,3,8	Phrase	S DP=MARKETING & SALES
DT=	DT	Document Type	Phrase	S DT=SURVEY
GC=	GC	Geographic Code⁹	Phrase	S GC=NOAX
GN=	GN	Geographic Name^2,9	Phrase	S GN=UNITED STATES
GT=	GT	Graphics Type	Phrase	S GT=PHOTOGRAPH
IN=	IN	Industry Name	Phrase	S IN=COMPUTER
JN=	JN	Journal Name	Phrase	S JN=COMPUTER RETAIL WEEK
LA=	LA	Language	Phrase	S LA=ENGLISH
NM=	NM	Named Person²	Phrase	S NM=BARKSDALE, JAMES
PC=	PC	Product Code^5,9	Phrase	S PC=573400
PD=	PD	Publication Date	Phrase	S PD=19960930
PN=	PN	Product Name⁹	Phrase	S PN="COMPUTER AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE?"
PY=	PY	Publication Year	Phrase	S PY=1996
RT=	RT	Record Type	Phrase	S RT=FULLTEXT
SF=	SF	Special Feature⁷	Phrase	S SF=TABLE
SN=	SN	International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)	Phrase	S SN=1066-7598
None	SO	Source⁶
None	TC	Table of Contents
TN=	TN	Brand Name²	Phrase	S TN=NORTON NAVIGATOR
UD=	None	Update	Phrase	S UD=9999
UN=	CO	Ultimate Parent Company Name	Phrase	S UN=KNIGHT-RIDDER?
WD=	WD	Word Count	Numeric	S WD>500

LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX	FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
/ENG	English-Language Publications	S S3/ENG
/FULLTEXT	Full-text article	S S3/FULLTEXT
/NONUSA	Record has non-U.S. Emphasis	S S2/NONUSA
/USA	Record has U.S. Emphasis	S2/USA
/YYYY	Publication Year	S S2/2003

SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS	EXAMPLES
AA, CO, JN, PD, PY, TI	SORT S5/ALL/PY,D PRINT S3/9/1-5 JN

RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS	EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked.	RANK AU S3

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]


User-defined formats may be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables.	TYPE S4/TI,AU/1-5

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.	DIALOGWEB FORMAT	RECORD CONTENT
1	--	DIALOG Accession Number
2	--	Bibliographic Citation, Enhanced Title, Word Count, and Indexing
3	Medium	Bibliographic Citation, Enhanced Title, and Word Count
4	--	Bibliographic Citation, Abstract or Short Text, and WordCount
5	Long	Full Record
6	Short	Title, Publication Date, and Word Count
7	--	Full Record
8	Free	Title, Publication Date, Word Count, and Indexing
9	Full	Full Record
K	--	KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
DIALOG Accession NumberTYPE 001011818/3	DISPLAY 00101818/9 PRINT 002311866/9

Rates [top]

Rates For File: Business & Management Practices^®[13]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $6.85
Cost per minute:                   $1.95
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                   $15.75
ALERT (Monthly)                   $28.00
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $21.00
ALERT (Weekly)                    $15.75
ALERT (Daily)                      $4.75
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *  $15.75
ALERT (Intraday)                   $4.75
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints        0

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $2.00    $2.00
     3    $2.00    $2.00
     4    $5.00    $5.00
     5    $5.00    $5.00
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $5.00    $5.00
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $5.00    $5.00
KWIC95    $0.35       NA
KWIC96    $0.35       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
       1-25       1.50
     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

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