Poll: What Does the Term "Advanced Solutions" Mean to You?

"advanced  solution" probably means that the marketing guys instead of the engineers are describing the product.

Something like the UFO Navy patents from Salvatore Pais fits the bill for this term.

Advanced means it hasn't been accepted by the industry as a norm yet - use it at your own risk...

Good points.

One more note: I don't know the situation right now, but 99 % of IDEs use the term Project as a bundle of source code and other files related to one target (hw, sw package etc.). However, about 10 years ago, IDEs from Microsoft changed the term from Project to Solution (no sure whether is it still the case as I don't use Microsoft tools). Strictly speaking, it makes sense... Do you need to do a project just to do a project or do you want to create a solution? (By the way, our parents know the term Project only for construction - buildings, bridges etc. - it is from the time before Project Management was brought to our country.)

Anyway, I wouldn't recommend using words like "advanced", "next generation" or even just "new" related to technologies. It is relevant only to the date of introduction. After a few years it becomes obsolete anyway.

There's several meanings for 'solution'. I think you're using the one that means 'solved' as in it solves the problems entirely, so there is no need for anything more advanced?

I don't know how dictionary- or grammatically- correct it is, but in at least in a few workplaces, the word 'solution' when tied to a customer has meant a 'customer solution', meaning 'a customer's implementation of (say) some products put together'. This just differentiates it from a 'system' which can be similar but not necessarily put together for any specific customer. The customer solution can still be poor(bad), inefficient etc.

I could be totally wrong.. curious how others use the word solution too, but personally I've not thought of a customer solution as being the thing that (always) meets their needs. This is tying it to the word 'customer', which isn't mentioned anywhere, but I don't know if tying it to another word would change the meaning yet again, but I think it would change it!

It is meaningless. How are advanced solutions better than the "usual" solutions?

I wouldn't associate it to anything specific. To me it just it implies that the technology was developed in recent years, or uses high-end components/complexities.

I'm wondering if it maybe applies in this case to (mainly software) ways of getting more out of hardware in a leap or innovative way, for instance a lot of the algorithms like machine learning or those with digital processing would be advanced solutions compared to (say) a traditional thermostat. I'm just thinking the phrase may be encountered more in that way perhaps, although certainly there are advanced solutions with new hardware techniques too, and updated hardware would be needed to run more sophisticated software - and some algorithms would be sped up by implementing in hardware anyway.

At work, 'advanced services' refers to all the extra functionality that customers may not be able to do with their new products without paid help designing or testing the solution to meet their needs, basically anything else the customer wants the product(s) to do that go beyond what they could do themselves.

Other.

It doesn't tell anything. Could be a phrase on a "Business Bingo" card.

It is a somewhat confusing ambiguous term. I wonder if "deep dive" might be a better term in a learning context.... according to the online Cambridge dictionary, deep dive refers to a detailed examination of a subject.