IT Glossary of Terms

Amazon Simple Email Solution.  Our Amazon SES replaced Sophos our former Email System.

Software for securing and sharing logins, passwords and other sensitive documents and information
 

Communication, Checklists, and Comments engine
 

Appsian Product that provides Dashboards to provide detailed insights into your data: who is accessing, what data, and from where.
 

Admission By Liaison; an admission application processing system used by Lowell
 

Access Certification facilitates the review of a user’s access privileges and requires a third-party to certify that the access should continue to be granted for a designated period of time.
 

Access Management is the set of practices that enables only those permitted the ability to perform an action on a particular resource. The three most common Access Management services you encounter every day perhaps without realizing it are: Policy Administration, Authentication, and Authorization.
 

A task that is immediate or short term to be executed for a deliverable, assigned to a resource with a specific due date. 

Active Directory
 

Average Daily Balance - enables you to report your organization's financial position using average, rather than period-end, balances.  On a monthly basis, the Monday after the Finance GL close, the ADB report is run by the GL Fin App Spec and sent to the Treasury department.
 

The Agile methodology is an iterative form of project management. Software development teams often run Agile, since their project needs can change very rapidly. Instead of working in one big chunk of work, Agile instead focuses on smaller increments so that work can quickly shift towards a different strategy if needed. This ensures that the changes made to the product are focused on what's best for the end user.
 

Artificial Intelligence
 

"Asset Intelligence Management" is Worcester facilities Purchasing tool (Asset Works).   Invoices are generated via BuyWays and processed in PeopleSoft Finance.
 

A set of rules and protocols that allow different software applications to communicate and interact with each other.
 

Application Programming Interface
 

Application Designer is the core development tool used to build and modify PeopleSoft applications. 
 

Application Engine is a PeopleTool designed to help you develop background SQL processing programs. This tool is intended to be used by developers with knowledge of SQL, SQL tools, and PeopleTools. Application Engine offers an alternative to writing COBOL or SQR programs for background SQL processing.
 

The application server handles the bulk of the workload within the PeopleSoft system. It runs the business logic and processes all application requests.
 

approval given to the project at initiation or prior to the beginning of the next stage.

This is the mobile friendly layer provided over the student center in  Campus Solutions provided by Appsian which is now owned by Pathlock. Summer 23 implementing faculty/advisor centers
 

Annual Performance Review
 

Appsian Security Platform - used for authentication into PeopleSoft applications
 

Asynchronous means that you do not halt all other operations while waiting for the web service call to return.
 

A lightweight runtime engine in Boomi that runs integration processes. An atom is an individual server.
 

This is Boomi development platform in the cloud used by all clients.  Developed integrations are then deployed to UMass specific servers either on-prem or in the cloud.
 

Automation of the creation, management, disabling, and de-provisioning of user accounts and entitlements to information systems during the user’s identity lifecycle
 

The technique of making an apparatus, a process, or a system operate automatically
 

UMAMH "Amherst Auxiliary" or Foodpro related invoices and payments.  Invoices to be processed are received in interface files processed in batch.
 

This involves changes that are made to satisfy a critical business need not previously identified, to avoid imminent failure or to avoid a potential failure due to a sub-standard configuration. Examples may include a single point of failure or a performance issue.

Amazon Web Services