IT Glossary of Terms

AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates.
 

AWS Lambda is a serverless, event-driven compute service that lets you run code for virtually any type of application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers
 

When implementing, a good backup strategy needs to be in place and has three parts: backups and archiving, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

When implementing, a good backup strategy needs to be in place and has three parts: backups and archiving, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
 

Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell Campuses
 

An issue or bug which you have come across during development or testing and which is not allowing you to develop or test further. 
 

Enterprise wide sofware used to run our batch processes across the UITS organization
 

A botnet is a large number of compromised computers that are used to create and send spam or viruses or flood a network with messages as a denial of service attack.
 

Business Process Management
 

Business Unit/Campus
 

Establishes processing rules for a Commitment Control ledger groups.  Each campus sets up and maintains their own Budget Definitions.  Each GL ledger group and business unit combination (each actuals ledger) whose transactions should be budget-checked, you need at least one budget definition. 
 

A Business Analyst works closely with the customer to manage the needs of UMass throughout the project lifecycle. The Business Analyst works with customer team to overcome obstacles and ensure that the project adds value to UMass.

A business case is a type of document that highlights the benefits your company will gain if you pursue a specific business initiative. For example, you could create a business case for creating additional headcount on your team or for choosing a new work management software.
 

Third party vendor used for FA document upload and Verification
 

Capital assets are those which are used but not consumed. They may get worn out. Examples are building, machinery, furniture, computer etc.                 

Non-capital assets are consumed in the operations or otherwise like raw material, components, packing materials, maintenance consumable, stationary etc.
 

Common Application System by Liaison; an admission application used by BDL
 

The process of successfully concluding or resolving a specific case or issue.

Describes why, the reason for change, including the business benefit that we hope to achieve, the what - hardware, software, system architecture or a combination that will be subjected to change, who/Impact – (urgency and risk):
a)    what is the change touching? 
b)    what is the potential impact of this change and to whom? 
c)    what is the risk of doing or not doing this change to the student system?
d)    what are the possible indirect or direct service and user impacts and consequences of the change and how to avoid them. list any interdependencies.

Dedicated to planning, executing, and managing changes in technologies, or systems. It is a vital element of change management, aimed at empowering stakeholders to effectively embrace and maximize the benefits of these changes in their environment.

The UITS staff person who submits the change is accountable for all aspects of the change process, including planning, documentation, review, execution, and follow-up. They are responsible for entering and documenting the change, as well as providing information to aid evaluation. The change status must be updated to "in progress" when the work starts and then to "complete successful", "rolled back", or "complete with failures" after the work. Changes must not proceed without proper approval, except for emergency changes as noted below.

Describe how - steps needed to implement, roll out or back out the change as well as testing (can be a link in dropbox if needed). an estimated time to back out/roll back needs to be provided.

The person or group requesting the change and is responsible for working with the Change Owner to complete the Change request. The Change Requestor may assist in scheduling or approving unscheduled down time as well as notifying affected users of the change and its impact.

Provide a brief description of the Change.

Component interfaces provide a way to access the PeopleSoft database without using a graphical user interface. A component interface encapsulates a PeopleSoft component, which is a logical grouping of PeopleSoft pages representing a complete business transaction
 

CI and CD stand for continuous integration and continuous delivery/continuous deployment. In very simple terms, CI is a modern software development practice in which incremental code changes are made frequently and reliably.
 

Practices and processes used to automate the building, testing, and deployment of software applications, ensuring efficient and reliable integration and delivery.
 

Amazon/AWS or Microsoft or other platform
 

Amazon/AWS or Microsoft or other platform
 

This means that all programs are (1) written in a plain text editor external to the PeopleSoft system, and (2) compiled using a dedicated COBOL compiler. Because the native COBOL language has no concept of a database, it uses a feature known as 'embedded SQL' to connect to the PeopleSoft database.
 

UMDAR refers to Campus Solutions as COIN