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Combination Edits

Controls which chartfield values can or cannot be used with journals online.  Included in the Journal Edit Options for ACTUALS ledgers by Business Unit.  Ex EXP_PROG requires all expense accounts (7%) include a program code.  If the rule is violated, the journal edit status will be 'E' and the error will include the combo edit rule it violates.
 

Finance System
Component

A PeopleSoft Component is a collection of pages which are logically grouped.
 

PeopleSoft
Confidentiality

Confidentiality is the need to ensure that information is disclosed only to those who
are authorized to view it.

Identity Management & Security
Connector

A pre-built integration component in Boomi that allows you to connect to a specific application, database, or technology. Connectors simplify the integration process by providing out-of-the-box connectivity.
 

Contingency Plan

A contingency plan is a plan set in place in the event that your original plan doesn't go quite right. A contingency plan is a pre-set Plan B in project management. Contingency plans are often used for larger, more complex projects and initiatives to ensure that everything goes smoothly - even if there’s a smaller hiccup in the execution process. 

Project Management Office
CourseWizard

UMBOS webpages that present catalog and class information to students
 

Student Administration
CPM

Critical Path Method
 

Common Acronyms
Critical

Has the potential to cause a major disruption to business operations or to put the safety of people or property at risk. It should be resolved as soon as possible

Case Management
Critical Path

the series of activities which determines the earliest completion of the project. The critical path will generally change from time to time as activities are completed ahead of or behind schedule.

Project Management Office
CRM

Customer Relation Manager
 

Common Acronyms
CSS

Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML or XML. CSS is a cornerstone technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and JavaScript.
 

Development
Customer

primary recipients of the benefits provided by a service and are typically the focus of a service provider's efforts to ensure satisfaction and meet their needs.
 

Service Delivery
Customer deferred

Customer has decided to defer this request.

Case Management
Customer deferred

The Customer has decided to defer this request.

Case Management
Customer solved

The customer was able to resolve the issue on their own, either with the help of documentation or by finding a workaround.

Case Management
Customer unresolved

The issue still exists but the customer no longer wants resolution.

Case Management
CWR

Contingent Worker
 

Common Acronyms
CX

Customer Experience (CX) combines the perceptions, feelings, and beliefs that your brand has created for customers throughout the entire customer’s journey. It encompasses more than just their experience with your products, but also their overall experience interacting with your organization (customer support, communications, etc.). 
 

Common Acronyms
Dashboards

Classic homepages and dashboards are PeopleSoft pages that aggregate and display pagelets that share some common or similar purpose. Tiles are the PeopleSoft fluid user interface equivalent of pagelets. The intent is that they are a destination for viewing analytics
 

PeopleSoft
Data Integration

The process of combining data from multiple sources or systems into a unified view or dataset, ensuring consistency and accessibility for analysis or business processes.
 

Integration
Data Mapping

The process of defining how data elements from one system correspond to data elements in another system, enabling the transformation and transfer of data between them.
 

Integration
Data Transformation

The process of converting data from one format or structure to another, often required when integrating systems with different data models or schemas.
 

Integration
DDL

Data Definition Language (DDL) is a subset of SQL. It is a language for describing data and its relationships in a database.
 

Development
Definition of Done

an agreed-upon set of items that must be completed before a project or user story can be considered complete.

Project Management Office
Degraded Performance

A reduction in the quality or speed of an IT service.

Case Management
Deliverable

any item that is produced as a result of a project.
 

Project Management Office
Denial of Service

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is a tactic for overloading a machine or network to make it unavailable. Attackers achieve this by sending more traffic than the target can handle, causing it to fail—making it unable to provide service to its normal users.
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is a type of DoS attack where the traffic used to overwhelm the target is coming from many distributed sources. This method means the attack can't be stopped just by blocking the source of traffic.

Identity Management & Security
Dependencies

A relationship between tasks based on their sequence. Dependent tasks require one or more other tasks to be completed or started before the team can start work on them.
 

Project Management Office
Depreciation

allocates the cost of an capital asset over its life.
 

Finance System
Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)

"A Disaster Recovery Plan is the process of recovery of IT systems in the event of 
a disruption or disaster."
 

Identity Management & Security