IT Glossary of Terms
Term | Definition | Category |
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DML | computer programming language used for adding, deleting, and modifying data in a database. |
Development |
DMS | Data Mover, you can run DDL, DML, and SQL scripts created with the following tools: PeopleSoft Data Mover (DMS scripts). Build SQL functionality in Application Designer (SQL scripts). Platform-specific SQL utilities (SQL scripts). |
PeopleSoft |
Document | Document: A data structure in Boomi that represents a message or payload being exchanged between systems. Documents can be defined using XML, JSON, or other formats. |
Integration |
DTF | Digital Transformation |
Common Acronyms |
Due Diligence | Due diligence is the requirement that organizations must develop and deploy a protection plan to prevent fraud, abuse, and additional deploy a means to detect them if they occur. |
Identity Management & Security |
Dumpster Diving | Dumpster Diving is obtaining passwords and corporate directories by |
Identity Management & Security |
Effort Certification | Certification and compliance for federally funded employees’ financial transactions and reporting. |
Release Management & QA |
Email/ID lookup | Simple PHP/Webservice page for students to lookup SA Emplid (Student ID) or campus email address |
Release Management & QA |
Emergency Change Controls | Generally defined as changes that need to be completed sooner than allowed for Routine or Normal changes. There are two types of emergency changes; restoration and avoidance. Completed change control documentation must be submitted within one (1) business day after resolution of the emergency. |
Change Management |
eMill | Email software used for mass mailings |
Release Management & QA |
EMP | Employee |
Common Acronyms |
Enterprise Web Single Sign-on (SSO) | Web Single Sign-On (Web SSO) is a process that gives users the ability to access multiple Secure Access web applications with a single login (authentication). |
Identity Management & Security |
Entitlement Management | Entitlement Management is a process that grants entitlements to an account enabling the account owner (user) to perform a specific task or function. |
Identity Management & Security |
Environment | A logical grouping of resources in Boomi, such as atoms, processes, connectors, and configurations. Environments help organize and manage integration components. |
Integration |
ER | Expense Report |
Common Acronyms |
Error Handling | Boomi allows you to define error handling logic to handle exceptions, retries, and other error scenarios that may occur during integration process execution. |
Integration |
ES | Eslastic search - is a search and analytics engine for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured, which is based on Apache Lucene. Its built with Java and it is a NoSQL database. That means it stores data in an unstructured way and that you cannot use SQL to query it. |
Release Management & QA |
ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) | The process of extracting data from various sources, transforming it into a suitable format, and loading it into a target system or database. |
Integration |
EX | Expense |
Common Acronyms |
ExcelToCI | The Excel to CI is a utility that's used to import data. It enables you, as the user, to upload data into the PeopleSoft database from an Excel Spreadsheet. |
PeopleSoft |
External Accounting Lines (GL) | Creates accounting entries and populates the external accounting line table with transactions from outside sources. (Ex: AMH OCS - office and classroom supplies recharge). |
Finance System |
Finance | Provides access to financial transactions and reporting. |
Release Management & QA |
Fiscal Year End | It is a procedure that finalizes and closes out all financial activity for a certain fiscal year. |
Finance System |
FSBWTST | Finance Buyways Test Database |
Common Acronyms |
FSDEV | Finance Development Database |
Common Acronyms |
FSLTD | Finance Long-Term Development Database |
Common Acronyms |
FSLTT | Finance Long Term Test Database |
Common Acronyms |
FSPRD | Finance Production Database |
Common Acronyms |
FSTST | Finance Test Database |
Common Acronyms |
Gantt Chart | A Gantt chart is a type of visual project management that displays a project in the form of a timeline. It's an easy way to track a project lifecycle and estimate end dates for certain project activities. Gantt charts enable project managers to easily see what work needs to be done, who is doing it, and when. Tasks are represented by a horizontal bar that represents how long that specific initiative should take. |
Project Management Office |