Business Software

Google - Android

This glossary contains terms related to Google software products and cloud services, including Google Docs, Chrome and the Android operating system.

• Google Cloud Functions

  Google Cloud Functions is a serverless, event-driven computing service within Google Cloud Platform.

• Google Play Protect

  Google Play Protect is a malware protection and detection service built into Android devices that use Google Mobile Services.

• Android Oreo

  Android Oreo 8.0 is the eighth major update to the Android operating system that contains newer features and enhancements for application developers.

Microsoft - Windows

This glossary contains terms related to Microsoft software for operating systems, e-mail, collaboration, backup and recovery, server hardware, storage management, infrastructure security and server virtualization.

• Microsoft Power BI

  Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence platform that provides nontechnical business users with tools for aggregating, analyzing, visualizing and sharing data.

• Exchange Online

  Exchange Online is the hosted version of Microsoft's Exchange Server messaging platform that organizations can obtain as a stand-alone service or via an Office 365 subscription.

• Azure Container Instances

  Azure Container Instances is a service that enables a developer to deploy containers on the Microsoft Azure public cloud without having to provision or manage any underlying infrastructure.

Open Source

This glossary contains terms related to open source software and its administration and management.

• L3 Harris Technologies

  L3 Harris Technologies is a military technology company. The merger of L3 and Harris Technology is expected to make L3 Harris Technologies the seventh largest defense contractor in the world,

• Red Hat

  Red Hat is a leading software company in the business of assembling open source components for the Linux operating system and related programs into a distribution package that can easily be ordered and implemented.

• MySQL

  MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) based on SQL (Structured Query Language).

Oracle

This glossary contains terms related to Oracle software and cloud services.

• Oracle Cloud

  Oracle Cloud is the database company’s public cloud service offering. Oracle has positioned and tailored its cloud services as the best option to run Oracle databases.

• Oracle NoSQL Database

  The Oracle NoSQL Database is a nonrelational, horizontally scalable key-value database, with multiple higher-level data abstractions that support data management as binary key-value pairs, JSON objects, and SQL-like tables.

• PeopleSoft

  PeopleSoft is an e-business software product line owned by Oracle.

Salesforce

• Einstein Voice

  Einstein Voice is a voice user interface (VUI) that uses natural language processing (NLP), voice recognition and artificial intelligence (AI) to translate and perform basic administrative tasks for Salesforce customers.

• Einstein Language

  Einstein Language is a natural language processing (NLP) feature that analyzes and translates consumer's unstructured text into actionable information. Companies with a large influx of customer support emails, social media comments or chat messages can use Einstein Language to filter through the text to flag important messages or forward to the right department.

• lead scoring

  In the B2B industry, lead scoring is a methodology used by sales and marketing departments to determine the worthiness of leads, or potential customers, by attaching values to them based on their behavior relating to their interest in products or services.

SAP

This glossary contains terms related to the SAP R/3 system and SAP cloud services. It also contains terms related to SAP software for finance and asset management, cost accounting, production and operations management, as well as business software for vertical industries that require applications to manage such things as supply chain, manufacturing workflows and personnel.

• SAP MM (SAP Materials Management)

  SAP MM (Materials Management) is a module in SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) that provides companies with materials, inventory and warehouse management capabilities.

• SAP Business Suite

  SAP Business Suite is a bundle of end-to-end enterprise software applications that integrate data, processes and functions for important areas such as finance, sales and HR, as well as industry-focused features.

• SAP indirect access

  SAP indirect access is the license violation that occurs when SAP customers allow third-party applications to communicate with SAP system data.

VMware

This glossary contains definitions related to VMware virtualization technologies. Some definitions explain the meaning of words used in VMware product and service documentation. Other definitions are related to the strategies that network engineers use when implementing server virtualization, virtual server consolidation and virtual desktop centralization.

• VMware Partner Network

  The VMware Partner Network is a global channel partner program with benefits and support to provide VMware's virtualization and cloud technology.

• VMware ESXi

  VMware ESXi is an operating system-independent hypervisor based on the VMkernel operating system that interfaces with agents that run on top of it. ESXi stands for Elastic Sky X Integrated.

• VMware vRealize Log Insight (formerly vCenter Log Insight)

  VRealize Log Insight is a log collection and analytics virtual appliance that enables administrators to collect, view, manage and analyze syslog data.