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.

• SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC)

  SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) is the umbrella term for SAP's functional and technical software components that compose its ERP system.

• Google Drive

  Google Drive is a free cloud-based storage service that enables users to store and access files online.

• Google Preemptible VM

  A Preemptible VM (PVM) is a Google Compute Engine (GCE) virtual machine (VM) instance that can be purchased for a steep discount as long as the customer accepts that the instance will terminate after 24 hours. The customer must also agree that Google can shut down the PVM should additional capacity be required to run other workloads.

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 Teams

  Microsoft Teams is cloud-based team collaboration software that is part of the Office 365 suite of applications.

• Windows Admin Center (formerly Project Honolulu)

  Windows Admin Center, formerly Microsoft Project Honolulu, is a browser-based utility that manages Windows Server and client operating systems, hyper-converged clusters, and failover clusters.

• Microsoft Outlook on the web (formerly Outlook Web App, OWA)

  Outlook on the web is the browser-based email client for users to access email, calendars, tasks and contacts from Microsoft's on-premises Exchange Server and cloud-based Exchange Online.

Open Source

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

• Zabbix

  Zabbix is an open source monitoring software tool for diverse IT components, including networks, servers, virtual machines (VMs) and cloud services.

• GitHub

  GitHub is a web-based revision control hosting service for software development and code sharing. GitHub was started in 2008 and was founded on Git, an open source code management system built created by Linus Torvalds to make software builds faster.

• Nagios

  Nagios is an open source monitoring system for computer systems.

Oracle

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

• Oracle Autonomous Database

  Oracle Autonomous Database is a cloud-based technology designed to automate many of the routine tasks required to manage Oracle databases, which Oracle says can free up database administrators (DBAs) to do higher-level and more strategic work.

• Eloqua

  Eloqua is a platform for automation of enterprise-level electronic marketing, offered by Oracle.

• Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN)

  Oracle PartnerNetwork, also known as OPN, is a channel partner program that provides resources and benefits for value-added resellers, independent software vendors and other businesses that want to collaborate with Oracle.

Salesforce

• marketing automation

  Marketing automation is a type of software that allows companies to effectively target customers with automated marketing messages across channels including email, websites, social media and text messages to generate sales leads.

• partner relationship management (PRM)

  Partner relationship management (PRM) is a combination of the software, processes and strategies companies use to streamline business processes with partners who sell their products.

• customer experience management (CEM or CXM)

  Customer experience management (CEM or CXM) is the collection of processes a company uses to track, oversee and organize every interaction between a customer and the organization.

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 BAPI (Business Application Programming Interface)

  SAP BAPI (Business Application Programming Interface) is a standard interface to the business object models in SAP products.

• SAP Data Hub

  SAP Data Hub is software that enables organizations to manage and govern the flow of data from a variety of sources across the enterprise.

• ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming)

  ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is the primary programming language supported on the SAP NetWeaver ABAP application server platform and applications that run on it, such as SAP ERP (formerly R/3), S/4HANA and CRM.

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 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.

• VMware Cloud on AWS

  VMware Cloud on AWS is a hybrid cloud service that runs the VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) stack in the AWS public cloud.

• VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon

  VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon is a monitoring tool that tracks the health and performance of Horizon, Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp, and Remote Desktop Session Host deployments.