Tech Dictionary
Our Tech Dictionary: a simple and clear guide to common terms and expressions used in the tech industry.
A–Z
- ABC analysis
- Abstraction
- Accelerator
- Acceptance Criteria
- Access Point
- Accessibility
- Accounting system
- Accounts payable
- ActiveMatrix
- Adaptation
- Adapter
- Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
- Agent
- Agile methods
- AI (artificiell intelligens)
- AMTrix
- Analysis
- Analysis (ANA)
- Angular
- APEX
- API (Application Programming Interface)
- App (application)
- AppFabric
- Apple Pay
- Application architecture
- Application Consultant
- Application integration
- Application Integration Architecture (AIA)
- Application-to-Application (A2A)
- Architecture
- Artefact / object
- Article
- Asynchronous integration
- Atomic
- Automated testing
- Automation
- AWS (Amazon Web Services)
- Axway
- Azure
- Azure Blob Storage
- Azure Data Factory (ADF)
- Azure DevOps
- B2B (Business-to-Business)
- B2C (Business-to-Consumer)
- Back-end
- Backup
- BAM (Business Activity Monitoring)
- Bard
- Basic Data (easyStart)
- Batch integration
- BC Project Management Methodology (BC PMM)
- Best practice
- Best practice process
- Best practice project methodology
- Best-of-breed strategy
- BI
- Big Data
- Binding
- BizTalk
- Black Box AI
- Blockchain
- BOM (Bill of materials)
- Boozt.ai
- BPA (Business Process Automation)
- Brand perception
- Bug
- Business Central
- Business Central Essentials
- Business Central Premium
- Business cycle
- Business function
- Business Intelligence
- Business model
- Business object
- Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- Business Process Model
- Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)
- Business Rules Engine (BRE)
- Business unit (organisational unit)
- C# (C Sharp)
- CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost)
- Canonical
- CardSpace
- Case Run
- Cash register system
- Change Request (CR)
- Changing ERP system
- Chatbot
- ChatGPT
- CHECKDB
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
- CIA Triad
- CIS (Customer Information System)
- Client as a Service (CaaS)
- Cloud computing
- Cloud storage
- Cloud-native
- CLV (Customer Lifetime Value)
- CMS (Content Management System)
- Co-creator
- Code freeze
- Computer science
- Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
- Constraint
- Container technology
- Continuous Integration (CI)
- Conversational AI
- Conversion rate
- Creation
- Critical outsourcing
- CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
- Cross-selling and up-selling
- CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)
- CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- CTA (Call to Action)
- Customer segment
- Customization
- Cybersecurity
- D2C (Direct-to-Consumer)
- DAM (Digital Asset Management)
- Data capital
- Data center
- Data configuration
- Data corruption
- Data crawling
- Data Encryption Standard (DES)
- Data lake
- Data lakehouse
- Data management
- Data migration
- Data migration
- Data mining
- Data modelling
- Data pipeline
- Data resilience
- Data scientist
- Data warehouse
- Data wrangling
- Database
- Database administrator (DBA)
- Database index
- Database instance
- Database monitoring
- Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)
- Databricks
- DataOps
- DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service)
- DEDIP (Grocery Industry Electronic Data Interchange Protocol)
- Deep learning
- Deep learning (DL)
- Deploy
- Design (DES)
- Design system
- Design thinking
- Development (DEV)
- Deviation (Dev)
- DevOps
- Digital showroom
- Digital transformation
- Digital twin
- Digitalization
- Direct Integration Point-to-Point Integration, Spaghetti Integration)
- Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Distributed cloud
- Document Capture (DC)
- Double Maintenance Period
- DPIA (Data Protection Impact Assessment)
- Dropshipping
- Durable
- Dynamics 365
- E-commerce platform
- E2B
- EAC (Estimate and Actuals to Complete)
- EAN (European Article Number)
- easyStart
- ebXML (Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language)
- ECM (Enterprise Content Management)
- Ecosystem
- Edge Computing
- EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
- EDIFACT (Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport)
- eFaktura 2.0
- eFaktura B2B
- eFaktura B2C
- EHF (Elektronisk Handelsformat)
- Electronic document management
- Electronic invoice management
- Elhub
- ELMA (Electronic Recipient Address Register)
- Energyworld
- Enova
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
- ERP project
- ERP provider
- ERP system
- ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
- ESB Toolkit
- ESG (Environmental Social Governance)
- ETC (Estimate To Complete)
- Ethical AI
- ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)
- EU AI Act
- Extensions
- Externality
- Farm
- FCD (Functional Configuration Document)
- FDD (Functional Design Document)
- FIFO (First-In-First-Out)
- Financial system
- Flat File
- Flow test
- Forrester
- FRD (Functional Requirements Document)
- Front-end
- FSA (Functional Solution Architect)
- FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- FTPS (FTP SSL)
- Full-stack
- Functional Test
- Fusion Middleware
- Hadoop
- HAN port (Home Area Network)
- HDD (High-Level Design Document)
- Health Check
- Hosting
- HRM (Human Resources Management)
- HRS (Hours)
- HSEQ (Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality)
- HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
- HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
- HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)
- Hub-and-Spoke
- Hub-and-spoke architecture
- Human Algorithms
- Hybrid Cloud
- Hyperautomation
- Hypercare
- IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
- IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- IAN (International Article Number)
- IC (Intercompany)
- ICE (Integration Center of Excellence)
- ICT (Information and Communication Technology)
- IDD (Interface Design Document)
- IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
- Implementation
- In-house
- Information Architecture
- Information Model
- Information Security
- Infrastructure
- Insourcing
- Integration
- Integration Architecture
- Integration Factory
- Integration Flight
- Integration Mapping
- Integration platform
- Integration Strategy
- Intelligent Automation
- Interconnect
- Interface
- Internet of Senses
- Inventory management
- Inventory turnover rate
- IoT (Internet of Things)
- iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service)
- ISMS (Information Security Management System)
- ISO 27001
- ISO 9001
- ISV (Independent Software Vendor)
- ISV Module
- IT Rights Management
- ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
- Itinerary
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Managed Services
- Master Data
- Matrix
- MDM (Master Data Management)
- Message Exchange
- Message Format
- Metadata
- Metaverse
- Methodology
- MFT (Managed File Transfer)
- Microservices Architecture
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Microsoft Dataverse
- Microsoft Fabric
- Microsoft Graph
- Middleware
- Middleware integration
- Migration
- MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
- Mission-Critical
- MLOps
- Mobil WMS (Warehouse Management System)
- Mobile checkout
- MOM (Message Oriented Middleware)
- MongoDB
- Monolith
- MQ (Message Queue)
- MS (Milestone)
- MS SQL
- MTM (Message Tracking Monitor)
- Multi-cloud
- Multi-platform strategy
- Multichannel
- MySQL
- OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
- ODA (Oracle Database Appliance)
- ODBC (Open Database Connectivity)
- Office 365
- OLFI (Order, Inventory, Invoicing and Procurement)
- Omnichannel
- OMS
- On-prem (on-premises)
- Online Integration
- Ontology
- Open source
- Operating System (OS)
- Oracle
- Oracle Analytics
- Oracle CPU/SPU
- Oracle Exadata
- Oracle OCI
- Oracle ODI (Oracle Data Integrator)
- Orchestration
- Order management
- Order Management System
- OSS report
- OT (Operational Technology)
- PaaS (Plattform as a Service)
- Patch
- PDM (Product Data Management)
- PE (Prompt Engineering)
- Pearson VUE
- PEPPOL (Pan-European Public Procurement Online)
- Persistence Point
- Persona
- Pilot
- PIM (Product Information Management)
- Pipeline
- Planned architecture
- Platform enhancers
- Platform strategy
- PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)
- PMM (Project Management Methodology)
- PoC (Proof of Concept)
- POP (Post Office Protocol)
- Portal
- POS (Point of Sale)
- PostgreSQL
- Power Apps
- Power Automate
- Power BI
- Private Label
- Process mapping
- Process modeling
- Procurement
- PROD (Production Environment)
- Product Backlog
- Product passport
- Project plan
- Proprietary platform (paid platform)
- PSD2 (Payment Services Directive 2)
- Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub)
- Purchasing process
- Purdue Model
- Python
- R
- Ransomware
- React
- REAL (Red Expert Alliance)
- Real-time integration
- Regulator
- Reliable
- Reporting system
- Reseller Portal
- Reservoir Engineering
- Resolution Time
- Response Time
- Responsive design
- Returns management
- Returns system
- RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
- Risk Analysis
- Robotization
- RPA (Robotic Process Automation)
- Runtime
- SaaS (Software as a Service)
- Sandboxing
- SAP
- SCM (Supply Chain Management)
- SCOM (System Center Operations Manager)
- Scope creep
- Scrum
- SDL (Security Development Lifecycle)
- Seismic inversion
- Semantics
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
- Service Management
- SKU (Stock Keeping Unit)
- SLA (Service Level Agreement)
- Smart homes
- SmartWeb
- SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
- SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
- SOA Suite
- SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
- Solution Analysis
- Solution Freeze
- SOP (Standard Operating Procedures)
- Sovereign Cloud
- SPOF (Single Point of Failure)
- Spring Boot
- Sprint
- Sprint Backlog
- SQL (Structured Query Language)
- SSH (Secure Shell)
- SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services)
- SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer / Transport Layer Security)
- SSO (Single Sign-On)
- Statnett
- StC (Steering Committee)
- STM (Secure Transfer Module)
- Story (explanatory / promotional / transactional)
- Subject Matter Workshop
- Sun Microsystems
- Suspended
- Sustainability reporting
- Synchronous integration
- Synchrony
- System apps
- System Software
- Systemtech
- Tailor-made (Custom-built)
- Task (emotional / functional / social)
- TDD (Test Driven Development)
- Technical Debt
- Technological sustainability
- Temporary architecture
- Test automation
- Test Case
- Test Plan
- Test Script
- TFS (Team Foundation Server)
- The Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule)
- Third-party logistics (3PL)
- TIA Solution
- TIBCO
- Track and trace
- TSA (Technical Solution Architect)