| Common
Terms
|
Acronym |
Industry Definition |
| Business Intelligence |
BI |
A broad category of applications and technologies
for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing
access to data to help enterprise users make better
business decisions |
| Business Performance Management |
BPM |
Applications that monitor businesses activity
and deliver one-version-of-the-truth for real-time
decision-making |
| Cube |
|
Data store accessed by a BI tool that enables
analysis & reporting |
| Data Mart |
DM |
Specialized data repository designed to serve
a particular community of knowledge workers |
| Data Warehouse |
DW |
A central data repository for all or significant
parts of the data that an enterprise's various
business systems collect. |
| Data Base Management System |
DBMS |
A program that manages one or more computer
users access to data without having to understand
where the data is physically located on storage
media |
| Data Warehouse Management System |
DWMS |
A program that manages the organization and
re-organization of data, within a data warehouse,
and publishes an easy means of accessing that
data while retaining a history of all changes
to the database |
| Enterprise Architecture |
EA |
Blueprint that describes each component of the
enterprise integration project |
| Enterprise Integration |
EI |
The sharing of information, processes, and services
among all applications and data sources in the
enterprise without delay. |
| Enterprise Application Integration |
EAI |
Enterprise-wide management of interaction between
disparate applications |
| Enterprise Content Management |
ECM |
The integration & management of unstructured
data |
| Enterprise Information Integration |
EII |
Dynamic consolidation of data from multiple
sources creating a virtual data warehouse for
real-time reporting |
| Enterprise Metadata Repository |
EMR |
Where metadata (data that describes data) is
gathered and stored from a number of sources |
| Extensible Markup Language |
XML |
The industry standard for metadata |
| Extract, Transform & Load |
ETL |
Tool that acquires data from multiple sources,
converts it to the desired state & loads it
into a database |
| Federation |
|
A centralized, consistent definition and design
of key data (master/reference data) implemented
in a decentralized manner based on local requirements |
| Hub & Spoke |
|
Architecture consisting of a data warehouse
with attached data marts |
| Information |
|
Data & facts that have been organized and
communicated in a coherent and meaningful manner |
| Knowledge |
|
Information associated with rules that allow
inferences to be drawn |
| Metadata |
|
Information that describes data |
| Online Analytical Processing |
OLAP |
Processing that enables a user to easily and
selectively extract and view data from different
points of view |
| Operational Data Store |
ODS |
An temporary (usually daily) data repository
without historical data |
| Service-Oriented Architecture |
SOA |
Defines reusable components of business applications
and how they interrelate |
Virtual
Data Warehouse
|
|
An architecture that pulls data dynamically
from source systems on demand. This has been replaced
by EII. |
