Oracle Products

Goals of API Management

1. Collect, annotate,and publish key APIs for easy discovery and use by your development community 2. Reduce development costs and time-to-market for new business initiatives that depend on those APIs 3. Enhance the value of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) projects with a catalog of links to business processes, applications, functions, and services

Oracle Services

1. Consulting 2. Financing 3. Managed Cloud Services 4. Premier Support 5. Advanced Customer Support

Functional areas of ERP

1. Financial Accounting 2. Management Accounting 3. Human Resources 4. Manufacturing 5. Order Processing 6. SCM 7. Project Management 8. CRM 9. Data services

Benefits of Cloud

1. Lower IT costs 2. Increased business agility 3. Less complexity---Improved Customer Experience 4. Greater flexibility

Back-end Application

A "back-end" application or program serves indirectly in support of the front-end services, usually by being closer to the required resource or having the capability to communicate with the required resource. The back-end application may interact directly with the front-end or, perhaps more typically, is a program called from an intermediate program that mediates front-end and back-end activities.

Front-end Application

A "front-end" application is one that application users interact with directly.

Client Server

A computer system in which a central server provides data to a number of networked workstations. A web browser, for example, may be the client and an application running on a computer hosting a web site may be the server.

ASAP

A converged activation system to rapidly activate consumer and business services in an automated manner.

Back-end Database

A database that is accessed by users indirectly through an external application rather than by application programming stored within the database itself or by low level manipulation of the data (e.g. through SQL commands).

Cache

A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.

SOA

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural pattern in computer software design in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network. The principles of service-orientation are independent of any vendor, product or technology.

API & REST

An API that adheres to the principles of REST does not require the client to know anything about the structure of the API. Rather, the server needs to provide whatever information the client needs to interact with the service.

IP Address

An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing. Its role has been characterized as follows: "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how to get there."

APIs

Application Programming Interfaces: Manage the links between critical back-end business processes; APIs also move data among these processes, with standard interfaces to help application developers make the connections and utilize essential run-time services; APIs facilitate connections from many types of devices and computing platforms, from mobile phones and tablets to household devices to personal health trackers and automotive systems. Their usage is multiplied by a growing population of mobile devices and computing platforms (Web, tablets, smartphones, TVs, video game consoles, cars, and other household devices--the Internet of Things)

AOV

Average Order Value; For customers who receive no personalized experience, or cross-sell/up-sell merchandising, the AOV is very low

CRM

Customer Relationship Management; is an approach to managing a company's interaction with current and potential future customers. The CRM approach tries to analyze data about customers' history with a company, to improve business relationships with customers, specifically focusing on customer retention, and ultimately to drive sales growth.

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning; A category of business-management software—typically a suite of integrated applications—that an organization can use to collect, store, manage and interpret data from many business activities. Provides an integrated view of core business processes, often in real-time, using common databases maintained by a database management system.

Application Integration

For completing cross-application business transactions with speed, reliability, and efficiency

GRP

Govern Resource Planning: is an ERP for public sector, and an integrated office automation system for government bodies.

API Management

Holds the key to unlocking a diverse set of enterprise software assets, resulting in more efficient and manageable development projects, faster time-to-market for new solutions, lower administrative costs, and improved returns on enterprise architecture investments. A good API Management system provides a simple yet robust platform for creating, annotating, and publishing APIs.

HCM

Human Capital Management

HRMS

Human Resource Management Systems; refers to the systems and processes at the intersection between HRM and IT. One goal is to maintain a complete employee database in order to optimally utilize all employees

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol: is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.

UA

In computing, a user agent is software (a software agent) that is acting on behalf of a user. One common use of the term refers to a web browser telling a web site information about the browser and operating system. This allows the web site to customize content for the capabilities of a particular device, but also raises privacy issues.

Payload

In computing, the payload is the part of the transmitted data that is the actual intended message. In computer security, payload refers to the part of malware which performs a malicious action

IaaS

Infrastructure as a service: Offering a comprehensive set of infrastructure services—including elastic compute and storage—Oracle Cloud's IaaS lets businesses run any workload in the cloud. Best of all, it does so in a fully integrated environment that has been optimized for the cloud and provides a unified security model Targeted Customer: IT Leaders

IT

Interface Technology; IT connects people, process, and technology in a dynamic, distributed environment and delivers on multiple channels including desktops and mobile devices.

Cloud Computing

It's a style of computing based on shared, elastic resources delivered to users in a self-service, metered manner using web technologies.

EBS

Oracle's E-Business Suite (also known as Applications/Apps or EB-Suite/EBS) consists of a collection of enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply-chain management (SCM) computer applications either developed or acquired by Oracle.

PaaS

Platform as a service: Delivering the industry's #1 database (Oracle Database) and #1 application server (Oracle WebLogic Server), Oracle Cloud's PaaS is the industry's leading enterprise cloud platform. Built on proven Oracle technology that runs everywhere, Oracle Cloud's PaaS helps organizations drive innovation and business transformation. Targeted Customer: IT Leaders, Developers

PLM

Product Life-cycle Managements: the process of managing the entire life-cycle of a product from inception, through engineering design and manufacture, to service and disposal of manufactured products. PLM integrates people, data, processes and business systems and provides a product information backbone for companies and their extended enterprise

REST (REsT)

Representational State Transfer: underlying architectural principle of the web. It relies on a stateless, client-server, cacheable communications protocol -- and in virtually all cases, the HTTP protocol is used. REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications.

SEO

Search Engine Optimization: the process of getting traffic from the "free" "organic" or "natural" search results; increases visitors to a site and therefore conversion to sales

SaaS

Services across software as a service: Offering the most complete portfolio of any public cloud, Oracle Cloud's SaaS delivers modern cloud applications that connect business processes across the enterprise. Covering everything from customer experience to enterprise resource planning, human capital management, and more, Oracle Cloud's SaaS offerings are everything you need your business to be: personalized, connected, secure. Targeted Customer: Business Leaders

Siebel

Siebel Analytics is a tool that is used for analyzing the business data at each level. For example: sales person, sales manager, and sales executive. Siebel Analytics is acquired by Oracle along with its Siebel acquisition. Oracle renames the product as Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, or OBIEE.

Internet telephony

Specifically refers to the provisioning of communications services (voice, fax, SMS, voice-messaging) over the public Internet

SQL

Structured Query Language;

SCM

Supply-Chain Management; the management of the flow of goods and services

SOC

The Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm refers to the set of concepts, principles, and methods that represent computing in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in which software applications are constructed based on independent component services with standard interfaces

SIP

The Session Initiation Protocol: is a communications protocol for signaling and controlling multimedia communication sessions. The most common applications of SIP are in Internet telephony for voice and video calls, as well as instant messaging, IP networks.

URLs

Uniform Resource Locators

VoIP

Voice over Internet Protocol: is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over IP networks, such as the Internet. Other terms commonly associated with VoIP are IP telephony, Internet telephony, broadband telephony, and broadband phone service.

LOB

line of business

Multi-Cloud Universe

universe in which data and applications need to be transferred with speed and ease between public, private, and hybrid clouds, and accessed by the myriad devices that customers and employees use