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IT-Architects - Skills glossary Category: Technical and IT Date & country: 12/11/2007, UK Words: 1098

Rational Unified Process
(In topic `Tools, Methods & Processes`) see RUP

RDD-100 & RDD.COM
(In topic `Tools, Methods & Processes`) RDD-100 & RDD.COM are Ascent Logic Corporation`s system architecting tools

RDF
(In topic `Web Development`) RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a framework for metadata that provides interoperability between applications that exchange machine understandable data on the Web. By providing the basis for generic tools for authoring, manipulating and searching such data on the Web, it promotes the transformation of the Web int

Reach Software
(In topic `Knowledge, Document, Workflow & Content Management`) see WorkMan

Real-Time Operating Systems
(In topic `Network Architectures`) Examples of real-time operating systems are pSOS, VxWorks, RTXC, QNX & VRTX).

Record Management
(In topic `Knowledge, Document, Workflow & Content Management`) Record management involves the planning, control and protection of the records and documents of an organisation. Having once been a separate discipline, record management is increasingly being integrated into an enterprise`s knowledge and information strategies.  (see RMS and DMS)

Red Brick
(In topic `Data Warehousing & BI`) Red Brick Warehouse, is a relational database RedBrick Systems` Decisonscape

ReFLEX
(In topic `Mobile Internet`) ReFLEX is a protocol developed by Motorola for short data messaging.

Remedy eCRM Solutions
(In topic `CRM Skills`) Remedy Corporations` eCRM solution which offers out-of-the-box functionality; their CRM solutions were developed by BayStone Software which was acquired by Remedy in 1998.

Rendevouz
(In topic `Middleware & EAI`) Tibco Software`s platform integration solution which is an example of messaging middleware or Message Broker.

Request-Reply Architecture
(In topic `architecture`) The vast majority of business information systems are based on the request/reply or ‘pull` model in which a ‘data consumer` (ie anyone seeking information) must actively locate the ‘data producer` (ie find out  where the information is stored) and then request it in just the right manner to trigger a reply. Each request f

Requisite Pro
(In topic `Tools, Methods & Processes`) Rational Software`s requirements management tool

Results Management Software
(In topic `Tools, Methods & Processes`) ABT Corporation`s Results Management Software has been described as one of the most complete project management applications on the market with excellent resource and allocations management capabilities. It includes a number of components including the ABT Repository Console,  AWT Workbench, ABT Planner and A

RFID tags
(In topic `Mobile Internet`) RFID (radio frequency identification) tags are essentially electronic replacements for the barcode that are capable of easily updating and changing the information they store. This capability should open up a wide range of applications for retailers and suppliers that will significantly improve the efficiency of the sup

RightWorks
(In topic `E-Business Solutions`) RightWorks  Corporation, with its flagship B2B Exchange Platform, is a leading provider of B2B exchange software for powering digital marketplaces. Its deep e-procurement functionality supports highly complex transactions, business rules and processes that must be addressed in a trading exchange environment.  Right

RM-2
(In topic `Tools, Methods & Processes`) RM/2 (Risk Management/2) is a risk management methodology developed by the MOD/DGICS (Ministry of Defence/Director General of Information and Communications Systems).

RMI
(In topic `Middleware & EAI`) RMI (Remote Method Invocation) is a set of protocols developed by Sun Microsystems to enable Java objects stored in the network to communicate remotely with other Java objects. It works only with Java objects unlike CORBA & DCOM which can support objects written in any language. RMI, sometimes refered to as Java RMI, i

RMI
(In topic `Web Development`) RMI (Remote Method Invocation) is a set of protocols developed by Sun Microsystems to enable Java objects stored in the network to communicate remotely with other Java objects. It works only with Java objects unlike CORBA & DCOM which can support objects written in any language. RMI, sometimes refered to as Java RMI, is

RMS
(In topic `Knowledge, Document, Workflow & Content Management`) acronym for Records Management Systems. RMS`s are policy-centric systems that control corporate assets in comparison with DMS`s which are information-centric systems for managing, searching and accessing information in documents. The role of a document in a RMS is to provide evidence f

Roadmap
(In topic `architecture`) see Technology Roadmap

Roaming
(In topic `Mobile Internet`) Roaming is the ability to access a network anywhere and move freely while maintaining an active link through a wireless connection to a network.

Rogue Wave
(In topic `Middleware & EAI`) Rogue Wave`s two platform integration solutions, Nouveau & NobleNet RPC , run on most operating systems. Nouveau was the first connectivity framework to use XML & SOAP.

ROLAP
(In topic `Data Warehousing & BI`) ROLAP (Relational OLAP) is one of two prominent architectures for OLAP systems. ROLAP architectures access data directly from a data warehouse to provide OLAP analyses. ROLAP architects believe that OLAP analyses are best provided directly against the relational database. (see OLAP systems & ROLAP).

Roma
(In topic `Middleware & EAI`) Candle Corp`s process integration solution

RosettaNet
(In topic `Web Development`) RosettaNet is an independent, self-funded, non-profit and rapidly growing consortium (including SAP, Intel, Dell, PeopleSoft, 3COM) founded in 1998. It is dedicated to the development and deployment of an XML-based standard e-business interfaces for the IT industry. It seeks to rectify misalignments in the supply chain,

royalblue FrontOffice
(In topic `CRM Skills`) The UK headquartered royalblue is a leading provider of customer interaction software. Its CIS suite includes its flagship product, HelpDesk, which provides support for IT help desks. It also comprises royalblue`s other products including SupportCenter (for customer care) and Rostrvm (for the handling of all aspects of CTI

RPC
(In topic `Middleware & EAI`) RPC (Remote Procedure Call) is a form of application-to-application that hides the intricacies of the network by using an ordinary procedure call mechanism. DCE, TI-RPC & Netwise are examples.

RSA Keon
(In topic `Security`) RSA Security`s family of PKI products which enable, facilitate & extend the use of digital certificates across organisations and applications.   

RSA Signatures
(In topic `Security`) RSA is a public-key encryption technology or signature algorithm developed by and named after three professors at MIT in 1977 (Rivest, Shamir & Adelman). It has since become the de facto industry standard for encryption, especially of Internet transmitted data. RSA has been built into a number of software products including Ne

RUP
(In topic `Tools, Methods & Processes`) RUP (Rational Unified Process), previously known as the Rational Objectory Process (or Objectory), is Rational Software`s Web-enabled software engineering process for enhancing productivity.Taking  a use-case driven and iterative approach to software development, RUP provides a customisable framework that ena

SADT
(In topic `Tools, Methods & Processes`) SADT (Structured Analysis and Design Technique) is a graphical approach to system description.

SAF`s
(In topic `Web Development`) acronym for Server Application Functions which are simply functions the server calls when processing a request.

Sagent Solution
(In topic `Data Warehousing & BI`) Sagent`s integrated product suite for the development and deployment of e-business analytic applications. It has end-to-end functionality by combining ETL capabilities with front-end functionality (designed to include Web reporting features), thereby enabling it to compete head-on with BI tools.

SalesLogix
(In topic `CRM Skills`) Sales automation software solution from Threshold Technologies, Inc.

SAP ALE
(In topic `ERP & Supply Chain`) SAP ALE (Application Link Enabling) technology enables companies to interface R/3 systems with other R/3 systems and legacy systems. ALE is SAP proprietary technology that enables data communications between two or more SAP R/3 systems or between R/3 systems and external systems. With its ability to reduce implementa

SAP APO
(In topic `ERP & Supply Chain`) SAP APO (SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer) is SAP`s software solution that provides a complete suite of supply chain planning functionality that allows enterprises to model, monitor and synchronize their supply chain processes from end to end accurately, globally and dynamically.

SAP Business Workflow
(In topic `Knowledge, Document, Workflow & Content Management`) SAP Business Workflow is SAP AG`s workflow system that is embedded in the heart of the SAP Basis. SAP Basis, which forms the core of SAP R/3, now provides the underlying technology for all mySAP.com application components. The e-business version of SAP Business Workflow is known as Web

SAP BW
(In topic `Data Warehousing & BI`) SAP BW (SAP Business Information Warehouse) is SAP`s ready-to-go data warehouse that converts raw data from diverse internal and  external sources into meaningful information.

SAP LES
(In topic `ERP & Supply Chain`) SAP LES (Logistics Execution System) is SAP`s integrated solution for warehouse and transportation management.

SAP R-2
(In topic `ERP & Supply Chain`) SAP R/2 is the name given to SAP`s first ERP solution that was designed for the mainframe. It comprises of a number of modules: RS (Basis), RF (Financial Accounting), RA (Asset Accounting), RK (Cost Accounting), RK-P (Project Costing), RM-INST (Plant Maintenance), RM-MAT (materials Management), RM-PPS (Production Pla

SAP R-3
(In topic `ERP & Supply Chain`) SAP R/3 is the name given to SAP`s renowned enterprise-wide, client server  ERP solution. Based on a three-tiered client-server architecture, it is written in ABAP/4,  a proprietary 4GL. It is an integrated system with a variety of modules for many different business functions including: 

SAP SCOPE
(In topic `ERP & Supply Chain`) SAP SCOPE is SAP`s supply chain optimisation, planning and execution initiative that combines the strengths of its R/3 ERP solution with SAP APO, SAP Sales Force Automation, SAP Business to Business Commerce and the SAP Business Information Warehouse.  (see SAP R/3, SAP APO and SAP Business Information Warehouse).

Sapphire-Web
(In topic `Web Development`) Bluestone Software`s application server, now known as Total-e-Server (see Total-e-Server)

Saratoga`s Avenue
(In topic `CRM Skills`) Saratoga Systems` CRM solution is used by more than 725 corporations

SAX
(In topic `Web Development`) SAX is an acronym for Simple API for XML. It is an event-based API between an XML parser & an XML application.

Scala
(In topic `ERP & Supply Chain`) Enterprise Incentive Management

SCE
(In topic `ERP & Supply Chain`) Supply Chain Execution

Schema
(In topic `Data Warehousing & BI`) A schema (plural = schemata) is the organisation or structure for a database and derives from the Greek word for ‘form.` The activity of data modeling leads to the creation of a schema of which there are 2 major types: the STAR schema and SNOWFLAKE schema.

SCM
(In topic `ERP & Supply Chain`) Supply Chain Management; the leading SCM vendors include i2 Technologies, Manugistics, IBS, IMI & EXE Technologies.

SCM-Enterprise
(In topic `ERP & Supply Chain`) HK Systems` integrated supply chain management software solution.

Scopus
(In topic `CRM Skills`) Scopus Technology, a leading provider of front office software, was acquired by Siebel Systems in 1998 with the intention of integrating Scopus` customer service, field service and call center applications into a unified suite of sales, marketing and customer service systems.  (see Siebel)

SCP
(In topic `ERP & Supply Chain`) Supply Chain Planning

Scripting Tools
(In topic `Web Development`) Scripting tools, such as PHP and Perl, are often considered entry level application servers because they lack built-in load balancing and failover features.

SDH
(In topic `Network Architectures`) SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) is an international standard for the transmission of synchronous data over fibre-optic cables. SONET is the European equivalent of SONET used in North America (see SONET).

SDSI
(In topic `Security`) SDSI (Simple Distributed Security Infrastructure) is a system that uses public key cryptology combined with mechanisms for defining groups and group membership for certificates.

SDSL
(In topic `Network Architectures`) SDSL (symmetric DSL) is one of the major types of digital subscriber lines, a new technology allowing more data to be sent over existing copper lines. SDSL is being developed primarily in Europe (see xDSL & ADSL).

SDW
(In topic `Tools, Methods & Processes`) SDW (System Development Workbench) is a project management tool comprising a variety of tools ad modules that support a broad range of analysis, design and implementation techniques.

Seagate
(In topic `Data Warehousing & BI`) Seagate Software`s BI tools include Holos (a high end development environment for customised BI applications), Seagate Info (an enterprise system to enable reporting and analysis to throughout the enterprise) and Crystal Reports (a market leading desktop query and report writer).

Seagull
(In topic `E-Business Solutions`) Dutch headquartered Seagull, with solutions such as WinJa (for the mainframe) and J Walk (for the AS/400), is a leading provider of e-business enabling technology that opens enterprise applications for Web, wireless and Windows access. 

Secret Key Cryptography
(In topic `Security`) Secret key (or symmetric) cryptography uses the same key for encryption and decryption of data. The best-known secret key algorithm is DES which was developed by IBM in 1977. Although secret key (or DES) cryptography is very successful, it has posed a number of difficulties that have led to the use of the more advanced public

Security Architecture
(In topic `architecture`) Security Architecture is a component of the  xxx architecture  and defines the security standards and policies needed to protect and make available information assets of the enterprise and its partners, suppliers and customers.

Security oriented protocols
(In topic `Security`) examples of these are IPSec, SSL, TLS, IKE

Select Enterprise
(In topic `Tools, Methods & Processes`) Select Enterprise is Princeton Softech`s CBD (component based development) toolset for modeling, designing & building next generation enterprise applications.

Select SE
(In topic `Tools, Methods & Processes`) Select SE is Princeton Softech`s data modeling  toolset.

SEPP
(In topic `Security`) SEPP (Secure Electronic Payments Protocol) is an open specification for secure bank card transactions over the Internet that was jointly developed by IBM, Netscape, GTE, Cybercash and MasterCard. Building on the iKP protocol, SEPP messages are transmitted as Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) attachments. (see iKP a

SERbrainware
(In topic `Knowledge, Document, Workflow & Content Management`) SERbrainware is SER Systems` intelligent knowledge based software engine that, with the use of  advanced AI techniques, can read, analyse, learn and derive meaning from texts from all media types (including e-mails, Web-sites, faxes, or human speech) with human-like intelligence. SER b

SERfloware
(In topic `Knowledge, Document, Workflow & Content Management`) SERfloware is SER Systems` suite of products for the automation of e-business processes.   

Servlet
(In topic `Web Development`) A servlet is simply the name given to an applet that runs on a server. Hence the term ‘Java Servlets` is applied to Java applets running within a web server environment.

SESAME
(In topic `Security`) SESAME (Secure European System for Applications in a Multi-vendor Environment) is a security specification which resulted from a European research and development project that extended Kerberos by adding authorisation and access services. SESAME is consequently  similar to Kerberos albeit more comprehensive. (see Kerberos).

Session Beans
(In topic `Web Development`) Session beans are one of the 2 basic types of EJB. Session beans are extensions of the client and exist only as long as the client needs them. As such, they are not persistent as are entity beans and are used to model a process or a workflow that defines how other beans interact. (see EJB and Entity Beans).

SET
(In topic `Security`) The SET (Secure Electronic Transaction) protocol, used by the credit card companies to ensure secure credit card transactions over the Internet, represents one of the most sophisticated uses of digital signatures. It provides a mechanism for credit card numbers for credit card numbers to be transferred directly to the credit c

SFA
(In topic `CRM Skills`) Sales Force Automation

SFE
(In topic `CRM Skills`) Sales Force Effectiveness

SGML
(In topic `Web Development`) SGML (Standard Generalised Markup Language) is a system developed by the ISO in 1986 for defining the format in a text document. The emergence of the Web has generated renewed interest in SGML.

Shamrock
(In topic `Knowledge, Document, Workflow & Content Management`) Similar to ODMA, the Shamrock Document Management Coalition is the result of an industry led initiative. The aim of the Shamrock initiative, whose main partners included IBM and Saros, was to specify a middleware layer to be inserted between applications and document servers that would

Shlaer-Mellor
(In topic `Tools, Methods & Processes`) Shlaer /Mellor is a component modeling methodology

Showcase STRATEGY
(In topic `Data Warehousing & BI`) Showcase Corporation  is a leading provider of e-BI solutions for the AS/400;  Showcase  STRATEGY is an end-to-end, enterprise-wide data warehousing solution for the AS/400.

Siebel 99
(In topic `CRM Skills`) Siebel 99 is Siebel Systems`  Web-based front-office family. As the Industry`s first Web-based front-office solution, Siebel 99 represents Siebel`s expanded CRM suite enabled by the integration of Siebel Systems` and Scopus` technologies following their merger in 1998. Entirely Web-based, Siebel 99 unites an organisation`s

Siebel eBusiness Applications
(In topic `CRM Skills`) Siebel Systems` family of eBusiness multichannel applications which include Call Center, .COM, Channel, Industry, Marketing and Field Sales & Field Service Applications. In April 2000, Siebel Systems announced the availability of Siebel eBusiness 2000, the sixth and latest release with extended functionality that includes e

Silknet
(In topic `CRM Skills`) Silknet Software, a provider of customer-centric e-business applications & systems, is now part of Kana Communications following the signing of a merger agreement in Feb` 2000.  This acquisition enables Kana to add Silknet`s customer facing Web-architected e-business platform and applications to its existing solutions for m

Silknet
(In topic `E-Business Solutions`) Silknet Software, a provider of customer-centric e-business applications & systems, is now part of Kana Communications following the signing of a merger agreement in Feb` 2000.  This acquisition enables Kana to add Silknet`s customer facing Web-architected e-business platform and applications to its existing soluti

SilverStream Application Server
(In topic `Web Development`) SilverStream Software`s J2EE-based SilverStream Application Server  provides a scalable end-to-end solution for the building and deployment of complex Java and HTML eBusiness applications for the Internet. The SilverStream Application Server is a component of the SilverStream eBusiness Platform which also includes a ful

SilverStream eBusiness Platform
(In topic `E-Business Solutions`) The SilverStream eBusiness Platform is SilverStream Software`s platform is a complete solution for building and deploying e-business applications for managing customer relationships and conducting online business transactions. Built atop the J2EE-based SilverStream Application Server, the eBusiness Platform also in

SIP
(In topic `Network Architectures`) SIP (Session Initialisation Protocol) is a protocol that provides telephony services similar to H.323 but is less complex (from techweb).

Site Server
(In topic `Web Development`) see MS Site Server & MS Site Server 2000

SiteMinder
(In topic `Security`) SiteMinder is Netegrity`s flagship product for managing and securing e-commerce portals (including B2B, B2C & Intranet portals).

Slate
(In topic `Tools, Methods & Processes`) SLATE (System Level Automation Tool for Engineers) is a system engineering/architecting tool

Smartcard
(In topic `Security`) A smartcard is a card, not much bigger than a credit card, that contains a computer chip that can store or process information. Smartcards are being increasingly used by companies in conjunction with the firewall and PKI to enable users, including remote salesmen and teleworkers, identify themselves securely and electronically

Smartphone
(In topic `Mobile Internet`) A smartphone is the generic name given to digital phones on wireless networks which have the capability to browse the Internet and send and receive email, SMS and faxes. (see Communicator).

SmartSite
(In topic `Data Warehousing & BI`) Revelwood`s SmartSite is a leading software solution for building real-time collaborative planning and analysis solutions on the Web; it can be used to build and deploy analytic applications across corporate Intranets and Extranets.

SMS
(In topic `Mobile Internet`) SMS (Short Message Service) is a service available on digital GSM networks that allows text messages of up to 160 characters to be sent and received via the  network operator's message centre to a mobile phone, or from the Internet,  using a so-called 'SMS gateway' website.

SMSC
(In topic `Mobile Internet`) SMSC is an acronym for Short Message Service Center. SMSC software is now being extended by many vendors, such as Lucent, to provide a wireless data transport method for WAP to enable service providers to host browser-based wireless and mobile Internet services.

SNA LU 6.2
(In topic `Middleware & EAI`) SNA  LU 6.2 is a  transaction protocol

SNMP
(In topic `Network Architectures`) SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is one of the two main standards for controlling telecommunications equipment, the other being TMN. Its very simple design ( a client-server model where requests and responses are used to query and manipulate NE`s) makes it easy to implement even in quite extensive network

Snowflake Schema
(In topic `Data Warehousing & BI`) A snowflake schema ( or ‘snowflaking`) results from the  normalisation of the  dimension tables of a star schema. In snowflaking, some of the fields of the dimensions tables are split off into separate tables. Despite achieving a higher level of normalisation, snowflaking reduces the performance of BI tools.

SOA
(In topic `Network Architectures`) SOA (semiconductor optical amplifier) is one of the most promising technologies for optical networks that will lead to large cost reductions and improved performance in future optical network equipment.

SOAP
(In topic `Web Development`) SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a distributed Protocol  created as a means of using the existing Internet infrastructure to enable applications to communicate directly with each other. Unlike existing distributed protocols, such as DCOM & IIOP, SOAP is explicitly designed to be usable with firewalls in place and

Software Architecture
(In topic `architecture`) Software architecture is the design of application or system software that incorporates protocols and interfaces to allow interaction with other components and to provide for evolution over time. It defines how the components of a system relate to each other unlike a stand-alone program which has program logic but lacks a

SolCom
(In topic `Knowledge, Document, Workflow & Content Management`) SolCom Inc., with its Knowledge Management Product Suite, is a provider of electronic document and workflow solutions (including document imaging, workflow and COLD)  for the IBM mid-range environment.

SONET
(In topic `Network Architectures`) SONET (Synchronous Optical NETwork) is a fibre-optic transmission system for high speed digital traffic. It is a format that uses TDM to enable different types of formats to be transmitted on one line. Used in North America, its counterpart in Europe is SDH. (see SDH).