Glossary
A
- Account Admin
- The Account Admin module allows you to view and edit the information
that identifies your company to the network. This screen is also
used to manage console access privileges to other personnel in your
organization.
- Action
- Actions performed on a document by the system to ensure its
compatibility with business requirements between participants.
- Action Instance ID
- Identifies documents with content that is of a business nature,
such as a purchase order or RFQ.
- Activation
- Connecting a participant to the system.
- Alert
- Alerts provide for rapid notification and resolution when
pre-established operating limits have been breached. An alert consists
of a text based e-mail message sent to individuals or a distribution
list of key personnel either within or outside the Network. Alerts
can be based on the occurrence of a system event or expected process volume.
- Attempt Count
- Indicates whether transaction is a first attempt or a retry.
1 is a first attempt. 2 or greater are number of retries.
B
- Business Process
- A predefined set of transactions that represent the method
of performing the work needed to achieve a business objective.
- Business Rules Testing
- The process of testing and repairing document content errors
between participants.
- Business Signal Code
- Identifies type of signal (document) sent in response to an
action. Examples include receipt or acceptance acknowledgment, or general
exception.
C
- Participant connection
- A participant connection defines the connection between two
specific community member's environments by which one unique process
is executed.
- Choreography
- The required order of documents needed to successfully complete
a business process.
- Classification
- Identifies role of participant in a business process.
- Closed
- Date and time last document in a process is transacted or
a process has been cancelled.
- Community Console
- The Community Console is a Web based tool used to monitor
the flow of your company's business documents to and from your Community Manager
or participants.
- Community Manager Child
- Community Manager Child is a special participant type that
acts like a participant in the console but like a Community Manager when
routing.
- Community Participant
- A hub community member that exchanges business transactions
with the Community Manager.
D
- Data Mitigation
- The process of testing and repairing errors in document structure
and format based on business process standards.
- Digital Signature
- A digital signature is an electronic signature that is used
to authenticate the identity of participants, and to ensure that
the original content of a document that has been sent is unchanged.
- Document
- A collection of information adhering to an organizational
convention. Information can be text, pictures, and sound.
- Document Flow Definition
- Gives the system all of the necessary information to receive,
process, and route documents between community members. Document flow
definition types include package, protocol, document flow, activity
and action.
- Document Protocol
- A set of rules and instructions (protocol) for the formatting
and transmission of information across a computer network. Examples include
RosettaNet, XML, flat file, and EDI.
- DUNS
- The D&B D-U-N-S Number is a unique nine-digit identification
sequence, which provides unique identifiers of single business entities,
while linking corporate family structures together. D&B
links the D&B D-U-N-S Numbers of parents, subsidiaries,
headquarters and branches on more than 64 million corporate family members
around the world. Used by the world's most influential standards-setting
organizations, it is recognized, recommended and often required
by more than 50 global, industry and trade associations, including the
United Nations, the U.S. Federal Government, the Australian Government
and the European Commission. In today's global economy, the D&B
D-U-N-S Number has become the standard for keeping track of the
world's businesses.
E
- EDI
- The computer-to-computer transfer of information in a structured,
pre-determined format. Traditionally, the focus of EDI activity
has been on the replacement of pre-defined business forms, such
as purchase orders and invoices, with similarly defined electronic
forms.
- Event
- A message generated by the system associated with the processing
of documents.
F
- Filter
- To remove data within a sub-transaction based on predefined
parameters.
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP), a standard Internet protocol,
is the simplest way to exchange files between computers on the Internet.
G
- Gateway
- A B2B network point that acts as the entrance to another network.
Data translation and compatibility issues can be resolved by a gateway
to ensure data transfer.
- Gateway Type
- Identifies documents that are routed to a particular gateway
during testing or for live production.
- Global
- Contact person can be assigned alerts by participant and Community
Manager.
- Group
- A collection of users given access privilege to the console
for performing selected functions.
H
- HTTP
- The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the set of rules
(protocol) for exchanging files (text, graphic images, sound, video,
and other multimedia files) on the Web.
- HTTPS
- HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer)
is a Web protocol that encrypts and decrypts user page requests
as well as the pages that are returned by the Web server.
I
- In Response Business Action
- Identifies type of business document sent in response to an
action in the same process.
- In Response to ID
- ID number of In Response Business Action.
- Inbound Manager
- Retrieves documents from the NAS and prepares them for the
appropriate action task by the business process engine.
L
- Live
- The state at which a participant has successfully completed
business rules testing, and the Community Manager issued a service
request to move them to a live status.
P
- Packages
- Identify document packaging formats that can be received by
the system's server. For example, AS1 and AS2.
- PIP (Partner Interface Process)
- Define business processes between Community Managers and Partners (in WebSphere
Partner Gateway, Partners are participants). Each PIP identifies
a specific business document and how it is processed.
- Process Instance ID
- Unique identification number for a particular business process.
- Production
- Destination gateway used for routing live documents.
- Profile
- The Profile module allows you to view and edit the information
that identifies your company to the system.
- Protocols
- Identify specific types of document formats for a variety
of business processes. For example, RosettaNet and XML.
- Provisioning
- Provisioning (or on-boarding) consists of completing a sequence
of steps required for connecting a user's B2B gateway to the system
infrastructure.
R
- Reports
- The Reports module allows users to create detailed reports
on the volume of documents being processed as well as events generated
by the system.
- RNIF
- The RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF) is a guideline
for creating a standard envelope-container for all Partner Interface
Processes (PIPs).
- RTF
- Rich Text Format (RTF) is a file format that lets you exchange
text files between different word processors in different operating
systems. For example, you can create a file using Microsoft Word
in Windows 98, save it as an RTF file (it will have a .rtf file
name suffix), and send it to someone who uses WordPerfect 6.0 on
Windows 3.1.
S
- Service
- Identifies whether message is RosettaNet based.
- Servlet
- Small program running on the Web server that writes the incoming
document to the NAS.
- Signal
- The document sent in response to an action.
- Signal Instance ID
- Identifies documents that are positive or negative acknowledgments
sent in response to actions.
- Signal Version
- Version of business process sent as a signal.
- SMTP
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is a protocol used in sending
and receiving e-mail.
- SR
- Service request
- SSL
- Secure sockets layer is a secure method of sending data using
the HTTP protocol.
- State
- (1) Documents being processed by the system are in one of four
states
- (2) received, in progress, failed, or successful.
- Subscribed contact
- A subscribed contact is an individual who has been designated
to receive e-mail alerts.
- Substitute
- To replace data within a sub-transaction with other data based
on predefined parameters.
T
- Test
- The state at which a participant is undergoing data mitigation
or business rules testing during the provisioning process.
- Tools
- The Tools module allows you to troubleshoot process failure
by allowing you to see faulty documents, data fields, and their
associated events.
- Transaction
- A sequence of information exchange and related work that is
treated as a unit for the purposes of conducting business between
participants.
- Transaction ID
- ID number of business process.
- Transform
- Replace the contents of a document with data from a cross
reference table.
- Translation
- When a document is converted from one protocol to another.
- Transport Protocol
- A set of rules (protocol) used to send data in the form of
message units between computers over the Internet. Examples include
HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, and FTP.
U
- URL
- A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the address of a document
or process (resource) accessible on the Internet.
V
- Validation
- Validation is the act of comparing a process sub-transaction
against the specified requirements to determine its validity or
invalidity. Content and transaction sequence are typical parameters.
- Version
- The particular release of a document protocol.
- Visibility
- Visibility defines if a contact person can be assigned to
an alert by a participant (local) or also by the Community Manager
(global).
W
- Wildcard
- Criteria for wildcard searches includes the asterisk (*).
