Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service

A service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface. [Wikipedia link]


Data Warehouse

A central repository of integrated data from one or more disparate sources. [Wikipedia link]


Extensible Markup Language (XML)

A markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. [Wikipedia link]


Extract, transform, load (ETL)

A three-phase process where data is extracted, transformed (cleaned, sanitized, scrubbed) and written (loaded) to a data destination. [Wikipedia link]


FTP/SFTP

File Transfer Protocol/Secure File Transfer Protocol. A standard method of transferring files on a computer network. FTP, developed in 1971 has generally been superseded by the more secure SFTP although the terms are often used interchangeably. [Wikipedia link]


Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

An application-layer protocol for transmitting hypermedia documents, such as HTML. The foundation of the World Wide Web.[Wikipedia link]


IICS

Acronym for Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, an Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) offering from Informatica. It has been superseded by the newer Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC).


iPaaS

Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) is a suite of cloud services enabling customers to develop, execute and govern integration flows between disparate applications.


iPaaS

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) is a suite of cloud services enabling customers to develop, execute and govern integration flows between disparate applications. [Wikipedia link]


JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

An open-standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arrays. [Wikipedia link]


JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

An open-standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arrays. [Wikipedia link]


JSON Web Token (JWT)

An open standard for authentication that uses a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)-encoded token to securely represent claims between two parties. Typically, the tokens are used to represent an identity and its associations, such as a user and role or group. [Wikipedia link]


JSON Web Token or JWT

An open standard for Authentication that uses a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)-encoded token to securely represent claims between two parties. Typically, the tokens are used to represent an identity and its associations, such as a user and role or group. [Wikipedia link]


OpenAPI Specification (OAS)

A standard, language-agnostic interface to HTTP APIs. [Wikipedia link]


Representational State Transfer (REST)

A software architectural style that was created to guide the design and development of the architecture for the World Wide Web. [Wikipedia link]


Request-Response

One of the basic methods computers use to communicate with each other in a network, in which the first computer sends a request for some data and the second responds to the request. [Wikipedia link]


SAS

A statistical analysis software suite. [Wikipedia link]


Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

A messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services in computer networks. [Wikipedia link]


Structured Query Language (SQL)

A standard language for storing, manipulating and retrieving data in relational databases. [Wikipedia link]


Swagger

An older specification upon which the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) specification is based. [Wikipedia link]


Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

A unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies, such as a standard web address (http://wisc.edu). [Wikipedia link]


Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

A unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies, such as a standard web address (http://wisc.edu). Although URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), the terms are often used interchangeably. [Wikipedia link]


User Interface (UI)

The space where interactions between humans and machines occur. [Wikipedia link]