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 FTP, developed in 1971 has generally been superseded by the more secure SFTP although the terms are often used interchangeably.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 It has been superseded by the newer Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC).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.
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 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]