Authentication
- The act of verifying the identity of a computer system user. [Wikipedia link]
Authorization
The act of verifying that an authenticated computer system user is allowed access. See Authentication. [Wikipedia link]
Cloud Computing
The on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. [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]
OAuth
An open standard for internet client authorization that uses access tokens, issued from an authorization server, rather than passwords. [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]
Structured Query Language (SQL)
A standard language for storing, manipulating and retrieving data in relational databases. [Wikipedia link]
Tableau
A visual analytics and business intelligence software program. [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]