Glossary of Terms
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| ABAP |
refers to Advanced Business Application Programming, SAP’s fourth generation programming language.
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| ASG |
the acronym for Administrative Systems Group, the unit responsible for the SAP R/3 system.
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| BAPI |
stands for Business Application Programming Interface.
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| Basis |
is the middleware that manages client/server functions across R/3.
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| Best Practices |
is a term used to identify a set of standard practices or procedures that have been proven to be highly effective in similar situations.
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| Business Owners |
are the individuals responsible for overseeing a function or service.
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| Business Process |
refers to a group or series of activities by which inputs are turned to outputs that provide a benefit.
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| Business Warehouse |
refers to a repository of management summary level data created from transactions in SAP. |
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| BW |
the acronym for Business Warehouse. |
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| Client |
is an individual SAP system, accessible to a group of users, set up to perform a defined role such as testing, development, training, or production.
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| CM (see SLCM) |
refers to the Campus Management Application in SAP R/3. Campus management included prior to version 6.0 student recruitment, admissions, registration, academic history, accounts management, financial aid, and other student services. Now known as SLCM (Student Life Cycle Management).
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| CO |
is the Controlling Application in SAP R/3.
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| Deliverable |
is something that can be provided as the product of development, an expected result. A deliverable may involve software or hardware.
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| Developer | programmer working in the SAP environment to produce reports, interfaces, enhancements, and conversions
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| DRP |
stands for Disaster Recovery Planning. The primary objective is to enable an organization to survive a disaster and to reestablish normal business operations. In order to survive, the organization must assure that critical operations can resume normal processing within a reasonable time frame.
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| End-users |
are those individuals who use SAP to carry out their routine duties and responsibilities.
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| Enterprise |
is the entirety of an organization that uses computers.
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| Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System |
is a software system that permits organizations to manage resources across the enterprise and enables the integration of various functions.
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| FI |
stands for the Financial Application in SAP R/3.
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| GL Account |
GL Account identifies categories of expense, revenue, assets, liabilities, and fund balances. It is a required data element for each transaction.
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| GM |
acronym for Grants Management.
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| GUI |
stands for Graphical User Interface and refers to the display of software on a screen using graphics, symbols, and icons rather than text alone.
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| HR |
is the Human Resources application in SAP R/3.
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| Infotype |
is a set of data grouped together according to subject matter.
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| Infrastructure |
is the underlying foundation of communications network, hardware, software and databases that run the SAP software.
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| Integration testing |
is testing of all units or components of a software product to ensure they work together properly. |
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| Interfaces |
are program connections between disparate databases.
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| IRIS |
is the acronym for Integrated Resource Information Systems, UK’s enterprise resource planning system effort.
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| Legacy System |
is a system that was used for a long time. At UK, for example, SIS, FRS, and HRS are all legacy systems from the 1980s.
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| Master Data |
are created centrally and available to all applications and all authorized users.
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| MM |
is the Materials Management application in SAP R/3.
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| PM |
is the Plant Maintenance application in SAP R/3.
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| Portal |
refers to a website that provides a gateway or single port of entry to other sites.
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| Power user |
is an individual whose primary job responsibilities require ongoing use of SAP.
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| Project |
is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service. Ongoing operations, in contrast, are undertaken by an organization to routinely and repetitively generate the goods or services it has been set up to generate. |
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| R/3 |
is the term that refers to the SAP application providing real-time access to information using a three-tier system architecture. The three components of this architecture are the information database, the transaction application server, and the user desktop.
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| Real Time |
refers to immediate access to data by multiple users throughout an organization.
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| Risk | is any event that could prevent the project realizing the expectations of the stakeholders as stated in the project charter. A risk that becomes a reality is treated as an issue.
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| Roles |
describe a set of activities for employees. Roles focus on an individual’s tasks and responsibilities in an enterprise and answer the question, “How do I complete the work for which I am responsible?”
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| Sandbox |
is a term used to identify a client that has been built for development, testing, and/or training. |
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| SAP |
stands for Systems Applications Products. This German-based company produced the ERP software that UK uses for its core administration systems.
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| SAP Netweaver |
is the technical foundation for SAP solutions. Netweaver is a comprehensive integration and application platform built to work with existing information technology infrastructures.
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| Scalability |
refers to the ability of a computer application or product (hardware or software) to continue to function well when it (or its context) is changed in size or volume in order to meet a user need. Scalability may also refer to the ability to not only function well in the rescaled situation, but also to actually take full advantage of it.
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| Self-service |
is an electronic, on-line system that puts employees and students in control of managing certain kinds of information (such as address changes or employee benefits selections).
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| Unit Testing |
is the testing of unit in isolation from all components called from other programs or modules.
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| Workflow |
is a sequence of steps processed either by people or by a system. Workflow in SAP is a driven electronic process of notifications and approvals based upon defined criteria and appropriate role authorizations.
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