API
(Application Programming Interface)
Development interface specification for producing IT applications. Software functions library.

API
Series of information analysis statistics techniques and methods for helping to understand a situation and to make better decisions.

ASP
(Application Service Provider) On-line Applications Provider. Applications are generally sold in the form of one annual subscription per user access.

B2B
(Business To Business)
Term used to describe business activity between two companies.

B2C
(Business To Customer)
Term used to describe business activity between companies and their clients.

COLD
(Computer Output On Laser Disc)
Basic GEIDE application
Print flow application management with automatic breakdown of character flows for the purpose of displaying them on background images and on-screen.

STORAGE
Physical and electronic archiving for long-term storage of information and documents, for either heritage or legal purposes.

DATAMINING
(Data warehouse)
Part of the information system for making available on-line all the company’s data.

DATA WAREHOUSE
(Entreprise Application Integration)
Set of software for easy integration between a company’s applications.

EDI
(Electronic Data Interchange)
Standard for electronic transactions.

ECM
(Entreprise Content Management)
Enterprise content management covers creation, acquisition, availability and management of information in a company. Content management is the glue between applications orientated towards the environment outside the company (Front-end Application: Client Relations Management, Automated Selling, etc.) and those internal to the company (Back-end Application: Integrated Management Package, Order Processing, etc)

EID
(Electronic Information and Document Exchange)
APROGED (French Association of Electronic Document Management Professionals) recommendation for the exchange of electronic documents between information systems.

ERP
(Entreprise Ressource Planning)
Application using GEIDE

OUTSOURCING
Action consisting of contracting a service provider to carry out operations normally done by the company.

EXTRANET
Internet shared between an organisation and its external partners.

ISP
Internet Service Provider

ELECTRONIC FORM
By analogy with a paper form, the electronic form enables you to represent a document in a given format, with a certain number of areas to fill in. Data to fill in these areas can either be entered directly by the user, or extracted from a database.

FULL TEXT
Whole tex.

EDM
Electronic Document Management
Basic GEIDE application

GEIDE ® : Electronic Management of Existing Information and Documents
Term registered by APROGED (French Association of Electronic Document Management Professionals)
Means: Electronic Management of Existing Information and Documents.
Means: Electronic Management of Information and Documents for Business.
Means: Electronic Management of Information and Documents for e-Business.

STRUCTURED INFORMATION
Information generally stored in a database and used in exchanges between companies, when creating unstructured documents (Letters, faxes, etc.), or structured documents, etc.

UNSTRUCTURED INFORMATION
Information that is generally unstorable in a database and managed by GEIDE. It is customary to see unstructured information as representing over 80% of information managed in a company, and companies that do not manage this information in the short-term will soon experience difficulties.
Unstructured information generally undergoes conversion processes enabling full-text indexing.

INTEGRATOR
Provider of solutions built from hardware and software, even building blocks with added value. The integrator can guide the project from analysis through to user training.

INTRANET
Internet local to an organisation.

KM
(Knowledge Management)
User application of Electronic Document Management

FR
(Form Recognition)
Basic GEIDE application.
Application for converting paper forms into character and image data.
Form recognition applications recognise marks, printed characters, pre-blocked handwritten characters, handwritten characters in printed characters, handwritten words.

ORC
(Optical Character Recognition)
Character recognition software for translating groups of points of a digitized image into characters (with typographical enrichment), usable by IT programmes.

ODBC
(Open Database Connectivity)
Recognised specification for exchanging information between applications and relational databases, implementing SQL language.

OMR
(Optical Mark Recognition)
Technique implemented by peripherals specialising in mark recognition by optical sensors. Still widely used, optical mark readers are extremely fast at data acquisition but do not read printed or pre-blocked characters.

PORTAL
Application using GEIDE
Application generally on the Web giving access to the various applications and information sources related to a particular theme or activity.
For access to a company’s information sources and applications, it is called an Enterprise Portal.

IMP
(Integrated Management Package)
Application using GEIDE
Configurable application for computerising a company’s in-house (Back-end) activities.

RAID
Secure peripheral storage device functioning on the principle of distribution of information on several media. Several levels (1 to 5) differentiate these devices according to the security level required.

SCM
(Supply Chain Management)
Applications using GEIDE.
Management of the logistics chain.

DBMS
(Database Management System)
Database management systems were used at the start of GEIDE through lack of available technologies. Nowadays, they have mostly been replaced by full-text engines, for authorising access to information and documents by content.

FULL TEXT
Technique for indexing text-type documents (word-processed files) or database text fields, where each word in the text is indexed for use as a search key during an inquiry. This is generally combined with a dictionary of empty words, which are words that will never be indexed, as they appear in texts too frequently, and therefore are not relevant to inquiries (e.g. prepositions, pronouns, etc.).
During an inquiry, words used as search keys can usually be combined with one another by logical search operators like "AND", "OR" and "UNLESS", word proximity operators (e.g. for searching for two words belonging to the same phrase), and truncation operators (for searching for parts of words).

THESAURUS: Organised Dictionary
List of terms adapted to a given document field, organised by semantic affinity and supplemented with connecting links.

TOOLKIT
Software toolkit comprising basic functions.
See also : API.

WORKFLOW
System for ordering workflows in an organisation. At the basis of WorkFlow there is a modelling of the companies functions and procedures.
Most WorkFlow solutions deal with regulating workflows taking into account notions of timing, working time and alerts.