DNAOS/Glossary/A

DNAOS Quick Glossary

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ACCESS
DNAOS access resources are the main DNAOS role assignment archetype resource. Since roles are also basic entitlement security components, 'access' resources are the main entitlement, security, and role assignment archetype for DNAOS.

ACCOUNTING
DNAOS accounting services are designed and integrated to support collaboration portal accounting. Operations like sales, hr time management, invoicing, metering, reporting, and credit card management are supported at the consolidated portal level as well as for each of the Portal web site publishing partner organizations.

ACTIVITY
(Schedulable) resource transformation of other resource(s), in relation to its capabilities. DNAOS activity Resources are compound activity descriptions; activities combine a task, a phase, and a role. Effective activities are embedded in DNAOS schedule resources.

ADDRESS
a DNAOS nested resource to store detailed addresses; address/person/organization information, for identification, reference, notification, email, subscriptions and membership; addresses are also often used with DNAOS sendmail resources as these define emailing operations and can be used to query addresses.

AGGREGATION
Process of associating resources, by composition, with built-in links, or through relations and associations.

APPLICATION
the process of applying a pattern; computing applications (i.e. programs, code) use general patterns like networks, systems, software, and data to apply dedicated purpose patterns like word processing or vehicle fleet management, for example. Computing applications are often grouped based on 4 basic architecture models.

APPLICATION RESOURCES
Information Resources used and processed by (IT) application, typically as program variables, or content.

ARCHETYPE
the basic Business and infrastructure application resource types. The main DNAOS business application resource archetypes (and color codes) include:

ARCHITECTURE
Architecture is defined by views of resource models of a reality. Architecture is applied to many domains including: Business, Applications, Infrastructure, IT, Building. Basic IT infrastructure architecture types include: single station, client-server, distributed, SOA SOA, Grid, Cloud, SaaS, for example, each typically increasing progressively the number of users and the collaboration potential. See also Business Architecture.

ASSET
what organizations have: stocks, inventory, asset resources.

ASSIGN
DNAOS assignments are stored in 'access' resources. Typically, in the DNAOS environment, assignment and access are almost synonymous as access resources store assignments of a role to a resource (from), for another resource (to), for a period (schedule).

ASSOCIATION
a relation's Entitlement, typically with From and To links to the associated Subject and Object resources, respectively.

AUTHENTICATION
a security validation stage used to verify and confirm users identity authenticity. See also Encryption Authorization Entitlement.

AUTHORIZATION
a security stage where authenticated user identity is used by systems to locate or gather corresponding user profiles to pass to applications to use for access control security for operations and functionality. See also Encryption Authentication Entitlement.

ATOM
DNAOS news feeds and blogs are available in RSS and powered by ATOM.

AUTO-LAYOUT
an important modeling operation, available to DNAOS rich graphical SOA client applications and users, to automatically and selectively layout application resources, virtual profiles, and business processes see also Rotate and Zoom.