Glossary

API

Application Programme Interface. These are a collection of components you use to build an application.

CMS

Content Management System.

Coldfusion

Online database management system from Macromedia

Commerce

Trade or exchange of goods and money.

DPA

Data Protection Act.

Extranet

A collaborative network that uses Internet technology to link businesses with their suppliers, customers, or other businesses that share common goals.

FOI

Freedom of Information Act.

HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language.

iAM

Intelligent Asset Management. GOSS' asset and resource management system

iCM

Intelligent Content Management.

Intranet

An internal workplace network, similar in usage as the Internet, but not viewable to the outside world.

ISP

Internet Service Provider.

J2EE

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) - a version of Java for developing and deploying enterprise applications

Microsoft .NET

The .NET framework created by Microsoft is a software development platform focused on rapid application development, platform independence and network transparency.

PDA

Personal Digital Assistant

Portal

A place on the web where sites can be accessed through one single point of entry.

WYSIWYG

What You See Is What You Get.

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium. Regulates the World Wide Web.

XHTML

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

XML

Extensible Markup Language