Technology Glossary

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Azure 9 articles: Microsoft Azure — Microsoft's cloud platform providing infrastructure, platform and software services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) for deploying, scaling and managing enterprise applications.
AI 52 articles: Artificial Intelligence (AI) — a branch of computer science encompassing machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision to automate tasks that previously required human cognition.
API 4 articles: API (Application Programming Interface) — a set of protocols and rules defining how software components interact; enables system integration without exposing internal implementation.

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BPM 14 articles: Business Process Management (BPM) — a methodology and class of software systems for modelling, automating, executing, monitoring and optimising an organisation's business processes.

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Cloud Solutions 24 articles: Cloud solutions — software and services deployed and delivered via cloud providers' internet infrastructure, eliminating the need to maintain on-premises hardware.
CI/CD 2 articles: CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery) — a software development practice in which code changes are automatically built, tested and deployed, shortening the release cycle and reducing regression risk.

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Data Act 1 articles: The Data Act — an EU regulation (2023) governing data access rights, portability and sharing between businesses, consumers and public bodies within the European Union.
DevOps 8 articles: DevOps — a culture and set of practices uniting software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) to shorten delivery cycles through automation, continuous integration and shared ownership of outcomes.

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ECM 16 articles: Enterprise Content Management (ECM) — a class of systems for the governed capture, storage, management, retrieval and distribution of an organisation's unstructured content: documents, records and media.
ERP 5 articles: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) — an integrated system managing an organisation's core business processes (finance, logistics, HR, manufacturing) within a unified database and data model.

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FinOps 13 articles: FinOps — a cloud financial management methodology combining financial governance, engineering optimisation and business accountability to maximise the value of cloud spending.

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ISO/IEC 27001 28 articles: ISO/IEC 27001 — the international standard for information security management specifying requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an Information Security Management System (ISMS).
Intecracy Group 5 articles: Intecracy Group — an international technology alliance of independent specialised companies united by a shared architectural logic, the UnityBase platform and a unified project delivery model.

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Low-Code 26 articles: Low-code — a software development approach requiring minimal manual coding: applications are built primarily through visual tools, pre-built components and declarative configuration.

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MDM 19 articles: Master Data Management (MDM) — practices and systems for defining, managing and synchronising authoritative records of an organisation's key entities (customers, products, counterparties) across all systems.
multi-cloud 9 articles: Multi-cloud — a strategy of simultaneously using cloud services from multiple providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) to avoid vendor lock-in, improve resilience and optimise costs.

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NIS2 22 articles: NIS2 (Network and Information Security Directive 2) — an EU directive (2022/2555) establishing cybersecurity requirements for operators of critical infrastructure and digital services across EU member states.

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Platform 3 articles: Platform — a software foundation providing shared architecture, APIs and services for developing, deploying and integrating application solutions without building the underlying infrastructure from scratch.
platform engineering 6 articles: Platform Engineering — the discipline of building and maintaining internal developer platforms (IDPs) that standardise developers' infrastructure experience and automate repetitive operational tasks.

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SOC 4 articles: Security Operations Center (SOC) — a team or service providing continuous monitoring, detection, analysis and response to information security incidents within an organisation's IT environment.

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time-to-market 4 articles: Time-to-market — the elapsed time from the start of product or feature development to its availability to end users; a key metric of engineering process efficiency and competitive advantage.

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UnityBase 52 articles: UnityBase — an open-source low-code platform for enterprise system development providing a unified architecture, built-in security model and support for ECM, BPM, IoT and analytics scenarios. Developed within Intecracy Group.

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Zero Trust 28 articles: Zero Trust — a security model assuming no default trust for any request regardless of its network origin; every request is authenticated, authorised and verified before access is granted.

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автоматизація 13 articles: Automation — the replacement of manual or repetitive tasks with software scripts, rules or robotic processes to increase the speed, accuracy and scalability of operations.

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гібридна інфраструктура 5 articles: Hybrid infrastructure — an architectural model combining on-premises equipment with cloud services, providing workload placement flexibility while maintaining control over critical data.

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електронний документообіг 19 articles: Electronic Document Management (EDM) — a system for creating, signing, routing, storing and tracking the fulfilment of documents in electronic format without paper-based media.

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Кібербезпека 24 articles: Cybersecurity — a set of technical and organisational measures protecting information systems, networks and data from unauthorised access, attacks, breaches and destruction.
КСЗІ 25 articles: CSZI (Comprehensive Information Protection System) — a set of organisational and technical information protection measures compliant with Ukrainian DSTSZI and ND TZI regulatory requirements, confirmed by a compliance certificate.

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Мультихмара 1 articles: Multicloud — the use of services from two or more cloud providers to distribute workloads, reduce single-vendor dependency and optimise solution cost and performance.
масштабування 3 articles: Scalability — the ability of a system to increase throughput or capacity in proportion to growing load by adding instances (horizontal scaling) or expanding individual node capacity (vertical scaling).

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розробка програмного забезпечення 6 articles: Software development — the process of designing, coding, testing and maintaining software systems according to client requirements using defined methodologies and a technology stack.

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системна інтеграція 11 articles: System integration — the process of combining separate software and hardware components into a unified functional environment with coordinated data exchange, shared APIs and managed business processes.

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хмарні рішення 5 articles: Cloud solutions — software and services deployed and delivered via cloud providers' internet infrastructure, accessible under SaaS, PaaS or IaaS consumption models.