Category Archives: abbreviations and definitions

This Category contains the most abbreviations and definitions related to IT Specially UNIX & Linux Systems

AML

Anti-money laundering software is software used in the finance and legal industries to meet the legal requirements for financial institutions and other regulated entities to prevent or report money laundering activities. There are four basic types of software that address … Continue reading

ASM

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is an Oracle database feature that provides DBAs with a simple storage management interface that is consistent across all server and storage platforms. ASM is an integrated volume manager for storing Oracle database files – including … Continue reading

ODS

ODS (Operational Data Store) is an integrated database of operational data. Its sources include legacy systems and it contains current or near term data. A typical ODS may contain 30 to 60 days of information, while a data warehouse typically … Continue reading

OBIEE

it’s Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition you can refer to OBI for more information OBI Ref. http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/business-analytics/business-intelligence/enterprise-edition/overview/index.html

OBI

Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) 12c is a unique platform that enables customers to uncover new insights and make faster, more informed business decisions by offering agile visual analytic and self-service discovery together with best-in-class enterprise analytic. Instant mobile, highly interactive … Continue reading

OFSAA

OFSAA is abbreviation for “Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications” and OFSAA is an applications which read data extracted from legacy sources and save results in the OFSAA results tables. Old OFSAA versions (named OFSA) had a series of Discoverer reports … Continue reading

Customer relationship management (CRM)

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a term that refers to practices, strategies and technologies that companies use to manage and analyze customer interactions and data throughout the customer life cycle, with the goal of improving business relationships with customers, assisting … Continue reading

Volume Group Status Area (VGSA)

Information about which PPs that are stale and which PVs are missing within a VG. The LVM and SCSI driver reserves somewhere between 7-10% of the available disk space for LVM maps, etc. Ref: http://www.datadisk.co.uk/html_docs/hp/aix_lvm.htm

Volume Group Descriptor Area (VGDA)

Information about all the LVs and PVs within a VG. The first 64K of a PV is reserved for this area – defined in <sys/bootrecord.h>. The VGDA consists of BOOTRECORD: – first 512 bytes. Allows the Read Only System (ROS) … Continue reading

OLTP vs OLAP

We can divide IT systems into transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP). In general we can assume that OLTP systems provide source data to data warehouses, whereas OLAP systems help to analyze it.