Glossary of Procurement Terminology and Definitions
- Access Control
- Accessibility Testing (a11y)
- Acessibility Testing (a11y)
- Adaptive Analytics
- Adversarial Robustness
- Agentic AI
- Agentic AI Systems
- AI Audit Trail
- AI Copilot Adoption Strategy
- AI Copilot for Executives
- AI Data Governance
- AI-Driven Ticket Triage
- AI Explainability
- AI Explainability Dashboard
- AI Governance
- AI Hallucination Mitigation
- AI Observability
- AI Performance Benchmarking
- AI-Powered Decisioning
- AI-Powered Forecasting
- AI-Ready Data Architecture
- AI Risk Assessment
- AI Risk Management
- AI ROI Framework
- AI Scenario Planning
- AI Strategy Roadmap
- AI Studio
- AI Transformation Program
- Algorithmic Bias
- Analytical Sandbox
- Anomaly Detection
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Spark
- API Testing
- Automation Frameworks
- Automation (General)
- Autonomous Decision Systems
- Avro
- Batch Processing
- Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
- Behavioral Analytics
- Bias Detection
- Big Data
- Bronze-Silver-Gold Layers
- Business Semantic Layer
- Capacity Planning
- Cart Recovery Conversations
- CDC (Change Data Capture)
- Chain-of-Thought
- Change History
- Chaos Engineering
- Chatbot Frameworks
- CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery)
- Cloud Cost Optimization
- Cloud-Native Data Platforms
- Cognitive Search
- Cold vs Hot Storage
- Column-Level Security
- Columnar Storage
- Compaction
- Containment Rate
- Content Moderation
- Context Retention
- Continuous Testing
- Contract Testing
- Conversation Drop-off Rate
- Conversational Analytics
- Conversational Commerce (C-Commerce)
- Conversational Journey Mapping
- Copilot for Fabric
- Cost Optimization for AI
- Cross-browser Testing
- Customer 360 Analytics
- Data Activator
- Data Architecture
- Data Catalog
- Data Cleansing
- Data Compliance Framework
- Data Contract Testing
- Data Contracts
- Data Democratization
- Data Discovery
- Data Encryption
- Data Engineering
- Data Enrichment
- Data Ethics Framework
- Data Fabric
- Data Fabric Architecture
- Data Governance
- Data Governance Framework
- Data Ingestion
- Data Integration
- Data Lake
- Data Lifecycle Governance
- Data Lineage
- Data Marketplace
- Data Mesh
- Data Migration Strategy
- Data Modeling
- Data Modernization
- Data Observability
- Data Observability Tools
- Data Orchestration
- Data Pipeline
- Data Platform
- Data Platform Consolidation
- Data Platform Resilience
- Data Privacy
- Data Product
- Data Quality
- Data Quality Rules Engine
- Data Residency
- Data Retention Policy
- Data Sensitivity Classification
- Data Serialization
- Data Stewardship
- Data-to-Decision Pipeline
- Data Transformation
- Data Validation
- Data Virtualization
- Data Warehouse
- DataOps
- dbt (data build tool)
- Decision Automation
- Decision-Centric Architecture
- Decision Governance
- Decision Intelligence
- Decision KPI Framework
- Decision Lifecycle Management
- Decision Simulation
- Decision Velocity
- Delta Lake
- Delta Live Tables
- Demand Forecasting Engine
- Dialogue Flow
- Dialogue Management System
- Differential Privacy
- Digital Operations Intelligence
- Digital Twin (Data)
- Direct Lake Mode
- Distributed Query Engine
- Distributed Systems
- Distributed Training
- Document Intelligence
- Domain-Oriented Data
- ELT (Extract, Load, Transform)
- Embedding Models
- Embeddings
- Embeddings Store
- Encryption at Rest/Transit
- End-to-End (E2E) Testing
- Enterprise AI Readiness
- Enterprise Automation Hub
- Enterprise Data Mesh
- Enterprise Data Monetization
- Enterprise Data Trust
- Enterprise LLM Deployment
- Enterprise Predictive Engine
- Enterprise RAG Architecture
- Enterprise Risk Analytics
- Enterprise Search
- Enterprise Semantic Layer
- Entity Extraction
- Escalation Rate
- ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Event Sourcing
- Executive Decision Dashboards
- Explainability (XAI)
- Fabric Capacity Optimization
- Fabric Notebooks
- Fabric Pipelines
- Fabric Security Architecture
- Fabric Warehouse
- Fallback Response
- Feature Store
- Federated Data Architecture
- Federated Governance
- Federated Learning
- Fine-Tuning
- Flaky Tests
- Forecasting Models
- Fraud Analytics
- Generative AI
- Generative AI Responses
- Governance in Fabric
- GPU Acceleration
- Graph Analytics
- Guardrails for AI
- Hallucination (AI)
- Hallucination Detection
- Headless Browser Testing
- Hybrid Cloud Architecture
- Hybrid Data Architecture
- Hyperautomation
- Idempotency
- Inference Pipelines
- Integration Testing
- Intelligent Alerts
- Intelligent Document Routing
- Intelligent Enterprise
- Intelligent Incident Management
- Intelligent Workflow Automation
- Intent Detection
- Inventory-aware Responses
- IoT Data Pipeline
- Kafka Connect
- Key Management
- Knowledge Graph
- Knowledge Mining
- Knowledge Retrieval Layer
- KPI Intelligence
- KQL Database
- Lakehouse
- Lakehouse Optimization
- Large Language Model (LLM)
- LLM Cost Management
- LLMs (Large Language Models)
- Load Testing
- Master Data Management
- Master Data Management (MDM)
- Materialized View
- Medallion Architecture
- Metadata Management
- Micro-batch
- Microsoft Fabric
- MLOps
- Mobile Automation
- Model-Based Testing
- Model Compression
- Model Evaluation
- Model Fine-Tuning
- Model Monitoring
- Model Monitoring & Drift
- Model Registry
- Multi-Agent Orchestration
- Multi-Cloud Data Strategy
- Multi-modal Models
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
- Neural Networks
- Object Storage
- Observability
- Observability for QA
- Observable Metrics
- OLAP vs OLTP
- Omnichannel Integration
- On-device Inference
- OneLake
- Ontology
- Operational Data Store (ODS)
- Operational KPI Automation
- ORC
- Outcome-Based Analytics
- Parquet
- Partitioning
- Performance Testing
- Personalization Layer
- Policy-Based Access
- Polyglot Persistence
- Power BI
- Predictive Intent Modeling
- Predictive KPI Modeling
- Predictive Maintenance
- Prescriptive Analytics
- Pricing Optimization
- Process Mining
- Product Discovery Queries
- Prompt Engineering
- Prompt Governance
- Prompt Templates
- Purview Governance
- Query Optimization
- Rate Limiting
- Real-time Analytics Dashboard
- Real-Time Decisioning
- Real-Time KPI Monitoring
- Reference Data Management
- Regression Testing
- Regulatory AI Compliance
- Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)
- Repeat Queries
- Resolution Rate
- Responsible AI
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Retrieval Grounding
- Revenue Intelligence
- Row-based Storage
- Row-Level Security
- Scenario Modeling
- Schema
- Schema Evolution
- Schema-on-Read
- Schema-on-Write
- Schema Registry
- Security Testing
- Semantic Kernel
- Semantic Models
- Sentiment Analysis
- Serverless Data Processing
- Service Virtualization
- Shift-Left Testing
- SLA for Data
- Small Language Models (SLMs)
- Stream Processing
- Streaming Analytics
- Synapse Data Engineering
- Synapse Data Science
- Synapse Real-Time Analytics
- Synthetic Data
- Synthetic Monitoring
- Test Automation Framework
- Test Automation ROI
- Test Coverage
- Test Data Management (TDM)
- Test Data Masking
- Test Environment Management
- Test Flows
- Test Harness
- Test Orchestration
- Test Reporting Dashboards
- Time Series Modeling
- Time Travel
- Training Data
- Transfer Learning
- Transformer (Model)
- Unified Analytics Platform
- Unified Data Governance
- Unit Testing
- Upsell/Cross-sell Prompts
- Utterance
- Vector Database
- Vector Indexing
- Vector Search
- Workflow Intelligence
- Workflow Orchestration (Airflow)
- Zero-shot / Few-shot Learning
