| Term |
Description |
| AAM |
Former name for PhenixID Identity Provisioning: Automatic Account Manager |
| Authentication |
Authentication is the process of determining whether someone or something is who or what they declare to be. |
| Authorization |
Authorization is the process of deciding if someone or something has permission to access or use resources that have been permitted to them. |
| IM |
PhenixID™ Identity Manager |
| JDBC |
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is an application program interface (API) specification for connecting programs written in Java to the data in popular databases. |
| LDAP |
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a software protocol for enabling anyone to locate organizations, individuals, and other resources such as files and devices in a network, whether on the public Internet or on a corporate intranet. LDAP is a “lightweight” (smaller amount of code) version of Directory Access Protocol (DAP). |
| ODBC |
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is an open standard application programming interface (API) for accessing a database. |
| Web Service |
The W3C defines a “web service” as a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine-processable format (specifically Web Services Description Language WSDL). |