| A | |
| APP | App is short form for Application, or software program designed to automate or work with data to satisfy a business requirement. |
| APPSOURCE | AppSource is a Microsoft online catalogue of First and Third Party Apps for the Business Application Platform that are available for customers with either free or paid licence agreements. |
| AZURE | Azure refers to Microsoft Cloud infrastructure that is a platform for Microsoft software, services and business applications. |
| C | |
| CDS | Common Data Storage. See Dataverse. |
| CFMD | Certified for Microsoft Dynamics |
| D | |
| DATAVERSE | Microsoft Dataverse lets you securely store and manage data that’s used across business applications. Dataverse includes a base set of standard tables that cover typical scenarios, but you can also create custom tables specific to your organization and populate them with data by using Power Query. App makers can then use Power Apps to build rich applications that use this data. |
| DDE | Dynamic Data Exchange |
| DYNAMICS 365 BUSINESS CENTRAL | Dynamics 365 Business Central is the cloud based financial and transactional management Business Application that integrates with the Common Data Service. Dynamics 365 Business Central evolved from Dynamics NAV. |
| DYNAMICS GP | Dynamics GP was a Microsoft mid-market Enterprise Resource Planning application that was originally an acquisition of a software company called Great Plains. |
| DYNAMICS NAV | Dynamics NAV is the legacy name for the Microsoft Enterprise Resource Planning application that was originally an acquisition of a software program called Navision. Dynamics NAV has evolved into Business Central. |
| E | |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
| ERP | ERP is the acronym for Enterprise Resource Planning which describes business applications that typically manage financial, operational, and transnational based scenarios in an enterprise organisation. Bevica is an ERP application powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. |
| ENVIRONMENT | A specific instance of a Common Data Service for a particular company or department. |
| H | |
| HOTFIX | A hotfix is a single, cumulative package that includes one or more files that are used to address a problem in a product and are cumulative at the binary and file level. A hotfix addresses a specific customer situation and may not be distributed outside the customer’s organisation. |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol |
| HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol with Secure Sockets Layer |
| I | |
| IE | Internet Explorer |
| IIS | Internet Information Services |
| ISV | ISV is the acronym for Independent Software Vendor that builds and licences Third Party Apps for the Business Application Platform. |
| L | |
| LICENCE CODE | An alphanumeric key that grants a party the right to use software or software components as prescribed in the terms of the licence agreement, and that activates and inactivates software modules, software capabilities, and software functions. |
| M | |
| MCP | Microsoft Certified Professional |
| MCT | Microsoft Certified Trainer |
| MICROSOFT 365 / M365 | Microsoft 365 is a collection of productivity apps in the cloud that includes Office 365, Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) and access to Microsoft Windows. |
| MICROSOFT FLOW | See Dataverse |
| MS | Microsoft |
| MSDN | Microsoft Developer Network |
| MVP | Most Valuable Professional |
| N | |
| NAVUG | Dynamics NAV User Group |
| O | |
| ODATA | The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a web protocol that is designed for querying data and provides an alternative to SOAP-based web services. OData builds on web technologies such as HTTP and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) to provide access to information from different sources. You can use OData web services to show Business Central data and you can update data in a Business Central database using OData web services. OData can be found across in other Microsoft products and technologies. |
| ODBC | Open Database Connectivity |
| OFFICE 365/ O365 | Office 365 is a cloud-based suite centred around business productivity which includes apps like Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams PowerPoint and more. |
| ONPREMISE | On-premise is the concept of running Business Applications on infrastructure (servers, etc) owned and operated by the customer. |
| OWA | Outlook Web App |
| P | |
| POWER APP | Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, and connectors, as well as a data platform, that provides a rapid development environment to build custom apps for your business needs. Using Power Apps, you can quickly build custom business apps that connect to your data stored either in the underlying data platform (Microsoft Dataverse) or in various online and on-premises data sources (such as SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, SQL Server, and so on). |
| POWER AUTOMATE | Microsoft Power Automate is tool that can be configured to allow communications between different software applications. For example, an action in a Dynamics 365 app can trigger a Flow to copy information from Dynamics 365 to send an email via Outlook. |
| POWER BI | Microsoft Power BI is a visualisation and reporting tool that can directly interrogate Bevica as well as combine other data sources. |
| POWER PLATFORM | The Microsoft Power Platform is a collection of business features designed to allow better communication between Microsoft products and integration with the outside world. These include; Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents. See each entry for more details. |
| POWER VIRTUAL AGENT | With Microsoft Power Virtual Agent, you can create and manage powerful chatbots without the need for code or AI expertise on an easy-to-use graphical interface. |
| Q | |
| QUERY | A query enables designers to retrieve data from multiple tables and combine the data in a single dataset. |
| R | |
| RDMS | Relational Database Management System |
| RDS | Remote Data Services |
| ROLE CENTRE | A Role Centre is a user’s home page. It contains multiple elements or parts. Each part is a container in which you can host other pages or pre-defined system parts, such as an Outlook part or parts for adding tasks, notifications, or notes. |
| S | |
| SAAS | Software as a Service |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| SECURITY ROLE | A defined set of application access privileges. The security role assigned to a user determines which tasks the user can perform and which parts of the user interface the user can view. All users must be assigned at least one security role in order to access the system. |
| SECURITY UPDATE | A security update is a broadly released fix for a product-specific, security-related vulnerability. Security vulnerabilities are rated based on their severity. The severity rating is indicated in the Microsoft security bulletin as critical, important, moderate, or low. |
| SERVICE PACK | A service pack is a tested, cumulative set of all hotfixes, security updates, critical updates, and updates. Service packs may also contain additional fixes for problems that are found internally since the release of the product and a limited number of customer-requested design changes or features. |
| SOAP | SOAP (formerly an acronym for Simple Object Access Protocol) is a messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services. It uses XML Information Set for its message format and relies most often on Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), although some legacy systems communicate over Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), for message negotiation and transmission. |
| SOFTWARE UPDATE | A software update is any update, update rollup, service pack, feature pack, critical update, security update, or hotfix that is used to improve or to fix a software product that is released by Microsoft Corporation. |
| SP | SharePoint |
| SQL | SQL is the acronym for “Structure Query Language” but also refers to the underlying database technology used by Microsoft Business Applications. |
| SQLXML | SQL Server XML |
| T | |
| TABLES | Tables are the fundamental objects. They store the actual data, which is organised within the tables in individual records. |
| TEAMS | Microsoft communication App |
| THIRD PARTY APP | A Third Party App is a business application built using the Common Data Service platform but has not been built or licenced by Microsoft. Third Party Apps can be built by Citizen Developers, ISVs or Partners. |
| U | |
| UCI | UCI is the acronym for Unified Client Interface and describes a more modern user interface experience specifically for Model Driven Apps that are optimised for web, tablet and phone-based experiences. |
| UI | User Interface |
| UPDATE | An update is a broadly released fix for a specific problem. An update addresses a non-critical, non-security-related bug. |
| UPDATE ROLLUP | An update rollup is a tested, cumulative set of hotfixes, security updates, critical updates, and updates that are packaged together for easy deployment. A rollup generally targets a specific area, such as security, or a component of a product, such as Internet Information Services (IIS). |
| USER | Users are people who use software. |
| V | |
| VB | Visual Basic |
| VBA | Visual Basic for Applications |
| W | |
| WEB SERVICE | The term Web service refers to a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a network, serving web documents (HTML, JSON, XML, images). In a Web service a Web technology such as HTTP is used for transferring machine-readable file formats such as XML and JSON. |
| WORKSPACE | A page that provides an overview of one of the activities that the user performs. The page uses tiles, lists, and charts to display pending work and related data from multiple sources, and the page surfaces frequent tasks related to this data. Tiles shown in the summary section of the workspace are also displayed in the related section in the dashboard. |
| X | |
| XBRL | Extensible Business Reporting Language |
| XBML | Extensible Markup Language |
| XMLPORTS | A Business Central object used to import and export data. |
| Z | |
| ZOOM | Originally a feature in Navision, now replaced by ‘Page Inspection’ in Business Central/Bevica that let users see a page’s fields and their values. |
