CWDS Glossary

A Building Block is a coherent testable unit of work with a clear start/end event and a result of measurable business value.  

Documents that are shared with the project team, delivered from the development team. They detail the corrections, changes, or enhancements made to the service or product. This document is usually circulated only after the product or service is thoroughly tested and approved against the specification provided by the development team. This document will be provided as an artifact accompanying the Quality Gate deliverables between environments.

An agency of the federal government of the United States within the U.S. Department of the Interior. The BIA’s mission is to enhance the quality of life, to promote economic opportunity, and to carry out the responsibility to protect and improve the trust assets of American Indians, Indian tribes and Alaska Natives.

Software that aids in monitoring of business activities, as those activities are implemented in computer systems. A business activity can either be a business process that is orchestrated by business process management (BPM) software, or a business process that is a series of activities spanning multiple systems and applications. Business Activity Monitoring is an enterprise solution primarily intended to provide a real-time summary of business activities to operations managers and upper management.

As defined by the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a Business Associate is any organization or person working in association with or providing services to a Covered Entity who generates, handles, or discloses Protected Health Information (PHI)

A business Associate Contract or Business Associate Agreement is a written arrangement that specifies each party’s responsibilities when it comes to PHI. HIPAA requires Covered Entities to only work with Business Associates who assure complete protection of PHI. These assurances have to be in writing in the form of a contract or other agreement between the Covered Entity and the Business Associate. Business Team Definition: A legal business associate contract between a two or more organizations that will receive access to, transmit, or store Protected Health Information (PHI) as part of its services for the provider.

A plan that pinpoints the most important parts of your business, identifies potential risks to these critical pieces and prepares you to recover as quick and easy as possible.

The process of determining the criticality of business activities and associated resource requirements to ensure operational resilience and continuity of operations during and after a business disruption.

A set of techniques and tools for the transformation of raw data into meaningful and useful information for the CWS-CARES Project business analysis purposes. The techniques and tools allow for easy interpretation of CWS-CARES Project data for effective reporting, analysis and to make timely decisions based on historical, current and predictive views of business operations.

A business representation of an organization's data that helps end users access data autonomously using common business terms. Business Objects isolates business users from the technical details of the databases where source data is stored.