Cegal dictionary

Black box AI refers to artificial intelligence systems, whose internal workings are not transparent or easily understandable by humans.

Business Process Automation (BPA) refers to the use of technology to streamline and automate business processes, boosting efficiency and reducing costs.

Bard is Google's answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat. It is a generative AI search and chatbot that makes use of LLMs (Large Language Models) to generate a response to the user.

BCP (Business Continuity Plan) is the plan that describes how a serious interruption to the business's processes is handled.

Backend development is also called server-side programming. This is the development of the server software in a web application. This often delivers data and information in a format Frontend can easily use, usually via an API.

Cegal and Blueback Reservoir joined forces in 2014 to provide a global offering of both IT and software services, and solutions to the oil and gas industry.   

Basecare Discover is a secure and simple solution from Cegal for monitoring database systems and proactively maintaining them.

A backup is a copy of data. The copy is produced with the aim of enabling data to be recreated in the event that it is lost.

BaseCenter service which takes total responsibility for the customer's operation, maintenance and development of databases, integration platforms and integrations.

Big Data is an expression that is used in relation to a massive volume of both structured and unstructured data.

Boozt.ai is a Norwegian chatbot company which produces software based on artificial intelligence.

BI stands for “Business Intelligence”, an umbrella term for IT tools which collect and analyse information stored in your company's various computer systems.

DDoS Attack means distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and is a cybercrime where the attacker floods a server with internet traffic to prevent users from accessing connected online services and sites.

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is an EU regulation for banks and other companies providing financial services within the EU to ensure the resilience of IT systems and networks.

Distributed cloud is a fundamental concept in cloud technology that entails the distribution of computing, storage, and network services across various geographically dispersed locations.

Data resilience is best summed up as your organization's ability to maintain stability and continue operations in the face of unforeseen challenges.

Databricks is a cloud-based platform designed for data processing, primarily targeting data engineers and data scientists.

Data capital refers to the value and potential that organizations derive from their data assets.

Data Management plays a crucial role in the success of businesses across various industries and refers to collecting, storing, organizing, and analyzing data to ensure its accuracy, accessibility, and security.

A Data Scientist is a person who specializes in extracting the essence from large amounts of data using machine learning.

Data Science has evolved over time to become a multidisciplinary field that combines scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data.

Design Systems play a crucial role in maintaining brand identity and ensuring that user interfaces are visually cohesive and user-friendly.

District heating is an energy distribution technique where heat is generated centrally and distributed to multiple buildings or residences through a network of pipes.

Microsoft Dataverse er en alsidig, cloud-baseret platform, der tilbyder virksomheder en effektiv og sikker måde at administrere deres data på. Dens low code tilgang og integration med andre Power Platform-applikationer gør den til en omfattende løsning til datastyring og analyse. 

A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval on a database table.

DataOps combines agile development, DevOps and Lean manufacturing.

Combining the best of a Data Lake with a Data Warehouse, Data Lakehouse stores the vast amounts of organized, semi-structured and unstructured data that it receives from various business applications, systems and gadgets in an enterprise.

Data crawling is a method which involves data mining from different web sources.

The monitoring of databases is used in mission-critical environments in order to obtain advance warnings or pointers if something is wrong, or about to go wrong.

A database administrator, or DBA, is an information engineer who is responsible for managing or performing all activities relating to maintenance of a successful database environment.

Data migration is the process of transferring large amounts of data from one place to another. Such transfers are often carried out in connection with system upgrades or replacements.

Disaster recovery (DR) means having guidelines, procedures and tools in place which enable businesses to regain the use of critical systems and IT infrastructure as soon as possible following a disaster.

Dedupe is an abbreviation of ‘deduplication’. It means eliminating unnecessary copies of a file or parts of a file.

A data warehouse is a central database where we collect different types of data from the business and compile data in a way that makes it easy to gain insight.

A digital twin is defined as a digital or virtual copy of a physical object which exists in the real world.

In Design thinking, new solutions are developed based on the actual needs of the end user.

Digital transformation is the use of new, fast and often changing digital technology to solve problems. It is about transforming manual processes into digital processes or further digitalising existing digital processes.

DL stands for Deep learning, a learning process which aims to train what are known as ‘deep artificial neural networks’. This is a pivotal method in machine learning – where is based on the principle that computers should acquire knowledge about something they do not know or can do already.

The concept of digitalisation is used not only to convert analogue data into digital, but also to introduce digital technology which streamlines processes and transforms everyday life.

DevOps is a holistic concept for systematic and structured collaboration between development and operations teams – Development/Dev and Operations/Ops.

Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is a cloud database, a database that typically runs on a cloud platform, where access to the database is provided as a service.

A data centre is a building, a dedicated room in a building, or a group of buildings that is used to house computers, computer systems and associated components.

Data wrangling, sometimes known as Data munging, can be explained as data reconciliation, data adjustment or data arranging.

Data mining is a process, while computer science is a field. The aim of data mining is to make the data more usable, while the aim of data science is to build data-centric products for an organisation.

A database is a collection of data/information that is stored on a single electronic medium, so that a computer program can consult it in order to answer questions.

FinOps stands for Financial Operations, and it refers to the practice of bringing together finance, operations, and technology teams to optimize the costs of cloud computing within an organization.  

Full-stack is a term used as a description of the process or delivery where a developer or a team delivers both the front-end and the back-end of a given system.

Front-end programming is also called client-side programming, and is the development of websites with the associated client-side programming, for example with frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.

Flows is an architectural component for computation and results management, developed and designed by Cegal to meet growing challenges in geoscience software.

Hydropower, or hydroelectric power, is one of the oldest and largest sources of renewable energy, that generates electricity by harnessing the energy from flowing or falling water.

Hydrocarbon accounting is a process used in the oil and gas industry to keep track of the ownership of oil and gas from the moment it's extracted from the ground until it's delivered into storage.

Hexagon is a technology company providing software and hardware to various industries, including geospatial. One of their core areas of expertise is GIS (Geographic Information Systems).

HSEQ, which stands for Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality, is an integrated framework for ensuring health, safety, environmental, and quality standards in organizations and businesses.

Hyperautomation is the use of advanced technology such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotic Process Automation to automate and optimize tasks that were previously created by humans.

Hybrid cloud is the combination of a public cloud and a private cloud, creating a computing environment that allows organizations to utilize the advantages of both types.

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the fundamental technology used to define the structure of a webpage.

Cegal uses HPC both on-premises and in the cloud. Cetegra offers a turn-key HPC solution.

The Cetegra high-performance desktop has been developed by Cegal to give our customers both the flexibility and the transparency they need to achieve their goals.

HashiCorp Nomad is a simple, flexible and production grade "workload orchestrator", which enables organisations to distribute, manage and scale any application.

HashiCorp Vault is a tool for secure access to secrets. A secret is anything that you want to control access to, such as API keys, passwords and certificates. 

HashiCorp is an open source driven software company founded by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar in 2012 with the aim of revolutionising data centre management: application development, delivery and maintenance. 

Artificial intelligence/Machine learning/Deep learning are umbrella terms for "intelligent" or learning algorithms. They can therefore have a human angle, what we call "Human Algorithms" — the human side of algorithms.

Hubro is a suite of assistance, monitoring and operating services for databases provided by Cegal. We chose the name Hubro for this service precisely because the Hubro has 360-degree vision and incredible night vision. Our solution looks after your data while you sleep.

Hadoop is an open source code program designed to handle the storage of large amounts of data and the running of applications on clusters of ordinary computers.

HAN stands for ‘Home Area Network’. All new electricity meters (smart meters) have an output called the HAN port, which allows for new solutions and services under the umbrella term ‘smart homes’.

JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS.

Java is an object-oriented programming language

Large Language Models (LLMs) are a type of artificial intelligence models that uses deep learning to analyze and understand written language. They are designed to learn and generate language based on a vast amount of training data like books, articles, and websites.  

Linux is the core that is used by Linux-based operating systems. Unlike the Windows and OS X for Mac operating systems, Linux-based operating systems are based on open source.

Low-code is a software development approach which enables applications to be delivered both faster and with minimal hand-coding.

Lean is a methodology for developing businesses and products which aims to shorten product development cycles and rapidly determine whether or not a proposed business model is viable.

Net zero refers to the balance between greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted into the atmosphere and the amount removed from it. The ultimate goal of net zero is to eliminate or significantly reduce the contribution to global warming and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

NIS2 is an EU Directive (2022/2555) aimed at increasing the security of networks and information systems for essential services.

Over recent years NextGen has been widely used to describe a product or technology that has been developed to replace current products or technology.

NoSQL is a database that can handle vast amounts of unstructured data in different ways compared to SQL (relational database) with tables and rows.

NFC is short for “Near-Field Communication”.

The Pay As You Go (PAYG) pricing model in cloud services allows you to pay only for the resources you actually use, eliminating the need for a fixed commitment.

The Purdue model is a part of the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (PERA) developed to model and visualize flows for network-connected OT systems. This model was first introduced in 1992 by Theodore J. Williams of the Purdue University Consortium.

Prototyping is a fundamental process in the development of digital products, websites, or applications, allowing teams to explore and refine ideas before fully committing to implementation.

Prompt engineering (PE) is an emerging discipline within the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). With the advent of ChatGPT, Midjourney and other conversational/ generative AI systems you need to interact with them in a specific way so that you get the desired response.

Pronouns are the words you use when talking about someone, for example, she, him, they. Lately, there has been a shift in the way people use them. 

Pearson VUE provides computer-based testing for information technology, academic, government and professional testing programs around the world.

Power Automate is a versatile user-friendly cloud-based workflow automation tool, that allows you to easily streamline your business workflow by automating repetitive manual tasks and processes, putting automation in the hands of the user.

Power Apps is a part of the low code Microsoft Power platform, and provides a quick development environment where your business can build custom apps that fit your business needs.

Cegal can offer to host Petrel, along with any other software applications a customer may use as part of the GeoCloud/Cetegra IT solution.

A power company is an enterprise that produces different forms of energy, which it then sells to end users. It could be electrical energy, district heating (the heating of water), gas or similar.

A power plant is a plant which generates electrical energy. Examples are hydropower plants, solar farms and gas-fired power plants.

A power generator is a power company that owns power plants and generates electrical power/electrical energy.

Power generation is the process of generating electrical power from sources of primary energy.

A power supplier is a company that you purchase electricity from. You can choose from amongst many different suppliers, all of which offer different prices and terms and conditions.

In an energy-dimensioned production system for electrical energy, ‘power balance’ means the relationship between the system's overall production capacity and the annual consumption of electrical energy.

A Patch is a set of changes to a computer program or supporting data that is intended to improve the functionality, usability or performance of the application.

PEPPOL stands for Pan European Public Procurement Online, and is a digital infrastructure for electronic commerce in Europe. PEPPOL ensures that companies can easily send and receive electronic invoices across national borders.

PSD2 stands for Payment Services Directive No. 2, or the Norwegian Payment Services Directive. It is the latest version of the EU Directive that regulates payment services within the EU and EEA.

PostgreSQL, also known as Postgres, is an open source relational database, also known as a ‘database management system’.

Python is an object-oriented programming language.

Power BI is a business intelligence service that is provided by Microsoft. BI is an abbreviation for Business Intelligence.

PaaS is an abbreviation for "Platform as a Service".

Responsive Design is an approach to web and digital product development that aims to create user interfaces that adapt and optimize themselves automatically to various screen sizes and devices.

Reservoir engineering is a branch of petroleum engineering that applies scientific principles to the fluid flow through porous medium during the development and production of oil and gas reservoirs so as to obtain a high economic recovery.

React is an open-source front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces based on UI components. It is maintained by Meta (formerly Facebook) and a community of individual developers and companies.

Ransomware is a collective name for a type of malicious code used by cybercriminals to lock access to data or IT systems, or steal data.

Rock physics characterize rock properties based on seismic data to determine the porosity of rocks and the velocity of seismic waves traveling through them.

Renewable energy is quite simply energy sources which we cannot run out of, e.g. solar, hydro and wind power.

RPA stands for Robot Process Automation. RPA is used to digitalise, or automate, routine tasks using robotics and artificial intelligence.

Robotisation is an initiative that can be part of the automation of a process or a business.

The Red Expert Alliance (REAL) is a global network of Oracle experts.

R is a programming language for statistical data processing and graphical display of data.

Technical debt, often referred to as tech debt, represents the potential cost that businesses bear when they choose not to address issues that could impact them down the line.

TypeScript is an open-source programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft.

The CIA Triad is a well-known model for developing policies and regulations in the field of information security.

TIA Solution is an application that handles all major insurance processes, and supports and manages the entire insurance value chain.

Tripletex is a Norwegian supplier of accounting systems with the vision of being the first choice and a "one stop shop" for the SME market and accountants

Tardis is an integration between SmartWeb and Tripletex which simplifies customer billing.

In software testing, test automation is the use of software which is separate from the software that is being tested in order to monitor the performance of the test and compare the actual outcome with the predicted outcome.

Velocity modeling or depth conversion is the geophysical method where seismic data are converted from travel time to subsurface depth.

Vue is a JavaScript framework that is used primarily for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It builds on top of standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and provides a declarative and component-based programming model.

VMware is the world's leading provider of virtualisation software and private cloud solutions. VMware enables you to use different operating systems such as Windows and Linux simultaneously.

Visma is a supplier of software, outsourcing services, procurement solutions, collection services, store data solutions and IT-related development and consulting services.

Zero Packet Routing (ZPR) is an innovative network security solution developed by Oracle, aimed at enhancing both network performance and security.

Zero Trust concerns the level of security that a system should have, and is based around the view that no one at a company can be considered to be completely trustworthy by default (Zero Trust).