Balanced Scorecard
Definition: Balanced Scorecard is a strategic management approach developed in the 1990's by Robert Kaplan and David Norton with four perspectives to view an organization: learning and growth, operational, customer, and financial. What This Means: For education agencies, the balanced scorecard has ...
Back-Up
Definition: Databases must be backed up to duplicate data for disaster prevention and recovery purposes. What This Means: Business continuation planning requires that data stores be backed-up to allow timely recovery from disasters, continuous operations after problems, and even prevention of disasters ...
Back Office
Definition: A back office application does not deal directly with the customer. What This Means: When you hear “back office,” it means that the application is used by the workers, not the decision makers. A data warehouse is a back office application, ...
AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress)
Definition: An accountability measurement defined by the No Child Left Behind Act that requires states to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing academically in order to identify schools in need of improvement. What This Means: ...
Authorization
Definition: Authorization is clearing a person to access a system or information within a system. What This Means: Once a user has been authenticated, then a software application must determine what level of access that person has. Access can be to everything ...
Authoritative Provider
Definition: The software application that is deemed the authoritative source of the data. (As defined by the SIF Association.) What This Means: Within an education agency, the authoritative data source is the one designated as the one responsible for the official data ...
Authoritative Data Source
Definition: A data source is authoritative when it is the one all others rely upon for the official data. What This Means: Designating the authoritative data source is important to ensure an agency knows what data count. Conflicting data from contrasting periodicities, ...
Authentication
Definition: Authentication is verifying the identity of a user logging onto a network. What This Means: Any system that contains confidential information has to know who is accessing that system. Authentication is the gatekeeper task. Passwords, digital certificates, smart cards, and biometrics ...
Editor Security Role
Definition: The “Editor” security role allows access to create, read, update, and delete DataSpecs content but does not provide access to System Administration functions. What This Means: A term that is functional for users of ESP's metadata dictionary tool, called DataSpecs. DataSpecs ...
Audit Report
Definition: Compliance or audit reports are produced to meet a mandate, to establish how funds were expended, or how program services were delivered. What This Means: Traditionally, these reports ask how many and how much, and may be simply financial audit reports, ...
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