Glossary

The terms behind the platform, in plain language.

Each entry defines a term, says why it matters and shows how it applies in Corlogic.

Terms

Twelve terms.

A semantic layer defines business terms and how they are calculated once, between raw data and the people or tools that query it.

A star schema organizes analytical data into fact tables that record events and dimension tables that describe what those events involve.

Text-to-SQL converts a question written in ordinary language into a SQL query a database can run, today usually with a large language model.

BPMN 2.0 is a standard notation for describing business processes as tasks, events and gateways, with an XML format tools can exchange.

DMN is a standard for describing business decisions separately from processes, most often as decision tables that map conditions to outcomes.

Human-in-the-loop describes a system in which people review, approve or correct what software, especially AI, proposes before it takes effect.

An AI agent is software that uses a language model to carry out a task by choosing its own steps and tools instead of following a fixed script.

Row-level security limits which rows of a table each user or role can read or change, on top of which tables they can reach.

The Model Context Protocol is an open protocol that gives AI applications a standard way to connect to external tools and data sources.

Forward-deployed engineering is a delivery model in which a vendor's engineers work directly with the customer's teams on the customer's problem.

A request for quotation is a document a buyer sends to suppliers asking them to quote a price and terms for specified goods or services.

A progress payment pays a contractor or subcontractor for the work completed in a period, before the whole job is finished.

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