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Sales Forecast
  • Salesforce

It is a projection of the expected sales revenue that estimates the number of sales a company is going to make within a stipulated timeframe.

Salesforce
  • Salesforce

Salesforce is a cloud-based platform that provides software and services to help businesses find more prospects, close more deals, and wow customers with amazing service.

Salesforce Account
  • Salesforce

A company you are doing business with. It stores the data of customers and partners along with competitors, investors, resellers and all other parties you may interact with.

Salesforce Activities
  • Salesforce

Engagement tracking objects that include tasks, events and calendars. Salesforce Activities track tasks and meetings in lists. It also reports to improve time management and keep a source of truth for all accounts, campaigns, contacts, leads and opportunities. Salesforce Activities are split into two: Salesforce Tasks and Events. Tasks and Events act like record types, each with its own set of fields and serving different purposes.

Salesforce Lookup
  • Salesforce

Salesforce objects include lookup fields that allow you to associate two records together in a relationship. For example, a contact record includes an account lookup field that associates the contact with its account.

Satoshi Nakamoto
  • Blockchain

The name used by the person or entity who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin’s original reference implementation. As part of the implementation, Nakamoto also devised the first blockchain database.

Secure code review
  • ECRS

A manual or automated process to examine an application’s source code to identify existing security flaws. Code reviews look for logical errors, specific implementations and style guidelines.

Secure Web Portal (SWG)
  • ECRS

A secure web gateway that protects an organization from online security threats by enforcing company policy and filtering internet-bound traffic.

Security operational centre (SOC)
  • ECRS

A centralized function within an organization that continuously monitors and improves the security posture by preventing, detecting, analysing and responding to cybersecurity incidents.

Seed Phrase
  • Blockchain

A series of words that essentially works as a crypto wallet recovery password in case the user loses access to the device where it's initially stored on.

Sensor
  • Robotics

A device that is used to measure a quantity like the distance to an object or the speed of a robot.

Servo/ Servomechanism
  • Robotics

An electromagnetic device that converts electricity into precisely controlled motion by use of negative feedback mechanisms.

Servomotor
  • Robotics

A rotary actuator or linear actuator that allows for precise control of angular or linear position, velocity and acceleration.

Sharding
  • Blockchain

Breaking down Blockchain company's entire network into smaller partitions, known as ‘shards’ to spread out the computational and storage workload across a network. A single node will not be responsible for processing the entire network's transactional load.

Shy Light seeker
  • Robotics

A form of Braitenberg vehicle which seeks lights but slows when it approaches them.

Sidechain
  • Blockchain

A separate blockchain network that connects to another blockchain – called a parent blockchain or mainnet – via a two-way peg.

Signal
  • Robotics

In electronics, it is a current/voltage/electromagnetic field used to convey information.

Simulation
  • Robotics

A computer program that tries to emulate the behavior of something.

Single Sign On (SSO)
  • ECRS

A user authentication service that permits a user to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications. SSO can be used by enterprises to ease the management of various usernames and passwords.

Smart Contract
  • Blockchain

Self-executing computer code deployed on a blockchain to automatically perform, control or document legally relevant events and actions according to the terms of a contract or an agreement.

Software
  • Robotics

A set of instructions that direct how a computer performs specific tasks.

Solidity
  • Blockchain

An object-oriented programming language created by the Ethereum Network team for designing smart contracts on Blockchain platforms.

SOX(Sarbanes-Oxley)
  • ECRS

A federal law that established sweeping auditing and financial regulations for public companies. Lawmakers created the legislation to protect shareholders, employees and the public from accounting errors and fraudulent financial practices.

Stablecoin
  • Blockchain

A digital currency whose price is designed to be pegged to a reference asset like fiat money.

Standard Object
  • Salesforce

Objects that are included with Salesforce like account, contact, lead and opportunity. The most commonly referred standard object is the account object.

State Channel
  • Blockchain

A process in which users transact with one another directly outside of the blockchain, or 'off-chain,' and greatly minimize their use of 'on-chain' operations.

Subsumption architecture
  • Robotics

A reactive robotic architecture heavily associated with behavior-based robotics