Salesforce term | Definition | Informatica term | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
credit | An increment of usage that's deducted as you interact with consumption-based products like Data 360. | IPU | A unit of measurement for customer transactions. Customers consume IPUs when they run jobs in IDMC. |
data governance | A framework for securing and managing data through the combined use of tags, classifications, user attributes, and policy-based governance. | data governance | A framework of rules, standards, and processes that ensures data is consistent, trustworthy, and used appropriately across an organization. Data governance establishes the policies and accountability required to manage data quality and security throughout the data lifecycle. |
data share | A data share provides easy access for external systems (called data share targets) to use data from Data 360 via data lake objects (DLOs), data model objects (DMOs), or calculated insight objects (CIOs) | delivery target | An available location for the delivery of data related to a data collection, along with the format and method in which the data will be made available at that location. For example, a stakeholder for a data collection might specify an Amazon S3 bucket as a delivery location in a data collection's delivery target. |
data space | A data space is a logical partition to organize your data for profile unification, insights, and marketing in Data 360. You can segregate your data, metadata, and processes into categories, such as brand, region, or department, and then enable users to see and work on data only in the context of their category. | asset group | An organizational category that you can assign as an attribute to assets. Create asset groups in Metadata Command Center. You can create asset groups in a hierarchical manner so one asset group is a parent to others. |
data stream | A data stream is a connection and associated data ingested or connected to Data 360. A data stream can be based on batched data or data ingested in near real-time. | streaming ingestion | The ingestion of data at scale from any streaming data source, such as logs, clickstream, social media, and IoT sources. You can perform streaming ingestion in the Data Ingestion and Replication service. |
data transform | A feature that combines, shapes, cleans, and preps your data directly in Data 360. | cleansing | The process of standardizing data to a correct or desired format while correcting anomalies and errors in the data. Configure cleansing operations in a cleanse asset in Data Quality. |
external data source | An external data source specifies how to access an external system. Salesforce Connect uses external data sources to access data that's stored outside your organization. Files Connect uses external data sources to access third-party content systems. | connector | A component within IDMC that provides access to data in cloud and on-premises applications, platforms, databases, and flat files for the purposes of ingesting and integrating data and applications. |
functional domain | The functional domain refers to Salesforce's public cloud infrastructure where your instance is located. | POD | The modular set of components that together constitute an IDMC instance that users can connect to. A POD contains the networking, compute, storage, and application services that IDMC uses. |
Identity Resolution | The process of identity management by means of matching and reconciling data about people and organizations into a comprehensive view called unified profiles. Identity resolution is powered by rulesets and creates unified and link objects. | Master Data Management | The process of identifying and consolidating duplicate records across an organization by matching and merging data about customers, products, suppliers, and other entities into a single, trusted view called a master record. |
object | An object allows you to store information in your Salesforce organization. The object is the overall definition of the type of information you're storing. For each object, your organization has multiple records that store the information about specific instances of that type of data. | business entity | An entity of importance to your organization, such as people, places, or things. A business entity is an implementation of a master data domain. For example, within the context of a health care organization, the Customer master data domain might be implemented in the form of a Patient business entity. |
reconciliation rule | A user-defined rule that determines which source the system uses when creating a unified profile. | directed AI match rule | A set of conditions and business entity fields that are required to identify duplicate records in Master Data Management. |
unified profile | A profile that contains reconciled and linked data across multiple sources using identity resolution rulesets. | master record | A record that represents a single, trusted view of a customer, product, supplier, or other entity. You create a master record by identifying duplicate records and consolidating them into a singe record. |