tglossary pixel.gif (807 bytes) Glossary of Technology Terms

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Application: A data entry, update, query or report program that processes data for the user. The PreViser™ software program is an application.
Authentication (logging in): Verifying the identity of a user who is logging onto a computer system or verifying the origin of a transmitted message. Your PreViser username and password provide the necessary authentication for the PreViser web services to process your data and return a Treatment Option Plan or Billing Statement.
Browser: A program that allows you to look through a set of data.
To view data in the PreViser™ application, you must have Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 6.0 or higher) installed on your computer.
You may download Internet Explorer for free at: http://www.microsoft.com/ie/
Disaster recovery: A plan for re-establishing or reproducing computer operations after a catastrophic event, such as a fire or earthquake. It may include routine off-site backup as well as a procedure for re-activating necessary information systems.
Firewall: A method for implementing security policies designed to keep a network secure from intruders. Firewalls are widely used to give users secure access to the Internet as well as to separate a company's public Web server from its internal network.
Functionality: The capabilities or behaviours of a program, application, or system; the total set of its features, or "the things it can do."
Global: Pertaining to the entire application, program, or file.
Hardware: The physical machinery and equipment part of a computer system.
Navigation: The way you move from page to page or part to part of a program or Web site.
Navigation bar: A set of buttons or graphic images, typically in a row or column, used as a central point that links you to major sections of an application or a Web site.
PC: Personal computer.
Session: The period of time between starting and quitting use of an application program.
Software: A set of instructions that tells the computer what to do. Application software tells the computer how to process data, and system software tells the computer how to run its basic operating system. The PreViser™ toolset (i.e. the RiskCalculator™) is a software application.
Wizard: A utility within an application that helps you use the application to perform a particular task, by guiding you through a specific set of steps. Each new Risk Assessment takes you through a wizard, or a set of specific screens of data entry relevant to that assessment.
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