9. Glossary

Internet of Things ; Internet of things

A concept adopted to describe equipment directly connected to the Internet, sometimes without the need for a computer. In this way, billions of sensors can report their status to any computer connected to the Internet.

Dashboards ; Dashboards

A visual presentation of performance data, so that you can see at a glance which situations are within the norms, and which are outside the expected results.

Often linked and extracted from operational data in transactional systems.

Analysis of Big Data ; Big Data analysis

An extension of dashboards, but with the vocation of fetching data beyond direct transactional systems to enable the reconciliation...