W
The percentage of a customer’s requirements that are filled by a particular brand of product or service.
warehouse
SEE Data Warehouse.
warehouse business directory
waterfall chart
SEE chart, waterfall.
Web Content Management (WCM)
A system for creating and managing HTML content and other associated web materials.
web crawler
Alternate forms: ant, automatic indexer, bot, web spider, web robot, web scutter
A program that browses the internet looking for publicly available resources that can be added to a database for future searching applications, for automation of simple monitoring and maintenance tasks, or for harvesting of specific types of data, such as email addresses.
Web Feature Service (WFS)
A standard interface for managing interactions with geographic data sets.
Web Map Service (WMS)
A standard protocol for delivering geographical images generated by a GIS database.
Web Ontology Language (OWL)
A markup language for showing terms and relationships in vocabularies.
web services
Platform-neutral, vendor-independent protocols that enable distributed processing to be performed using XML and Web-based technologies. Sometimes instantiated as remote procedure calls in which the request is an XML document.
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
A specification of the XML needed to invoke a web service listed in a UDDI directory. WSDL provides interface/implementation details of available Web services and UDDI registrants. It leverages XML to describe data types, details, interface, location and protocols. Pronounced “whizdull.”
Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP)
An OASIS specification for web services to deliver data to internet portals.
Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I)
An open industry effort chartered to promote web services interoperability across platforms, applications, and programming languages. A diverse community of web services leaders providing guidance, recommended practices, and supporting resources for developing interoperable Web services.
Web-based OLAP (WOLAP)
SEE OnLine Analytical Processing, Web-based.
What
Zachman Framework column name, matches Inventory Sets.
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG)
A term describing the situation where a representation or recreation of a thing resembles the original to a close degree.
When
Zachman Framework column name, matches Timing Periods.
Where
Zachman Framework column name, matches Network Nodes.
Who
Zachman Framework column name, matches Organization Groups.
Why
Zachman Framework column name, matches Motivation Reasons.
Wide Area Network (WAN)
A network that connects multiple smaller networks (LANs) over a large geographic area.
wisdom
Knowledge in context; knowledge accumulated and applied in the course of actions. Deep understanding, keen discernment and a capacity for sound judgment.
Word of Mouth (WOM)
The process of passing information verbally between people.
WordNet
An open source semantic lexicon for the English language. It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short, general definitions, and records the various semantic relations between these synonym sets. The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications. The database and software tools can be downloaded and used freely, and the database can also be browsed online. WordNet was created and is being maintained at Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller. Development began in 1985.
Workers as Participants
Zachman Framework row name, matches Operations Instance Classes.
workflow
A predefined sequence of activities that complete a process.
World Wide Web (WWW)
The layer on top of the Internet that most people now think of as the Internet. Includes all web servers reachable by URLs and DNSs, that accept HTTP requests on port 80, and that provide user interfaces in HTML.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
The nonprofit organization responsible for creating and maintaining specifications for interoperable standards on which the World Wide Web is based.
Write Once, Read Many (WORM)
Data storage where once the data is written, it cannot be changed and is just used as-is.