Glossary¶

Definitions of the terms used across this documentation, in alphabetical order.

Terms¶

Export¶

An Export is the file produced by the source, legacy, integration platform currently running in your environment. It will usually only contain metadata - data about the configuration of the integration - and not any Personally Identifiable Information or sensitive data, though this may depend on the technology in question.

The metadata describes what this integrations do in the production environment today.

When uploaded, the Export is preserved unchanged as a record of the integration on the date it was created.

Integration¶

An Integration is a modernizable unit inside the export. One integration may become more than one SnapLogic pipeline. Conversely many integrations may be consolidated into a single SnapLogic pipeline if there is duplication of logic.

Job state¶

Each Stage has a Job state to reflect the progress of what is currently happening - or has happened - in that Stage. This can be found in the Job Status page in the Navigation Sidebar on the left side of the application screen.

Project¶

A Project is the container for a unit of modernization work. Everything in SLIM is scoped to a project: access, execution mode, instructions, generated assets.

A project is not the complete scope of all of your integrations, and a project is not a single integration: usually a project comprises multiple integrations and your organization would have several projects depending on the scope of the modernization activity.

Project busy¶

The Project busy message is used to highlight that one of your coworkers may also be processing that Project, and so the task you want to run cannot proceed until after the prior task is complete.

This prevents two users running conflicting instructions against the same data, thereby preserving the integrity of the process and the integration.

Stage page¶

Each Stage of the SLIM modernization process has a dedicated page that displays the settings used to perform that stage’s activity. These pages are listed for the active Project in the Navigation Sidebar on the left side of the application screen.