Glossary Flashcards
abstract class
An abstract class supports the definition of rules, including other classes. Rules with a class as a key part (including properties, activities, flows, and data transforms) can apply to an abstract class. An abstract class can be inherited by subclasses of the abstract class and can be a child of a higher abstract class.
Acceptance criteria
In PMF, acceptance criteria are the requirements on a user story or epic that must be met for a story to be marked complete. The criteria defines what the product owner expects and what the team needs to accomplish when implementing the user story or epic.
access group
An access group restricts access to functionality within your application. You can create multiple access groups for the same application to achieve different levels of access control.
Access Manager
Access Manager is a landing page that you can use to view and authorize operator access to case types, data, and tools in your applications.
access role
An access role defines the classes that a user can view, update, and delete through the Access of Role to Object and Access Deny rule types.
acknowledgment
An acknowledgment is a letter, email, or other correspondence that is sent to the originator of a work item and identifies the work item ID.
acquirer
An acquirer is a financial institution that represents the merchants in the transaction. An acquirer receives a financial transaction’s electronic data from a merchant and places that data into an interchange system.
action section
The action section is the area in a harness in which the action is performed. It shows users the actions that they can perform.
activity
An activity is the sequential processing unit of the Pega Platform system. An activity consists of one or more steps. Each step can call a Pega Platform method, transfer control to another activity, or execute custom inline Java.
activity list
An activity list is a queue that contains a list of activities that are waiting to run. Each user has the following activity lists: activity (default), workflow, and current.
activity loop
An activity loop is a step in an activity that can run repeatedly, such as for each element in a Value List or Value Group property.
activity type
An activity type describes the characteristics of an activity. Some activity types (Assign, Connect, Route, Notify, and Utility) identify activities that you can reference directly in flows. The Activity Type field on the Security tab of an Activity form corresponds to the property Rule-Obj-Property.pyActivityType.
actor
An actor is a user, external service, or agent that participates in application processes and specifications. You can view and define actors for the current application on the application rule, or by clicking the Actors link in the Details section of the Application Overview landing page.
Adaptive Analytics Engine
In Decision Management, the Adaptive Analytics Engine is the main function of the Adaptive Decision Manager. The Adaptive Analytics Engine is responsible for storing and analyzing adaptive statistics and producing individual scoring models. The scoring models are then used in Pega to perform calculations used for predictions defined in decision strategies.
Adaptive Data Store
In Decision Management, this is the database that stores the adaptive statistics and adaptive models.
Adaptive Decision Manager (ADM)
In Decision Management, this is an integrated technology that extends predictive analytics with an adaptive mechanism to establish customer preferences with customer responses in real time. Due to its adaptive nature, no initial collection of data is necessary.
adaptive model
In Decision Management, an adapative model is a type of scoring model that captures customer responses in real-time in order to make and adapt predictions, typically in the absence of historical records. An adaptive model is used in a decision strategy to help identify the most appropriate proposition, or next,best action.
adaptive statistics
In Decision Management, adaptive statistics refers to the persistent information that results from running a strategy that contains adaptive models.
ad hoc case
An ad hoc case is a case that you can create to handle a business exception or track a related task in the case that you are currently processing. Because ad hoc cases are not instances of a case type, they are not part of your case-type hierarchy.
