Glossary

BPEL

Business Process Execution Language; a standard language for defining how to send XML messages to remote services, manipulate XML data structures, receive XML messages asynchronously from remote services, manage events and exceptions, define parallel sequences of execution, and undo parts of processes when exceptions occur.

business object

A resource in an enterprise database, such as an invoice or purchase order.

custom subject area

A custom subject area is a set of records and fields that represent information about the business areas of an organization. A custom subject area includes a primary object, on which a report is focused, along with its child objects and their fields that you use for creating and viewing reports.

Measure

A measure is a function, such as sum, average, or median, that is available for fields of type, date, currency, or numeric. A measure is used for aggregating report details.

object workflow

Object workflows represent a series of automated tasks configured for a business object, which are invoked based on a set of trigger conditions.

primary object

A primary object is a top-level, reportable object that may contain one or more child objects.

WSDL

Abbreviation for Web Services Description Language. It is an XML format that provides a model for describing Web services.