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Glossary of Technical Terms
An Administrator can add, provision/deprovision, and remove DoxCIS users, according to the terms of the Administrator's License. All DoxCIS installations come with Administrator's licenses at no additional cost.
A client is a type of computer program that requests, acts on, and displays information from a server. The classic example of a client program is the Web browser you're using to look at this Web site: each time you click on a link, your browser (the client) contacts our server to request information (the content of the Web page to which the link points.) When the information is received, your browser acts on it by displaying the page.
In this context, a license is a document associated with a particular computer program which defines the terms to be adhered to by the person(s) who purchase, obtain, install, or otherwise use the program in question. (Such terms typically include provisions that, for example, describe the conditions under which the program may or may not be used, copied, modified, and/or distributed.) The terms of the license are usually defined and written by the original author of the software, and/or by the company which holds the copyright.
An operating system is a particular type of program that creates an environment in which other programs can run. Most operating systems (such as Apple's OS-X and Microsoft's Windows) are proprietary, meaning you must purchase a license to install and use them. (The most popular non-proprietary operating system is Linux, which is an open-source operating system.) Most programs will only operate in the particular operating system environments for which they were written; however DoxCIS uses platform-independent programming technologies to avoid this problem.
Platform independence means to be free of operating system requirements. A program which is platform independent will run with no loss of functionality on any computer, regardless of the computer's operating system.
In this context, provisioning means providing a user with particular privileges; de-provisioning means taking those privileges away. For example, a clerical staffperson might be provisioned to view, but not change, laboratory data. The Administrator is the person who controls provisioning.
A server is a type of computer program that accepts requests for information from clients, and uses the parameters of those requests to determine the clients' needs and return relevant responses. (See "Client" for an example.)
A user is a person who is allowed to access and run DoxCIS (i.e., they "use" the program, hence the term "user"). To be a user, an individual must first be provisioned by an DoxCIS Administrator with the necessary privileges.
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