| CDI | Customer Data Integration - the key (hard) part of EAI |
| CDI Hub | "CDI Hub" is the Gartner term for the space in which they've placed Purisma, Siperian... |
| CIM | Customer Identity Management - the key (hard) part of CDI |
| Customer Data Integration | |
| Customer Identity Management | |
| Data Pattern | Across multiple enterprises and their applications, examination of the data reveals certain patterns that reflect aspects of the world, or the way the data was created. |
| EAI | Enterprise Application Integration |
| Engine | A component that performs work |
| Fuzzy | Inexact, implying tolerant of minor mismatch |
| Fuzzy Match | |
| Fuzzy Search | |
| MDM | Master Data Management |
| Master Data Management | |
| Match | |
| Match Engine | |
| Pattern | |
| Regular Expsion | |
| Search | |
| UCM | Universal Customer Master - the SEBL term for their MDM |