[ogsa-wg] Glossary terms: enterprise, enterprise computing and e-Science

[Strong, Paul]

Hi,

 

I believe that, wherever possible, glossaries should not seek to redefine commonly used terms or make them more specific than their common use.  Especially when those terms are single words :o)   I would leave ‘enterprise’ more or less as per Bob’s suggestion, or perhaps direct the reader to OED or Webster’s dictionary – one common definition of ‘Enterprise’ being “A business organization”.  This is perfectly OK, as are the other definitions.  This can remain vague.

 

What matters are terms such as Enterprise Grid where we own the definition and its use within our document set.  The notion that we (the EGA) originally wanted to convey with respect to Enterprise Grids, and indeed Enterprise Computing, is that of a set of services/applications and an infrastructure that is in some sense “owned” by a business entity – an enterprise.  One could thus see Enterprise Grids as an evolution/instantiation of Enterprise Computing.

 

In many ways Enterprise Computing is perhaps not a useful term.  The intent was to provide a bucket for all types of IT service (compute intensive, transactional, externally facing, internally facing etc.) within an enterprise, to capture the notion that computing within an enterprise is tied to the objectives of the enterprise and that the services delivered by the enterprise are thus subject to service level objectives that extend beyond the qualitative to the quantitative. 

 

Cheers

Paul

 

 

 

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From: ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf Of Natale, Bob
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:36 AM
To: Treadwell, Jem
Cc: ogsa-wg WG
Subject: Re: [ogsa-wg] Glossary terms: enterprise,enterprise computing and e-Science

 

Hi Jem,

 

Would a broader definition of "Enterprise" be acceptable?

 

A quick cut at what I have in mind:

 

"Enterprise:

A set of organizational entities bound by a common hierarchy and whose individual missions support a common purpose."

 

The main objective I have in mind is to remove the "commercial" focus -- e.g., we often refer to "Enterprise" services and management with respect to the US DoD's Global Information Grid.

 

Cheers,

BobN

	 

	
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	From: ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf Of Treadwell, Jem
	Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:17 AM
	To: ogsa-wg WG
	Subject: [ogsa-wg] Glossary terms: enterprise,enterprise computing and e-Science

	Hi,

	 

	Per Monday's call I've updated the glossary working document with the three definitions we discussed - enterprise, enterprise computing, and e-Science.  The working document is at http://tinyurl.com/yb5kp2.  

	 

	All three definitions are below - note that enterprise is as agreed on the call, I developed the enterprise computing defintion based on the discussion (and please do note the final sentence that begins "Note that..."), and e-Science is abbreviated from the intro in wikipedia.  Also note that the terms in italics also have entries in the glossary, and don't need to be spelled out here. 

	 

	If you have any comments please let me know; otherwise I'll move these to the main draft document before next Monday's call.

	 

	Thanks!

	 

	- Jem

	 

	Enterprise:

	 

	An organization whose primary activities are commercial. 

	 

	Enterprise computing:

	Computing to support the operation of an enterprise. Characteristics typically include:

	*       Concentration of IT resources into one or more large-scale data centers.

	*       Operation of enterprise applications such as CRM and ERP.

	*       Emphasis on satisfying customer expectations through the use of SLOs.

	*       The need to be able to deploy and re-deploy resources rapidly in response to business changes.

	*       Attention to profitable operation by optimizing resource utilization and by assigning operating costs to business units.

	Note that many of these characteristics can also be found in non‑enterprise domains.

	 

	e-Science:

	Computationally intensive science that is carried out in highly distributed network environments, or science that uses immense data sets that require grid computing.

	For more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Science. 

	 

	
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Jem Treadwell
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