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A program used to provide an automated link between the HRMS and other programs or third party entities that require use of the data for various processes (general ledger interface, payroll system interface, medical insurance, 401k administration, etc.). Internal interfaces connect systems and entities within the company (departments, buildings, plants, other functional systems). External Interfaces connect the system with outside entities (banks, health care providers, vendors, customers). A description of what a component does to communicate with another component using an established communication mechanism. The details are usually published externally so that developers know what is needed in order to achieve a connection.

Glossary: Community-based Governance
Governance models that involve participation and decision-making by a community of stakeholders or network participants. Component Is a group of objects that have been assembled to perform a function or a singular parcel of code that is a self-contained object. The component can be deployed using a “plug in” operation that attaches to a “socket” within a business application framework. The interface published.
Glossary: Graphical User Interface [GUI]
An interface through which a user interacts with electronic devices such as computers, hand-held devices and other appliances. This interface uses icons, menus and other visual indicator (graphics) representations to display information and related user controls, unlike text-based interfaces, where data and commands are in text.
Glossary: Dashboard
Easy to read, often single page, real-time user interface, showing a graphical presentation of the current status and historical trends of an organization’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made at a glance.
Glossary: Multi-tenancy
An architecture in which a single instance of a software application serves multiple customers. Each customer is called a tenant. Tenants may be given the ability to customize some parts of the application, such as color of the user interface (UI) or business rules, but they cannot customize the application's code.
Glossary: Black Box
A form of packaging components for sale. The contents of the black box are hidden from the purchaser: Only the details of the interface to other components and what the component does are externally published. The internal programming logic is not made known to the purchaser.

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