Glossary

Since the beginning of the project, people have asked about the meaning of the terms below in meetings, through email, and in other conversations. Wondering about a word you’ve heard relating to the project? Let us know and we’ll post it here!

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AES
  Academic and Event Scheduling system

BA

Business Analyst

BC
  Building Coordinator (Safety role)

BI
  Business Intelligence. This can refer to a module in Cority that provides robust analytics and recording, a team in CIT, or the discipline of business intelligence.

CH
  Cornell Health

CIM
  Cority Implementation Methodology

CIT
  Cornell Information Technologies

CLT
  Core Leadership Team (For detailed information see the Implementation Team organizational chart)

COHSEC
  The project to implement Cority is called COHSEC (Cornell Occupational Health, Safety, and Environmental Compliance). This is not a new university organization name, but the name of the project.

Cority
  The vendor of the Environmental Health, Safety and Quality (EHSQ) software implemented by the COHSEC project.  See https://www.cority.com/

CSC
  (Cority) Client Services Consultant

CSR
  College Safety Representative

DIE
  Data Integration Engine; sometimes also known as “CDIE” (Cority DIE), Cority’s Import tool to load non-bio-demo data files, such as the Org Tree, into the system (formerly known as MGIP)

DSR
  Department Safety Representative

EHS
  Environmental Health and Safety

FCS
  Facility and Campus Services

FIS
  Facilities Inventory System

FL
Functional Leads

GDDLOFB
Geographical data fields potentially used in the Organizational Tree hierarchy. 7 potential levels: Geographic location, Department, Division, Location, Organization, Floor, Building

GX2
Cority’s major release of their occupational health and safety software.

HRIE
  Human Resources Integration Engine; Cority’s Import tool to load a file of bio-demo data into the system (formerly known as MEIP)

IWMS
  Integrated Workplace Management System

MAEN
  Medgate Automated Email Notification; Cority’s infrastructure for automated email generation and sending

Medgate
    Prior name of the product implemented by the COHSEC project.  Was rebranded to Cority in June 2017.

MEIP
  Medgate Employee Import Program; the prior acronym used for Cority’s bio-demo data import (aka HRIE)

MGIP
  Medgate Generic Import Program; Cority’s Import tool to load non-bio-demo data files, such as the Org Tree, into the system

OM
  Occupational Medicine (aka OccMed)

PD

Project Director

PM

Project Manager

QAL

Quality Assurance Lead

RAIS
  Research Administration Information Services

SaaS
  Software as a Service – a method of software delivery and licensing in which software is accessed online via a subscription, rather than bought and installed on individual computers.

SEG
  Similar Exposure Group

SME
  Subject Matter Expert

SSIT
  Student Services Information Technologies

TL

Technical Lead