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Glossary for Stakeholders

PT CPI documentation uses the full term (abbreviation) format—e.g. Statement of Work (SOW)—so non-technical readers can follow the partnership flow.

TermBrief meaningWho typically cares
Statement of Work (SOW)Scope of work, deliverables, milestones, completion criteria, assumptionsSponsor, procurement, legal
Master Service Agreement (MSA)Long-term umbrella agreement between vendor and clientLegal, procurement
Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)Confidentiality agreement before sharing sensitive dataLegal
Data Processing Agreement (DPA)Rules for processing personal data (e.g. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)/Personal Data Protection (PDP))Legal, compliance
Purchase Order (PO)Client internal purchase document authorizing spendProcurement, finance
Service Level Agreement (SLA)Service level commitments (response, uptime, etc.)Sponsor, operations
Time and Materials (T&M)Billing model based on actual hours/materialsFinance, procurement
TermBrief meaning
Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed (RACI)Matrix of who does the work, who decides, who is consulted, who is informed
Key Performance Indicator (KPI)Primary business success metrics (latency, availability, revenue, etc.)
TermBrief meaning
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Google cloud platform (compute, data, AI, etc.)
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)Managed Kubernetes service on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Identity and Access Management (IAM)Who may access which cloud resources
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)Infrastructure defined as code (review, versioning, automation)
Internal Developer Platform (IDP)Internal “product” so developer teams deploy to the same standards
Financial Operations (FinOps)Discipline for managing and optimizing cloud cost
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)Total cost estimate (not only licenses, including operations)
TermBrief meaning
Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps)Security built into development and operations, not only at the end
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Stages of building software (design, build, test, release, operate)
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Automation of build, test, and deploy
Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)List of components/libraries in software (for security audit)
Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)Security tooling for cloud workloads (example partner: Wiz)
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)Testing by business owners before go-live
Architecture Decision Record (ADR)Short record of why an architecture decision was made
High-Level Design (HLD)High-level architecture overview
Low-Level Design (LLD)Implementation technical detail
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)Practices for reliable production systems
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)Target time to restore after disruption
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)Target acceptable data loss
Disaster Recovery (DR)Plan to recover from major failure/disaster
Machine Learning (ML) / Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)Artificial intelligence models in production with controlled process
Business Intelligence (BI)Reports and dashboards for business decisions
TermBrief meaning
Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK)Indonesian financial services authority
Payment Card Industry (PCI)Security standard for payment card data