TIBCO Cloud^™ AuditSafe Terminology

We use these terms to describe events or the chain of events.

Business Process describes the chain of successive and chronological events that need to be recorded. For example: an Order process, a Trade process, a Claim process, an Invoicing process, a Payment process, and so on.

Transaction describes a unique instance of a business process, such as: an order, a trade, a claim, an invoice, a payment, etc.

Audit Events describes the states of a business process that are deemed important to record, such as: order fulfillment, order placement, claim filing, payment authorization, and so on.

Event Status describes the status of an Audit Event, such as whether the event started, failed, is in progress, is successful, or is completed.