eText Templates: They are specialized RTF Templates for constructing Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transaction files.
E-Business Suite (EBS): Oracle Corporation's E-Business Suite consists of a collection of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Supply-Chain Management (SCM) computer applications either developed by, or acquired by, Oracle.
Enterprise Reporting: A process that involves querying data sources with different logical models to produce a human readable report.
Entity: Something that has a distinct, separate existence, although it need not be a material existence. In particular, abstractions and legal fictions are usually regarded as entities. In general, there is also no presumption that an entity is animate.
ETL (extract, transform, load): A process in database usage and especially in data warehousing that involves:
Extracting data from outside sources
Transforming it to fit operational needs (which can include quality levels)
Loading it into the end target (database or data warehouse)
Event Triggers: They are the equivalent of Report triggers from the Data Template in BIP 10g. A trigger can be set to be fired before or after the completion of the report. This will call one or more database functions.
Excel Template: It is the report layout that you design in Microsoft Excel for retrieving and formatting your enterprise reporting data in Excel.