SaaS Glossary - Essential Terms Defined

Email marketing is a form of marketing that can make the customers on your email list aware of new products, discounts, and other services.

Employee lifecycle management (ELM) refers to various stages that an employee goes through when working for a company. HR's position in ELM is critical, and it starts even before the employee is hired. There are usually six stages in ELM namely outreach, recruiting, onboarding, growth and training, results, and offboarding. The ELM process includes how the company introduces itself, how it deals with candidates, how it invites people into the company, and how it handles their personal and professional growth.

An employee database contains critical information, such as each employee's personal information, as well as company-related information such as their payscale, hire date, and more. That database can be used to help you better understand your employees and make data-based decisions that push your company forward.

An electronic signature, also known as an e-signature, is a legal method of obtaining permission or approval on electronic documents or forms. In almost every process, it can take the place of a handwritten signature.

Enrollment Management is a term that is used frequently in higher education to describe well-planned strategies and tactics to shape the enrollment of an institution and meet established goals. Plainly stated, enrollment management is an organizational concept and a systematic set of activities designed to enable educational institutions to exert more influence over their student enrollments. Such practices often include marketing, admission policies, retention programs, and financial aid awarding. Strategies and tactics are informed by collection, analysis, and use of data to project successful outcomes. Activities that produce measurable improvements in yields are continued and/or expanded, while those activities that do not are discontinued or restructured. Competitive efforts to recru...

File Management System‬ is methodology to preserve the information and important documents of business records. This makes it so that when you have documents and Files need to use them, you are able to do so.

Financial management is a process which brings together planning, budgeting, accounting, financial reporting, internal control, auditing, procurement, disbursement and the physical performance of the project with the aim of managing project resources properly.

Facility management (FM) is a profession that encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality, comfort, safety, and efficiency of the built environment by integrating people, place, process, and technology.

The restoring or retrieval of missing or damaged files from a disc or hard drive is known as file recovery. Also known as data recovery, it involves salvaging lost, corrupted, or formatted files from a secondary storage in cases where data stored in those files cannot be accessed in the usual way.

The act of sharing or providing access to digital information or resources, such as documents, multimedia (audio/video), graphics, computer programs, photographs, or e-books, is known as file sharing. It is the distribution of data or resources in a network, either privately or publicly, with varying levels of sharing privileges.