Glossary
Short definitions for terms used across FESIT. Also see How FES scores work.
- Capability domain
- A category of work such as mailing, analytics or cloud storage. Domains determine which scoring criteria apply.
- DPIA
- A structured privacy risk assessment required in some high-risk processing situations under GDPR. FESIT scores are not a DPIA.
- Easy
- Whether people can use and operate the tool without a dedicated IT department, and how well it connects to the rest of the stack.
- Fair
- Lock-in risk, open standards, and European control over where data and decisions live.
- FES
- The three scoring pillars: Fair, Easy and Secure.
- Illustrative vs Reviewed
- Curations labels on catalog scores: how far a dossier has been curated, not a formal certification for your organisation.
- Lock-in
- How hard it is to leave a vendor or export your data and workflows.
- Offering
- A concrete way to run a tool (for example self-hosted open source vs EU SaaS vs global cloud), each with its own scores.
- SaaS
- Software hosted by a vendor and used over the internet, rather than installed only on your own servers.
- Secure
- Security defaults, safer user behaviour, and a clear personal-data story (including GDPR and exposure under laws such as the US Cloud Act).
- Sovereignty
- How much control a European organisation keeps over hosting, jurisdiction and critical dependencies.
- Stack
- Your organisation’s set of tools for today (Current) or the intended set (Target).