Glossary
Short definitions for terms used across FESIT. Also see How FES scores work.
- Alternative (replaces)
- A Target-stack tool linked as the intended replacement for a specific Current-stack tool. Records migration intent; it is not an automatic switch-over.
- Board pack / Board report
- The living one-page strategy view (cost · effort · risk, outlook and near-term moves) you refresh on each review. Downloadable as the Board report PDF.
- Capability domain
- A category of work such as mailing, analytics or cloud storage. Domains determine which scoring criteria apply.
- Current / Target stack
- Your organisation’s tools for today (Current) versus the intended set (Target). Together they are “My Stack” on the workspace.
- Data flow
- A process map of how tools exchange or hold data (outline and canvas). Gaps show where Current and Target do not yet cover the process.
- Domain check
- Indicative mail and website hygiene signals for an organisation domain (public DNS and homepage checks). Not a security audit or penetration test.
- DPIA
- A structured privacy risk assessment required in some high-risk processing situations under GDPR. FESIT scores and reports 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.
- Guest trial
- A temporary organisation so you can try the workspace before registering. Guest work can be claimed into a registered account or discarded.
- Illustrative vs Reviewed
- Curation 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.
- Mail & DNS hygiene
- Pass / warn / fail style checks from public DNS and the organisation homepage (lookup health, SPF/DMARC, HSTS, certificate expiry). Part of domain check; not a security audit.
- 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.
- Open Tasks
- Near-term work from your strategy: what to start in about 90 days, plus policy priorities that still need attention.
- Organisation policy
- Must-haves (for example EU hosting or forbidding US cloud) and Fair · Easy · Secure pillar weights that steer ranked alternatives and policy fit.
- Our stack strategy
- Paid feature set around cost · effort · risk: clear economics, outlook, Our usage depth, and Board / Stack reports. Offered as Strategy Light and Strategy Full (see Billing).
- Our usage
- Per-tool inventory of seats, spend, migration effort and dates. Feeds the Stack Migration Plan timeline and the multi-year cost · effort outlook.
- Partner organisation
- An adviser or integrator tenant that can create and switch between client organisations. Partners include Strategy Full entitlements (no Mollie subscription). Only FESIT system administrators create partners; users cannot self-register as one.
- 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
- See Current / Target stack.
- Stack Migration Plan
- Timeline of Current → Target changes plus the Our usage inventory. Free plans may cap how many tools are fully editable on the plan.
- Stack report
- Full workspace PDF (policy, stacks, strategy summary and appendix). Distinct from the shorter Board report. Also available as JSON export.
- Strategy Board
- The workspace home for policy, sovereignty posture, flow gaps, strategy roll-up and multi-year outlook — the living board pack surface.