Glossary
Terms with one clear meaning.
The public vocabulary for FlowMaster. Short definitions, written for buyers and evaluators, not implementation teams.
Core terms
| #01 | Business-as-Code Business processes written in plain language, versioned, approved and executed directly by the platform. |
| #02 | Process definition The approved object that carries flow, data, rules, interfaces and version control for a running process. |
| #03 | Runtime Governance layer The execution-time control layer that checks the actor, process state, data state and rule version before an action updates a system, sends a notification or advances a case. |
| #04 | Packaged module A packaged executable business capability, not a template. It contains the process definition, rules, interfaces and integration shape needed to run. |
| #05 | Promotion The controlled movement of a process version from design or test into production according to the organisation's approval rules. |
| #06 | Runtime record The evidence attached to a process run: definition version, rule version, actor, data state, attempted action and outcome. |
| #07 | Provider choice The customer's choice of hosted or self-hosted provider options configured for the customer environment. Automation may assist, but rules bind execution. |
| #08 | System of record The existing enterprise system that remains authoritative for a data object. FlowMaster reads it in place and writes back when the process permits. |
| #09 | Semantic Data Exchange (SDX) The translation and annotation layer that maps raw database schemas to plain-business-language terms, allowing AI agents and rules to query databases without hardcoding API endpoints or schema keys. |