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Glossary

Data migration terms, in plain language

Short definitions of the terms we use on this site.

Terms

Term	Meaning
Logic debt	The business logic locked in legacy procedures, ETL and schedules. It drives migration cost.
Deterministic conversion	Conversion where the same input always gives the same output. No sampling, no randomness, so results are repeatable and auditable.
Reconciliation report	A per-object check that the converted output matches the original on the same inputs: schema, row counts, column values; pass, fail or review.
Resolver	The Novuz step that proposes fixes for edge cases the rules cannot settle. An engineer approves each one.
Complexity band	Low, medium or high rating per object. It sets scope and price.
Lineage	A map of where data comes from and where it goes, object by object.
Object	A unit of convertible logic: stored procedure, function, view, trigger, SSIS package, BTEQ script, Hive query or UDF, Snowflake procedure or task, job definition. Counted once; dead objects reported separately.
Component	Same as object. Used on the Pricing page.
Estate	Everything in scope for a migration: all databases, code and schedules on the source platform.
Automation rate	Share of objects converted with no manual edit. A one-line fix counts as manual, and dead code is excluded.
Reconciliation accuracy	Share of objects whose converted output passed schema, row-count and column-level checks against the original on identical inputs.
Equivalence guarantee	If a First Domain misses the reconciliation threshold in its charter (95% by default), after the cure period and stated exclusions, the fee is waived or credited in full.
CMaaP	Continuous Modernization as a Product. Novuz’s model for treating modernization as a repeatable software capability rather than a one-time project.
BTEQ	Teradata’s scripting tool that mixes SQL with control commands such as .IF and .GOTO.
SSIS	SQL Server Integration Services, Microsoft’s legacy ETL tool. Packages hold control flow, data flows and Script Tasks.
Iceberg	An open table format that several query engines can read.
Delta Lake	An open-source storage layer that brings ACID transactions to data lakes; the default table format on Databricks.
Drift	Changes to source or target after migration that can break equivalence. Novuz’s continuous tier reports it quarterly.
Parallel run	Running the old and new systems side by side on the same inputs before cutover.
First Domain	The first engagement after the assessment: one domain of up to 1,500 components, converted, reconciled and cutover-ready in 5 to 6 weeks, with the equivalence guarantee.
Assisted	An object resolved by an approved resolver proposal with no further edit. Reported separately from automated objects.
Dead code	Objects nothing calls or reads. Found in Discover, excluded from the count and the price.
Agentically primed	Agents can run Novuz through its APIs, and agents can run the pipelines Novuz delivers through MCP. The conversion in between stays deterministic.
Headless platform	Everything the Novuz UI does is also available through APIs, so orchestrators, CI/CD pipelines and agents can drive every stage.
MCP	Model Context Protocol, the standard through which a delivered pipeline’s operations can be exposed as tools an agent discovers and calls.

How we measure: Methodology

Last reviewed: October 29, 2026

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