Reference
A plain-language glossary.
The IT, Odoo and compliance terms we use, explained without jargon. If something here is unclear, ask us — clear language is part of the job.
A plain-language glossary.
- Managed services
- Ongoing administration of your IT — cloud, servers, email, security and updates — handled proactively for a predictable fee, instead of calling someone only when something breaks.
- Odoo
- An open-source business-management suite (ERP) covering sales, inventory, accounting, manufacturing, HR and more in one integrated system. Solvetus is an active Odoo partner.
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
- Software that unifies a company's core operations — finance, stock, sales, production — in a single system, so data isn't scattered across disconnected tools.
- Fractional CIO
- A senior technology leader (Chief Information Officer) engaged part-time, giving smaller businesses strategic IT direction without the cost of a full-time executive.
- Managed hosting
- Hosting where the provider also maintains the server, security, backups and updates — not just rents you the space.
- SPF, DKIM & DMARC
- Three email-authentication standards that prove your messages genuinely come from your domain. Configured correctly, they keep your email out of spam folders and make spoofing harder.
- DNS (Domain Name System)
- The internet's address book: it maps your domain name to the servers that host your website and email. Misconfigured DNS is behind a surprising number of outages.
- eIDAS
- An EU regulation governing electronic identification and trust services — including legally recognised electronic signatures — across member states.
- GDPR
- The EU's General Data Protection Regulation: the law governing how personal data is collected, stored and used. Privacy-first design makes compliance the default.
- Data sovereignty
- Keeping data under the control of, and subject to the laws of, a chosen jurisdiction — for example European-hosted infrastructure rather than US-only cloud.
- Fiscal localization
- Adapting an ERP's tax, accounting and invoicing rules to a specific country's regulations (for example Portugal, Switzerland or France).
- Microsoft 365
- Microsoft's cloud productivity suite — Exchange email, SharePoint, Teams and Office apps — administered as a tenant per organisation.
- Google Workspace
- Google's cloud productivity suite — Gmail, Drive, Docs and Meet — administered per organisation domain.
- Business automation
- Connecting your tools and replacing repetitive manual steps with reliable, maintainable workflows (for example with N8N), so data moves without copy-paste.
- Digital transformation
- Modernising how a business runs — its tools, processes and data — to be faster, safer and less manual, ideally without trading away independence.
- WooCommerce
- The open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress, used to build online stores you fully own rather than renting a marketplace.