DotAlign Glossary
Updated
by
Jaspreet Bakshi
This glossary describes key DotAlign concepts and terminology. It's a good place to get started learning how to set up and use DotAlign.
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Administrator
Administrators are users with additional privileges to manage DotAlign. Administrators can see shared data like other users but may also do other things like control settings for your instance and the teams within it. Learn more in Understanding DotAlign user roles.
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Company
Companies are organizations that people are affiliated with. For a user to have a relationship with a company, that user must first have a relationship with a person who is directly connected with that company, for example as a current or former employee, or through an alumni affiliation.
Contributor
A person whose mailbox is being analyzed to extract people, companies and relationships from it. Contributor data is then combined together at the team level to produce the final view of data. Contributors can choose what level they would like to share with colleagues at.
Contact
Contacts are people associated with a particular company. The application therefore means something very specific when it talks about contacts; Robert Jones will be a contact at Globex Corporation, but will otherwise normally be described simply as a person.
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Introducer
Introducers are users who are sharing and have a relationship with a given person or company. For example, if you know Sally Jones and are sharing that with a team, other team members will be able to see that you are an introducer to Sally. If Sally works at Acme, Inc., you will also appear as an introducer to Acme, Inc.
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Member
Members can choose to contribute data to a team to which they belong, and can see information shared by other team members. Learn more in Understanding DotAlign user roles.
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Person
People is a term that encompasses everyone a user interacts with. This is the generic term the application uses to refer to human beings with whom users have relationships. External clients, vendors, and acquaintances, current or former colleagues, and team members are all people.
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Team
A team is a set of users who may share their relationship data with one another. About teams has more information.
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User
Any person who logs in your DotAlign Cloud deployment is a user of the deployment. They may be administrators or regular users, and they may be contributors (that is their mailbox is being analyzed) or not.
