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Master Page: A master page is a template that is responsible for the layout of the compo- nents that are found on every content page. For example, you wouldn’t want to have to add navigational components to every single new page you create. If you did, and ever needed to make a change, you must change every single page. Keeping everything in sync would be a nightmare. Using a master page, you would only create the navigational components once and then all the other pages would reference this master page for the common components.
Microsoft Business Intelligence: Business Intelligence (BI) means many different things to many different people. The generally agreed upon definition of Business Intelligence involves using computer software to get a handle on the mountains of data that flow from modern business. The data is turned into information that is used to run a business in an intelligent fashion. Microsoft Business Intelligence refers to the Microsoft tools and tech- nologies that fall into the Business Intelligence space.
Microsoft Flow: The next-generation of workflow for Microsoft products. Using Microsoft Flow, you can create workflow for Office 365 scenarios.
Microsoft .NET: The Microsoft .NET technology consists of programming languages and libraries designed to increase developer productivity and compatibility across Microsoft client and server computers.
Microsoft Office: Office is the nearly ubiquitous productivity suite used by information workers around the world. The Office product contains such applications as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, Access, and Teams.
Microsoft Teams: The next-generation communications client. Microsoft Teams is a replacement for Skype for Business and lets you conduct online meetings by sharing your screen or presentations online with multiple users simultaneously, while communicating via voice, chat, and surveys. Teams is integrated with the other products in Office 365 in order to provide instant ability to communicate regardless of what software you are using.
Office 365: The Microsoft product that contains SharePoint, Exchange, and Teams (among others; Microsoft is adding more services all the time); all installed and managed in Microsoft’s data centers and accessed over the Internet (also called over the cloud or in the cloud).
Outlook with Business Contact Manager: An application used for email, contacts, and calendaring, including scheduling meetings, meeting rooms, and other resources.
PowerApps: A tool for building mobile apps for iOS and Android. Think of PowerApps as a way to build mobile apps for Office 365 so people can interact with it from their phones.
Power BI: A tool for building reports and doing data analytics. You can pull data from many different sources, build reports in Power BI, and then display those reports in SharePoint or other apps.
PowerShell: PowerShell is a shell interface similar to DOS. Products such as SharePoint have PowerShell instructions, called cmdlets, which let you build scripts to interact with the product. For example, you might develop a series of PowerShell cmdlets that increases the specific configuration information of your SharePoint site.