A Note on Terminology

The Managed Services Platform interfaces (both the Web interface and the API) use a few common words in a particular and restricted sense.

• Partner

  A partner is an organization that provides an assessment-scanning service.

  Black Duck Software, Inc. provides most scanning services, but some services are provided by other partners.

• Customer

  A customer is an organization that has a Managed Services Platform account.

  When a customer account is created—a customer record is added to the Managed Services database, and the account is granted access to Managed Services interfaces—the customer is said to be onboarded.

• User

  A user is an individual member of a customer organization.

  Different users can have different roles and responsibilities, and therefore they are given different levels of permission. Typically, each customer account has one or more users designated as Administrator. The Administrator role has the permissions to manage the roles of other users.

Parent topic:About Managed Services

Parent topic:Managed Services API General Notes

Parent topic:Managed Services Platform Authentication Guide