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title: Industrial Process Manager common terminology
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# Industrial Process Manager common terminology

Before getting started with the Industrial Process Manager, here are some common terminology and acronyms.

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Term

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Acronym

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Definition

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Operational Technology

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OT

</td><td>

Technology that is used for industrial automation to control physical processes.

**Note:** Operational Technology is not the Internet of Things \(IoT\).

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International Society of Automation

</td><td>

ISA

</td><td>

Organization that publishes the standards for industrial enterprises, including the ISA-95 equipment model.

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Extract, Transform, Load

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ETL

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Common term that is used for taking data from a source system, transforming it, and then uploading it to a target system.

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</table>**Parent Topic:**[Exploring Industrial Process Manager](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/operational-technology/industrial-process-manager/exploring-manufacturing-process-mgr.md)