Glossary

E

entitlement

A set of Maptek software licences that are available to users and groups, and how they are allocated.

G

group

A collection of users and the software licence entitlements available to them.

M

Maptek Account Organisation

A space in the Maptek Account platform to manage an organisation's use of Maptek products independently of all other organisations.

R

region

A geographic area of the globe covered by different Maptek business units.

Regional Admin

A user who has the rights to manage users, groups, entitlements and other organisation settings for their assigned region.

reservation

A licence seat within an entitlement. Each seat can be assigned to a group, allowing eligible members of that group to use it when it is available.

Root Admin

A user with the same permissions as a global regional administrator (i.e. Regional Admin assigned to all regions) and with additional security rights such as SSO management and unit management.

S

seat

A shareable licence for a software product that a user within a group can access.

session

The record of a user accessing a set of entitlement seats and for how long.

U

unit

An arbitrary collection of users, entitlements, and groups that customer-defined Unit Admins can manage (if they are an administrator for that unit).

Unit Admin

A user who can manage users, entitlements, and groups within their unit.

user

An individual within an organisation who is assigned to groups and registered to use available entitlements. A user may run software on more than one computer and may belong to more than one group.