Acronyms & Definitions
365 – Year-round fundraising activity.
CDN – Content Delivery Network.
CI/CD – Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. General term for automated testing and deployment that happens as code gets written.
Contentful – Our content management system.
CSC – Our domain registrar. See Domain Management.
DPIA – Data Protection Impact Assessment. See Production Requirements.
Data Stores – Data lakes where we store data from suppliers and internal systems.
DS – Design System, the single source of truth which contains all the design elements.
EA – Executive Assistant to an Executive Director.
ED – Executive Director of a department.
EDCO – Provider of school information, used in several areas of the business.
EDPOL – BBC Editorial Policy. These editorial guidelines are the BBC's values and standards. They apply to all our content, wherever and however it is received. As the BBC is our broadcast partner it is vital that we follow their policies and guidelines.
ELT – Executive Leadership Team (our Executive Directors, COO & CEO).
GMS – Grants Management System, the CRM in which we manage grants.
IVR – Interactive Voice Response, an automated phone system to take donations.
NCC – One of our third-party security testers. See Third Party Validation.
NOTV – Night of TV, the night on which Comic Relief is on TV. Same as OTN.
NPM – The NodeJS package repository.
OMG – Open Mobile Global. Provides call centres and backup donation systems.
OTN – On the Night, the night on which Comic Relief is on TV. Same as NOTV.
PSL – Payment Service Layer, the service that is shared across applications and takes payments within Comic Relief.
PLUS – Postcode LookUp Service. Provides postcode lookups and address completion to our applications.
RDS – Amazon's Relational Database Service.
RND – Red Nose Day.
SR – Sport Relief.
SSO – Single Sign-On. See Authorization Policy.
SSV – Single Supporter View, our supporter data warehouse.
Transactional Store – A data lake containing all transactions within Comic Relief.