For the pedant in all of us, this experimental category is intended to define esoteric/in-house terms, or terms which may be technically inaccurate but have established too much of a reputation. Cell Block C is a good example of the former, although we probably don't want to be writing any articles about that... -norwizzle (talk) 11:16, 8 December 2016 (PST)

Part of the intent here is that, to preserve search-term hit accuracy (which is the power behind any wiki), 'inaccurate' terms will not be corrected when discovered. Users are too accustomed to these terms and will continue to refer to them as such, making it a futile attempt to correct (new tricks, too many old dogs LOL). As well as linking to articles, this page itself will itself have definitions (read below).

uniPHARM esoteric terms

• Analyzer: This term is used to describe the ASW data warehouse. Colloquially, it's also 'what InfoManager did' or 'those sales graphs in Infonet'. Analyzer, officially, is merely the Windows-based reporting program developed by IBS that allows business intelligence/power users to extract and analyze data from ASW. The ASW Business Information Warehouse (the data warehouse), is implicated in a lot of reports used in Analyzer, since that entire part of ASW is intended to compile statistics for ease of reporting. Many ASW balance files are also incorrectly referred to as 'Analyzer files'. But whatever, it's Analyzer. I guess.

• JetForms: The correct product name is 'JetForm'. Admittedly, 'JetForms' sounds more natural.

• Mocha: Refers to the telnet-based terminal emulator software. Mochasoft is the third-party maker of the software used to access the IBM i server via green-screen and to interact with the programs contained within the system (ASW, ASW Extensions etc.). TN5250 is the name of the program, and it was named as such because 5250 is the terminal communication protocol which it emulates (IBM 5250 terminals). Mochasoft is not affiliated with IBM or ASW.

• Infonet: Referring to Infonet as the company intranet website is accurate. Infonet referred to as all things WebSmart is not. WebSmart is the development platform. Web Orders and Infonet were created with WebSmart. You can do a million other things with WebSmart besides Web Orders and Infonet.

• WebSmart: WebSmart is a modernization/development platform. It was named as such because its core purpose and function was to enable IBM i for the web i.e. create websites in an RPG environment. However, its core function as a language translator of sorts (from RPG to their proprietary language, PML) makes it a very powerful tool that would allow a company to develop almost entirely with WebSmart (i.e. you don't even have to make web apps).

• Web Orders: Web Orders is the name for our B2B (business-to-business) ordering portal/website (where customers log in to order product from uniPHARM). Indeed it is a website, but it also accurately describes the entire system (the collection of programs and files), and is legitimately (although never acknowledged as such) an extension to our ERP.

• uniTV: Refers to the entire platform/system surrounding (and including) the firmCHANNEL signage players at select stores. As of 2015/2016, official use of this term was discontinued, in favor of just 'digital signage'.

• Dumps area: The open area just outside the doors separating the warehouse from the office, next to Southwest Central Fill and the DC supervisors' office. Referred to as such because this used to be where paper orders were dumped, to be picked by order pickers. (I imagine they would also come back here to dump the finished pick lists? Who knows...that's ancient stuff).

• Playroom: The room to the right of the Server Room that is used for storage. The Playroom is also where we have Thursday night mud wrestling by invitation only.

• Server Room: On the second floor, approximately above where the narc cage is. This is where alllllll the magic happens. Carol would also occasionally request to go sit in that room for 10 minutes because it was air conditioned and she needed to cool off.

• Cage: Northeast corner of the building in the warehouse. This room is used for storage and can be considered to be a tech work shop where stuff can be unboxed and or repaired or setup. Please try and keep this space tidy and organized. The peeps put in a lot of work getting this room usable. Please also note that this space is different from the other spot that is called the Cage, which is right near the shipping entrance in the shipping area. Don't try and setup any servers in that cage.

• Belt Printer: This is a wifi connected battery powered printer that is used in Receiving. It does come with a belt clip and is small and light enough to be worn on a belt but the staff in Receiving just have them sitting on their carts to print labels.

• Gun: This is a wifi connected battery powered laser barcode reader with attached LCD screen and keyboard. It is not a weapon but try not to point the laser at your co-workers eyeballs. These devices break on a regular basis and the rubber boot coverings are generally pretty gross. The upside is you can tell your friends that staff at uniPHARM sell drugs and carry around a gun for 8 hours a day. Pretty dope stuff.

• ASW: Always something wrong

• IBS: This was the former name of Iptor and IBS usually caused some amount of irritable bowel syndrome.

• DC1: Distributed Confusion version 1 ... nooooo I'm just kidding its not distributed at all.

• Steelnet: Consulting company that helped the Unity project back in 2003-2005.

• Unity Project: This was like uniPHARM's Apollo program to get a man on the moon. We got an ERP going and changed a lot of business processes and got a lot of very important stuff done and managed to not have any mental breakdowns in the process - this was 2003-2005.

• Calgary: A good faith attempt to get a bunch of shareholder pharmacies and a warehouse going in Calgary/Alberta that ended up being....not.

• LILT: Lotus is like that. It means Domino/Notes/Lotus whatever behaves the way it does just because it does - it's like a 14 year old with bipolar disorder - sometimes its totally normal and then blamo, you're in the psych ward because the Domino server can handle mime properly.