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Terminology

Term Description
Customer A juridical unit, typically called a business, identified with an organization number.
Client A combination of client_id and client_secret that provide a customer access to the API.
Consumer A person that is of interest to the client.
client_id The client ID (e.g., the "username") for the client.
client_secret The client secret (e.g., the "password") for the client.
GEDI A unique persistent identifier of a person.
Enrichment Enhanced data and insights of a person with relevant context from other sources within D&B.
Onboarding The process of an unknown person becoming becoming known to a customer, e.g. registration in a point of sales system.
Monitoring The concept of subscribing to changes to persons in a customer's system, e.g. keeping up-to-date information about persons in a CRM.