Glossary terms: E

Term

Definition

Product

Early Access (Phase)

Product development lifecycle stage where these criteria are met for a product/feature:

• Minimum viable product (MVP) with significant development is complete

• MVP functions end-to-end

• MVP is ready for Early Access Clients/Adopter to use and provide feedback.

Beeline doesn't guarantee completeness of the MVP and service-level agreements (SLAs) do not apply. 

Early Access Client/Adopter

A client that has agreed to subscribe/use a product in the Early Access phase as part of a defined Early Access Program.

Early Access Program

Also called an EAP.

Objectives driven timeframe in which Early Access Clients/Adopters use an MVP. Clients are aware of the following criteria for an EAP:

• Service-level agreements (SLAs) don't apply during an Early Access phase

• The product is an MVP and isn't guaranteed to be complete

• They will provide feedback to help improve the product

Earning Code

aka pay code

An attribute of the rate that differentiates the different bill rates associated with a contract worker. Examples include regular time rate, overtime rate, or double-time rate. The rate agreed upon by the Supplier and billed on an invoice.

Eligibility

Evaluation against the stated requirements.

Contingent Staffing

Email Digest

A Beeline feature that consolidates multiple emails per user address into one delivered email per a configured timeframe.

Contingent Staffing

EMEA

Europe, Middle East and Africa

Globalization region

End Date

The final date of an assignment; the last date the contingent worker is expected to work.

End User License Agreement

EULA

A legal agreement every end user must accept the first time he/she logs on to an IQN VMS.

Engagement Manager

Person responsible for all billing and invoicing of the client and managing client expectations. Usually, she or he also own all accounts payable issues arising from the project.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics defines an engagement manager as a management consultant.

Enterprise

An IQN term applied to the top-level parent organization unit within an organizational structure.

Enterprise Resource Planning

ERP (initialism)

An integrated suite of business applications, such as finance, HR, distribution and supply chain, that Beeline typically integrates with to obtain client information such as, user community, cost center structure, etc.

ERP software includes SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Ariba (Ariba is also known as an e-procurement tool).

Contingent Staffing

e-Signature

Obtaining a signature for a SOW through an electronic format, for example via DocuSign.

Services Procurement

EULA

End User License Agreement

A legal agreement every end user must accept the first time he/she logs on to an IQN VMS.

Evaluation

Overall assessment of talent once assignment has been completed or is being offboarded (how well did talent perform tasks)

Contingent Staffing

Evaluator

The users reviewing suppliers' bids in an RFP/RFQ.

Services Procurement

Executive Search

Informally called headhunting.

A specialized recruitment service which organizations pay to seek out and recruit highly qualified candidates for senior-level and executive jobs, such as President, Vice-president, or CEO.

Recruitment of executive level resources on a full-time and/or permanent basis. Typically, at the executive level and the individual's cultural and management fit within the client company.

Expenses

Offset (an item of expenditure) as an expense against taxable income, such as travel.

Services Procurement

Express Assignment

Created from an express requisition filled for a daily and recurring requisition and for assignments associated with project agreements. Replaces a traditional Work Order.

Contains contractual and non-contractual information and can be updated/edited at any time by the hiring manager.

Express Assignments don't require much negotiation between the client and the supplier. 

Express Requisition

A shorter version of the traditional Job Requisition that supports Rate Cards, recurring requisitions, and daily requisitions.

A one-page requisition entry online form completed by the Express Requisition Manager/Hiring Manager with all pertinent details needed to express a job need.

External ID

A client’s unique identification for a worker used to identify the worker and to align profile records when data is transferred using import and/or feed files.

The external ID is typically the first initial of the person's first name, the person's last name, and the last four digits of the person's Social Security Number; for example, jknows1234.

Extract Transfer Load

ETL (initialism)

Data Extract, Transform, Load

Contingent Staffing