A Business Data Entity (BDE) is a standard Business Interface (BI) of Infor LN that conforms to the Infor Uniform Connectivity Architecture.

A Business Object Interface (BOI) is the Business Interface (BI) of Baan IV or Baan 5.0 that conforms to the Infor Uniform Connectivity Architecture.

Simple Object Access Protocol is a lightweight XML-based messaging protocol used to encode the information in Web service request and response messages before sending them over a network.

An XML document to define and locate Web services. Web Service Description Language can include all type declarations of XML Schema.