Glossary
The words this industry uses, defined plainly.
Integration vocabulary is unusually full of terms that sound precise and are not. These are the ones that come up when talking about what Ngentix does — written so they mean something to someone who does not already know.
Term In one sentence
Read → Integration Platform (iPaaS)Software that connects the separate systems a business runs on so data and processes can flow between them. Read → Self-HealingThe ability of an integration to detect when an upstream API changes and repair itself automatically, without human intervention. Read → Unified Data Model (UDM)A canonical schema of business entities and operations that lets the platform understand the meaning of the data it moves. Read → MCP (Model Context Protocol)An open standard for connecting AI agents to tools and data, supported natively by Ngentix as server, client, and gateway. Read → A2A (Agent-to-Agent Protocol)An open standard for AI agents to discover, delegate to, and collaborate with one another — supported natively by Ngentix. Read → Autonomous Connector CreationThe process by which the engine discovers, builds, and tests a working connector to a system with no human input. Read → Connector DriftWhen a connected system changes its API and the integration’s mapping no longer matches reality. Read → Runtime MonitorThe subsystem that evaluates every live response, classifies failures, and triggers self-healing or escalation. Read → Schema InferenceAutomatically determining the shape and types of a system’s data by introspecting its live responses. Read → Governance EngineThe policy layer that controls and audits every action an agent or connector takes across the platform.