AES glossary

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Learn about terms and concepts that are unique to App Engine Studio (AES).

Application template

Provides predefined data, experience, logic and automation, and security to support a certain use case. For example, the Travel Request template provides application content for submitting and approving employee travel requests.

For more information on the available templates, see Available templates.
Logic and automation

Automate all the work in your application by adding logic and automation. For example, you can build a flow that sends a notification to the admin when someone makes a request.
Data

Information that is stored in your application. For example, employee phone numbers or office locations. You configure application data using tables.
Deployment request

Ticket to track the review of submitted applications. From the deployment request form, a reviewer can deploy the application to different environments, accept or reject an application, and send feedback to a developer.
Environment

Instance that you use for the developing, testing, or launching an application. To set up App Engine Studio, you must define environments in each of the instances that you're using as environments.
Experience

Graphical interface that your users interact with. For example, you can create a portal where users find information, submit requests, or complete business tasks. For more information on the available application experiences, see Add an application experience.
Pipeline

Configuration for deploying an application to different environments.
Security

Roles and access controls to limit who can use your application.

Parent Topic:App Engine Studio reference

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# AES glossary

Learn about terms and concepts that are unique to App Engine Studio \(AES\).

- **Application template**

Provides predefined data, experience, logic and automation, and security to support a certain use case. For example, the Travel Request template provides application content for submitting and approving employee travel requests.

For more information on the available templates, see [Available templates](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/app-engine-studio/template-library.md).

- **Logic and automation**

Automate all the work in your application by adding logic and automation. For example, you can build a flow that sends a notification to the admin when someone makes a request.

- **Data**

Information that is stored in your application. For example, employee phone numbers or office locations. You configure application data using tables.

- **Deployment request**

Ticket to track the review of submitted applications. From the deployment request form, a reviewer can deploy the application to different environments, accept or reject an application, and send feedback to a developer.

- **Environment**

Instance that you use for the developing, testing, or launching an application. To set up App Engine Studio, you must define environments in each of the instances that you're using as environments.

- **Experience**

Graphical interface that your users interact with. For example, you can create a portal where users find information, submit requests, or complete business tasks. For more information on the available application experiences, see [Add an application experience](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/app-engine-studio/add-experience.md).

- **Pipeline**

Configuration for deploying an application to different environments.

- **Security**

Roles and access controls to limit who can use your application.

**Parent Topic:**[App Engine Studio reference](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/app-engine-studio/aes-reference.md)