Here's some useful terminology from the Federation Services documentation.
| Term | Description |
| Auth Connector | This allows you to authenticate against a repository. |
| Repository Connector | This is a connector to a repository for getting content, metadata, versions, and renditions. |
| Output Connector | This is a connector to the output system you want to migrate or index to. to. |
| Content Service Connector | This connector that allows you to attach a system to the Simflofy Content Services API for Federation. |
| Discovery Connector | This connector is used to get schema information from a system. |
| Job | A job is a basic construct used to specify the repository and output used in a migration or index. This is how you connect two systems together with Federation Services. |
| Mapping | Provides metadata mapping between types/aspects from a source system to an output system. These can be used in a job and in a content services connector. |
| Tasks | Provides a processing pipeline that allows you to process documents, metadata, versions, and renditions as part of a job. |
| TCS | Transparent Content Services (for managing content in-place) |
| TSearch | This component provides federated search capabilities |