Software terms explained

SaaS and software glossary.

Clear definitions, practical examples, and related buying context for the terminology used across modern business software.

Glossary library

Understand software language before evaluating tools.

Each glossary article defines a term, explains why it matters, and connects it to the workflows and buying decisions where it appears.

AI ToolsGuide6 min read

Definition An AI agent is a software system that uses artificial intelligence to pursue a goal, decide on steps, use …

TThe SaaS Education Editorial TeamAug 20

AI ToolsGuide6 min read

Definition An AI hallucination is output from a generative AI system that is false, misleading, unsupported, internally …

TThe SaaS Education Editorial TeamSep 1

AI ToolsGuide6 min read

Definition Fine-tuning is an additional training stage that adapts a pretrained machine-learning model to a more specific …

TThe SaaS Education Editorial TeamSep 5

AI ToolsGuide6 min read

Direct answer Generative AI is a class of artificial intelligence that learns patterns from data and creates new synthetic …

TThe SaaS Education Editorial TeamAug 14

AI ToolsGuide5 min read

Definition A large language model (LLM) is a machine-learning system trained on large collections of text and related data to …

TThe SaaS Education Editorial TeamAug 12

AI ToolsGuide6 min read

Direct answer Multimodal AI is artificial intelligence that can process, relate, or generate information across multiple …

TThe SaaS Education Editorial TeamAug 28

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Direct definition Prompt engineering is the practice of designing and testing the instructions, context, examples, …

TThe SaaS Education Editorial TeamAug 16

AI ToolsGuide5 min read

Definition Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, is an AI approach in which a generative model receives information …

TThe SaaS Education Editorial TeamAug 24