• Number of I/O points being accessed into the Galaxy. I/O points are real I/O and are not equivalent to InTouch tags. I/O count is based on the number of I/O points that are configured through an OPC Server, I/O Server, DA Server or InTouch Proxy Object, over the whole Application Server Namespace, regardless of how many PCs are in the system.

• The act of reading a .aaPKG File and using it to create AutomationObject instances and Templates in the Galaxy Repository.

 Industrial Application Server Refers to the FactorySuite A² Supervisory Control Platform, commonly known as the Application Server. The Industrial Application Server is sized by (a) the number of  Workstation / Server and Terminal Services Platforms and (b) by real I/O in the system. The Application Server license is per Galaxy. An Application Server can be distributed across multiple computers as part of a single Galaxy Namespace. The Industrial Application Server is designed to leverage existing Wonderware products such as InTouch for visualization, Industrial SQL as its historian, and the device Integration product line (I/O Servers) for device communications. The Industrial Application Server uses InTouch v8.0 or InTouch View v8.0 for visualization with the addition of Platforms to the visualization node.

• An object, which is a unique representation of a template that can exist in runtime.

• The creation of a new object instance based on a corresponding Template.

• The Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the user interface for the configuration side of Application Server. It is used to manage templates, create object instances, deploy and un-deploy objects and a host of other functions associated with the development and maintenance of the system. It is only available as part of the Wonderware A2 Development License.

• InTouch View Clients are InTouch Runtime Version 8.0 clients that solely use of the Wonderware Application Server for its data source. In addition, standard InTouch v8.0 runtimes can leverage the Wonderware Application Server with the addition of a Platform license.