nexxus speaks German, English and Polish. Each person picks the interface language in their profile, so colleagues may see different labels for the same thing. This table connects the English and the German ones. Where a term links to a page, that page explains it in full.
| Term | In the app (English) | In the app (German) | Meaning |
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| Tenant | Tenant | Mandant | A separate data area of an installation. Every record carries its tenant. See Core concepts. |
| Own company | Own companies | Eigene Firmen | A company that belongs to your tenant (as opposed to customers and suppliers). |
| Business unit | Business Units | Geschäftseinheiten | A part of your organisation. Access roles can be assigned for one business unit. |
| Administrator | Administrator | Administrator | The system role that passes every permission check. See Roles and rights. |
| Access role | Access Roles | Berechtigungsrollen | A set of permission keys per module that you assign to people. |
| Permission key | | | One right inside an access role, such as reading or editing a module. |
| Two-factor authentication | | Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung | A code from an authenticator app in addition to the password. See Security. |
| Audit log | Audit Log | Änderungsprotokoll | Who changed which field, with old and new value. |
| Event log | Event Logs | Ereignis-Logs | A log of system events for administrators. |
| API token | | API-Tokens | A personal key for scripts that call nexxus with your rights. |
| Term | In the app (English) | In the app (German) | Meaning |
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| Setup wizard | Setup | Einrichtung | The eight steps an administrator walks through on the first start. See First run. |
| Area | | Bereich | One of the six groups in the navigation rail: Start, Organisation, ISMS, Documents (Dokumente), AI (KI), Administration. |
| Module | Modules | Module | A part of an area: companies, projects, timesheets and so on. See What’s in the box. |
| System configuration | System configuration | Systemkonfiguration | Tenant-wide settings for administrators. |
| Dashboard | Dashboard | Dashboard | Your start page with widgets you arrange yourself. See Build your dashboard. |
| Desk | Desk | Schreibtisch | A personal work page with your tasks and the AI Assistant. |
| Term | In the app (English) | In the app (German) | Meaning |
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| AI Assistant | | | The assistant. An administrator can give it another name for the tenant under Administration › Operations › Setup, step AI, card Assistant, field Name. The default name is Ava. See Working with the AI Assistant. |
| Session | AI sessions | KI-Sessions | A conversation with the AI Assistant, kept with its history. |
| Knowledge | Knowledge | KI-Wissen | Facts and policies the AI Assistant should always know. |
| Skill | Skill Management | KI-Skills | Written instructions for a kind of task. |
| Schedule | Schedules | Schedules | A task the AI Assistant runs on a timetable. |
| Avatar | Avatars | Avatare | A persona for the AI Assistant with its own look and instructions. |
| Action card | Execute | Ausführen | A change the AI Assistant prepares. It runs only when you click the button on the card. |
| AI provider | AI Providers | KI-Provider | A company or server that runs language models, connected per tenant. See Connect your AI. |
| AI gateway | | | The service through which nexxus talks to AI providers. |
| Embeddings | Embeddings | Embeddings | Numbers that describe the meaning of a text, used to search by meaning. See Embeddings. |
| MCP | | | Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting tools to AI assistants. |
| Term | In the app (English) | In the app (German) | Meaning |
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| Board | Boards, under Reports | Auswertungen | A named page of key figure tiles and view tiles, with filters, shareable and downloadable as a PDF. See Reports. |
| Key figure tile | Report (the widget) | Auswertung (the widget) | A tile that shows an NQL query as a number, chart or table, on the dashboard or a board. |
| View tile | View | Ansicht | A tile of a board that shows data from your connected apps, for example as a table with status. The AI Assistant builds it; it reads with the account of whoever looks at it. See Views from your apps. |
| NQL | NQL query | NQL-Abfrage | The query language behind every key figure. See NQL. |
| Source | | | An area of the data NQL can evaluate, such as projects or time entries, each with its own read permission. |
| Figure (NQL) | | | A fixed calculation of a source, such as the number of projects or the sum of hours. In the query: measures. |
| Field (NQL) | | | A field of a source to group and filter by, such as status or month. In the query: dimensions. |
| Period | Period | Zeitraum | The shared date filter above a board. |
| Viewer, editor | Viewer, Editor | Betrachter, Bearbeiter | The two roles a board is shared with. |
| Term | In the app (English) | In the app (German) | Meaning |
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| Connector | Connectors | Connectoren | Something the AI Assistant can use: a tool, an integration or a skill. See Connectors. |
| Connected accounts | | Verbundene Konten | The outside accounts a person has connected for connectors. |
| Files | Files | Dateien | The document area under Documents. See Files. |
| Attributes | Attributes | Merkmale | The alternative to folders: documents are filed by attributes you define instead of a folder tree. |
| App | Apps | Apps | A small tool whose documents are files. See Apps. |
.nxd | | | A document of an app. |
.nxa | | | An app package that you import. |
| NXM module | Packages | Pakete | A business module delivered as a package. See NXM modules. |
.nxm | Upload package (.nxm) | Paket hochladen (.nxm) | The file format of an NXM package. |
