Adobe Licensing Jargon Glossary

Value Incentive Program	VIP	… is the subscription licensing program LTS uses for bulk license purchasing of enterprise product licenses of two specific Adobe products.
Creative Cloud	CC	… depending on context may be referring to the overall set of available products, applications and services, or may be referring to a specific product (ex. “Creative Cloud All Apps - 50 GB”).
Creative Cloud All Apps	CC All Apps	… used within the context of LTS’ supported Adobe licensing is referring to products which entitle subscribers to the use of, quite literally, all applications under the Creative Cloud banner. (Astute readers will of course catch the implication that not all services are included, which are additional products requiring separate licenses, and that becomes a very deep rabbit hole.)
Named User License	NUL	… refers to a product licensed and assigned to a user’s Federated ID (ex. asa879@lehigh.edu).
Shared Device License	SDL	… refers to a special product licensed for use on computers for which (an arbitrary number of) users will need to use the software on that computer but will not have their own user licenses. These are used in lab and classroom deployments (ex. Digital Media Studio) and have very strict and restrictive requirements for acquisition.
Creative Cloud Desktop App	CCDA	… is the primary and required application for accessing your NUL license entitlements (i.e..
Identity Provider	IdP	… is a deep, deep rabbit hole. TL;DR: Adobe authorizes users to access an Adobe account based upon the results of authentication using a 3rd party such as Lehigh University (supported) or Google (no), Facebook (no), Apple (no) or Adobe ID (no).
Federated ID	n/a	… is the configuration LTS uses to enable SSO (Single Sign-On) authentication allowing you access to your entitlements.
Adobe ID	n/a	… is an account residing on Adobe’s servers, external to LTS SSO, and not used for assigning the licenses we manage. Adobe IDs are not supported for assigning LTS licenses.
Product Configuration	PC	… is a customizable, limited set of attributes and settings for a specific Product which can be used to provide different administrative controls and/or user experiences appropriate for specific deployment situations. It can also be used to define and enforce assignable user license quotas for a department or group. (Ex. an administrative department, for security and privacy reasons, may need to disable social media related applications, or a cloud-based PDF processing service for their staff; another may wish to simply disable the notification email; etc).
entitlement	n/a	… refer to the the application(s), resource(s) and/or service(s) that are included in a product license assigned to a user. (What the user can install or use after their products have been provisioned and they have activated the license(s) on their device.)
provisioned	n/a	… means a user has the privilege to use the product, and that a license is available for the product.
delegated	n/a	… means a that a product has been assigned to a user.