Capterra Glossary
Canonical
Canonical is a term that describes an entity that adheres to an original set of rules, criteria, and principles. This term is commonly used to determine whether a programming interface follows a certain standard or precedent or whether it deviates from it. The process for converting data that has more than one possible representation into a standard (canonical) form is called canonicalization.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Canonical
Small businesses and startups in the IT industry, often use the term canonical to distinguish standardized (canonical) data from nonstandardized (noncanonical) data. Many small to midsize businesses, regardless of the industry they operate within, use the canonical tags to tell search engines which version of a company webpage URL they want to appear in search results. After all, large scale duplication of website content can dramatically decrease a company website’s search engine ranking.
Related Terms
- Synchronous
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Intranet
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Scalability
- Data Center
- Authorization
- Multitenancy