A Project Object Model (POM) provides all the configuration for a single project. General configuration covers the project's name, its owner and its dependencies on other projects. One can also configure individual phases of the build process, which are implemented as plugins.
For example, one can configure the compiler-plugin to use Java version 1.5 for compilation, or specify packaging the project even if some unit tests fail.
Larger projects should be divided into several modules, or sub-projects, each with its own POM. One can then write a root POM through which one can compile all the modules with a single command. POMs can also inherit configuration from other POMs. All POMs inherit from the Super POM by default. The Super POM provides default configuration, such as default source directories, default plugins, and so on.

Archetype is a Maven project templating toolkit. An archetype is defined as an original pattern or model from which all other things of the same kind are made.

In Maven artifact is simply a file or JAR that is deployed to a Maven repository. An artifact has
-Group ID
-Artifact ID
-Version string. The three together uniquely identify the artifact. All the project dependencies are specified as artifacts.

In Maven a build profile is a set of configurations. This set is used to define or override default behaviour of Maven build.
Build profile helps the developers to customize the build process for different environments. For example you can set profiles for Test, UAT, Pre-prod and Prod environments each with its own configurations etc.

The platform of Splunk allows you to get visibility into machine data generated from different networks, servers, devices, and hardware. It can give insights into the application management, threat visibility, compliance, security, etc. so it is used to analyze machine data. The data is collected from the forwarder from the source and forwarded to the indexer. The data is stored locally on a host machine or cloud. Then on the data stored in the indexer the search head searches, visualizes, analyzes and performs various other functions.