PCI Compliance is basically “The term PCI Compliance is used loosely around the industry to describe an organization's status regarding their requirement to address the control objectives in the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) or other PCI standard.”
Nevertheless, whenever an organization is communicating this status with higher managements and business partners, it helps in clarifying the difference between the requirements of compliance and validation.
An organization under PCI DSS requirements needs to work in achieving a standard sustainable compliance that covers all the control objectives under DSS. That could either