Acronym | Description |
ABA | American Bar Association |
ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
API | Application programming interface |
ASC X12 | Accredited Standards Committee X12 |
B2B | Business-to-business |
B2C | Business-to-consumer |
BFC | BizTalk Framework Compliant |
BOV | Business Operational View |
Cecom | U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command |
CERN | European Particle Physics Laboratory (French acronym) |
CPA | Collaboration protocol agreement |
CPFR | Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, andReplenishment |
CPP | Collaboration protocol profile |
CRM | Customer relationship management |
CSS | Cascading Style Sheets |
cXML | Commerce XML |
DISA | Data Interchange Standards Association |
DOM | Document Object Model |
DSDM | Dynamic Systems Definition Methodology |
DTD | Document Type Definition |
D-U-N-S | Data Universal Numbering System |
EAN | European Article Number |
ebXML | Electronic Business XML |
EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
ERP | Enterprise resource planning (systems used for managing multiple business functions in a company) |
FSV | Functional Service View |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
GCA | Graphic Communications Association |
GDS | Global Distribution System (travel industry online reservation service) |
GRACoL | General Requirements for Applications in Offset Lithography |
HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
HTTP | Hypertext Transport Protocol or Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
HTTP/S | Secure HTTP |
ICE | Information and Content Exchange |
IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
ISO | International Organization of Standards (French acronym) |
MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
NAICS | North American Industry Classification System |
NVCA | National Venture Capital Association |
OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
OMG | Object Management Group |
OTA | OpenTravel Alliance |
PC | Personal computer |
PCX | eProduction eCommerce eXchange |
PIP | Partner Interface Process |
PROSE | Production Order Specification/EDI (a printing industry EDI specification) |
RFC | Request for Comments (IETF documents) |
RIM | Registry Information Model |
RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
SAX | Simple API for XML |
SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
SMTP | Simple Mail Transport Protocol |
SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
SQL | Structured Query Language |
TDCC | Transportation Data Coordinating Committee |
TPA | Trading Partner Agreement |
UCC | Uniform Code Council |
UDDI | Universal Description, Discovery and Integration |
UML | Unified Modeling Language |
UN/CEFACT | United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business |
UN/ECE | United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
UPC | Universal Product Code |
URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
UUID | Universal Unique Identifier |
W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
WSDL | Web Services Description Language |
XDR | XML Data-Reduced |
XLink | XML Linking Language |
XML | Extensible Markup Language |
XPointer | XML Pointer Language |
XPP | XML for Publishers and Printers |
XSL | Extensible Style Sheet Language |
XSLT | Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformations |