| 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 |
