Abbreviations and Acronyms

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ABLE	Agent Based Learning Environment
ACL	Access Control List
ADA	American Disability Act
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
AOD	Architecture Overview Diagram
API	Application Program Interface
ASP	Active Server Page
AST	Automatic Summary Table
B2B	Business-to-Business
B2C	Business-to-Consumer
B2E	Business-to-Employee
BCS	IBM Global Services Business Consulting Services
BEA	BEA Systems. The acronym BEA is composed of the first initial of each of the company's three founders: Bill Coleman, Ed Scott, and Alfred Chuang.
BI	Business Intelligence
BOL	Bill of Lading
BOM	Bill of Materials
BPA	Business Process Automation
BPEL4WS	Business Process Execution Language for Web services
BPM	Business Process Management
CAD	Computer Aided Design
CAM	Computer Aided Manufacturing
CGI	Common Gateway Interface
cHTML	Compact HTML for Small Information Appliances
CICS	Customer Information Control System
CIS	Customer Information Service
CODASYL	Conference on Data Systems Languages
CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
COTS	commercial off-the-shelf
CRM	Customer Relationship Management
CSV	comma-separated values
DBMS	database management system
DII	Dynamic Invocation Interface
DMU	Digital Mock-Up
DMZ	demilitarized zone (A computer host or small network inserted as a "neutral zone" between a company's private network and the outside public network. It prevents outside users from getting direct access to a server that has company data. A DMZ is an optional and more secure approach to a firewall and effectively acts as a proxy server as well.)
DSML	Directory Services Markup Language
DTD	Document Type Definition
EAI	Enterprise Application Integration
EAR	Enterprise Application Archive
ebXML	Electronic Business XML
ECO	Engineering Change Order
ECR	Engineering Change Request
EDI	Electronic Data Interchange
EDS	Electronic Data Systems Corporation
EIP	Enterprise Information Portal
EJB	Enterprise JavaBean
ePCM	Galaxia Enterprise-wide Process Change Management
ERM	Enterprise Resource Management
ERP	Enterprise-wide Resource Planning
ES	Lotus Extended Search
ESRI	Environmental Systems Research Institute
ETTK	Emerging Technologies Toolkit
GIS	Geographic Information System
GUID	Global Unique ID
HP-UX	The UNIX-based operating system for the HP 9000 series of business servers from Hewlett-Packard
HR	Human Resources
HTML	Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS	HTTP over Secure Sockets Layer
HVWS	High Volume Web Site
IDE	Integrated Development Environment
IDI	IBM Directory Integrator
IDL	Interface Definition Language
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
IFB	International Food and Beverage
IIOP	Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
IML	Initial Machine Load
IMSTM	Information Management System Transaction Manager
IPL	Initial Program Load
IRC	Internet Relay Chat
ISV	independent software vendor
IT	Information Technology
ITIL	IT Infrastructure Library
ITSO	International Technical Support Organization
IVP	Industry Value Project
J2EE	Java 2 Enterprise Edition
JAAS	Java Authentication and Authorization Service
JAX-RPC	Java API for XML-Based Remote Procedure Calls
JCA	Java Connector Architecture
JCP	Java Community Process
JDBC	Java Database Connectivity
JMS	Java Message Service
JMX	Java Management Extensions
JNDI	Java Naming and Directory Interface
JSP	JavaServer Page
JSR	Java Specification Request
JXTA	Pronounced "juxta," this is Sun Microsystem's peer-to-peer initiative, a research effort created to promote and explore new approaches to distributed computing. The organization's name was developed as a short form of the word "juxtapose," because to juxtapose is to put things next to each other, which is what peer-to-peer is all about.
K-map	Knowledge Map
LCA	ENOVIA
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LOB	Line of Business
LTPA	Lightweight Third Party Authentication
MAPE	monitor, analyze, plan, and execute
MED	Management of External Data
MIME	Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions
MS	Microsoft
MT	Machine Translation
MVC	Model-View-Controller
NASSL	Network Accessible Service Specification Language
NFRs	Non-Functional Requirements
NTT	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
OASIS	Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OCS	Open Content Syndication
ODBC	Open Database Connectivity
ODS	Operational Data Store
ODW	On Demand Workplace
OGSA	Open Grid Services Architecture
OGSI	Open Grid Services Infrastructure
OID	Object ID
OLAP	Online Analytical Processing
OLTP	Online Transaction Processing
PARA	Parallel Query Processing Techniques
PCM	Product Change Management
PDA	Personal Digital Assistant
PDM	Product Data Management
PKI	Public Key Infrastructure
PLM	Product Life Cycle Management
POS	Point-of-Sale
PPR	ENOVIA
QAD	IBM Business Partner
QBIC	Query by Image Content
RFC	Request for Change
RIXML	Research Information Exchange Markup Language
RMI	Remote Method Invocation
ROI	Return on Investment
RPC	Remote Procedure Call
RSS	Rich Site Summary
RUP	Rational Unified Process
SAM	Strategic Alignment Model
SCL	SOAP Contract Language
SCM	Supply Chain Management
SDL	Service Description Language
SEI	Service Endpoint Interface
SGML	Standard Generalized Markup Language
SLA	Service Level Agreement
SMB	Small and Medium Business
SME	Subject Matter Expert
SMS	Short Message Service
SMTP	Simple Mail Transport Protocol
SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
SQL	Structured Query Language
SQLMM	SQL Multimedia
SQLX	XML extensions to SQL
SSM	Signature Selling Method
SSO	Single Sign-On
SSR	Signature Sales Resource
TAI	Trust Association Interceptor
TAM	Tivoli Access Manager
TAM	Tivoli Access Manager
TCO	Total Cost of Ownership
TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TeAM	Technical e-business Architecture Method
TIM	Tivoli Identity Manager
U2B	User-to-Business
U2D	User-to-Data
U2U	User-to-User
UDB	Universal Database
UDDI	Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
UML	Unified Modeling Language
VCM	Value Chain Management
VPM	Virtual Product Model
VPN	Virtual Private Network
W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
WAP	Wireless Application Protocol
WAR	Web archive
WIP	Work in Progress
WLM	Workload Management
WML	Wireless Markup Language
WS	Web services
WS-I.org	Web Services Interoperability Organization
XDE	eXtended Development Experience
XHTML	Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
XML	Extensible Markup Language
XQuery	An XML-based method for querying databases
XSD	XML schema
XSL	Extensible Stylesheet Language

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