" Who controls the vocabulary , controls the knowledge " - FBC>s

Acronyms from Future-Based Consultancy & Solutions 

If you don't think about the future , you won't have one ! 

"Translation" of 10.000+ Business, Finance, ICDT acronyms (including 

several SAP ones), initialisms, tech terms oddities and techronyms, 

loaded words, buzzwords and neologisms to ease the reading of 

courses, books, magazines and papers: see "anacronym", "ASS", CRAA, 

and many others ... (third main version since 1997, more than 110 updates) 

(www.fbc-e.com, continued, updated & corrected twice a month(*). Release 15-10-2012) 

" Who controls the vocabulary , 

10.000 controls the knowledge " 

George ORWELL in "1984" 

Instruction Instruction To ease your researches, we are inviting you to use the "search" function. 

Pour faciliter vos recherches, utilisez la fonction "rechercher". 

Note : US spelling 

Information Underligned names are identifying authors, editors and / or copyrighted applications ©, ®, 

FBWPA Free Business White Page Available (www.fbc-e.com) 

Acronym Rose salmon is related to acronyms , backronyms … and assimilated terms and concepts. 

Digital age, native, life, suicide (see CL), abusive events (on second life )(see also the "e- " collection, game ) 

Education gold & red letters are related to learning matters, libraries, training ... (see e - learning , LLA, LLL, OER, …) 

Emoticon or Smiley soft grey + dark blue letters for signs expressing an emotion 

Environment light green and blue for the environment and related problematics 

Europe dark blue and yellow for Europe and related organizational aspects 

e-"X" light yellow + deep blue letters are related to digital activities 

expertise wise thoughts, views, entrepreneurship concerns (see first triad, 3R Edict, ACID, others …) 

FBC>s deep yellow color is related to FBC>s concepts and methodologies (more on www.fbc-e.com) 

Finance Indigo color is related to Finance and Accounting (FI) 

Game(s), Gaming and more Prune color is related to Game and associated concepts (serious game and others) 

Cognition Grey blue and ligt yellow are related to cognition (see Cognitive cities and more) 

KM Deep green color is related to Knowledge Management (KM)(search for the "deep green" items) 

HR & R Lemon green color is related to HR and recruitment 

IL / InLin Internet Lingo also called "PC talk" (see CL, Geekspeak , neomillennial e-learning ) 

Innovation Light Orange color is related to (the cycle of) fuzzy ideas, creativity, innovation. 

Intelligence Light green color is related to intelligence, business intelligence (BI)(see also CI for CA, OI, SI) 

Mobility Light blue color is related to mobile communication (MoMo) 

Security Red color is related to security and risks management (RM) 

Virtual Pink color is related to virtual / virtuality (see VR to start the discovery, serious games ) 

€ euro (see EU, EUR) 

$ US Dollar 

£ UK Sterling Pound 

& ampersand Note: BOLD acronyms and texts 

@ at (commercial) also used in the e-Mail or email addresses are "translated" in the list 

# hash symbol. Could be used for creating hashtags (Twitter)(see #op) 

© copyrighted 

® registered 

Trade Mark 

- hyphen 

_ underscore 

~ tilde, a grapheme that has various destinations or meanings. Could be used as punctuation. 

§ made of two "s" section sign: paragraph 

$$$ temporary files 

*.001 Hayes JT Fax 

0 Day FTP server supposed to be moved within the next 24 hours to another IP. 

112 European emergency phone number 

DB address res_acro_d001_e.pdf Page 1 FBC>s / Dan C. Renson 11/10/2012

911 USA emergency phone number 

1st first 

2nd second Feel free to copy and distribute this "computer-babble 

3d third translator" provided that it is distributed only in its 

4th fourth original and unmodified state with our name, address, 

5th fifth phone, fax and email. No charge for doing it. Anyone 

6th sixth willing to charge a fee for the distribution of our 

7th seventh "translator" must have our written permission. Without 

8th eighth which the distributor is guilty of a copyright violation. 

9th ninth 

10th tenth 

0G public mobile phone start (Finland, 1971) 

1G automatic hand over between cells 

2G 2nd Generation (see GSM) 

2,5G 2,5nd Generation (see GPRS) Don't publish it on another site as it won't be updated ! 

2,75G 2,75nd Generation (see EDGE) Simply use the Internet link ! 

3G 3d Generation (see IMT2000, UMTS) 

3G+ 3d Generation+ (see 3,5G) 

3G++ 3d Generation++ (see 3,75G) 

3,5G 3,5nd Generation (see HSDPA) 

3,75G 3,75nd Generation (see HSUPA) 

3G.IP 3G Internet Provider (mobility) 

3G3P 3G Patents Platform Partnership 

3GPP 3d Generation Partnership Projet for mobile (see PM, PMI, PMO) 

3,9G 3,9 Generation (see LTE: not fully complying with the IMT Advanced 4G requirements) 

4G 4th Generation (LTE Advanced) 

1GL 1st Generation Language (machine instructions) 

2GL 2nd Generation (see GSM) 

3GL 3d Generation Language (C/C++, Fortran, Cobol) 

4GL 4th Generation Language (Ex / i.e.: ABAP, SQL) 

5GL 5th Generation Language 

6GL 6th Generation Language 

10BaseT Ethernet spec handling up to 10Mo/sec 

100BaseT Ethernet spec handling up to 100Mo/sec 

2DEG Two-Dimensional Electron Gas 

2K display resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels 

4K display resolution of 4096 x 2160 pixels 

2D+Z 2 Dimensions + Z format : SVC format utilized for 3D displays 

2,5D 2 Dimensions + added perspective thanks to an oblique projection or rendering (see axonometric , GVIS) 

3D 3 Dimensions (see D3D, 4D, 5D, Game (s), Gaming ) 

3D AR 3 Dimensions AR 

4D 4 Dimensions (3D + Time : JIT, Real-Time, Change / CM, Ba , STU, TTx… see also 5D) 

4D movie 3D + sensorial effects: audio environment, odors, perfumes, smokes, vibrations … 

5D 5 Dimensions (see FBC solutions for more concern about activities & business cases, STF, STU) 

5th battle ground the Internet (after the earth, sea, air and space)(see security related acronyms and terms) 

3Dfx 3D special effects 

3D GA 3D Geometric Algebra (see 3D LA, 4 and 5D GA and LA do exist) 

3D isometric Zaxxon of Sega, 1982 

3DO 3-Dimensional Optics (T. Hawkins)(see TOF, TriDiCam , …) 

3D LA 3D Linear Algebra (see 3D GA) 

3DLC 3D Load Configuration: consideration of the shipment splitting, temperature, other handling requirements 

3DLCP 3DLC Planning (see c-SCM, SCM, SCEM, SVC, value , …) 

3DLE 3D Learning Environment. Contextualization is critical. 

3IMP3DS intelligent interactive immersive multi-platform 3D solutions: FBC solution for more communication & ROI 

3DPA 3D Positional Audio 

3D printing process of joining materials (i.e. polymer or metal) together, layer by layer, to produce 3D objects 

3DS 3D Studio (format), Nintendo portable game console 

3DSN 3D Social Network (see social network ) 

3D-TV seeing TV in Three Dimensions (sometimes spelled 3-D TV)(see TOF, TriDiCam , …) 

3D-VA 3D Viewing Angle 


3Dwm 3D Windows Manager 

3DXML format supported by Dassault Systemes and using an XML container (see also U3D) 

3GIO 3d-generation I/O architecture (Bus, Interface) 

3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project (http://www.3gpp.org) 

3LH 3d Level Hierarchy 

3MF Multi Media Multi Format (mini chip : it will decode the AVC) 

3PLs 3d-Party Logistics (providers)(see c-SCM, SCEM, …) 

3PCC 3d Party Call Control 

2PP Two-Photon Polymerization (see PP) 

16CIF 16 times Common Intermediate Format (Picture Format) 

16QUAM 16-state QUadrature Amplitude Modulation 

2W or 2-w 2-Wire 

3W or 3-w 3-Wire 

1st prerequisite common semantic: to share the same view(s) (see 1st triad) 

1st triad communication, integration, synchronization (FBC>s fundamentals)(see 2nd triad) 

1st principle original assumpting proposition 

1st principles original set of coherently assembled propositions 

2 IS targets proximity and sharing (Information System implementation objectives) 

2nd triad Culture, System, Structure (FBC>s fundamentals)(see 1st triad) 

3C Context, Content, Communication 

4C see C Generation 

6C Capabilities of Competence, Creativity, Competitiveness, Connectivity, Cooperation, Communication 

6C Content & Context, Communication, Collaboration, Community, Commerce, Computer / Cloud 

3P People, Planet, Profit: UN Commission on Sustainable Development (a sort of triple bottom line) 

3P (another one) Planet, People, Process: more concern about ESR and human-oriented development strategy 

3P from 3M Preventing the Pollution Pays 

3P principles Praxis-based/Pragmatic, Perception, Process information included (see CM, ISKO) 

4P outdated marketing mix model (McCarthy in the 60ties): product, place, price, promotion (see SIVA) 

5P add people to 4P. People are customers, suppliers, partners, participants / employees, ... 

6P Plant, Product, Part, Prototype, Process, Price: emphasizing numerous complex industrial knowledge (see KM) 

3R edict Reduce, Reuse, Replace: environmental edict (see RRR) 

4R Reduction, Reutilization, Recycling, Regulation 

3S principles Sciences-based, Scientific, Systematic approach (see ISKO, KO) 

7 management deadly diseases (Demming): the most obvious consists in running the business seeing what's visible only (finances) 

7S A McKinsey model for consultants & managers: strategy, structure, system, skills, staff, style, shared value 

7QC The 7 Quality Control Tools (Kaoru Ishikawa from the JUSE in the 60's) 

8nergy http://bizz-exert.blogspot.com : business & corporate philosophy, social capital, ... 

8 practices Sensing, Envisioning, Offering, Adopting, Sustaining, Executing, Leading, Embodying to innovate (Denning & Dunham) 

Connectivism chaos, network, complexity, self-organization theories 

ESGC Environmental, Social and Governance Criteria (see CSR) 

Excellence also named CVP Excellence : Convenience,Versatility, Performance 

PACE Pressure, Actions, Capabilities, Enablers 

PERTS Passion, Experience, Relationship, Teamwork & Smart 

V3 vision, values, volition (Futuribles, France) 

WH5 "Who, What, Where, When, Why" method (see WH+H): could be conveniently related to ADI, BI, BPML 

"41" 41 interacting cases to initiate the CM / change management (FBC>s methodology) 

R4 Request For ... 

802.11 a standard developed by the IEEE for WLAN 

802.11a idem with a range up to 30 meters, operating at 5GHz, providing 54Mbps (aka WiFi5) 

802.11b idem with a range up to 100 meters, operating at 2.4GHz, providing 11Mbps (see WEP) 

802.11g idem with a range up to 100 meters, operating at 2.4GHz, providing 54Mbps 

802.11i security standard using 128-bit encryption keys for more privacy and security (see TKIP, WPA) 

802.11n 300 Mbit/s on a theoretical base (DRAFT 2.0 version) 

802.15.4 see ZIGBEE 

802.15.6 around the human body network (see BAN) 

802.22 Wireless Regional Area Network (WRAN) 

24 fps 24 frames per second (a movie usually runs 24 pictures per second) 

8 bit PC move data in 1 Byte Chunks 





360° very shortly said : peripheral SNA made as from each participant of a group or enterprise 

404 The "famous error 404: URL not found" qualifying also a "disconnected or glazing person" 

A Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

A ampere (unit of electrical current) 

A programming language (1956) (see APL) 

A0 841 x 1189 mm (according ISO 216 / international paper size standard) 

A3 Adaptive Application Architecture (a Gartner reference model)(see ERA) 

A3 Anywhere, Any time, Any place 




A2A Application-To-Application (link in between internal applications) 

A2A Asia-to-America (see ACP) 

A2E Asia-to-Europe (see ACP, EMEA) 

A2Q Answers To Questions (see FAQ) 

AA Anti-Aliasing 

AA Application Architecture (see Apps ) 

AA Assets Accounting (sub-ledger module to FI)(see HVA, LVA, …) 

AA Auto Answer (Net) 

AAA Adaptive Array Antenna 

AAA American Arbitration Association 

AAA ASP Application Aggregator (see Cloud Computing , ISP) 

AAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (framework to control the PC resources access) 

AAA top Credit Rating (see CRA) 

AAAAAA Association for the Abolition of Abused Abbreviations (abbr ) and Asinine Acronyms (see Asinine ) 

AAAI American Association of Artificial Intelligence (see AI) 

AAAS American Assn for the Advancement of Sciences, 1848 (http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/) 

AABB Axis Aligned Bounding Box 

AAC Advanced Audio Coding (has developped mp4 providing more efficient compression than mp3) 

AACR-2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (see FRDB, FRSAD, IFLA, ISBD) 

AACS Advanced Access Control System : DVD protection 

AACS Asynchronous Address Communication System 

AACSB Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (International Assn) 

AAD Automatic Activation Device 

AADA Advances in Adaptive Data Analysis (www.worldscinet.com/aada/aada.shtml)(see ADA) 

AAF Advanced Authoring Format: file interchange format for the video post production (see AMWA) 

AAF Affordable Art Fair: art discount event. 

AAF American Advertizing Federation 

AAFID Autonomous Agent For Intrusion Detection 

AAGR Average Annual Growth Rate (see AGR, LDCs) 

AAL Ambient Assisted Living (see AmI) 

AAL ATM Adaptation Layer 

AALL American Assn of Law Librarians 

AAM Arts Alliance Media (see VPF) 

AAMC American Assn of American Colleges 

AAMS Aircraft Actuation & Management Systems (see MRO) 

AAP Application Access Point 

AAPEX Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (USA) 

AAR After-Action Review 

AARP AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol 

aaS as a Service (see ASP, Cloud Computing , DaaS, Grid Computing , HaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, …) 

AAS Advanced Automation System 

AAS Auto Area Segmentation 

AASIS Arkansas Administrative Statewide Information System: an interesting financial security doc 

www.legaudit.state.ar.us/AuditReports/InfoSys/2003/AASISApplCntrlsOct2003.pdf - 

AASP ASCII Asynchronous Support Package (see ASCII) 

AAT Average Access Time. Fr.: Temps d'accès moyen (see TBC & the TTx collection: TTC, TTM, ,,,) 

AATP Authorized Academic Training Program (Microsoft) 

AAUs Assigned Amount Units 


ABA Activity-Based Accounting (see ABC, ABCM, TCA) 

ABAC APEC Business Consultative Council 

Abacus ancient calculating device used for centuries by the Chinese and some other cultures 

ABAF Anti-Bribery Anti-Fraud 

ABAP Advanced Business Application Programming (SAP lang./4th generation) 

ABB Activity Based Budgeting (accting mgmt)(see ABA, ABC, TCA, TD ABB...) 

abbr/abbrev abbreviated, abbreviation (Latin "brevis" = short) 

ABC Activity-Based Costing, a useful "push model" when conducting a BPR (see ABA, ABB, ABCM, TCA, TDABC) 

ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations (www.accessabc.com) (see ABCi) 

ABCi ABC Interactive: independent 3d party for verifying online activity (see ABC) 

ABCM Activity-Based Costing Management (see ABC, ABA, TCA) 

ABCP Asset-Backed Commercial Papers (emitted mostly by the SIV) 

ABD Ada-Based Document 

ABEL Advanced Boolean Expression Language 

ABEND(S) ABnormal END(s) 

ABI Administration/Application Binary Interface 

Ability to execute evidence of sustained good results 

ABIOS Advanced Basic Input Output System 

ABM Activity-Based Management (acc.mgmt)(see ABB, ABC, TCA, TDABB, TDABC) 

ABM Asynchronous Balanced Mode 

ABMD (Fr) Association Belge du Marketing Direct (www.abmd.be) 

ABPL Advanced Business Programming Language (see BPML, UML) 

ABR Available Bit Rate (see CBR, VBR) 

ABR Area Border Router 

ABS Adaptive Business Solutions (see ABS-QE) 

ABS Asset-Backed Securities (see CDO, RMBS) 

ABS-QE ABS Quality Evaluations: accredited by EMA (Mexico), ANAB and IATF (US), Immetro (Brazil) and RvA 

(Holland) and has agencies in more than 100 countries (see EFQM, QA, QC, QI, QM, TQM) 

AbSD Appliance-based Software Delivery 

ABSSS Creation of Agent-Based Social Systems Sciences (www.dis.titech.ac.jp/coe/index_eng.htm) 

ABT Automatic Bus Transfer 

ABTC APEC Business Travel Card (see ABAC, APEC)(www.businessmobility.org) 

AC3 Dolby Digital (from Dolby Labs ) 

AC Alternative Current 

AC Analog Computer 

AC Accounting - General (R/3 Business Application Area) 

ACB Asia Commercial Bank 

ACC Accounting Classification Code 

ACC Association of Communication Companies (see CCB, UMA)(Belgium: www.accbelgium.be) 

ACCA Assn of Chartered Certified Accountant (250.000 members & students in 160 countries/London) 

ACCDFISA ransonware 

Access sophisticated flexible DB maker, an application being part of Microsoft Office 

Acct(ing) Account(ing). Procedure: you need an Acct Group for creating an Account 

Account determination to separate gain or loss from payment difference is based on 3 criteria : debit, 

tax code, reason code 

Account groups / groupe de comptes Collection of properties of accounts (see master record). Fr: Entrée 

obligatoire: caractéristiques de classification au sein d'une fiche compte général avec définition des zones pour les saisies. 

AS = Assets. Fr: Immobilisations 

CASH = Liquidity. Fr: Liquidités 

GL = General Ledger. Fr: Grand Livre / les comptes généraux 

MAT = Materials. Fr: Gestion des articles 

PL / P&L = Profit & Loss. Fr: Comptes de résultat / Pertes et Profits 

Account type Code indicating the belonging accounting area of an account. Determines whether the G/L 

or one of the subledger is used. Specifies generic names such as … 

A Assets. Fr: Immobilisations 

D Customers. Fr: Clients 

K Vendors. Fr: Fournisseurs 

M Materials. Fr: Articles 

S General Accounts. Fr: Comptes généraux 

Must be a balance sheet account or a P+L statement to enable the carry forward of the retained earnings. 


ACCP Access Control Coordinate Point 

ACCPS Automated Community Centralized Provisioning System: management of user access rights and privileges 

Acculturation getting accustomed to new environments 

ACD Automatic Call Distribution (phone system) (see PABX) 

ACD Autoregressive Conditional Duration (ARCH model) 

ACDS Average Calendar Days of Supply / Stock (see DD, LPT, PCO …) 

ACE Advanced Computing Environment 

ACE Agent-based Computational Economics (http://www.socsci.aau.dk/ae2006/) 

ACEE Access Control Environment Element 

ACELP Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction 

ACF Administrative Complexity Factor (see TCF) 

ACF Advanced Communications Function 

ACF / NCP Advanced Communications Function / Network Control Program 

ACH Automated Clearing House 

ACI Accelerated Calibration Implementation (SAP) 

ACI Airport Council International (see GASAG) 

ACIA Asynchronous Communication Interface Adapter 

ACID Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability: transaction properties. Tests do exist for checking their actuality 

Acid2 test page made to help browser vendors ensure correct Web standards in their product 

ACINT ACoustical INTelligence 

ACK ACKnowledge (character, HEX= 06, DEC= 6) (see NAK) 

ACKNLG ACKNowLedGe (Interface signal) 

ACL Access Control List : it stops traffic from IP addresses or port not within the list. 

ACLS American Council of Learned Societies (http://www.acls.org/) 

ACLU American Civil Liberties Union 

Acluistic being without any clue 

*.acm ADPCM CODEC (audio file) 

ACM Application Change Management (Oracle)(see CM, ECM, OCM) 

ACM Association for Computing Machinery (www.acm.org/) 

ACML (Extensible) Access Control Markup Language 

ACOP Approved Codes of Practice (see COP) 

ACP Access Control Policy 

ACP Asia, Caribbean, Pacific ("ACP countries") 

ACPC APPLE Communication Protocol Card 

ACPI Advanced Configuration & Power Interface 

ACR Allowed Cell Rate 

ACRM Advanced Crew Resource Management (see HP, HR) 

ACRM Analytical Customer Relationship Management (see CRM, SFA, …) 

ACROBAT ADOBE exchange format (see *.pdf) 

Acromania over-use of acronyms … a mania … :-))) 

Acronomia acronyms - nomials paranoia 

Acronym word made of the initial letters of words set in a definition/ designation (see AAAAAA, anacronym , 

apronym , ASS , backronym , IL, recursive acronym , retronym , TLA, YAAS, YABA, YATLA). Also, 

acronyms are now considered as new language named digispeak, geekspeak, Internet speak 

Acronymize to form into an acronym (Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary) 

ACR-R Adaptive Control of Thought--Rational: cognitive architecture (John Robert Anderson) 

ACRS Accelerated Cost Recovery System (see ACWP) 

*.acs Microsoft agent character file 

ACSI American Customer Satisfaction Index 

ACSLS Automated Cartridge System Library Software: Unix-based system of Storage Technology 

ACT American College Test 

ACT Applied Change Technology (FBC>s ) : technology-based communication optimization 

action-reaction Newton 2nd law (dynamic translation) also considered in a Change Mgmt process (see CM) 

(Fr) www.fbc-e.com/services/documents/ser_chge_t002_f.pdf 

ACTA Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: Eur. Commission + 10 countries incl. Japan, Switzerland, Canada (see PIPA, SOPA 

Actionable something an action can be taken on 

ACTS Automated Computer Time Service (see CUT, IST, NIST, TAI, UTC) 

ACU Automatic Call Unit 

ACV Assembly Cache Viewer 

ACV At Completion Variance 


ACWP Actual Cost of Work Performed (IE)(see ACRS, BAC, BCWP, BCWS, EAC, EV, VAC) 

A&D Analysis and Design (see R&D) 

A-D Advance-Decline (line) (personal finance) 

AD Active Directory (see GPTF) 

A/D Analog to Digital 

AD Automated Design (see AI, CAD, …) 

ADA Advanced Data Analysis (see AADA) 

ADA (Ada) programming language (US, 1979). Ada : first name of a Babbage collaborator 

AdatP-3 Allied Data Publication-3 (see IER, MTF) 

ADATP-3 Architecture, Design, Analysis and Planning Tool : to enable SWIFT applications 

ADB APPLE Desktop Bus 

ADB Asian Development Bank 

ADB Accelerated Death Benefit (life insurance) 

ADC Analog-to-Digital Converter (see DSP) 

ADC Active DT Channel 

ADC ADvice of Charge (service) (see ISDN) 

ADC Apple Display Connector (DVI variant) 

ADC Automated/Automatic Data Collection 

ADCAD Advertising Design (Computer-Assisted)(see CAD) 

ADCP Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler 

ADCP Analysis & Data Collection Plan 

ADD Active Data Dictionary (see DDD) 

Add-in basic application improvement 

Add-on extension of the material features 

Address a place on the Internet or the email address of a person 

ADE Application Development Environment (tools for building applications used by the DSS analyst) 

ADF Application Development Framework 

ADF Automatic Document Feeder (Fax, printer, …) 

ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (neurobehavioral disorder Internet abuse is supposed to be one of the cause) 

Adhocracy a limited ruled structure set to achieve a predetermined result 

ADI Advanced Design Issue 

ADI Analytics-Driven Intelligence (see ADM, ADO, BI, CI, DSD, PAP, SI) 

ADI AUTOCAD Device Interface 

ADK Application Development Toolkit (see apps ) 

ADK Archive Development Kit 

ADLs Activities of Daily Living (personal finance) 

ADM Advance Digital Manufacturing 

ADM Analytics-Driven Marketing (see ADI, ADO, DSD, PAP) 

ADM Architecture-Driven Modernization 

ADM Arrow Diagram Method 

ADM Asynchronous Disconnected Mode 

ADMF Asynchronous Data Mover Facility (IBM mainframe feature) 

ADN see DNA 

ADO ActiveX Data Objects 

ADO Analytics-Driven Organization (see ADI, ADM, DSD, PAP) 

ADO Application Defined Objects (include forms, style, printer definitions) 

ADOCS Automated Deep Operations Coordination System 

ADP Automatic Data Processing (see DP) 

ADPCM Adaptative Differential PCM (Microsoft) 

ADR Application-Dependent Route 

ADSI Active Directory Service Interface 

ADSI Analog Display Services Interface 

ADSL Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line (see BPL, DSL, RE-ADSL, SDSL, VDSL) 

ADSP APPLE Talk Data Stream Protocol 

ADSP Author Domain Signing Practices (see DKIM) 

ADSTAR Automated Document Storage and Retrieval (IBM) 

adv. adverb (used in dictionary abbreviations) 

ADV (Fr) Administration Des Ventes (SD) 

ADVC Advanced Digital Video Converter 

ADVC Analog to Digital Video Converter 


ADW Active Data Warehouse: RDB (i2 Technologies) 

Adware SW that brings advertising page to the computer (more with pestpatrol.com)(see Malware ) 

AE Account Executive (see KAM) 

AE Authorization for Expenditure 

AEC Architecture Engineering & Construction (CAD) 

AEC ASEAN Economic Community 

AEI Automatic Equipment Identification (without human intervention) (see RFID) 

AEM Atom Earth Mother (see PF) 

AES Automated Export System (LES enables the users to exchange data with custom authorities) 

AES Advanced Encryption Standards (see DES, IDEA)(http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips197/fips-197.pdf) 

AESC American Engineering Standards Committee 

AESRM Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk Management (see RM) 

AEX Amsterdam EXchange, 25 enterprises stock index 

AF Alternative Frequencies (radio)(see FM, LW, MW, SW) 

AF Application Form (see CV) 

AFC African Financial Community (Franc Zone CFA) 

AFC Application Foundation Classes 

AFILS Audio-Frequency Induction-Loop Systems 

AFM Accelerating Forward Move (FBC>s ): change-related concept 

AFM Atomic Force Microscope (see STM) 

A&FM Assets and Facility Management (see AM) 

AFP APPLEtalk Filing Protocol 

AFPFO Anti-Fraud Post-Fraud Operations (see ATPTO) 

AfriNIC African Network Information Center (RIR for the African region) 

AFS Advanced Streaming Format (Microsoft) 

AFTA ANSEAN Free Trade Area (see EFTA) 

AG After Google (see BG) 

AGC Apollo Guidance Computer: simple program (2 Ko RAM, 32 Ko ROM) guiding the man toward the Moon. 

AGC Automatic Gain Control (used in audio and video equipment to maintain the output level) 

agcy abbr of agency 

AGI Adjusted Gross Income (see GDP) 

AGM Annual General Meeting (of shareholders) 

AGP Accelerated / Advanced Graphics Port (INTEL) 

AGPL Affero General Public License 

AGR Annual Growth Rate (see AAGR) 

Agreeance convivially talking about agreement 

Agresso suite of SW for administrative & financial processes of higher education institutions. 

A-GPS Assisted GPS (see E-GPS) 

AGS Annual Growth Survey (see AGR) 

AH Authentification Header : an IPSec checking the packet content integrity after its transit 

AHA Accelerated Hub Architecture 

AHP Analytical Hierarchy Process (see ANP) 

*.ai ADOBE Illustrator (file) 

AI Active Interface (see GUI, UI) 

AI Appreciative Inquiry: the positive regard on what's valuable (versus the resolving approach) 

AI Artificial Intelligence (see AAAI, AIA, AL, AUAI, ES) FBWPA 

Note: The human brain has needed 40 million years to develop 200 billion connections and it doesn't use them all ! 

AI Associative Intelligence 

AI Augmented Intelligence (see AI, AL, AmI, AR, IAR and more on our site) 

AI Automated Invention : computers are solving described problems and bringing solutions (see AD, CAD, ...) 

AIA Artificial Intelligence Application (see AI, AAAI, AL, AUAI, ES, …) 

AIAG Automotive Industry Action Group 

AIB Accident Investigation Board 

AICPA American Institute of CPA (http://www.aicpa.org/) 

AIDA Attention+Interest+Desire+Action (advertising principles) 

AIDC Automatic Identification and Data Capture (see EPC, RFID) 

AIDE Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (see HIDS, IDS) 

AIERP Avian Influenza Emergency Recovery Project (see HPAI) 

AIF, *.aif Audio Interchange Format 

*.aiff Audio Interchange File Format 


AIFMS Alternative Investment Fund Managers 

AIIC International Association of Conference Interpreters 

AIK Automated Installation Kit (see WAIK) 

AIM Advanced Information Management (see IT, IS) 

AIM Alternative Investment Market 

AIO Activities, Interests, Opinions (mkg) 

AIPN All IP Network 

AIR Automatic Image Refinement (CANON) 

AirCERT Automated Incident Reporting (see CERT, http://www.cert.org/) 

AIRE Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions (see SESAR) 

AIS Applied Information Service (see IS) 

AIT Applied Information Technology (see IT) 

AIT Advanced Intelligent Tape : cassette storage standard (see DLT & LTO) 

AIW Adaptive Information Warehouse (Fast) 

Ajax / AJAX Asynchronous Java Script and XML (creates rich Web-based applications)(see EAF, RAP) 

aka or a.k.a also known as (used before an alias ) 

Aka 802.11b Wifi wireless networking technology 

AKW Augmented Knowledge Workplace (see KM and others) 

AL Application Layer (see OSI) 

AL Application Logic 

AL Artificial Life (see also ALC, AI, AR, avatar , Second Life ) 

ALA Area Lead Architect 

ALAC At-Large Advisory Committee: provides advices on the activities of the ICANN 

ALAP As Late As Possible (see ASAP, JIC, JIT, JTL) 

*.alb power ALBum (file) 

ALBM Air-Launched Ballistic Missile (see ALCM, ASM) 

ALC Artificial Life Character (see AI, AL, ECA, ECT) 

ALCM Air-Launched Cruise Missile (see ALBM, ASM) 

ALE Application Link Enabling (application distribution) 

Alexa rank traffic index analyzing the internet usage of Alexa Toolbar users (USA) 

ALF Advanced List Format (SAP doc) 

ALGOL ALGorithmic Oriented Language (scientific language)(see CVSELP, IAL) 

algorithm mathematical rules set. They are often used for encryption/decryption processes (see blowfish ) 

ALI Application Layer Interface (communication interface) 

alias nickname, simplified electronic address name replacing another hostname (see a.k.a) 

a-Life artificial Life (could be a virtual life)(see AI, AL, ALC, avatar , Second Life , VL) 

ALJ Administrative Law Judge (USA) 

Alloted issued (annual report) 

AllSharePlay Sharing on TV as from all Wifi connected sources: feature available on Samsung smart TV 

ALM Additive Layer Manufacturing: EADS's 3D printing system (www.eads.com/eads/france/fr/actualites/) 

ALM Application Life-cycle Management (see CLC, ELC, KLC, PLC, SLC, ... ) 

ALM Assets and Liability Management (see SALM) 

ALMA Atacama Large Millimeter Array, a NW of 66 antennas (World driest desert in Northen Chili) 

ALMS Automated Logistics Management System 

ALN Asynchronous Learning Network (see ALT, ASL, CBCL, CLE, CSCL, ECLG, WBL, WBT, …) 

ALoP Another Level of Performance 

Alpha geek CITO 

Alt Alternate 

ALT Advanced Learning Technologies (see ALT, ASL, CBCL, CLE, CSCL, ECLG, ROLE, WBL, WBT, …) 

Alt-A special asset mortgage 

ALTS Association for Local Telecommunications Services 

ALU Arithmetic & Logic Unit (processor) 

ALV ABAP List Viewer (SAP) 

Always on enduring / permanent connectivity 

AM Assets Management (SAP module)(see AA, A&FM, DAM) 

AM Active Messaging (see SMS) 

AM Additive Manufacturing (3D printing of small elements, including metal) 

AM Amplitude Modulation (see FM): radio carrier wave for transmitting information 

AMA American Management Association (www.amanet.org)(see MCE) 

AMA American Medical Association 


AMA Ask Me Anything (session of test or work) 

A.M. or am ante meridiem (from Latin) means "before noon" (see P.M.) 

AMA Assets Management Account aka CAAs or CMAs 

Amcham American Chamber of Commerce (see CC, CCI, ICC, Eurocham ) 

AMD Advanced Micro Devices (1969): competitor of Intel 

AME Advanced Metal Evaporated: storage support 

AMEX AMerican stock EXchange 

AMF Arab Monetary Fund 

AMG Automatic Metadata Generation 

AmI Ambient Intelligence (www.ami-10.org/program) 

AMI Amazon Machine Image 

AML Algebraic Modeling Language (see BPML, GAMS, UML) 

AMLCD Active Matrix LCD 

AML Anti-Money Laundering 

AMLO Anti-Money Laundering Operations 

AMP Alliance Management Program 

Ampersand & 

AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone Service (see D-AMPS) 

AMPS Automatic Music Program System 

AMQP Advanced Message Queuing Protocol: open specification for pervasive, message-oriented integration 

AMR Audio/Modem Riser (Intel) for packaging the analog I/O audio functions of modem circuitry with a codec chip 

AMR Advanced Manufacturing Research (Boston Institute) 

AMR Automatic Message Registering 

AMRS Alternative Map Registering Sets (EMS memory) 

AMS American Mathematical Society 

AMS-IX Amsterdam Internet Hub: actually considered as the largest and most stable digital exchange platform 

AMSP Application Management Service Provider (see ASP, ISP) 

AMT Active Management Technology (Intel) 

AMT Applied Management Technology 

AMT Advanced Manufacturing Technology 

AMT Alternative Minimum Tax (USA income tax matter)(see IRS) 

AMTSO Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (http://www.amtso.org/) 

AMU Arab Maghreb Union 

AMWA Advanced Media Workflow Association 

ANA Association of National Advertisers (USA) 

anacronym very old acronym that is now part of the common language (no one remembers its origin). As found 

in the July 1997 issue of Wired Magazine. Example: Laser (see backronym ) 

anagram word or sentence made of another by transposing the letters (don't confuse it with acronym or anacronym ) 

anarconomy anarchy + economy. Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies 2009 report: www.cifs.dk/en/anarconomy 

AND opérateur logique "et" (voir OR et XOR) 

AND Automated Network Deployment (see ZAD) 

Andon signboard . Part of the Toyota Production System (see TPS). 

Android SW platform and OS for mobile devices based on Linux kernel (Google 2005)(see Brew, Symbian, …) 

*.ani animated cursor (see *.cur). Fr.: curseur animé 

ANI Automatic Number Identification 

ANN Artificial Neural Network (see GA, GN, NN, VN) 

Anonymize forge an anonymous status 

ANOVA ANalysis-Of-Variance : statistical model for data analysis 

ANP Analytic Network Process: mathematics-based decision (see AHP) 

ANSI American National Standard Institute (see ISO) 

ANT Actor Network Theory (see SNA, Social Network ) 

Anti- virus free antivirus : www.secuser.com ; http://housecall.antivirus.com (see Virus ) 

antonym a term / word that is evocating the opposite. Example: green evocating immaturity 

AO Administration Officer (see CAO, CEO, CIO, COO and others) 

AO Assisted Operation (see CAD) 

AOC Air Operations Center (see ASRs) 

AoD Applications on Demand 

AoE ATA-over-Ethernet 

AOGCM Atmospheric-Oceanic Global Circulation Model (climate) 

AOL America On Line (1985, + 10,000,000 customers) 


AON All Or None order : instruction to a broker. 

AOO Assembled-On-Order (see BTO) 

AOT Advanced Object Technology (see OO and others) 

AP Access Points 

AP Application Package / Program (see WP) 

A/P Account Payable (see A/R) 

APA All Points Addressable 

APA ASEAN Port Association 

APAC Adaptative Planning and Control Sequence (application of SWOT) 

APAR Authorized Program Analysis Report 

APB Accounting Principles Board (see AICPA, FASB, GAAP) 

APBO Accounting Principles Board Opinions 

APC Acquisition and Production Costs 

APC Advanced Process Control 

APCUG Association of PC User Groups (www.apcug.net : ask for their quarterly reports) 

APD Advanced Planning & Development (see APO) 

APDs Avalanche Photo Diodes 

APDU Application Protocol Data Unit 

APEA Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation 

APEAL Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (J.D. Power's 2008) 

APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (see ASEAN, Pac Rim) 

APEC FMM APEC Finance Ministers' Meeting (see ABAC) 

API Application Programming Interface: UI design constrained by the OS or application (see BAPI, CAPI, TAPI) 

APIPA Automatic Private IP Addressing 

APL A Programming Language (1956) 

APM Advanced Power Management 

APM Application Development Module 

APM Application Performance Management (see CAPM) 

APN Access Point Name 

APNIC Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (Asia & Pacific region RIR) 

APO (SAP) Advanced Planner & Optimizer = central component w/i SCOPE which provides supply chain 

planning (SCP) tools for real-time planning and decision support 

APO Authorized Personnel Only 

APP Advanced Production Planning (see APO) 

APPC Advanced Program-to-Program Communications 

Applet JAVA mini application (JAVA script use)(see W3A) 

Apps Applications (see DCA, GSMA, REA, WAC, Webapp , Xapps) 

Android Market HTC, Samsung and others using the Android OS (from Google) online shop 

AppStore Apple's online shop for iPhone and iPod downloadable applications 

AppWorld RIM's BlackBerry online shop 

Ovi Store Nokia online shop 

APQC American Productivity and Quality Center (see EFQM, QA, QC, QM, TQM, …) 

APQP Advanced Product Quality Planning (see APQC) 

APR Accreditation in Public Relations 

APR Annual Percentage Rate 

APRIL Asynchronous Pulsed Radiated Incident Light is a MDCP 

Apronym letters of an acronym representing a meaningful term in its context 

http://www.co.nz/cgi/forums/list.cgi?id=acronyms&user=&session=&root=1044419774 

APS Advanced Planning and Scheduling 

APS Application Platform Suite 

APST Advanced Professionals Serving Technology 

APT Advanced Parallel Technology 

APT Advanced Persistent Threat: advanced severe cyber-attack 

APT Automatically Programed Tools 

APU As Per Usual 

APUS American Public University System (www.apus.edu/) 

APWG Anti-Phishing Working Group (http://www.apwg.org/) 

APY Annual Percentage Yield 

AR Alliance Relationship (see ARM, CRM, …) 

AR Augmented Reality (see 3D AR, AI, ARA, ARB, ART, AugCog , Augmented -, AV, VR, Wetware , …) 


AR Application Requester (see RFQ, RFP, … ) 

A/R Account Receivable (see A/P) 

ARA Augmented Reality Application (see AR, ARB, ART, …) 

ARA Augmented Reality Availability (see AR, ARB, ART, …) 

ARAR Applicable or Relevant and Appropriate Requirements 

ARB Augmented Reality Browsing (see Augmented- , AI, AR, ARA, ...) 

ARC Alternate Reporting Category (Chart of Accounts) 

ARC Authority Root Certificate: certification (see SRC) 

ARC4 Alleged RC4 Protocol 

ARCH model Pr. Robert Fry Engle III 's autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (see ACD, DCC) 

Architecture system design plus description of the components interactions. 

Archiving archiving systems : RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LHA, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO 

Arcology Architecture & ecology. Paolo Soleri concept: huge cities enclosed in a single building with its built-in environment 

ARE Augmented Reality Engine (see AV, MAR, SAR) 

ARF Abort, Retry, Fail (message) 

ARF Abuse Feedback Reporting Format (see DKIM) 

ARF Advertising Research Foundation 

ARG Alternate Reality Game (see gaming , MMO, MMOG, MMORTS, …) 

ARIADNE Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks for Europe 

ARIN American Registry for Internet Numbers (North America, parts of the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa RIR) 

ARIP Account Receivable Incoming Payment 

ARISS Amateur Radio on board of International Space Station.(www.ariss-eu.org/) 

ARJ Archive Robert Jung, a compressing and archiving program 

ARL ARchive Link 

ARM Adjustable Rate Mortgage (personal finance) 

ARM Advanced RISC Machine 

ARM Agent Relationship Management (see CRM) 

ARM Alliance Relationship Management (see AR) 

ARM Automatic Restart Manager 

AROC Average Rate of Change (see CM) 

ARP Address Resolution Protocol 

ARP Advanced Resource Planning 

ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency (NET genesis)(see ARPANET, DARPA) 

ARPANET short for ARPANETWORK: Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (see NIC) 

ARPANETWORK see ARPANET 

ARPU Average Revenue Per User (see ROE, ROI, ROK, ROP) 

ARRL American Radio Relay League 

ARS Action Request System 

ARSC Accounting and Review Services Committee (see AICPA) 

art. article (used in dictionary abbreviation) 

ART Augmented Reality Technology (see AI, AR, RR, VR, …) 

ART (Fr) Autorité de Régulation des Télécommunications 

ART Alternative Risk Transfer Market (Risk management)(see RM) 

ARTE (Fr) Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne (authentique / true) 

ARQ Automatic Repeat Request 

AS Asynchronous System 

AS Autonomous System 

ASA Advertising Standards Authority in UK 

asap As Soon As Possible (see ALAP) 

ASAP Accelerated SAP (rapid implementation extended procedure) 

ASAP Align Supply And Production (SAS): principle along the general SCM principles 

ASAP Automated Standard Application for Payment 

ASAPs Auto-tuning SSD Accelerated Pools of storage … from StorageSearch 

ASBL (Fr) Association Sans But Lucratif (see NPO) 

ASBO Anti-Social Behaviour Order (see CRASBO) 

ASC Advisory Scientific Committee (see ESRB) 

ASC Agile Supply Chain (see CRSC, LSC, SCM, SCEM, …) 

ASC Anti-Spyware Coalition (http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/) 

ASCII American Standard for Computer Information Interchange (see AASP) 

ASCSI Advanced Small Computer System Interface 


ASD Adaptive Software Development 

ASD Audit Services Division 

ASD Automatic Shut Down 

ASDSP Application-Specific Digital Signal Processor 

ASE Accelerated Solution Environment 

ASE Application Service Element (see ASP, ISP) 

ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations (see APEC) 

ASF, *.asf Active Streaming Format (MS audio / video file formats) 

ASF, *.asf Advanced System Format 

ASF Apache Software Foundation 

ASIA see Cartagena Agreement 

ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit (see ASSP) 

ASICS Anima Sana In Corpore Sano :-)) (see emoticon , smiley ) 

Asinine silly, stupid (see AAAAAA) 

ASIO Audio Stream Input/Output 

"as is " the actual situation (see "to be ", "implementation path ", MOC) 

ASIS American Society for Information Science 

ASK Amplitude Shift Keying (see FSK, PSK) 

ASL Asynchronous Learning (see ALN, ALT, CBCL, CLE, CSCL, ECLG, ROLE, WBL, WBT, …) 

ASLR Address Space Layout Randomization: computer security technique about the key data areas arrangement 

ASM Air-to-Surface Missile (see ALBM, ALCM) 

ASM / RDM Advanced Server Manager / Remote Diagnostic Management (ACER) 

ASMM Artificial Stock Market Model of Arthur, Holland, LeBaron, Palmer and Taylor (see ACE). 

ASN Advanced Shipping Notice (MM-WM) 

ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One: international standard (see BER, DER) 

ASO Address Supporting Organization: advises the ICANN BOD on IP addresses policy and mgmt 

ASO Aggregate Storage Option: cube that is supporting extremely large dimensions 

ASP Active Server Pages (outil serveur / serving tool) 

ASP Application Service Provider (see ISP, PSP) 

ASP Assn of SW Professionals 

*.asp Active Server Page (MS component, file) 

ASPA Aerial Surveillance and Photogrammetry Applications (standard) 

ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface 

ASQ American Society for Quality (see EFQM, QA, QC, QI, QL, TQM)(www.asq.org/) 

ASQC American Society for Quality Control (see EFQM, QC, TQM)(www.cepra.org/download/D11v04.pdf) 

ASR Active Search Results : independent Internet Search Engine (ISE) 

ASR Automatic Speech Recognition: automated recognition of the words a person pronounces on the phone line. 

ASR (Windows XP) Automated System Recovery 

ASRs Air Support Requests (US Army or Marine) (see AOC) 

ASRS Automatic Storage & Retrieval System (SAP LES) 

ASS (yes !) Acronym Stress Syndrome (yes ! It does exist !) (see AAAAAA) 

ASS Applied Social Science 

ASSEMBLER ASSEMBly language (see COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/1 …) 

Assign a CyCd to a CyCd 

a Credit Cntrol Area 

a Financal Management Area 

a Controlling Area 

a Plant to a CyCd 

a Sales Organization to a CyCd 

a Purchase Organization to a CyCd 

Assn Association 

ASSP Application Specific Standard Product (semiconductor device integrated circuit)(see ASIC) 

AST Advanced Sales Technique(s) 

AST(s) Automotive Security Technology (ies) 

aSTG anterior Superior Temporal Gyrus 

ASTM American Society for Testing Material 

ASTM Abstract Syntax Tree Metamodel 

ASVD AudioSpan (Rockwell) 

ASYNC ASYNChronous (see SYNC) 

asynchronous being operative on its own built-in clock (back to the First Triad ) 


asynchronous learning learning environment where the learner and instructor aren't simultaneously present 

AT Activity Type 

AT Advanced Technology (see ATA, ATX, SATA) 

AT (Fr) Analyse Transactionnelle (see TA): article disponible dans notre Business Magazine n°3 (www.fbc-e.com) 

AT Assistive Technology (see DSS) 

ATA AT Attachment (activity attachment) 

ATAM ® Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method®: SEI method in the area of software architecture evaluation 

ATAPI AT Attachment Packet Interface 

ATB Automated Ticket & Boarding (Pass) (IT) 

ATCS American Television Standards Committee 

ATD Anthropomorphic Test Device 

ATD Available To Deploy (SAP/MRP4) 

A-Team Architecture Team (see PM, PS, …) 

ATEG Automotive Thermoelectric Generators (see AC, DC, DCG, MHD, TEG) 

atemi based on the action / reaction principle (coming from the combat sports terminologies) 

ATF Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives : Bureau at the DoJ (USA) 

ATL Above The Line (advertising)(see advergame , BTL, TTL, ..) 

ATL Active Template Library 

ATM Automatic Telling Machine 

ATM Asynchronous Transfert Mode (see ABT) 

ATM ADOBE Type Manager 

ATM / ATC Air Traffic Management and Control Systems 

ATN Attention (GPIB24LB) 

ATO Advanced Technology Offerings 

ATO Advanced Technology Office (US DARPA) 

ATO Anti-Terrorism Officer (see CEO, CIO, COO, CTO, …) 

ATO Assemble-to-Order 

ATO Authority to Operate 

ATO Automatic Turn-On 

ATP Available-To-Promise (quantity) 

ATOMM Advanced super Thin layer and high Output Metal Media (Fujifilm) 

ATPTO Anti-Threat Post-Threat Operations (see AFPFO) 

ATR Automatic Target Recognition 

ATRAC Adaptative TRansform Acoustic Coding (SONY) 

ATS Acquisition of Talents System (see TAS) 

ATS Advanced Training Solution (called InfoDB in some countries) uses all the R/3 training material. 

ATS Applicant Tracking System : useful for a recruiting process 

ATSR Along Track Scanning Radiometer (see SST)(www.atsr.rl.ac.uk/) 

Attitude management how to be the "perfect" leader ? (article in the 3d issue of the FBC>s Business Magazine) 

ATU Account Team Unit (see SMT, TU) 

ATVOS Advanced TVOS (see RARS, TIROS) 

ATX (motherboard) Advanced Technology eXtended [form factor]: no wires needed: built-in IO ports (see AT) 

AU Access Unit 

AU African Union (see EU, UAE, …) 

AUAI Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (www.auai.org) (see AI) 

AUC Assets Under Construction (AA) (voir IEC) 

AUD Australian Dollar 

audio dub the sound of a program recording only and without any concern of the pictures? 

Augmented 

cognition see AugCog 

driving see AugDrive 

identity see AugID 

intelligence see AI 

reality see AR: adding an overlay of digital information to the reality 

AugCog Augmented Cognition: could be part of a EAM program (see AI, AR, Augmented -, HMI) 

AugID possibility to get the FaceBook and/or Plaxo profile of someone photographed in street (see Face tagging ) 

AUI Attachment Unit Interface 

Authentication 

AA Active Authentication 

BAC Basic Access Authentication 


autonomation autonomy and automation 

autonomic computing self-managing technologies able to improve/repair their own operations with minimal human intervention 

aux. auxiliary (used in dictionary abbreviation) 

AUX auxiliary input(s) on amplifiers, pre-amps, mixing tables … 

A/UX Apple/Unix 

av average 

AV Artificial Variable 

AV Augmented Virtuality (see AR) 

AVAR Association of anti Virus Asia Researchers (http://www.aavar.org/) 

Avatar Visual appearance used for a self represention in 3D or virtual reality games, chat forums on the Web 

(see AL, a-Life , DID, FaceSync , FOAF, Game , Gaming , LipSync , Second Life ) 

AVB Audio Video Broadcasting 

AVB Audio Video Bridging: IEEE 802.1 standards initiative 

AVC Advanced Video Coding (see 3MF) 

AVE Automated Virtual Environment 

AVE Automatic Virtual Environment (see AVR) 

AVI (*.avi) Audio Video Interleave (file format defining the relationship between audio and video) 

AVI AVIation (HTG within the IPC) 

AVIEN Anti-Virus Information Exchange Network (http://www.avien.org/) 

AVIEWS Anti-Virus Information & Early Warning System (http://www.aviews.net/) 

AVK Audio Video Kernel (IBM+Intel) 

AVL Automatic Volume Level / Levelling 

AVR Automatic Virtual Reality (see AVE) 

AVR Automatic Voltage Regulator 

AVSP Audio Visual Service Provider 

AVUG AV User Group (www.avusergroup.com) 

AWB Air WayBill (see export lingo ) 

AWD (car) All-Wheel Drive (see FWD) 

AWEA American Wind Energy Association 

AWG American Wire Gauge 

AWIC Average Within Inventory Cost 

AWS Amazon Web Services (see CCS, cloud computing ) 

AWS Applications Web Server 

AWT Abstract Windows Toolkit 

Axiology study of values: aesthetic, economic, ethic, logic, moral, … considred as from the intelligent Web4.0 

Axiome (Fr) énoncé explicite et logique des principes et définitions utilisées dans un domaine scientifique 

Axonometric a form of parallel projection 

AY Accounting Year (see FY) 

Azure Windows Services Platform (could be considered as a PaaS or a Cloud OS) 

B Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

B1G1F Buy One Get One Free (sales/marketing) 

B2A Business-To-Administration 

B2B or BtoB Back To the Bank 

B2B Business-To-Business 

B2B Back-To-Brussels … when I'm home … :-)) 

B2Bi B2B Integration (see EAI) in view of multi-company business processes. 

B2BUA Back-To-Back User Agent 

B2C Business-To-Customer (see C2C) 

B2F Back-To-(the)-Future … stop wandering and restart futuring your behavior and enterprise! 

B2G Business-To-Government (see G2C) 

B2R Back-To-Reality … after a long unrealistic business dream ! 

B2S Business-To-Suppliers 

B4Now Before Now 

Ba Place-Time-People (Japan), a shared dynamic context in motion. Compare it with STU (see 4D, 5D) 

BA (2B+D interface) Basic Access (see ISDN, PRA) 

BA Business Analyst 

BA Business Analytics (see BI) 

BA Business Area (see BU) 

BAA Business Application Area (see BAD) 

Babbage Charles , Dec. 26, 1791-Oct,18, 1871, English mathematician having originated the programmable computer concept 


Baby Boom post-WWII demographic birth acceleration (see Papy Boomerang ) 

BAC Basic Access Authentication (see Authentication ) 

BAC Budget At Completion (see EV, ACWP, BCWP, BCWP, EAC, VAC) 

BACC Belgian-American Chamber of Commerce (New-York) 

Backbone high speed data link connecting the main NW and carrying the heaviest traffic 

BackDoor.Flashback Trojan for Apple "Mac" PC and others 

Backronym acronym refering to itself in the expression for which it stands (see recursive acronym , retronym , 

anacronym ). Backronym example : VISA International Service Association (1976) 

BAD Business Application Domain (see BAA) 

Bada Samsung mobile high-performance native apps and services (see LiMO, MeeGo, …) 

BaffleText more sophisticated CAPTCHA filter made by PARC 

BAFTA British Academy of Film and Television Arts 

*.bak back-up file format 

BAL Business Analysis Library 

BALUN BALanced / UNbalanced 

BAM Business Activity Management (see SAM) 

BAM Business Activity Monitoring (could be related to BI, TCO for IT managers) 

BAM Business Administration Management 

BAM Bidirectional Associative Memory 

BAN Body Area NW: IEEE 802.15.6 wireless mini-emitter/receiver to be installed around, on/in the human body (MEB, WPAN) 

Bandwidth firstly an expression of the analog capacity (Hz), secondly of the digital transfer capacity. 

Bank ID 5-digit alphanumeric key / abbreviation (i.e. DEUBA = Deutsche Bank) 

Banking see SAP Banking 

Bankster Bank and Gangster for evidencing Bank management bad practices 

BAO Business Advantages Optimization (see BI and others, BPO, CAO, …) 

BAPCO Belgian Assn of Professional Conference Organizers 

BAPI Business Application Programming Interface (see API) : w/i SAP, that transaction retrieves 

a list of all Business Objects and their BAPIs from the BOR. Mailing list: http://www.sap.com/ 

products/techno/bapis/feedback/mailing/mailing.htm) 

Barg unit of gauge pressure 

BASDA Business Aplication SW Developers Assn (UK) 

BASE Building, Antenna, Span, Earth: the four types of objects one may use for jumping (base jumping) 

Base 2 system binary number system 

Base 10 system decimal number system 

Basel II or 2 banking standards set for regulating finance and banking in the EC (see Solvency II ) 

Basel III or 3 more elaborated rules for Banks 

BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (programming language) 

BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Systemic Individual Construction (FBC>s concept) 

Bastion Host hardened system to resist attack and used as a firewall component 

*.bat see Batch file 

BAT Best Available Techniques (see BREF) 

BATCH simple program file / stored commands series 

Batch file DOS commands in a *.bat file 

BATNA Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement (see MOU) 

Baud measurement unit of digital data transmission speed 

B2B Business To Business (see B2C, C2C) 

Bb Blackboard 

BB Big Board (annual administration meeting board) 

BBA Bachelor of Business Administration (see BS, MBA, MEM, MIS, Ph.D., …) 

BBDE Browser-Based Desktop Environment (see DE) 

BBI Bloomberg Billionaires Index 

BBK Library Bibliographic 

b-Blog Blog for mainly sharing business insights instead of personal concerns 

BBM BlackBerry Messenger 

BBM BroadBand Mechanic (www.broadbandmechanics.com/) 

BBMC Brussels Business Mediation Center (http://www.bbmcmediation.be/) 

BBMMORPGs Browser-Based MMORPGs (see Gaming , MMOBBG, MMORTS, …) 

BBP Best Business Practice (see BIP, BMP, IBP) 

BBP Business-to-Business Procurement (SAP) 

BBRT Beyond Budgeting Round Table (Intl Research Consortium sponsored by 70 large enterprises) 


BBS Bulletin Board Syst.: computerized meeting system allowing subscribers to discuss & exchange files (asynchronously) 

BBT Black-Box Testing (see WBT) 

BBX replaces the BlackBerry OS 

BC Basis Components (R/3 Business Application Area), Binary Computing, Business Continuity 

BC Before Christus (see BG) 

BC Behavioral Culture (see OB, OM) 

BC British Commonwealth (see UK) 

BC Business Continuity (see IRM, RM) 

BC-BE Business Engineer (within the SAP BC) 

BCBG Binary Coded BackGround: could be a large-scale magnetic field, 3D background, ... 

BCC Blind Carbon Copy (for adding "hidden" recipients) 

BCD Basic Cognitive Deficits 

BCD Belgian Centre for Domotic 

BCD Binary Coded Decimal. Fr: décimal codé binaire 

BC / DR Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery 

BCE (Fr) Banque Centrale Européenne (see ECB) 

BC-FES-DEI Desktop Integration : use of Excel for R/3 data display & processing 

BCFP Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Jul 2011) is checking the products offered by the banks 

B Channel Bearer Channel 

BCI Brain-Computer Interface 

BCIS Business Change Implementation Specialist 

BCM Business Change Management (FBC>s )(e-BCM : updated version) 

BCP Business Continuity Planning (see BCPR) 

BCP Business Critical Path (see CPM) 

BCPL Basic Compiled Programming Language 

BCPR Business Continuity Planning Requirements 

BCR Bar Code Reader 

BCRP Business Continuity and Resumption Plan 

BCS Banking Commercial Standard, Business Computing System 

BCS Basic Content Services (see ECM) 

BCS Brain and Cognitive Sciences (MIT school of science) 

BCS Business Classification Scheme 

BCS Business Communication System (communication, telecommunication) 

BC-SRV-ARL SAP Archive Link Service 

BCU Bus Coupling Unit 

BCWP Budgeted Cost of Work Performed (see EV, ACWP, BAC, EAC, VAC) 

BCWS Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled (see EV, ACWP, BAC, EAC, VAC) 

BD Business Domain (see TD) (IE) 

BDA Business-Driven Architecture (see EDA, SOA) 

BDAY Beginning of the Day (see EDAY) 

BDC Batch Data Conversion 

BDC Batch Data Communication (BC-SRV) 

BDC Backup Domain Controller 

BDE Borland Database Engine 

BDF Bean Scripting Framework 

BDI Bulk Data Ingestion 

BDM Business Development Manager / Management 

BDM Business Development Model 

BDOS Basic DOS 

.be .be (Belgium) domain (see DNS) 

BE Business Engineering (see BPR, BPM, RBE, RE) 

BEA Bureau of Economic Analysis (USA) 

BeamSwitch Combination of one omnidirectional receiving antenna with several directional emitting antennas. 

Bean small & convenient text editor / word processor 

Bear Market decreasing market 

BECTA British Education Communications and Technology Agency 

BEDO Building Energy Design Optimization 

BEI Business Enterprise Integration 

Being good Hollywood screenwriters: "You are only as good as the people you steal from. So, steal from the best !" 

BEIP Business English for International Purposes (see EIP, TOEFL) 


BEL Beep (HEX=07, DEC=7) 

BELTUG BELgian Telecom Users Group 

BEM Business Event Management (see BPM, BPR, SCEM) 

Benchmarking value chain processes comparison 

Benchmarks set of programs to check the PC specs (see metrics ) 

BENELUX Belgium - Netherlands - Luxemburg 

BENS Business Executive for National Security : it suggests the anticipation of risks. 

BeO Beryllium Oxyde: very light, very strong, has high heat dissipation capacity, thermal conductivity, etc. 

BeOS media oriented OS (Be Software) 

BEPA Bureau of European Policy Advisers 

BER Basic Encoding Rules (see ASN.1) 

BERD Business Enterprise intramural expenditure on R&D 

BES Blackberry Enterprise Server (push-mail technology) 

BES Business Enterprise Sector 

Bespoke custom-made, personalized 

BEW Business Engineering Workbench (SAP office) 

BEx Business Explorer (SAP) 

BF (SAP) Business Framework 

BFA Brute Force Attack 

BFA Business Framework Architecture (see BIW) 

BFF Binary File Format (see MOFF) 

BFFs Best Friends Forever (see IL) 

BFI Brute Force & Ignorance (bad program) 

BG Background Color (see FG) 

BG Bank Guaranty 

BG Before Google (see AG, BC) 

BGAN Broadband Global Area Network (Inmarsat)(see GMD, MSU) 

BGP Border Gateway Protocol (see Peering point ) 

B2H Binary to Hexadecimal (see B2O) 

BHO Browser Helper Object (pert object) 

BI Business Intelligence (see AI, BA, CA, CBIP, CI, DW/BI, LBI, MCBI, OI, SI, SNI, S&OI) FBWPA 

When adequately set, BI could be considered as the beginning of an organizational knowledge 

In France, BI is aka IE. It stands for "Intelligence Economique" (see BIR, CI, DCBI, EI, MI, RI) 

BI Batch Input automatically carries out normal SAP transactions and is suitable for large amounts 

of data that are already available in electronic form (see BIB, BIP, EBIS, …) 

BIA Business Impact Analysis/Assessment: innovation & market position, sales & finance results, governance & 

control, brand image & corporate reputation, public administration & legal obligation, liability & exposure, health & 

employees safety, activities & market share, 

BIA Business Intelligence Accelerator (see BI) 

BIAC Biometric Access Controls (see Biometrics ) 

BIAC Business & Industry Advisory Committee 

BIB Business Intelligence Beans (JAVA)(see BI) 

BIC Bank Identifier Code (corresponding to SWIFT) identifies the beneficiary's Bank (see BIN, IBAN, SEPA) 

BICC Business Intelligence Competence Center (see BI) 

B-ICI Broadband-Inter Carrier Interface 

BiCM Best-in-Class Metrics 

BiCS Best-in-Class Strategy 

BID Business Intelligence Dashboard(s) (see BI, CI, SI, …) 

BIFA Border Information Flow Architecture (USA) 

Big Bang One step implementation 

Big Blue IBM (has a blue logo) (see Blue Cloud ) 

Big Brother Permanent police monitoring of the population (described in "1984" from G. Orwell)(see Big Mother ) 

Big Data extremely large datasets adding significant difficulties in their management and impacting behaviors = 

key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, consumer surplus (McKinsey) 

Big DOS partition with more than 65.536 sectors 

Big Iron mainframe 

Big Mother wireless & video technologies used for tracking continuously the kids activities (see Big Brother ) 

BIM Building Information Management 

BIM Building Information Modeling 

BIM Business Information Management (see BM) 


BIM British Institute of Management (1947). Institute of Industrial Administration absorbed in 1958. 

BIMBO Buy In Management Buy Out (see LBI, LBO, LBU, LMBI, LMBO) 

*.bin MacBinary (file) 

Bin "binary " abbreviation (see bit ) 

BIN Bank Identification Number (see BIC, EIN, IBAN, PIN, VIN) 

Binary system System that utilizes two values : 0 and 1 (see BLOB, quantum computing ) 

Binary thinker Absolute way of thinking : yes or no, black or white, bad or good, visible or invisible, … 

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain (see DNS) 

Bing-fa strategy, in the Chinese language (www.scienceofstrategy.com) 

Bioinformatics biology and information technology 

Biologon logon after face, voice, fingerprint recognition (related to security and others)(see Biometrics ) 

Biometry biological data analysis with the use of mathematics and statistics (see metrics ) 

Biometrics uses individual's physical characteristics to grant or deny logon to computer/net resources (see BIAC) 

Bionics artificial system imitating living organisms (see AR, NI, NN…) 

Biopic short for Biographical Motion Picture 

BIOS Basic Input Output System : set of routines (see DOS) 

Biosoft Based on biochips technologies 

BIP Business Intelligence Platform (see BI, EBIS, …) 

BIP Business Intelligence Practice (see BBP, BI, CI, SI, …) 

BIP Business Intelligence Process (see BI, CI, SI) 

BIPV Building Integrated Photovoltaics (incorporated in facades, roofs, … instead of being a standalone element) 

BIR Business Intelligence Reporting (see BI) 

BIRT Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (see BI, CI, SI, …) 

BIS Business Information System (see IMS, IS, MIS) 

BIS Business Intelligence System (see CI, OI, SI) 

BISP Business Intelligence Service Provider : extension of the ASP activities 

BISTEL Belgian IS by TELephone 

Bit Binary Digit, 0 and 1 (see high- and low-bit, nibble , K, Mega, Giga, Tera, Peta, Exa, Zeta, Yotta) 

BIT Behavioral Interview Technique (see STAR) 

BIT Bilateral Investment Treaty 

BIT (fr) Bureau International du Travail 

BIT Business and Information Technologies (see BIW) 

BIT Business Integration Tool(s) 

BIT Business Intelligent Tracking (see NFC, RFID) 

B.I.T. Bachelor of Industrial Technology 

Bitcoin "peer-to-peer " cryptographic money (http://bitcoin.org/) 

Bitlocker BitLocker Drive Encryption (Microsoft TM): HW-enabled data protection feature in Windows Vista 

Bitloss data bits lost during a transmission 

B&ITM Business & Information Technology Management 

Bitmap image made of points (=low definition) (see *.pbm) 

Bitmap file formats : BMP, GIF, RAW, RGB, TGA, TIF 

BITNET "Because It's Time" NETwork (univ. Net) 

Bit rate Number of bits per second occurring in a bit stream 

BIW Business Information Warehouse. A separate solution working with the R/3 (+3.0D) landscape as part of the BFA 

which enables integrated data retrievals & analysis, boasts multimedia presentation options for high quality business information. 

.biz .biz domain (see DNS) 

Biz Business (see Buzz Word ) 

BIZ352 Business Information Zone 352 (more on our site www.fbc-e.com) 

bizz-exert 8nergy on http://bizz-exert.blogspot.com 

B.J. Bachelor of Journalism 

B.L. Bachelor of Laws or Bachelor of Letters 

B/L Bill of Lading 

B.L.A. Bachelor of Landscape Architecture or Bachelor of Liberal Art 

Black hole arrival place of a lost mail after the sending through an undetected down router 

Blade server Case with 20 or more modular mother boards 

Blended thre ats Virus propagating themselves through various ways: emails, FTP, networks. E.g. Nimda 

Bloatware SW with very low functionalities that requires large diskspace and memory 

BLOBs Binary Large OBjects 

Bloc d'imputation : recouvre les dimensions et les zones auxquelles on peut faire des imputations par 

domaines fonctionnels (en fonction de critères de validation définis) 


Blog short for weblog (see also vlog , microblogging , Mobile Blogging ) 

English platform about Blogs and blogging : http://web2bizclub.blogspot.com/ 

French platform about Blogs and blogging : http://web2bizclub-fr.blogspot.com/ 

Blogger author of a Blog and responsible for its maintenance 

Blogosphere a world of Blogs (see Mobisphere , TPFKATA) 

Blogs survey in-depth survey of the Blogs for discovering new attitudes and minds profiles FBM 

Bloki site on which Web pages can be created with no added software (http://www.bloki.com/) 

blowfish it's just a weird name for the Bruce Schneier's symmetric encryption algorithm (1993) 

BLS Blaster Learning System (created by Davidson and now owned by Knowledge Adventure) 

BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics (USA) 

BLT Business Logic Tier (see UIT) 

Blue Cloud IBM cloud computing . Example: BlueHouse (see Big Blue ) 

Bluetooth Wireless networking technology (see WiFi) (Bluetooth SIG : http://www.bluetooth.org) 

BlueZ official Linux Bluetooth stack (http://www.bluez.org) 

Blu-ray Compatible HDTV new DVD format up to 50GB (see HDDVD, LD) 

Blurb short text block containing a marketing quote (generally added on a book cover page)(see 4P, 5P, …) 

BM Brain Map (see e-learning, LMS) 

BM Business Model 

BM Business Modeler (VISIO) 

BMI Body Mass Index (obesity measure) 

*.bmk bookmark collection (file) 

BML Bean Markup Language (Java) 

BML Business Management Layer (TMN) 

BMP Best Management Practice (see BBP) 

BMP (*.bmp) OS/2 or Windows Bitmap (format, format file) 

BMR Business Management Review 

BMUTIL (MS) Bitmap Manipulation Demo 

BMV Belgacom Multimedia Venture 

BNC Banking Network Computer (Nixdorf) 

BNC video connector (bayonet type) 

B2O Binary to Octal (see B2H) 

BO Back Office (see BOA, CRM) 

BO Back Order 

BO Business Object (see BOB, BODs) 

BO Business Opportunity 

BOA Back Office Application (see BO, CRM, FO, FOA) 

BoA Bank of America (see BOJ) 

BOA Board Of Administrators (see BOD, BOE, BOM, BOVP) 

BOA Business-Oriented Approach (see EOA) 

BOB Business Object Builder (see BO, OO) 

BOC Bell Operating Company 

BOCA Borland Object Component Architecture 

BOD Biological Oxygen Demand 

BOD Board Of Directors (see BOA, BOE, BOM, BOS) 

BODs Business Object Documents (see BO, BOB) 

BOE Barrel of Oil Equivalent 

BOE Board Of Executives (see BOA, BOD, BOM, BOVP, COMEX) 

BOE Bill Of Exchange 

BoE Bank of England 

BOF Beginning Of File 

BoF Birds of a Feather 

BOI Bureau Of Investigation, ancient name of the FBI (USA) 

BOINC Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing: worldwide distributed computing infrastructure having 

more than 475,000 active computers (see cluster and grid computing ) (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/) 

BOJ Bank Of Japan (see BOA) 

BOK Body Of Knowledge (see e-BOK, EBOK, KM, PMI, PMO, PSO) 

*.bol Booasm Compressed Archive Library (www.convert-extensions.com/format/BOL-Booasm-…) 

BOL Book On Line 

BOM Bill Of Material (PP, engineering and production) 

BOM Board Of Managers (see BOD, BOE, BOS) 


BOM Business Object Model 

boot or Bootstrap initiating program / device: contains the instructions for starting the system 

boot up set of checks at the start (see boot ) 

BOR Business Object Repository (SAP): object space where BAPI calls are processed (see BO) 

BOS Balance-of-System (component) 

BOS Behavior Observation System 

BOS Board Of Supervisors (see BOD, BOE, BOM) 

BOS Body Of Secret (see NSA)(USA) 

BOSS Business & Operations Support System 

Bot short designation for "robot" (see fembot , RR) 

Botrunner software robots operator on the Net. 

BOT Beginning Of Tape 

BOT Build Operate Transfer (mode of joint venture in between companies) 

Bottleneck part of the Soft- or Hardware that is decreasing the PC performances 

Botnet robots network: infected computers serving as a robots army used for further attacks w/o the owners' apperception. 

The propagation of the originating Trojan horses is facilitated by the development social and collaborative SW (RBB) 

BOVP Board of Vice-Presidents (see BOA, BOD, BOE, BOM, Comex ) 

BOW Bag Of Words 

BOW Bibliography On the Web 

BOW Bill Of Work 

BOW Body Of Work (see BOK, SOW) 

box (think out of the box) think and search beyond conventional / oldfashioned / preconceived ways of doing 

BP Best Practices 

BP Business Process (see BPR) 

BPA Business Process Automation (see IPA) 

BPaaS Business Process as a Service (see PaaS, SaaS, …) 

BPC Business Process Control (management) 

BPC Business Process Component (management, EAI) 

BPD Business Process Design (see BPM, PIO) 

BPE Business Process Engineering (see BPR) 

BPEL Business Process Execution Language (WEB services XML-based language)(see WPEL4WS) 

BPEL4WS Business Process Execution Language for Web Services 

Bpi Bits per inch 

BPI Bluetooth Pilot Interface 

BPI Business Process Improvement (see BPM, BPML, BPO, BPR, …) 

BPI Business Process Innovation 

BPI Business Performance Intelligence (see BI, CI, SI) 

BPI Buying Power Index 

BPIO Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization ("First Triad" + BI & Technological watch) 

BPIO SE BPIO Solution Engineer 

BPL Broadband over Power Line (see ADSL, PLC, PLT, PoE) 

BPL Business Process Leader (see BPM, BPR and more) 

BPLC Business Process Life Cycle (see PLC and others) 

BPM Business Process Management (extended and continuous process mgmt)(see BPR, SBPM) 

BPM Business Process Modeling (see BPE, BPML, BPR) 

BPM Business Performance Management 

BPMI Business Process Management Institute (see PMI) 

BPML Business Process Mapping Language 

BPML Business Process Master List (see BPM, BPR, … ML, ...) 

BPML Business Process Modeling Language (BPMI): participants, activities, messages, rules, transactions, processes 

BPMN Business Process Modeling Notation, notation understandable by all business stakeholders 

BPMN Business Process Model & Notation (see UML) 

BPMS Balanced Performance Management System (see BSC) 

BPMS Business Process Management System (combination of the EAI and workflow) 

BPN Best Practice(s) Network (see CoPs) 

BPO Base Planning Object 

BPO Business Process Optimization 

BPO Business Process Outsourcing / Off-Shoring (see in-sourcing , KPO) 

BPOS Business Productivity Online Suite (Microsoft) 

BPP Business Pages Previews: http://users.skynet.be/daniel.c.renson/bppreview.htm 


BPR Business Process Redesign (see BPD, BPM) 

BPR Business Process Re-engineering (Michael Hammer: Rengineering the Corporation)(see BPM) 

BPR Business Process Review (see Gantt Chart , PERT) 

bps bits per second 

BPS Business Process Simulation 

BPT Business Process Technology (SAP comp.) 

BPV Business Process Virtualization - 

BPX Business Process eXpert 

BR Bus Request 

B2R Back To Reality 

Brain banking trying to find ways to keep valuable brains in their country of origin (see Brain drain ) 

Brain drain flying away brains that could have been useful in their country of origin (see Brain banking ) 

Brain mapping methods that are graphically supporting the brain activity. SW available. Science : see BCS 

Brand butler "brand coach": he is inventing / supporting all means that are contributing to the product uniqueness. 

Branding litterally … building a brand (see Personal branding ) 

Brandwidth brand and bandwidth: large brand recognition (see Branding ) 

BRAT Bi-drive Recreational All-terrain Transporter (a car description in USA) 

BREEAM Building Research establishment Environmental Assessment Method (see HEQ) 

BREF Best REFerence (see BAT) 

Brent crude oil known under various names. Has become the reference for pricing oil in 2/3 of the World (see WTI). 

Brew used by HTC mobile SW platform to download, run programs, send messages, share pics 

BREW Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless: application development platform (QUALCOMM) 

BRI Basic Rate Interface 

BRIC Brazil, Russia, India, China: 4 emerging top countries in the world economy as from around 2020 (see BRICK, BRICS) 

BRICS BRIC + South Africa (see CIVETS, PIG, economy creatures ) 

BRICK BRIC + Korea (see BRICS, economy creatures ) 

BRICKS BRICK + Singapore 

Brick & Mortar traditional activities (non-B2B activities)(see click & mortar ) 

Bridge a device connecting 2 or more networks 

BRIDGE Building Radio frequency IDentification for the Global Environment (project) 

BRIEFS BRief driven Information retrieval and Extraction For Strategy 

BRM Business Risk Management (see BM, RM) 

BRMS Business Rules Management Systems 

brownie points reward(s) 

browser Web Browser abbreviation: it allows users to navigate from one site to another for reading the content. 

browsing the Web activity of the browser (see Web surfing ) 

BRS Business-Related Skills (see BPM, BPR, … WESP) 

BS Bachelor of Science in … (see BTS, MBA, MIS, Ph.D, …) 

BS 7799 Codes of practice for information security management (see ISMS, ISO) 

BSA Budget Support Advisor (see BSWG, SEQUAP) 

BSA Business Software Alliance (BS Assn in Belgium) : eight-point code of ethics 

BSC Balanced Score Card (Kaplan and Norton / 1992)(see BSCI) FBM 

BSC Belgian Senior Consultants 

B-School Business School (see MBA) 

BSCI BSC Initiative FBM 

BSFP Big Screen Flat-Panel 

B(S)G Business (Strategy) Game 

BSM BookShelve Management 

BSM Business Service Management (see ITSM) 

BSN Borderless Social Network (see SN) 

BSNA Borderless Social Network Analysis (see SNA): "you are what you know … or … who you know ?" 

BSOD Blue Screen Of Death (serious error/crash blue screen or falling over dead) 

B(S)P Business (System) Planning 

BSP Binary Space Partition 

BSRD Basic - Standard - Rationalized - Dynamic (level of progress / efficiency) (see IOM) 

BSS Broadcasting Satellite Service 

BSWG Budget Support Working Group (see BSA, SEQUAP) 

BTA Belgian Teleworking Assn (02/475.2000) 

BTA Bilateral Trade Agreement 

BTC Business & Technical Consultant (see IBTC) 


BTCLI Bluetooth Command Line Interface (see HCI) 

BTE (SAP) Business Transaction Events (special type of BAPI) 

BTL Below The Line (advertising)(see advergame , ATL, TTL, ..) 

BTM Business Transaction Management 

BTO Build-To-Order (e.g. Dell original business model. More precisely assembled-on-order) 

BTO Business Technology Optimization 

BTQM Belgian assn for Total Quality Management (www.btqm.be)(see EFQM, TQM) 

BTRL Beyond The Red Line (www.moddb.com/games/) 

BTS (Fr) Brevet de Technicien Supérieur (see BS, MBA, MEM, MIS, Ph.D., …) 

BTUs British Thermal Units: unit of measure 

BTW By The Way (Net language acronym / jargon)(see IL or InLin) 

BTX Balanced Technology eXtended [form factor] (see AT, ATX) 

BU Business Unit (see BA, BUM, SBU) 

BU Blow-Up (zoom) 

Bucket Group (user, feature, problem) 

Bug residual programming error (see dbg, WORM, Y2K, ...) 

BUGS Basket of Un-hedged Gold Stocks (see HUI) 

BUM Business Unit Management (see BA, BU, SBU) 

bundle collection of software products (IS-SW) 

bundling items combination according to particular criteria 

BURK Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan: 4 emerging economies from the former Soviet space (see BRIC). 

BUS signal internal pathway (see ISA, PCI) 

Bus a local area network topology in which all workstations are connected to a single cable 

Business area Specific operational area (activity, region …) as a final breakdown of a 

(Fr.: domaine d'activité) company's balance sheet & profit+loss statement (for internal use) 

Business Game Educative exercise that simulates the enterprise management in its market 

Business Navigator Direct link in between documentation and transactions (Transaction SB09) 

Opérateurs logiques : AND / ET l'un et l'autre 

OR / OU un ou plusieurs 

Buzz 

XOR / OU exclusif l'un ou l'autre 

media utilization to create a rumor and excite the market curiosity, interest (see viral marketing ) 

Buzzword word / phrase, sometimes sounding technical, that is popular cliché of a particular group or field (Webster Dictionary '89) 

newly made-up piece of jargon (Buzz: a British comic in 1973)(www.BuzzWhack.com) 

Buzzword compliant a product or service name that ‘resonates ’ with the customer 

BV Business View, Business Visualization 

BVDA Book Value of Depreciable Assets 

BVF Belgian Video Federation 

BVS Business Voice Solution (see IN-BVS) 

BW Business Warehouse (see also DB, KW / SAP) 

BWA Broadband Wireless Access 

B&W Black and White 

b-Web Business Web 

BWF Broadcast Wave Format (see MXF) 

BWM Business Warehouse Management (see BW, WM) 

BYOD Bring Your Own Device: growing trend in the enterprises. Security threads increase along that move. 

BYOM Bring Your Own Monitor … to watch the movie through the plane's WiFi network 

BYTE 8 Bits (see K, Mega, Giga, Tera, Peta) 

C Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

C 100 (hundred) in the Roman numeral system (see M) 

C programming language (see C#, C++, CLIPS) 

C# C sharp 

C++ C + OOP = C++ (see CPP) 

© copyright / copyrighted (see ® ) 

C2A Calls-to-Action: text, image, button are inviting the surfer to take action (see CTA) 

C2C Consumer-To-Consumer … a popular business (see B2B) 

C2C Cradle-To-Cradle: Remaking the way we make things (William McDonough, Michael Braugnart) 

C3E see CEEE 

C3MS Community, Collaboration, Content Management Systems (D.K.Schneider) 

C3PO Chief People, Progress, and Potential Officer (Kyle Shannon)(see CEO and other CxO) 

C4I ISR Command, Control, Communication, Computers for Intelligence, Interoperability, Surveillance, Recognition (US Pentagon) 


C4ISTAR Command, Control, Communications, Computers for Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, Reconnaissance 

ca circa. It means "about" 

CA Certificate Authority (e-biz secured communications) 

CA Chart of Accounts (accounting)(see CABE, CAUK, CAUS, …) 

CA Cloud Application (see TOSCA) 

CA Competitive Advantage (see CAO, CI, IE, SCA) 

CA Computer Aided / Assisted (see CG) 

CA Confidentiality Agreement (see MOA, MOU, TOR) 

CA Content Architecture: what needs to be designed and set before building a site. 

CA Cross Application (R/3 Business Application Area)(see CATS) 

CAA Clean Air Act (USA)(see CAAA) 

CAAA Clean Air Acr Amendments (USA)(see CAA) 

CAAs Central Asset Accounts (see AMA, CMA) 

CAAT Computer Assisted Audit Technique (IFAC) 

C2B Consumers-To-Business 

*.cab Microsoft Cabinet file format (distribution file) (see archiving ) 

CAB Change Advisory Board (see CM, ECM, OCM) 

CAB Computer and Automated Business equipment (HTG within the IPC) 

CABE Chart of Accounts Belgium (SAP). Fr.: Plan comptable belge 

Cabir worm (June 2004) 

CABO Concurrent Architectures are Better than One 

CABPR Computer Assisted BPR (see CA, CAE, CG) 

CAC Connection Admission Control 

CAC40 French stock market index 

Cache memory chunk for speeding up routine 

CACM Central American Common Market 

CACW Computer Aided Collaborative Work (see CSCW) 

CAD CAnadian Dollar 

CAD Computer-Aided Debugging 

CAD Computer Aided Dispatch 

CAD Computer Aided Distribution 

CAD Computer-Aided Design (see CADD, CAE, CAG, KAD). Fr.:Conception assistée par ordinateur (CAO) 

CADD Computer-Aided Draft(ing) and Design (see CAD, CAE, CAG, KAD) 

CAD&P / M Computer Aided Design & Production / Manufacturing (see CAM) 

CA-DOC Documentation Tools 

CAE Chief Audit Executive 

CAE Client Application Enabler 

CAE Computer-Assisted Engineering (see BPR, CAD, CATT, KAD, …) 

CAE Computer-Assisted Execution System 

CAED Computer-Aided Engineering Design (see BPM, BPR, CAD, CAE, CATT, KAD, …) 

CA-EUR-CNV Cross Application-EURO-Changeover (R/3 component for for local currency changeover) 

CA-EUR-GEN Cross Application-EURO-General (R/3 component for for local currency changeover) 

CAF Composite Application Framework 

CAF Constant Applicative Form 

CAF Call Attachment Facility 

CAF Common Assessment Framework 

CAF Corporate Assessment Framework 

CAF Currency Adjustment Factor 

CAFE Common Access For Everybody (Cyber - Café) 

CAFM Computer Aided Facilities Management : usually designating the related SW 

CAFR Chart of Accounts France (SAP). Fr : Plan comptable français 

CAG Commonly Accepted Goals (see CM, GAAP) 

GAG Computer-Aided Game / Gaming (see CAD) 

CAGB Chart of Accounts UK (SAP). Fr. : Plan comptable anglais 

CAGR Compound Annual Growth Rate 

CAGT Computer-Assisted Group Technology 

CAI Computer-Aided Instruction 

CAIA Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (see CFA) 

CAL Computer-Aided Learning (see EAO) 

CALEA Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement (1994)(see ECPA) 


CALL Computer-Aided Language Learning 

CALS Client Access Licenses (MS) 

CalTech California Institute of Technology (see MIT) 

CAM Computer-Aided Manufacturing (see CAD) 

CAM Computer-Assisted Mapping 

CAM Computer-Assisted Music 

CAM Content Addressed Memories 

CAM Conditional Access Module (satellite) 

CAMCORDER CAMera reCORDER 

CAMD Constrained Approximate Minimum Degree to order a sparse matrix prior to Cholesky factorization 

CAMEO Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations (see CARM) 

CAO Chief Academic Officer (see CEO, CIO, DCIO, CFO, CKO, CLO, COO, CTO, CVO…) 

CAO Chief Administration Officer (see CEO, CIO, DCIO, CFO, CKO, CLO, COO, CTO, CVO…) 

CAO Competitive Advantages Optimization (see BAO, BI, CA, …) 

CAO (Fr) Conception Assistée par Ordinateur (see CAD) 

cap capitalisation, series of interest rate options (TR-TM) 

cap. capital (used in dictionary abbreviation) 

CAP Common Agricultural Policy (see EU) 

CAP Competitive Access Provider 

CAP Computer Assisted Production (see PAO) 

CAP Computer Aided Pagination (printing business) 

CAPA Corrective Action and Preventive Action (system) 

CAPEC Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification: software weaknesses list 

CAPEC Conference of Asia Pacific Express Carriers (www.capec.org/) 

CAPEX Capital Expenditure (see OPEX) 

CAPEX Capitalized Expenses 

CAPI Common Application Programming Interface (see API, TAPI) 

CAPM Capital Asset Pricing Model 

CAPM Continuous Application Performance Management (see APM) 

CAPP Computer Aided Process Planning (see CAD, CARM, …) 

Caps Lock Capitalized letters lock (Command character ) 

CAPs Capitalized Phrases: frequently mentioned people, places, events, important topics (Amazon.com)(see SIPs) 

CAPS Convertible Adjustable Preferred Stocks 

CAPTCHA Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart 

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1306805,00.asp 

CAR Committed Access Rate (CoS method, see also QoS and VPN) 

CAR Compound Annual Return (or Rate) 

CARDS Certificates for Amortizing Revolving Debt 

CARM Computer-Aided / Assisted Risk Management (see CAMEO, RM) 

CaRP RSS parser 

CARP Common Address Redundancy Protocol: authorizes several hosts on the same local NW to share IP addresses (see ARP) 

CART Classification And Regression Tree 

Cartagena Agreement Andean Subregional Integration Agreement (ASIA) 

CAS Card Acquiring Service (see PCN) 

CAS Chemical Abstract Service (Used to identify a material assigned number) 

CAS Communication Application Standard (Intel) 

CAS Complex Adaptive Systems to handle change, uncertainty, and complexity (www.brint.org) 

CAS Computer-Aided Sales (see CA, CAE, CG, SFA) 

CAS Context-Aware Security (see SI, SIEM) 

CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering (1970s): tools aiding databases design & offering meta data services 

Cash concentration internal wiring for compensation of negative statement 

Cash drain Losses of the exercise before amortization (accounting) 

Cashtag on Twitter : $ (see Hashtag ) 

CASIE Glossary of Internet Advertising Terms & Interactive Media Measurements (available via ANA) 

CASPIAN Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (US)("spychip" concern, see EPIC) 

CASS Coding & Accuracy Support System (US Post) 

CASSIST Configuration ASSIStance uTility 

CAST Compaq Acceleration Server Technology 

*.cat security catalog file 

Cat bonds bonds related to disasters 


CAT Computer Advanced Technology 

CAT Computer Aided Telephoning (see TAPI) 

CAT Computer Aided Test 

CAT Computer Assisted Training (see CBT, IBT, LMCS, LMS, VTC, WBT) 

CATA Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance: Canada's largest hi-tech business development & advocacy assn. 

CATS Certificates of Accrual on Treasury Securities 

CATS Computer Assisted Trading System (see export lingo ) 

CATS Cross Application Time Sheet (applicable w/i CO, HR, MM-SRV, PP/MM/SM, travel expenses) 

CATT Computer-Aided/Assisted Test Tool (ABAP/SAP and others)(see CAT) 

CATV Community Access TV 

CAU Command Arithmetic Unit (another name for CPU) 

CAUK Chart of Accounts UK (SAP). Fr.: Plan comptable anglais 

CAUS Chart of Accounts USA (SAP) 

CAV Constant Angular Velocity (CD-ROM speed) 

CAVE Computer Automatic Virtual Environment (tele-immersion : game, education, science, manufacturing) 

CB (Fr) Comptabilité Budgétaire 

CB Citizen Band (radio) 

CB Covered Bonds 

CBA Cost-Benefit Analysis 

CBAM Cost Benefit Analysis (architecture-centric) Method to analyze the costs, benefits and schedule implications 

CBBM Collectively Built Business Model (FBC>s Master Class Concept) 

CBC Channel Broadcasting Cable 

CBCL Computer-Based Collaborative Learning 

CBCM Component-Based Change Management (see CBM, TCM, GCM) 

CBE Contract By Email 

CBE Current Best Effort 

CBD Component-Based Develoment 

CBDO Chief Business & Development Officer (see CEO, CIO, CFO, CKO, COO, CPO, CSO, CTO, …) 

CBDS Connectionless Broadband Data Service 

CBIP Certified Business Intelligence Professional (see BI) 

CBIPO Custom-Build Installation Process Offering 

CBK Center for Business Knowledge (see CKB, KM and more) 

CBL Common Business Library (see xCBL) 

CBL Computer-Based Learning (see CBT, ILT, LMS, VTC, WBL, WBT) 

CBM Cash Budget Management (SAP) 

CBM Competency-Based Management 

CBM Component-Based Methodologies (see CBCM) 

CBML Case-Based Mark-up Language (see DSS which is using CBML) 

CBMS Community-Based Monitoring Systems (PEP sub-network) 

CBO Central Buying Office/Organization 

CBO Cost-Based Optimizer 

CBP Corporate Branding Profile (see CBV) 

CBPDO Custom-Build Product Delivery Offering 

CBR Case-Based Reasoning (see CBML, DSS, …) 

CBR Constant Bit Rate (see ABR, VBR) 

CBS Certified Business Solutions (organization established by SAP) 

CBS Cloud -Based Scanning 

CBS Cloud -Based Service 

CBS Common Business System, Common Business Structure, Customer Best Services = 

SAP project with Bridgestone-Firestone aiming at combining the business process 

reengineering phases (mainly marketing) with the setting up of a new computer system 

CBS Computer-Based System (see CBCL, CBT, WBL, WBT …) 

CBS Corporate Banking Strategy 

CBT Computer-Based Training (see CBL, ILT, LLL, LMS, OLT, VTC, WBT) 

CBV Corporate Branding Value (see CBP) 

CBWFQ Class-Based Weighted Fair Queuing (protocol to provide CoS) 

C2C Consumer To Consumer (see B2B) 

C2C Cradle-To-Cradle: Remaking the way we make things (William McDonough, Michael Braugnart) 

C2CWDL Chip-to-Chip Wireless Data Link (see WDL) 

CC Carbon Copy (see BCC) 


CC Candidate Countries (EC) 

CC Chamber of Commerce (see CCI) 

CC (Fr) Clé de comptabilisation (SAP Posting Key) 

CC Community Center 

CC Complementary Currency (www.complementarycurrency.org/) (see CCC, WIR) 

CC Creative Commons : non-profit organization (Lawrence lessig, 2001)(see CCL) 

C&C Command & Control (server) 

CCA Committee on Corporate Architecture 

CCA Cost Center Accounting 

CCA Current Cost Accounting 

CCAr Credit Control Area is managing the credit limit for customers. It can include one or more 

companies and can be specified at the time of a posting. If not maintained : no credit limit. 

CCAP Cloud Computing Acceleration Program (see AWS, CCS, GAE, …) 

CCAP Cost Center Accounting Component 

CCB Change Control Board (EPIK) 

CCB Creative Club of Belgium (see ACC, UMA) 

CCBS Customer Care and Billing System 

*.ccc conversation MS chat 

CCC Chaos Computer Club: German hackers group (see Cyber alert , Cyber attack , etc) 

CCC Complementary Community Currency (see CC, WIR) 

CCC Customer Competence Center (SAP) 

CCCP Combined Community Codec Pack (www.cccp-project.net/) 

CCCP Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (see USSR) 

CCD Charge-Coupled Device (scanner, see PS-CCD) 

CCDA Cisco Certified Design Associate 

CCDCOE Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO, Tallinn in Estonia or E-stonia) 

CCE Climate Change Economics (http://www.worldscinet.com/cce/01/0101/S20100078100101.html) 

CCF Common Channel Framework 

CCF Consistent Computational Framework (see GA) 

*.cch COREL Chart (file) 

CCI Chamber of Commerce and Industry (see ICC) 

CCI Cloud Computing Infrastructure 

CCIA Computer and Communication Industry Association 

CCIR Comité Consultatif International des Radiocommunications (Based in Paris European committee) 

CCITT Consultative Committee for International Telephony and Telegraphy (see *.g3) 

CCL Creative Commons Licenses (see CC) 

CCM Component Change Management: limited change activity (see CM, PCM, TCM, GCM) 

CCM Corporate Compliance Management 

CCM Customer Centric Management (see HCM, KCM, PCM) 

CCMM Collections and Cash Management Modernization 

CCMS Computer Center Management System 

CCNA Cisco Certified NW Associate 

ccNSO Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (NSO) 

C-Commerce Collaborative Commerce 

CCO Chief Coinage Officer. See FBC>s BizMag3, page 19: Webomania 2.0 

CCO Chief Commercial Officer (see CAO, CEO, CIO, CKO, COO, CPO, CQO, CSO, CTO, CVO, …) 

CCO Chief Communication Officer (see CAO, CEO, CIO, CKO, COO, CPO, CQO, CSO, CTO, CVO, …) 

CCO Chief Compliance Officer (see CPO, CQO, CTO, CSO, …) 

CCO Chief Creation Officer (see CAO, CEO, CIO, etc.) 

CCO Computer Control Operator (see CNC) 

CCOR Customer-Chain Operations Reference (see DCOR, SCOR) 

CCP Change Control Policy (essential updates and adjustments for network security) 

CCP Console Command Processor 

CCP Corporate Communications Program 

CCPM Critical Chain Project Management (global consensus is required) 

CCPN Critical Change Project Network (consensus on the ways to go) 

CCR(U) (Fr) Calcul du Coût de Revient (Unitaire) 

CCS Carbon Capture and Storage 

CCS Cloud Computing Solution (see AWS, GAE) 

CCS Collaborative Communications Summit 


CCS Cognitive and Communicative Structure 

CCS Complementary Currency System (see CC, CCC, WIR) 

CCSID Coded Character Set Identifier 

CCSIH Certified Computer Security Incident Handler (http://www.cert.org) 

CCSP Cisco Certified Security Professional 

CCT Computer Commodity Trading (see OARS, SOR) 

CCT Concept Check Tool (ASAP) 

CCTA Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (UK) (see CRAMM) 

CCTA Central Computer and Telecommunications Authority 

CCTLD Country Code Top Level Domain (see TLD) 

CCTV Closed Circuit TV 

CCU Computer Crime Unit (police department searching for electronic crimes) 

CD Certificate of Deposit 

CD Compact Disc 

CD Carrier Detect (Net) 

CD Certificate of Deposit 

CD Context Diagram (see SCD) 

CDA Communication Decency Act (net) 

CDBS Cloud Data Base Service (see DbaaS, …) 

CdC (Fr) Centre de Coût. EN.: Cost Center 

CDC Changed Data Capture 

CDC Century Date Change (Y2K problem) (FBWPA : info@fbc-e.com) 

CDC Common Disk Cabinet 

CDC Connected Device Configuration (JAVA ME popular configuration type)(see CLDC) 

CD.CGS (Fr) Code CGS Identification d'une opération s/cpte général spécial (voir Posting Keys) 

ex.: A=acompte, C=caution, F=demande d'acompte, J=demande de paiement, … 

CDD Commercial Due Diligence (see DD) 

CDDI Copper wire Distributed Data Interface (see FDDI) 

CDDL Common Development & Distribution License (Sun Microsystems license) (see OSL) 

CDE Common Desktop Environment 

CDF Channel Definition Format (Microsoft standard) 

CDF Cumulative Binomial Distribution 

CDI Customer Data Integration: blocks for a customer-centric approach (see CDM, CRM) 

CD-I CD-Interactive 

CDM Clean Development Mechanism (see EU) 

CDM Common Data Model 

CDM Customer Data Management (see CDI, CRM) 

CDMA Code Division Multiple Access: spectrum extension (see W-CDMA) 

CDMA2000 CDMA version of the IMT-2000 Multi-Carrier (see IMT-MC): standard from ITU 

CDMI Cloud Data Management Interface 

CD-MO CD Magnetic Optical 

CDN Content Delivery Network 

CDO Chief Design Officer (see CAO, CEO, …) 

CDO Collaboration DO (MS) 

CDO Collateralized Debt Obligation (financial engineering technique)(see ABS, RMBS) 

CDO Continuous Descend Operation: airplane landing process 

CDONTS CDO for NTS 

CDOLOD CDO Library OD 

CDP Continuous Data Protection (security domain) Heads & Talents Search 

CDPS Corporate Data Processing Services your International partner 

CD-R CD Recordable * Talents profiling 

CDR Cloud Disaster Recovery * Heads search 

CDR Computer Disaster Recovery (see DR) dan.c.renson(at)fbc-e.com 

CDR (*.cdr) Corel DRaw (file) see WESP on Xing 

CDR Critical Design Review 

CD ROM(XA) CD Read Only Memory (eXtended Architecture) 

CDRs Call Detail Records: storage of phones and Internet exchanges (see IPDRs) 

CD-RW Rewritable CD 

CDS Competitive Data Strategy (see CIS) 

CDS Credit-Default Swap 


CDS Cross-Domain Solution 

CD-V CD-Video 

CE (Fr) Communauté Européenne (see EC) 

CE Concurrent Engineering 

CEA Consumer Electronics Association (see CES) 

CEA Council of Economic Advisers (attached to the US President office) 

CEBP Communications Enabled Business Processes (see BP, BPM, BPR, …) 

CED Committee for Economic Development 

CEDIA Custom Electronic Design and Installation Assn (www.cedia.net/) 

CEE Central & Eastern Europe 

CEEE (Fr) Commerce Électronique Entre Entreprises (see C3E) 

CEIB Central - European International Bank 

cel-shaded computerized pics appearing as hand-sketched. Sometimes called toon-shaded 

CEM Customer Experience Management (see CRM, …) 

CE marking certification that the product is complying with EU consumer safety, health, environmental requirements 

CENELEC European Comittee for Electrotechnical Standardization 

Centcom Central Command: a US military operation center (Middle-East and Central Asia)(see OPMS, sock puppets ) 

Centre de Profit (Fr) Regroupement produits et coûts des centres de coûts dont ils sont responsables 

Centric centered: client-centered, human-centered, NW-centered, process-centered, product-centered, etc … organizations / institutions. 

CEO Chief Executive Officer (Mgmt)(see CFO, CHO, CIO, CKO, COO, CPO, CSO, CTO, CVO, ERO, EVP, WESP …) 

CEOIPS Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors 

CEP Complex Event Processing : building and managing IS 

CEP Council on Economic Priorities 

CEP Customer Experience Personalization (MicroStrategy) 

CEPA Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants 

CEPIS Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (http://www.cepis.org/) 

CEPS Center for European Policy Studies 

CER Cost Estimating Relationship: in view of the CA (see DFL, DFQ, DFCA) 

CERA Chartered Enterprise Risk Management 

CeRMiN Research Center on Micro and Nanoscopic Material and Electronic Devices 

CERN Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire (Geneva) 

CERT Center of Internet security expertise, studying Internet vulnerabilities (http://www.cert.org/) 

CERT Cyber EmeRgency Team (Belgium) 

CERT/CC Computer Emergency Response Team / Coordination Center (Public US Organism: US-CERT) 

Certs certifications (related to the Trusted Publishers) 

CES Consumer Electronic Show (USA) (see CEA) 

CESES Confederation of European Senior Expert Services (http://www.belgian-senior-consultants.org) 

CET Central European Time (see GMT, TAI, UTC) 

CET Control Enabling Technology (DOIA) 

CEU Continuing Education Units (see IACET, IEEE, PDHs) 

CEV Cumulative Earned Value 

CF Call Forwarding (service) (see CW, ISDN) 

C&F Cost & Freight (see CIF, Export Lingo ) 

CFA Certified Financial Analyst (see CFE, CMA, CPA) 

CFA Chartered Financial Analyst (see CAIA) 

CFA see AFC 

CFAA Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (USA) 

CFAO (Fr) Conception et Fabrication Assitées par Ordinateur (see CAD&P) 

CFC Call for Collaboration 

CFC Controlled Foreign Corporation rules 

CFCs ChloroFluoroCarbons 

CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics 

CFE Certified Fraud Examiner (see CMA, CPA) 

CFF Common File Format 

*.cfg (Microsoft Outlook) configuration (file) 

CFIUS Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States 

CF s/ EM (Fr) Contrôle Facture sur Entrée Marchandise 

CFL Compact Fluorescent Lighting 

CFM Corporate Finance Management 

CFM Conference File Manager (software for uploading files to the correct place) 


CFM Customer Feedback Management (see CEM, CRM, …) 

CFML Cold Fusion Markup Language 

CFO Chief Financial Officer (see CEO, CHO, CIO, CKO, CLO, COO, CPO, CRO, CVO, CTO, ERO …) 

CFPR Collaborative Forecasting Planning and Replenishment 

CFR Code of Federal Regulations (USA)(see e-CFR) 

CFR Cost and Freight (see also the Export lingo) 

CFRM Coupling Facility Resource Management 

CFROI Cash Flow Return On Investment (Holt value Associates) 

CFS Commodity Flow Survey 

CFS Consolidated Financial Statements 

CFSM Codesign Finite State Machine 

CFSM Cubic Feet per Second per Square Mile 

CFT Cross Functional Team (see SMT) 

CFTC Commodity Futures Trading Commission: US Congress Act in 1974 overhauling the Commodity Exchange one 

CFX Corporate Foreign eXchange 

CG Computer Generated (see CA) 

CG Computer Graphic 

CG Corporate Governance (see chairperson , CSR, SOXA) 

CGA Color Graphic Adapter 

CGA Conformal Geometric Algebra (see GA, OCGA) 

CGEIT Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (see CISA, CISM, ISACA)(www.isaca.org/cgeitgfapp) 

C Generation C for Communication, Collaboration, Connection and Creation. Aka Z generation (born around 1996) 

CGI Common Gateway Interface (link between the applications and webservices for accessing dynamic data) 

CGM (*.cgm) Computer Graphic Metafile 

CGO Chief Governance Officer (Mgmt) (see CAO, CFO, CHCO, CIO, CKO, COO, CPO, CRO, CTO, ERO …) 

CGS (Fr) Comptes Généraux Spéciaux 

CGS Cost of Goods Sold (CO) 

CGVDI Computer Graphic Virtual Device Interface 

CH Clearing House 

CH4 methane 

CHAPS Clearing House Automated Payments System 

Chaebol large groups of family-controlled industrial conglomerates in South Korea (Keiretsus in Japan) 

"chair" chairman or chairwoman (see chairperson ) 

chairperson he / she who is conducting the assembly / meeting along the most correct procedure (see CG) 

Change Journal see Windows USN (journal) 

char. characterized (used in dictionary abbreviation) 

Charityware Payment has to be made to a charity organization. Fr : Caritaticiel (France) 

CHC Comparative Human Cognition 

CHCO Chief Human Capital Officer (see CEO, CFO, CGO, CKO, COO, CRO, …) 

Ch.Depr. Chart of Depreciation (ex. 1BE) is a directory of depreciation areas. Fr. livre des amortissements 

Chemtrail chemical trail (http://www.chemtrails-france.com/) 

CHIC Constraint and Handling in Industry and Commerce 

CHIP Clearing House for Intellectual Property 

Chip IC embedded mini-block of a semiconductor material 

CHKDSK Check Disk 

CHM (*.chm) Compiled HTML 

CHO Chief Hacking Officer (a new profile in the security domain)(see CEO, CFO, CHRO, CIO, COO, CRMO, CTO …) 

Chopper designer slicing images for Web design. 

CHORUS Coordinated approacH to the EurOpean effoRt on aUdio-visual Search engines (see IGV, VITALAS) 

CHRO Chief Human Resources Officer (see CEO, CFO, CIO, CGO, CHO, CKO, COO, CTO, …) 

CI Closed Innovation (see OI, SOI) 

CI Collective Intelligence (see KM, OSINT, SNI) 

CI Competitive Intelligence (for building CA and contributing to long term defendable positioning): human 

intelligence and experience-based focus on qualitative analysis, creativity, positioning (see BI, EI, RI, SI, SNI, TI, S&OI) 

CI Continuous Intelligence (see BI, SI, TI) 

CI Compliance Inspection (see USAF) 

CI Counter Intelligence (see BI) 

CI Cultural Intelligence (see PI) 

CIA Central Intelligence Agency (USA security office)(see DIA, FBI) 

CIA Central Integration Agent (a critical responsibility within large organizations) 


CIA Chief Information Architect (see CEO, CIO, COO, CTO, …) 

CIA Complex Interface Adapter (MOS technology) 

CIAC Certification Industry Against Counterfeiting (see MLA) 

CIB Customer Intelligence Business (see BI and MI) 

CIC Community Intelligence Collection (see CM, CoPs, CoUs) 

CIC Customer Interaction Center: multi-channel use for better contacts (Web, phone, VoIP, fax, kiosk,…) 

Cicada Cricket-Inspired perception and Autonomous Decision Automata (see CILIA, MEMS) 

CICS Customer Information Control System (IBM OLTP program) 

CICS/VS Customer Information Control System/ Virtual Storage (IBM) 

CIDOC known for its Conceptual Reference Model (see CRM) 

CIDR Classless Interdomain Routing: ISPs and other large networks protocol 

CIE Chief Internet Evangelist: Vint Cerf function with Google since 2005 (see CIA, CIO, CTO, …) 

CIF Client / Customer Information File 

CIF Corporate Income Fund 

CIF Cost Insurance & Freight (see C&F, Export lingo ) 

CIF Corporate Information Factory (Bill Inmon) 

CIFAS Credit Industry Fraud Advisory Service (UK) 

CIFS Common Internet File System 

CIGI Centre for International Governance Innovation (www.cigionline.ca) 

CIGI Common Image Generator Interface 

Cigref (Fr) Club Informatique des Entreprises Françaises 

CII Communication Index Integrity (see PCI, WPI) 

CIIP Certified Imaging Informatics Professional 

CIIP Critical Information Infrastructure Protection: protecting Europe from large scale cyber-attacks & disruptions (EPCIP) 

CILIA Customized Intelligent Lifelike Arrays (see Cicada, MEMS) 

CIM Common Information Model (see DMTF) 

CIM Computer Integrated Manufacturing: computer control for the manufacturing process 

CIM Customers Interactions Map (see CEM, CRM, …) 

CIMA Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK) (see CPA) 

CIMS Crisis Information Management Systems 

CIO Chief Information Officer (see CAO, CEO, CFO, CHO, CKO, COO, CPO, CRO, CTO, CISO, DCIO, ERO …) 

CIP Carriage and Insurance Paid (see also Export lingo) 

CIP Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme: ICT Policy Support Programme (see CEPIS) 

CIPD Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, London 

CIPE Center of International Private Enterprise (see WCF) 

cipher algorithm for reversible transformation of data (characters and / or bits) 

Cipurse transport electronic payment solution using a chip card to store money (see NFC) 

CIQ Computer-Integrated Quality (management system) 

CIR Committed Information Rate 

CIR Continuous Improvement Roadmap 

CIR Correct Information Ratio 

CIS Capital Investment Strategy (could be Entrepreneurial, Local, Regional, National) 

CIS Central Intelligence Service (see CIA) 

CIS Client Information Summary 

CIS Community Innovation Survey (EC) 

CIS Communication & Information System 

CIS Competitive Information Strategy (see CI, KIS, SI) 

CIS Corporate Information Service (see EPIK, IS) 

CIS Corporate Intelligence Service 

CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor (see CISM, CISO, CISSP, CSO, GIAC) 

CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer (see RISC) 

CISM Certified Information Security Manager (see CGEIT, CISSP, CISA, GIAC, CSO) 

CISO Chief Information Security Officer (see CAO, CEO, CFO, CGO, CHO, CIO, COO, CKO, CSO …) 

CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional (see CISM, CISA, GIAC, CSO) 

Citadel Statement European action plan for more local e-Government 

CITEL Inter-American Telecommunication Commission of the Organization of the American States 

CITIC China International Trust and Investment Corporation 

CITL Community Independent Transaction Log (see ITL) 

CITO / CI&TO Chief Information (&) Technology Officer (see CEO, CIO, COO, …) 

CIVETS Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, South Africa: after BRIC emerging group. 


CKB Collaborative Knowledge Base (see KM, CBK and more) 

CKI Center for Knowledge Interchange (Siemens) 

CKM Certified Knowledge Manager (see KMCB) 

CKMI Contextualized KM Implementation (after a situational analysis) 

CKML Conceptual Knowledge Markup Language (see KM) 

CKMs Community Knowledge Managers (see CoPs) 

CKNs Collaborative Knowledge Networks (Deloitte discussion about the CoPs, see also KVC) 

CKO Chief Knowledge Officer (see KM)(see also CEO, CHCO, COO, CFO, CIO, ITO, CLO, CTO, CVO, …) 

CKSE Certified Knowledge System Engineer (focus on the needed techniques and tools for conducting 

a knowledge econometric analysis and design)(see KM and more) 

CKW Collective Knowledge Work (see CI, KM, OSINT) 

CL Computational Linguistic (see AI, TID) 

CLA Collaborative Leadership Archetypes (oracle.com/us/corporate/profit/opinion/021611-mbaghai-321118.html) 

CLC Customer Life Cycle (see DLC, ELC, KLC, PLC, SDLC, SLC, VLC, …)(metrics). Critical aspect: loyalty 

CLCF CLC Funnel 

CLCM Customer Life Cycle Management (see CLC, LC, LCM, and more) 

CLDC Connected Limited Device Configuration (JAVA ME popular configuration type)(see CDC) 

CLE Collaborative Learning Environment (see ALN, CBCL, …) 

cleantech more efficient alternative energy with less environmental impact: power distribution, renewed electricity storage, … 

CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (see ILEC) 

CLFS Community LFS (EC) 

CLI Call Level Interface (see SQL) 

CLI Command Line Interface 

clickbait attractive vague article title or link name to invite the surfer to click for knowing more or the exact content (see link bait ) 

clickjacking click destination embezzlement (see clickbait ) 

click & mortar Enterprises that are developping themselves on WEB-based activities (see Brick & mortar ) 

click fraud abuse of clicks on ads to generate higher income and deplete the competitor budget 

click stream tracking analysis of the surfer's clicks path 

CLIOS Complex Large-scale Integrated Open System 

CLIP Calling Line Identity Presentation (service) (see ISDN) 

CLIPS C Language Integrated Production System 

CLIR Calling Line Identity Restriction (service) (see ISDN) 

CLIST Command LIST 

CLM Council of Logistic Management 

CLO Chief Logistic Officer (see CEO, CIO, CISO, CKO, CMO, COO, CPO, CTO, CVO, …) 

cloaking spamming technique (see Spam ) 

CLOs Collateralized Loan Obligations 

CLOS Common Lisp Object System 

CLOUD Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets: a CERN study ("natural clouds" origin) 

cloud see cloud computing and mobile clouding 

cloud a cloud business site … http://www.businesscloud9.com/ 

cloud2 toward openess , nomadism and social networks . 

cloud computing we are all nodes in the Internet "cloud" (see GESC, social software , TCC, WEB2.0, …) 

clouding see cloud computing and mobile clouding 

cloud OS Microsoft cloud computing or Cloud Operating System 

CLR Common Language Runtime (relates to a Microsoft platform)(see GAC) 

CLRs Certificate Revocation Lists (see DCP) 

CLT Computational Learning Theory. 

Cl.to (Fr) Classe de tolérance 

CLT(R) Cross-Language Text (Retrieval) 

cluetrain Manifesto (The) "markets are conversations" (Locke)(http://www.cluetrain.com/) 

CluSIB (Fr) Club de la Sécurité Informatique Belge 

CluSIF (Fr) Club de la Sécurité Informatique Française 

cluster group of servers and resources utilized as a single system for higher output 

cluster computing coordinated parallel processing as from many computers (see grid computing ) 

Free clustering SW : BOINC, OSCAR 

CM Change Management (FBWPA : www.fbc-e.com)(see CAB, ECM, OCM) 

CM Cash Management (SAP module w/i FI) 

CM Credit Management 

CM Community Management / Manager (see CMS, OCM, OLCM) 


CM Complexity Management 

CM Conceptual Modeling : characterized by the 3P-Principles 

CM Content Management is depending on the vocabulary control within an identified context 

CM Contract Manufacturers (see ODM, OEM) 

*.cmap character map (ttf table) 

CMA Cash Management Accounts (see AMA, CAAs) 

CMA Certified Management Accountant (see CFE, CPA) 

CMA Competitive Maturity Assessment (see CEM, …) 

CMA Content Management Application 

CMA Content Management Architect 

CMC Computer-Mediated Communication (remote mgmt, online / e-learning, ,,,) (see BBS, CMO) 

CMCF CMC Filter 

CMCS CMC System 

CMDB Configuration Mgmt DB (Gartner) an integral to all IT processes, including change, problem, configuration mgmt 

CMEA Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (see COMECON) 

CMF Cash Management & Forecast 

*.cmf Casio Movie Format (FNE) 

CMF Content Management Framework (see CMS, TCM) 

CMF Common Metadata Facility 

CMI Co-Managed Inventory 

CMIS / CMIP Common Management Information Service / Protocol 

CML Capability Maturity Level (FBC>s ) (see CMM, CMMI) 

CMM Common Metadata Model (see CMF) 

CMM Capability Maturity Model (SEI, Carnegie Mellon) 

CMMI CMM Integration 

CMML Continuous Media Markup Language 

CMMS Computerized Maintenance Management System 

CMO Casual Multiplayer Online (see game , gaming , MMO, …) 

CMO Chief Marketing Officer (see CEO, CIO, CFO, CISO, CKO, COO, CPO, CTO, CVO, …) 

CMO (Fr) Communication Médiatisée par Ordinateur (see CMC) 

CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semi-conductor (see MOS, XCMOS) 

CMOV Conditional MOVe (instruction) 

CMP Cash Management Position (0-5 days, because payment advices, by value date) 

CMP Change Management Principles (FBC>s ) 

CMP Core Messaging Platform 

CMP Cellular Multi Processing 

CMR Computer-Mediated Reality (see AR, AV, MAR, SAR, …) 

CMS Community Mgmt Strategy (see CM) 

CMS Content Mgmt System (see CMF, GIM, TCM) 

CMS Course Mgmt System (see e-learning , QTI, VLC) 

CMS Credit Mgmt Services (could be outsourced: see BPO) 

CMS Cryptographic Message Syntax 

CMT Chip Multithreading 

CMV Current Market Value 

C/N Credit Note 

CNAME Canonical Name or the official name in the hostnames database as opposed to an Alias 

CNC Computer Numerical Control (see CCO) 

CNC Computer Numerically Controlled 

CNG Compressed Natural Gas (car fuel) 

CNNIC China Internet Network Information Center (www.cnnic.cn/en/index/index.htm) 

*.cnt "content" for help FNE (see *.hlp) or file extension 

CNY Chinese Yuan Renminbi 

CO Central Office 

CO Certificate of Origin (example : custom application) 

CO Compliance Officer: business, marketing, finance (see ORM) 

CO Controlling (module : R/3 Business Application Area) 

CO2 Carbon Dioxyde 

COA Cost of Attendance 

CO-ABC Activity-Based Cost Accounting within the CO (see ABC) 

COBIT Control Objectives for Information and related Technology 


COBO Control of Borrowing 

COBOL Common Business Oriented Language defined by CODASYL (see ASSEMBLER, FORTRAN, …) 

COBOL II update of the here above previous one. 

COBRA Constraints & Opportunities in Business Reengineering Activities (FBC>s concept & methodology) 

Go to www.fbc-e.com to know more. 

COC Certificate of Origin and Consignment (see export lingo ) 

COC Cost Object Controlling 

COCA Cost Of Cracking Adjustment (cryptography) 

CO-CCA Cost Center Accounting (within the CO sub-module) 

Cocoa Apple's Objective-C based programming environment for Mac OS X (see ICCOa) 

COCOM Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls Group (see export lingo ) 

COD Collect On Delivery 

CODASYL Conference On Data System Languages (see COBOL) 

Code 2d see QR 

CODEC COder DECoder (e.g. MPEG-1) 

COE Center Of Excellence (see BI, CoPS, KM, PMO, …) 

COE Certificate Of Eligibility 

COE Certificate Of Exportability (see export lingo ) 

COE Chief Operating Engineer 

COE Common Operating Environment (see SA, SNA) 

COE Corporate Ontology Engineering (ftp://ftp.inf.fu-berlin.de/pub/reports/tr-b-08-09.pdf) 

COE Cost Of Equity (see ROA, ROE, ROI, WA, WACC) 

COE Crude Oil equivalent (see Brent, WTI) 

COFDM Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (see OFDM) 

Coffin ultra mini-rooms in some Hong-Kong and Japan hotels (see SAS) 

COFR Customer Order Frequency Rate (see CRM) 

CoGS Cost of Goods Sold (see CoGM) 

CoGM Cost of Goods Manufactured (see CoGS) 

Cognition according a generic definition, it's about the process of thought and is often related to KM 

Cognitive cities network technologies change the cities (see smart cities )(http://cognitivecities.com/) 

COI Customer Oriented Intelligence 

COICA Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act 

CoINs Communities of Interest Networks (see CoPs, CoUs) 

COL Cost Of Living 

COLA Cost Of Living Adjustment (automatic wages increase covering the rising cost of living) 

Cold contacting adding another person on a social platform without actually knowing him / her 

COLIS Collaborative Online Learning and Information Systems (see LMS) 

coll. colloquial (used in dictionary abbreviation) 

collaborative learning educational method for making the students working together toward common goals 

Collectif (compte) assure l'intégration d'un compte de comptabilité auxiliaire en comptabilité générale. Lui et 

le livre auxiliaire sont mis à jour en parallèle lors de l'enregistrement d'une transaction. 

Collision same time use of NW causing a serious problem 

COLM Corporate Ontology Lifecycle Methodology (see COE, CSW)(ftp://ftp.inf.fu-berlin.de/pub/reports/tr-b-08-09.pdf 

Colocated server server housing (see SHA) 

COLP Connected Line Identity Presentation (service) (see ISDN) 

COLR Connected Line Identity Restriction (service) (see ISDN) 

COLTS Continuously-Offered-Long-Term-Securities 

.com .com (commerce) domain = "dotcom " (see DNS) 

*.com command Microsoft application (FNE) 

COM Component Object Model (see COMT) 

COM port COMmunication serial port on a PC 

COMECOM Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (see CMEA) 

Comex (Fr) Comité Exécutif (France) = Board of Director / Executives (BOD/E) 

COMEXT Eurostat reference database containing external trade statistics 

Command character e.g. Cancel, Del (delete), Esc (Escape), PrtScn (Print Screen), SI (Shift-in) … 

Commando Marketing FBC>s marketing concept and methodology (1997): subtile aggressive marketing activity 

to enter rapidly a niche or conquer an already occupied market position. 

Commodity Internet Utility Internet + commodities: added applications (see ASP) 

CommWarrior worm (March 2005) 

Completeness of vision well grounded future-based starting point of view 


compar. comparative (used in dictionary abbreviation) 

Compiler program that enables the computer using the various languages (e.g. COBOL, FORTRAN) 

Compress file compacting process for reducing the space on the disk (see ZIP) 

COMT COM Technologies 

Comucane Medicare to prevent the communication overflow (Communication Museum of Switzerland: comucaïne) 

CON Cloud-Optimized Network / Networking 

CON Community Open Network (see ON) 

CONC Collaborative Open Network Computing (see ONC) 

conj. conjunction 

CoNK Cost of Not Knowing (see CoPQ, KM). It could mean unappropriate costly decisions, opportunities losses. Worst: crash ! 

Consolidation (with company) groups several G/L accts on the basis of the group account number entered in 

each G/L acct for matching to a consolidation item. 

constr. construction (used in dictionary abbreviation) 

Contingent claim Receivable not identified in the balance sheet 

CONTSENS Context Sensitive Education and Training: LLLP of the EC (see LO)(www.eclo.org/) 

Convergence of sciences engineering & physical sciences, among other disciplines, joining forces with the life sciences (Washington Forum) 

Conversity converging-(conversation)-diversity : see more in our KM articles (conversation catalyzes the concept transformation) 

*.cnv (Microsoft) conversion FNE 

COO Chief Operations / Operating Officer (Mgmt)(see CEO, CFO, CKO, CPO, … and COOOOOOOO(O)N) 

cookie text written on the HD. It contains the surfer ID to identify him when revisiting the same site. Ex.utma (see supercookie 

COOOOOOOO(ON) Chief Of Other Omnipotent Officers Operating Obviously On Optronics (Or Not !) 

a good image for the chief of something found on http://www.lesfrontaliers.lu/ 

CO-OM-ABC Activity Based Costing (see TCA) 

CO-OM-CCA Cost Center Accounting. Fr: Comptabilité analytique des centres de coûts 

CO-OM-CEL Cost and Revenue Element Accounting 

CO-OPA Order and Project Accounting 

COP Code Of Practices (see ACOP) 

COP Conference of the Parties 

cop constable on patrol 

CO-PA Profitability Analysis. Fr: Analyse du compte de résultat 

COPA Child Online Protection Act (USA : http://www.epic.org/free_speech/censorship/copa.html) 

COPC Customer Operation Performance Center (customer center operations assessing standards) 

CO-PC Product Costing. Fr: Coût de revient par produit (standard price) 

CO-PCA Profit Center Accounting. Fr: Comptabilité des centres de profit 

CO-PC-OBJ Cost Object Controlling 

CO-PC-PRD Product Cost Planning 

COPEH Community of Practice in Ecohealth 

COPP Cost Of Poor Performance 

COPQ Cost Of Poor Quality (see CoNK, TQM) 

CoPs Community of Practices (part of KM projects)(see CoINs, CoUs, LC): associate CoPs and CoUs 

Copyrighteous said like it would have been copyrighted already. Why not said "copyrighteously " 

CORBA Component ORB Architecture 

Core functionning cores are the countries / parts of the world integrated within the global economy 

Corporate genome people staff in the company (ATKearney)(see CoPs, HCA, RBKO, SNBKO) 

Corporate governance is related to the accountability of individuals in the collaborative leading processes (see CLA) 

CoS Class of Service (traffic differentiation on a network) (see DoS, QoS) 

CoS Convergence of Sciences 

C. of S. Chief of Staff (see CEO, COO, …) 

COS Chief Of Station (see CIO, CFO, CTO, …) 

COS Cloud OS (see CSSA) 

COT Commitments Of Traders 

COTS Commercial 0ff-The-Shelf (software) 

COTs Critical Operating Tasks 

CoUs Community of Users (see CoINS, CoPs): associate CoPs and CoUs for mastering the market 

CPA Critical Path Analysis (see CPM, PERT) 

CPA Certified Public Accountant (see AICPA, CFE, CMA) 

CPA Cost Per Action (see also ABC, CPC, CPL, CPM, CPR, CPT)(metrics) 

CPA Customer Profitability Analysis 

CPAN Comprehensive Perl Archive Network 

CPC Cost Per Click (see also CPA, CPM, CPR)(metrics) 


CPCS Common Part Convergence Sublayer 

CPD Continuing Professional Development 

CPD Continuous Personal Development 

CPD Conto Pro Diverse (OTA management). Fr: comptes occasionnels 

CPE (Fr) Chaîne de Processus (déclenchée) par Evénement. En. EDPC (see SAP BE, SCEM) 

CPE Customer Premises Equipment 

CPEHR Certified Professional in Electronic Health Records (see CFE, CMA, CPA) 

CPER Collaborative Planning, Forecasting & Replenishment (see SCM) 

CPG Consumer Packaged Goods 

CPI Consumer Price Index 

CPI Continuous Process Improvement (see also BPI, BPM, BPR, IEM, OD, TQM) 

CPI Corruption Perceptions Index (see EITI, FTI, GFI, TJN) 

CPI-C Common Programming Interface-Communications. Communication protocol containing a series 

of rules that are governing communication in betweeen programs (i.e. R/2 and R/3) 

CPIM Certified In Production & Inventory Management 

CPIM Common Presence and Instant Messaging (see XMPP) 

*.cpk Copernic Engine Package (see *.csk)(FNE) 

*.cpl Control PaneL file (FNE) 

CPL Cost Per Lead (see CPA, CPC, …) 

CPL Combined Programming Language, programming language, 1960 

CPL Common Public Licence, IBM open source licence 

CPLS (Microsoft) Certified Partner for Learning Solutions (see LMS) 

CPM Channel Program Management (Distribution & Marketing / Channel Marketing)(see PRM) 

CPM Cost Per Thousand (M = Thousand in the Roman numeral system)(see CPA) 

CPM Critical Path Method (see BCP, CPA, PERT) 

CPM Corporate Performance Management : key figures centralization with the support of a DSS 

CPMM Certified Plant Maintenance Manager 

CPO Chief Procurement Officer (see CEO, CFO, CIO, …) 

CPO Chief Production Officer (see CEO, CFO, CIO, DCIO, CISA, CKO,CLO, COO, CTO, CVO, …) 

CPO Chief Program Officer (see PO and others as here above mentioned) 

CPO Chief Project Officer (see CEO, CFO, CIO, COO, CTO, …) 

CPP Calling Party Pays 

CPPM Certified Professional Purchasing Manager 

CPR Constant Prepayment Rate 

CPR Cost Per Revenue (see also CPA, CPC, CPT, metrics ) 

CPS Cents Per Share 

CPS Carrier Pre Select (see CR, CS) 

CPS Central Processing System 

CPS Country Partnership Strategy 

CPS Customer and Partner System (see CRM, PRM) 

Cps Cycles per second 

CPSL Common Pattern Specification Language 

CPT Community Technology Preview (see Java and JDBC) 

CPT Comprehensive Performance Test 

CPT Cost Per Thousand (see also K, CPA, CPC, CPR, metrics ) 

CPT Cost Per Transaction 

CPTED Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (concept related to security) 

CPU Central Processing Unit (see CAU, CU, Dual-core Chip , GPU, PCU) 

CPU Communications and Policy Unit 

CPUID CPU IDentity / Identification 

CQFD Certified Query about Foolish Data … another "translation" from the best business jokes editors ! 

CQFD Comprehensive Quality Function Deployment (see QA, QC, DFQ, …) 

CQL Contextual Query Language (see SRU) 

CQO Chief Quality Officer (see CEO, CFO, CIO, COO, CISA, CKO, CLO, COO, CTO, CVO, DCIO, …) 

CR Carrier's Risk (see export lingo , RM) 

CR Cash Receipts 

CR Current Rate 

CRA Collaborative Reporting Architecture for more participation, iterative development, modularity (www.actuate.com) 

CRA Credit Rating Agency (Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, Fitch): AAA means 20/20 

CRAA Computer-Related Acronyms and Abbreviations 


Cracker the author of a fraudulous PWD (see hacker ) 

CRAMM CCTA Risk Analysis and Management Method 

CRAP Content Restriction Annulment Protection : a new name for DRM by David Berlind 

Craplet crippled software 

Crapware unwanted programs installed on a new PC by the vendor 

CRASBO "criminally related" ASBO 

Crawler program visiting and reading Web sites to create entries for a search engine index 

Crazy Search Ideas Google internal conference for searching really new ideas 

CRBE Centre of Russian Business in Europe (Brussels) (www.centruss.org) 

CRC Customs Registration Codes (see HSC) 

CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check : checking data (see LC and others) 

CR/CCC Commodity Representative / Customer Complaint Committee 

CRD Color Rendering Dictionary 

CR&DPC Carrier Route & Delivery Point Code (see DPC, USPS) 

CRE Cognitive Resource(s) Evaluation (see RPE) 

Creative Commons to expand the public domain information (http://creativecommons.org/) 

Credit Master Record is automatically maintained when at least one of the following fields - risk category, credit representative. 

If Credit Master Record is not maintained -> no credit limit 

CRF Common Reporting Format (see MOU, NDA, TOR, …) 

CRF Capital Recovery Factor 

Crimeware virus toolbox or virus SW pack. First one: Virus Creation Lab in 1992. 

CRL Certificate Revocation List 

CRL (Cooperative) Reinforcement Learning (see e-Learning and education related subjects: LLA, LLL ...) 

CRM Citizen Relationship Management: management principle for the public administration (see e-Gov) 

CRM Customer Relationship Manager 

CRM Customer Relationship Mgmt (see ARM, CAS, CEM, CFM, CLC, CRP, CSR, GRC, OCD, MCRM, SFA) 

CRM supporting ITzation of the marketing philosophy : CRM isn't dominating the marketing 

CRM Computer Risk Management (see RM) 

CRM Conceptual Reference Model: ISO 21127:2006 for cultural heritage information exchanges (see CIDOC, FRBR, FRSAD 

CRMA Customer Relationship Management Administration (see CRM, CSR) 

CRME Certified Revenue Management Executive 

CRMO Chief Risks Management Officer (see CHO, CRHO, CRO, …) 

CRO Chief Reputation Officer (FBWPA: www.fbc-e.com)(see CEO, CIO, CKO, COO, CSO, CTO, ... ) 

CRO Chief Research Officer (see CFO, CHO, CIO, CKO, COO, CPO, CRSO, CSO, CTO, CVO, ERO, EVP …) 

CRO Chief Risk Officer 

Cross-cc Cross-Company Code 

Cross marketing interacting media-based multimedia marketing : performance-driven interaction 

Cross-cc number made of document number+company code+fiscal year 

i.e. 0000004711 0003 91 

Cross Platform Bliss the grass is greener on both sides : http://widgets.yahoo.com/info/ 

Cross sell suggest related products / services to someone entering a purchase process (see upsell ) 

Crowdfunding the Internet (mainly) social networks are funding the projects and / or the enterprises 

Crowdsourcing the public is feeding the Internet with more data and information (common semantic problem) 

CRP Capacity Requirements Planning (SAP PP) 

CRP Car Radio Phone (mobile communication) 

CRP Cognition Resource(s) Planning (see KRP) 

CRP Customer Relationship Process (see CRM) 

CRPG Computer Role Playing Game (see Game , Gaming ) 

CRRA Constant Relative Risk Aversion 

C-RS Color-Recording System (see VTR) 

CRSC Continuous Replenishment Supply Chain (see ASC, c-SCM, LSC, SCM, SCEM, …) 

CRSO Chief Research and Strategy Officer (see CEO, CHO, CIO, CFO, CKO, COO, CRMO, CRO, CTO, …) 

CRT Cathode Ray Tube 

CRT Current Reality Tree (see decisional tree , TOC) 

CRUD Create, Read, Update, Delete (everyday standard operations and services) 

CRUF Collateralised Revolving Underwriting Facility 

crush a burning passion: to be in love with someone or a brand, a style of behaving ... 

CRW, *.crw Canon RAW Format 

cryptanalysis cipher text transfer in a plain text without previous knowledge of the used key for encrypting it. 

CS Carrier Select (see CPS) 


CS Cloud Security (see CSSA, CT) 

CSA Cloud Security Alliance (see CSSA, cloud computing ) 

CSA Computer Security Act 

CSA Customer Satisfaction Analysis (see CRM) 

CSAIL Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT) (see AI, AR, WSRI) 

CSB Corporate Services Branch 

*.csb Corel script 9.0 Binary (FNE) 

*.csc Corel script 9.0 (FNE) 

CSC Closed Source Code 

c-SCM Collaborative SCM 

CSC Corporate Semantic Collaboration (see COE, CSW) 

CSCE Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe 

CSCeL Computer-Supported Collaborative e-Learning 

c-SC(M) Collaborative Supply Chain (Management): relationship-driven Supply Chain (Mgmt) (see SCM) 

CSCMP Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (see SCC, SCM, SCEM) 

CSCW(E) Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Working Environment) (see CACW) 

CSCW Context-Sensitive CourseWare (see CONTSENS) 

CSD Computing Services Division (Division of DISA)(USA) 

CSD Circuit Switched Data 

CSDP Common Security and Defence Policy (see EBP, …) 

CSE Computer Science and Engineering 

CSE Computer Systems Engineering (see BPE, BPM, BPR, …) 

CSF Critical Success Factors (CPM, BPR, KPI, MIS, Benchmarking) 

CSF Critical Stress Factor (solution: Zen attitude)(more in the FBC>s Business Magazine n° _ ) 

CSG Corporate Services Branch 

CSH (European) Civil Society House (www.ecas-citizen.eu) 

*.csi Corel script 9.0 include 

CSI Cloud Storage Initiative 

CSI Code Sequence Identification (see ID, RFID) 

CSI Computer Security Institute (USA) 

CSI Council of the Securities Industry 

CSID Called Subscriber ID (see TSID) 

CSIO Chief Security Information Officer (see CEO, CCO, CIO, CKO, CLO, CPO, CQO, CTO, …) 

CSIRTs Computer Security Incident Response Teams (see SOC)(http://www.cert.org/) 

CSJP Community, Security, Justice Program 

*.csk Copernic skin (see *.cpk)(FNE) 

CSLIP Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol to compress headers and exchange IP packets 

CSM Cyber-Security Management (see RM) 

CSMA/CD Carrier Serve Multiple Access / Collision Detection 

CSN Corporate Social Network (see CSR) 

CSO Chief Sales Officer (see CEO, CCO, CIO, CKO, CLO, COO, CPO, CQO, CTO, …) 

CSO Chief Security Officer (see CEO, CCO, CIO, CKO, CLO, CPO, CQO, CTO, ISSO, …) 

CSO Chief Sourcing Officer (Gartner concept) (see CEO, CFO, CIO, COO, CTO) 

CSO Chief Strategy Officer (see CBDO, CEO, CFO, CIO, COO, CTO) 

CSOC Computer Science Olympic Competition: all Vietnamese Universities competition 

CSP Cellular Service Provider (see ASP, ISP, NSP, …) 

CSP Cloud Service Provider (see ASP, ISP, NSP …) 

CSP Commerce Service Provider: buyer authentication, order taking, sale offers details, validation, payment processing 

CSP Communication Service Provider 

CSP Complementary Software Program (partners) 

CSP Concentrating Solar Power (technology) 

CSP Content Security Policy 

CSPF Corporate Strategy and Program Framework 

CSPI Center for Science in the Public Interest (USA) 

CSR Customer Service Representative 

CSR Customized Semantic Relationships (see CLC, CRM, and more …) 

CSR Corporate Social Responsibility (see CG, ESR, MSR, SOXA) 

CSR Cross Site Request 

CSRF Cross Site Request Forgery (attack). Also known as 'session riding' (see WHID, XSRF) 

CSRF Cross Site Reference Forgery 


CSS Cascading Style Sheet 

CSS1 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS2 & 3: www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-background-20050216/) 

*.css Cascading Style Sheet (file) 

CSS Content Scrambling System: DVD protection sytem that has been decrypted by DVD Jon 

CSS Corporate Semantic Search (see COE, CSC, CSW) 

CSS Customer Service System 

CSS Customer Service & Support (could be part of a CRM) 

CSS Communication Style Survey (enterprise HR mapping, change management, …) 

CSSA Cloud Smart Security Architecture 

CST Client Server Technology 

CST Comprehension Support Tool 

CST Central Standard Time (US) (see PST) 

CST Convergence Science and Technology (see convergence sciences ) 

CSTA Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications 

CSU Certificate Signing Unit 

CSU Channel Service/Switching Unit : convenient for testing 

CSV Comma Separated Values (ASCII format) 

CSW Corporate Semantic Web (ftp://ftp.inf.fu-berlin.de/pub/reports/tr-b-08-09.pdf) 

CSWA Corporate Semantic Web Applications (see COE, CSW) 

C&T Chips & Technologies 

CT Cloud Technology (see CS) 

CT Contactless Technologies (see ICTF) 

CT Counter Trade 

CTA see C2A 

CTA Copyright Transfer Agreement 

CTACs Certified Technical Application Consultants 

CTC Certified Technical Consultant (technical implementation for R/3) 

CTE Communication TEchnology (HTG within the IPC) 

CTI Computer & Telephony Integration 

CTI Computer Telephony Interface 

CTI Customer Type Indicator 

CtL or CTL Coal to Liquid : coal liquefaction 

CTL Contextual Teaching & Learning: what about a spatial vocabulary? 

CTO Change and Transport Organizers (Workbench Organizer/SE09, Customizing Organizer/SE10, 

Transport Organizer/SE01): creation, doc, release of change requests.See CTS 

CTO Chief Technology Officer (see CEO, CIA, CIO, CFO, CGO, CFO, CISO, CKO, COO, CTSO …) 

CTP Capacity-To-Promise (see ATP) 

CTP Community Technology Preview (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/bb187358.aspx) 

CTQ Critical To Quality (see ASQ, EFQM, QA, QC, QI, QM, TQM) 

Ctr Center. Fr.: centre 

Ctrl Control (Command character ) 

CTS Certified Technology Specialist 

CTS-D Certified Technology Specialist - Design 

CTS-I Certified Technology Specialist - Installation 

CTS Change / Correction and Transport System (see also TMS) 

CTT Capital Transfer Tax 

CTX Corporate Trade Exchange (corporate ACH format) 

cu see you (see IL, ur ) 

CU Central Unit (see CPU) 

CU Credit Unit 

CUA Common User Access (IBM) 

CUDA Critical User Developped Application (Sybase) 

Cue-cards memory supports (contextual assistance) 

CUG Closed User Group (service) (see ISDN) 

Curr = currencies Transaction currency = specified in the document 

Local currency = assigned to the CyCd 

Group currency = assigned to clients established within SAP (DEM) 

Global currency = for "cross client" transactions 

Hard currency = country code-level … 

Index based currency = … to a CyCd 


The system tracks 4 curr. Two more have to be specified in an additional ledger which is assigned 

to track and report them on a line-item basis. 

Currencies in the Project System 3 different currencies in parallel 

1/ controlling area currency is THE project currency 

2/ object currency can be assigned to following objects in the project 

* the project definition 

* the WBS element 

3/ transaction currency when recorded projects are related to business transactions in another currency 

CUSIP Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures 

*.cut Dr. Halo (image file format)(FNE) 

CUT see TUC (http://tf.nist.gov/general/misc.htm#Anchor-14550) 

CV Computer Vision (see TOF-CV) 

CV Cost Variance (see SV) 

CV Curriculum Vitae, also called "résumé" (see AF) 

C/V Certificate of Value (see export lingo ) 

CVE Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure: list of standardized names for security exposures (see VI) 

CVFR Current Value of Funds Rate 

CVO Chief Value Officer (need of new role / D.P. Norton) (see CEO, CIO, CKO, CLO, CRO, CTO, …CxO) 

CVO Chief Visionary Officer (see CEO, CIO, CKO, CLO, CRO, CTO, …CxO) 

C/VO Certificate of Value and Origin 

CVRE Collaborative Virtual Reality Environment (see VR and more … AI, Second Live ) 

CVS Complex Vector Space (see LCTVS) 

CVS Concurrent Versions System: tool used to manage changes within the source code tree. 

CVSELP Codex Vector Sum Excited Linear Prediction (algorithm) 

CVT Continuously Variable Transmission 

C&W Cable & Wireless 

CW Call Waiting (service) (see CF, ISDN) 

CWE Collaborative Working Environment (see CWO, CWP) 

CWEB new WEB version for the C programming language 

CWM Common Warehouse Metamodel 

CWO Cash With Order 

CWO Chief Warrant Officer (see WO) 

CWO Chief Web Officer 

CWO Collaborative Working Organization (see CWE, CWP) 

CWOP Collaborative Working Organization Platform 

CWP Collaborative Working Platform (see CWE, CWO) 

CWS Cool Web Search (pert object) 

CXM Customer eXperience Mgmt: multi-channel delivery, content targeting, analytics, CXM technologies integration (see WCM) 

CxO Chief "something" Officer (see also CEO, CFO, CIO, CKO, CLO, COO, CRO, CTO, CVO, CWO, ITO, …) 

CXWORKX Core eXercices Work 

Cy Company 

CY Calendar Year 

Cyber alert national, enterprise, group, family automated internet monitoring service (www.us-cert.gov/) 

Cyber attack punctual internet-based attacks of individuals / enterprises' sites (see APT, Cyber terrorism ) 

Cyberbullying use of the Internet technologies for agressively attack other persons 

Cyber harass ment cyber attacks via e-mails, SMS (see texting ), social networks connections to say a few 

Cyber securit y preventive rules / systems allowing organizations to reduce the cyber attacks and intrusions 

Cybersquattin g domain acquisition that takes advantage of someone else name / reputation to make money out of it. 

Cyber terroris m large scale / repeated internet-based attacks of individuals / enterprises' sites (see Cyber attack ) 

Cyberthreats see Cyber attack , Cyber War , etc ... 

Cyber War Massive use of all kinds of electronics for doing war (see Cyber terrorism , Info War ) 

Cyber Shadow see Digital shadow , Personal branding 

Cyborg CYBernetic ORGanism (Cybernetics, 1948 !) 

CyCd Company Code / Société : i.e. Acxx, BE01, … 

CyCd-G/L Acct-Bank is a specialization of a CyCd-G/L Acct 

CyCd-SL voir Société-SL 

CYI Control Your Information. The CYI group has highjacked FaceBook for evidencing the protection level weakness 

D Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

D 500 (five hundred) in the Roman numeral system 

3D 3 Dimensions (see D3D, 4D, 5D, Game (s ), Gaming , serious games ) 


3D DDI 3D Device Dependent Interface 

3DES Triple Data Encryption Standard 

3DMF Three Dimensional Metafile Format 

3DOF Three Degrees of Freedom 

3DS Nintendo portable game console 

4D time addition (see JIT, Real-Time , Change / CM, Ba, STU, TTx… see also 5D) 

4D movie addition of sensorial effects (ground quake, perfume or smoke diffusion, …) 

DA Distributed Authentification (see RPA) 

DaaS Development as a Service (see HaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) 

DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting 

DABR Digital Audio Broadcasting Receivers 

DAC Digital-to-Analog Converter (see ADC, DSP) 

DAC Discretionary Access Control (see MAC) 

DACS Door Access Control System (see WHID) 

DA/DomA (Fr) Domaine d'Activité (France) 

DAF Delivered At Frontier (see also Export lingo) 

DAF (Fr) Directeur Administratif et Financier (France) 

DAFS Direct Access File System (protocol) 

DAI Distributed Artificial Intelligence (see AI) 

DAL Dedicated Advertiser Location 

DAM Data Access Manager (Apple) 

DAM Data Access Module 

DAM Digital Asset Management (see AA, AM, DRM) 

DAML DARPA Agent Markup Language 

D-AMPS 2G version of AMPS 

DANTE Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe (limited) 

DAO Data Access Object 

DAO Disc-At-Once (see TAO) 

DAOM Dynamic Allocation Of the Memory 

DAR Daily Activity Report (see WAR) 

DAR Display Aspect Ratio (see PAR) 

Dark Net illegal material distribution on the Net 

Dark traffic spam, DoS attacks 

DARM Data Archive Retrieval Manager 

DARPA Defence ARPA (see DAML) 

DARS Digital Audio Radio Service 

DARS Disaster Assessment Recovery System (Domino, Corporate Workflow Solutions, Inc., USA) 

DAS Data Assimilation System 

DAS Direct-Access Storage (environment)(see DASD, NAS, RAS, SSD, SAN): interlinked storage systems 

DAS Direct Attached Storage (see NAS) 

DAS3 Distributed ASCI Supercomputer 3 

DAS Dual Attached Stations (see SAS) 

DASD Direct Access Storage Device (see DAS) 

Dashboard reporting tool: a template, a board, a spreadsheet that covers the enterprise key elements 

DASL DAV Searching and Locating (see WebDAV) 

DAST Dynamic Web Application Security Testing tools (see SAST) 

*.dat registry data (used by many types of files. Example : users.dat)(FNE) 

DAT Digital Audio Tape 

Data information raw form supplied: input to the computer or output from the computer (see DB, DBM, DBMS, DLC) 

Data diddler malware doing small random changes to data. Example: increasing amounts in some accounts 

Datagram router (net) 

Data leakage copies of data made by quitting collaborators 

Data mart out of a data warehouse more specific data (prepared for a group of users) 

Data Set set of data that has been arranged according predefined parameters 

DataWeb see WEB3.0 

DAV Distributed Authoring and Versioning (see DASL, WebDAV) 

dB decibel 

DB Data Base, Data Bus (connector) 

DBA Data Base Administration (see DBP) 

DBA Data Base Administrator (see DBP) 


DBA Data Base Architect 

DbaaS Data Base as a Service (see CDBS, SaaS and more) 

DBCS Double-byte Character Set 

DbD or DBD Day-by-Day 

DBE Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (US: ensure nondiscrimination in the award and adm. of DoT-assisted contracts) 

DBF (*.dbf) dBASE format 

dbg debugger (example : jdbgmgr = java debugger manager) 

DBI DB Interface 

*.dbk dBASE Database Backup 

dBm power ratio in decibels (see dB) 

DBMS DB Management System. Fr : SGBD (see DB, DBA, DBSM, DRDA, RDBMS, …) 

DBP DB Platform 

DBP DB Programmer / Programming (see DBA) 

DBP Distributed Business Processes (see BPR, BPM) 

DBpedia a project within the EC FP7 (see RDF, Web3.0)(http://dbpedia.org/About) 

DB2PM DB2 Performance Monitor 

DBR Deterministic Bit Rate (see ABR, CBR, VBR) 

DBRM Data Base Request Module 

DBS Direct Broadcasting Satellite 

DBSM Data-Based Strategic Management (FBC>s , Brussels), 

A (relational) Database gives the opportunity to search for data, filters a view of them and link 

tables of data together. A table is the basic structure of a database. 

DATA : a stored piece of information 

FIELD : holds pieces of DATA 

RECORD : stored line of DATA, description of a topic. 

DATABASE : series of records 

FILE : related information collection about a subject 

IFD : record layout describing a data file content and structure 

DBU Digital Board Unit 

*.dbx designation of the Outlook (Microsoft Windows) files (FNE) containing the emails (see .mbx) 

DC Device Control 

DC Documental Chain (more on our site or KnowledgeBoard / KMiB KM in Belgium)(see DCO) 

DC Domain Control 

DC Direct Current (see AC, DCG) 

*.dca document content architecture (IBM format)(FNE) 

DCA Data-Centric Apps 

DCAP Data Collection and Analysis Plan 

DCC Dynamic Component Communication (BC-SRV) 

DCC Dynamic Conditional Correlation (see ARCH model) 

DCCP Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (transport layer) 

D3D Display 3-Dimensions 

DCBI Decision-Centric BI 

DCD Data Carrier Detect (Pin Connector) 

DCDI Faroudja picture processing for more quality (field deepness rendering) as from all formats such as DVD, HD ... 

DCE Damage Cleanup Engine (Windows XP, SP2) (see DCT) 

DCE Data Circuit-terminating Equipment 

DCE Decisive Competitive Edge 

DCE Distributed Computing Environment 

DCEO Deputy Chief Executive Officer (see CAO, CEO, CIO, COO, CKO, CLO, CTO, CVO …) 

DCF Discounted-Cash-Flow (model) 

DCG Direct Current Generator (see AC, DC) 

DCIO Deputy Chief Information Officer (see CAO, CEO, CIO, COO, CKO, CLO, CTO, CVO ... ) 

DCL Data Control Language 

DCL Digital Command Language 

DCMI Dublin Core Metadata Initative 

DCN Data Communication Network 

DCN Data Core Network 

DCN Design Change Notice 

DCO Data Center Optimization 

DCO Data Center Outsourcing 


DCO Documental Chain Operations (see more on our site or KnowledgeBoard / KMiB KM in Belgium) 

DCOM Distributed Component Object Model (COM) 

D-Commerce Digital Commerce (see m-Commerce, m-Retail, …) 

DCOR Design-Chain Operational Reference (see SCOR) 

DCOSS Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems 

DCP Digital Certificate Practices (see ARC, SRC) 

DCP Digital Crime Prevention (see RM, VM, WHID) 

DCPS Data Centric Publish & Suscribe (layer) (see DDS) 

DCR Design Change Request 

DCR Development Control Rule : could be a part of the development norms pack. 

*.dcr Digital Camera Raw : Kodak Image File (see *.dcx) 

DCR Document Change Request (see RFDC) 

DCS Data Communication Service 

DCS(M) Digital Connections Scaling (Model) (see DST) 

DCSS Disk Cabinet Storage System 

*.dct dictionary (FNE) 

DCT Damage Cleanup Template (Windows XP, SP2) (see DCE) 

DCT Discrete Cosine Transform: mathematical logic-based compression (used by MPEG)(see iDCT, DWT) 

DCU (*.dcu) DELPHI Compiled Units 

DCVCL Decision Cube VCL (Borland) 

DCWG DNS Changer Working Group 

*.dcx Kodak image document (FNE)(see *.dcr) 

DD Data Dictionary (SE11 starts DD) 

DD Device Driver 

DD Disk Drive (see VDD) 

DD Due Date (see BPR/M, FCFS, LPT, PLC, PLM, PM, PSO / PMO, SPT, …) 

DD Due Diligence (see CDD, VAE) 

DDA Digital Differential Analyzer 

DDA Doha Development Agenda (see GATT, WTO)(www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dda_e/dda_e.htm#development) 

DDA Dynamic Data Access 

DDA Dynamic Data Authentification (see SDA) 

DDB(s) Device Dependent Bitmap(s) 

DDBMS Distributed DBMS (see RDBMS) 

DDC Dedicated Development Center 

DDC Dewey Decimal Classification (see EDUG, Taxonomy ) 

DDC(2B) Display Data Channel (Access Bus) 

DDD (R/3) Data Dictionary Domain (Globals in R/3 personalization) 

DDD Dynamic Data Dictionary (see ADD) 

DDD D MMMM YYYY Long date in Int'l Win.ini (see MMDDYY & DDD D MMMM YYYY & Y2K) 

DDE Dynamic Data Exchange 

DDF Distributed Data Facility 

D&DH Dungeons & Dragons Handbook. In that game character has to do 3 different actions: standard, minor, move. 

DDI Digital Divide Index 

DDI Direct Dialing Inwards (service) (see DID, ISDN) 

DDI Distributed Data Interface 

DDL Data Definition Language (see DML) 

DDL Dynamic Link Library (BC-SRV) 

DDM Direct Digital Manufacturing (see DLP, DMLS, FDM) 

DD/MM/YY short date in Int'l Win.ini (see MMDDYY) 

DDN Defense Data Network 

DDOS Distributed Denial Of Service (see DoS) 

DDP Delivered Duty Paid (see DDU and Export lingo) 

DDP Disk-based Data Protection 

DDR Double Data Rate (DRAM) 

DDR Data Dependent Routing (DB architecture related) 

DDRB Design Data Review Board 

DDS Data Distribution Service (see OMG) : adds typed, multi-point data distribution between publishers and subscribers 

DDS Digital Data Storage (DAT format : streaming) 

*.dds DirectDraw Surface (image file format) 

DDU Delivered Duty Unpaid (see DDP and Export lingo) 


DDU (medical) Diagnostic Development Unit (University of Leicester research as from a Star Trek concept) 

DDV Due Diligence Value (see CDD, DD, VAE) 

DDW Distributed Data Warehouse 

DE Debugging Extension (processor) 

DE Desktop Environment (see BBDE) 

DE Development Environment (see R&D) 

DE Distributed Environment 

DEA Data Envelopment Analysis (see FMEA) 

DEA Disposable E-mail Address (www.emailalias.com, www.spamex.com) 

DEA Drug Enforcement Administration (USA) 

DEBI Customer Account Group. Fr: Groupe de Comptes Clients 

Debtors accounts receivable 

DEC DECimal 

decibel sound strenght (measure on a logarythmic scale) (see db) 

DECs Decision Execution Cycles 

DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications 

DECT Digital European Cordless Telecommunications 

Dedicated hosting Web hosting whose server is entirely leased by the client (not shared with someone else).. 

De-duping removal of the data redundancies from a system 

Deduplication merging two or more data 

Deed statutory document (generic sense) 

Deep packet inspection network flow deep analysis by the firewall system 

Deep Web Invisible Web that isn't accessed by the standard Web browers (see Hidden Web , undernet ) 

def. definite, definition (used in dictionary abbreviation) 

*.def definition (active file) 

defacement fraudulous change of a website cover page, destination, objectives, services ... 

Defriend Cutting the connection with a "friend" on a social networking platform 

DEISA Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications 

Del delete (DOS command, Command character ) 

dems democrats (USA) 

DEMUX demultiplexer (see MUX) 

DEP Data Entry Point 

Deposit Caution. Deposit types are flagged as cash deposit or rental deposit. Calculated interest on the paid amounts are accounted. 

Depr. area method of depreciation (straight line, declining) 

Depr. key calculation method per area defined at Chart of depreciation level. 

DER Distinguished Encoding Rules (see ARC, ASN.1, DCP, PEM, SRC, ... ): files and formats 

DES Display Screen Equipment (http://www.infinn.com/dsemanager.html) 

DES Data Encryption Standard 

DES Digital Encryption Standard. It had been developed by IBM (see AES, IDEA, RSA) 

DESB Dynamic ESB (FBC>s OB) 

DESS (Fr) Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées 

Development class : group of logically related development objects 

Device Stage “Device-Stage-enabled” peripherals recognition to ease the use of printers, cameras, cell phones, media players, … 

DEWs Distant Early Warning System (see SANY, SensorSA) 

DF Damage Function (see RM) 

DF Dynamic Focus (screen) 

DFA Design For Assembly (see DFM, DFQ) 

DFCA Design For Competitive Advantage (see CA, CI) 

DFD Data Flow Diagram (structured design) 

DFDL Distributed Feedback Dye Laser 

DFM Design For Manufacture (see DFA, DFQ) 

DFQ Design For Quality (see DFA, DFM, QA, QC, QFD, QCM, TQC, TQM, …) 

DFS Distributed File System 

DFSD Distributed File System Design 

DFT Discrete Fourier Transform 

DFT Design For Testability (see DFA, DFL, DFQ, …) 

DFV Design For Value: the general concept is "design for competitive advantage and positioning" 

DG Directorate General (see EU) 

DGBL Digital Game-Based Learning (see game , gaming , GBL, …) 

DHA Directory Harvest Attack (see WHID) 


DHCP Dynamic Host Control / Configuration Protocol (IP address management) 

DHS Department of Homeland Security (US) 

DHTML Dynamic HTML 

DHX Digital Heritage eXchange : to create intercommunicative virtual reality infrastructures 

DI Digital Imaging 

DI Distributed Intelligence 

DI (Fr) Devise Intérieure 

DIA Defense Intelligence Agency (Pentagon secret service)(see CIA) 

Dialer some are good (what you've installed), intruders are dangerous (dialing unwanted numbers)(see WHID) 

DIANE Direct Information Access Network in Europe 

DIBs Device-Independent Bitmaps 

DIC Documentation and Information Center 

DID Digital ID (see avatar ) 

DID Direct Inward Dialing (see DDI) 

DIET Distributed Interactive Engineering Toolbox 

DIF Dead In the Field: surveyed as defective from the start to rapidly fail in the (market) field (see DOA) 

Digerati digital & literati 

Digispeak acronyms usage for shorthening e-Mail, IM (instant messaging), SMS, etc. (see geekspeak , IL, ... ) 

Digital afterlife www.thedigitalbeyond.com 

Digital age 1982 seems to be the "starting date" (see digital native ) 

Digital capital don't confuse it with human capital, intellectual capital 

Digital city see smart cities 

Digital divide It has started with the gap evidence between individuals having accesses to IT NW and those who have not. 

Now, other elements contribute to more details and levels distinction in between the identified parties. 

Digital footprint see digital shadow 

Digital game see Game , Gaming , Serious Game 

Digital immigrant Someone born before the digital emergence and who adopted it later on (see digital native ) 

Digital life birth/click generation & digital native , growth/second life , death/digital suicide 

Digital marketing the use of digital channels and means for promoting brands and services 

Digital media huge expansion and competition with the "ancient models". 

Digital native born to be alive in the digital age (see click generation , WEB2 & 3.0, Second life )(www.digitalnative.org) 

Digital nomadism digitally-assisted moves. Continuation of the digital native characteristics. 

Digital politics it has started with the e-Gov administrative initiatives. Politicians have now entered the SN arena 

Digital shadow growing pile of the personal data on the Net (see cyber shadow , digital footprint , personal branding ) 

Digital signage dynamic digital signs on electronic displays for information, advertising, marketing and more 

Digital Social Connectivity DSC emphasizes the newly assisted (encouraged) connections and searches of "others" 

Digital suicide what to do for quitting the social networking (www.digitalsuicide.org or www.suicidemachine.org) 

Digital wisdom M. Prensky: digital homo sapiens :-))) or technology-enhanced wisdom 

DiGRA Digital Games Research Association 

DII Defense Information Infrastructure (US Defense) 

DIJA Dow Jones Industrial Average 

DIKW Data to Information to Knowledge to Wisdom … that's much too easily said ! (see KM) 

DILL Digital Library Learning (see LIS) 

DIM Digital Identity Mapping (security, access monitoring) 

DIMM Dual In-line MM (64 bits MM) 

DIN Deutsche Industrie Norme 

Dingbat typeface containing a decorative symbol 

DIP or dip Dual In-line Package (chip: common ceramic or plastic enclosure for an IC). 

DIP Windows' Bitmap 

DIPM Device Initiated Power Management (SATA) 

Dipswitch mini switch 

Direct RDRam Direct Rambus (1,6 G/s) (RAMBUS) 

DirectX Microsoft application program interface for managing images and multimedia effects 

DIRS Digital Image Recorder System 

DIS Documentation Information Service / System 

DISA Defense Information System Agency (US Defense)(see DARPA) 

DiSCO short for Digital Signage COnference, new name for DOOH 

Distributed Computing integrated legacy systems within a component based architecture 

Distributism in between capitalism and socialism (www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nVldr6T7mQ&feature=related) 

DivX branded video technology for compressing digital video (DV) 


DIY Do-It-Yourself (see FYI) 

DJIA Dow Jones Industrial Average 

DJSI Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes 

DJ Stoxx pan-européen index 

DK Developers Kit 

DK Distribution Key (see SKF) 

DKIM DomainKeys Identified Mail (http://www.dkim.org/) (see MIPA) 

DL Digital Library (see JITTDL) 

DL Distant Learning 

DL Distributed Leadership 

DL Distribution List 

DLA Drive Letter Access 

DLC Data Life Cycle (see CLC, ILC, KLCM, PLC, SLC, …) 

DLC Diamond Like Carbon: could be useful for covering motor parts 

DLC Digital Loop Carrier 

DLCI Data Link Connection Identifier 

DLC-U Digital Line Card (interface) (see ISDN) 

DLD Digital, Life, Design: Europe's conference for the 21st century covering digital innovation, gaming, arts and science 

DL DVD Dual Layer DVD 

DLFL Deletion Flag (archivage/archiving) 

DLIB Digital LIBrary (see DL) 

DLL (*.dll) Dynamic Link Library (links file) 

DLM Data Lifecycle Management (see ILM, HSM, LC, PLC) 

DLNA Digital Living Network Alliance (+245 enterprises): standard for more apps in between TV, Hifi systems, computers 

DLO Digital Learning Objects 

DLP Data Loss Prevention 

DLP Digital Light Processing (technology developped by Texas Instrument in 1996)(see LCD, Projector) 

DLRL Data Local Reconstruction Layer (see DDS) 

DLT Deletion (archivage/archiving) 

DLT Digital Linear Tape : cassette storage standard (see LTO & AIT) 

DM Data Mining (see DMS) 

DM Digital Marketing (see DMM, e-Marketing, digital marketing , SM, SMM) 

DM Direct Marketing 

DM Direct Message. It may be used as a Twitter command. 

DMA Direct Marketing Association 

DMA Direct Memory Access / Addressing 

DMCA Digital Millenium Copyright Act (http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/) 

DMCR Digital Media Consumers Rights 

DMD Digital Micromirror Device (utilized in a video projector) 

DME Direct Memory Execution (Intel 2d/3d) 

DMF Disk Media Format (see Sony UMD) 

DMF Distribution Media Format 

DMI Desktop Management Interface 

DML Data Manipulation Language (see 1GL to 6GL, DDL) 

DMLS Direct Metal Laser Sintering (3D printing)(see DLP, FDM) 

DMM Digital Media Marketing (see DM, DRM, MM, SM, SMM, … ) 

DMMS Dynamic Memory Management System 

DMP Download Management Protocol 

DMS Data Mining System (see DM) 

DMS Database Managed Storage (space) 

DMS Debt Management Services 

DMS Digital Media Store (Alcatel-Lucent) 

DMS Document Management System 

DMTF Desktop Mgmt Task Force 

DMTF Distributed Management Task Force (developer of CIM) 

DMU Decision Making Unit 

DMU Digital Mock-Up 

DMU Disaster Management Unit (see DR, RM) 

DMZ Demilitarized Zone 

DN Decision Network (see also EDNMS, SN, SNA) 


DN Domain Name (see DNS, Domain Flipping ) 

DNA DeoxyriboNucleic Acid (see DNAmt, mtDNA, RNA) 

DNABK DNA-Based Knowledge: assimilation of our environmental conditions (see KM and more) 

DNAmt DNA mother transmitted 

DNA chips DNA is able to incorporate large amounts of complex information applicable to various activities. 

DNC Distributed Numeric Control 

DNG Domain Name Grabbing (cybersquatting)(see WHID) 

DNI Distributed Numerical Integration 

DNI Director of National Intelligence (see Intellipedia ) 

DNL Dynamic Noise Limiter (see DNR) 

DNMS Decision Network Management System (see also EDNMS) 

DNR Domain Name Resolvers 

DNR Dynamic Noise Reduction (see DNL) 

DNS Domain Name Server (see DN, Flip Domain Names ) 

DNS Domain Name Service (based on BIND) (see also ONS, UDRP, TLD) 

DNSbl DNS based list 

DNSBL DNS Block Lists : list of the IP addresses of bad servers 

DNSL Day Night Sound Level 

DNSSEC DNS SECurity (extension) standard introducing the PKA for a higher DNS protection 

DOA Dead On Arrival: supposed to be a nonstarter (see DIF) 

DoA Deficit of Attention (see ADHD) 

DOB Date Of Birth (CV) 

*.doc Microsoft Office WORD Document format (file) 

*.docx Microsoft Office WORD in MOS 2007 

DOC Dissolved Organic Carbon 

DOC Document (see *.doc) 

Document Information set that is arranged according some relevant original criteria 

Documental chain www.knowledgeboard.com/download/3112/1-Chaine-Documentaire-ABD_KM-pdf.pdf 

Document type / type de pièce SAP Généralement fact.client, fact.fournisseur, document bancaire 

AA Assets Accounting. Fr.: Comptabilité des immobilisations 

AA = gross posting, AN = net posting (discount deducted) 

AB General document (assets) / Pièce de comptes généraux d'immobilisations 

AF Depreciation / Amortissement 

DA Customer document / Pièce de compte client 

DG Customer credit note / Note de credit client 

DR Customer invoices / Facture client 

DZ Customer payment / Paiement client 

KA Vendor document / Pièce de compte fournisseur 

KG Vendor credit note / Note de credit fournisseur 

KR Vendor invoices / Facture fournisseur 

KZ Vendor payment / Paiement fournisseur 

SA General accounts (accounting) / Comptes généraux 

SB General accounts (bank) / Comptes généraux bancaires 

SK Cash Document / Pièce de caisse 

WA Goods sent / Sortie de marchandise 

WE Goods receipt / Réception marchandises 

ZP Payment program posting / comptabilisation des paiements 

The same document types are valid for every CyCd since they are defined at the client level 

Docu-Print SAP program for viewing or printing chapters or entire handbooks from the R/3 documentation 

DoD Department of Defense (USA) 

DoD XML Registry of schemas available on http://diides.ncr.disa.mil/xmlreg/user/index.cfm 

DoE or DOE Department of Energy (USA) 

DOE Design Of Experiments: geometric principles application to statistical sampling for reducing the experiments number 

DOFs Degrees Of Freedom (see EOMs) 

Doha round round of trade negotiations among the WTO membership (see DDA) 

DOHC (motor) Double-Over-Head Cam 

DOI Development Of Innovation (see TOI) 

DOI Digital Object Identifier 

DOIA Desktop Office Integration Architecture 

DoJ Department of Justice (USA) 


DoL Department of Labor (USA)(see DoD, DoJ, …) 

DOLAP Desktop OLAP 

DOM Document Object Model (task force at http://domscripting.webstandards.org/)(see DOM2HTML) 

DOM2HTML DOM Level 2 and HTML specifications 

DOMA Defense of Marriage Act (USA) 

Domain flipping see flip domain names 

Domain tasting abuse on the WEB (www.circleid.com/posts/domain_tasting_target_of_us_federal_cybersquatting) 

DomA/DA Domaine d'Activité (voir détails sous "Business Area") 

Don't kill Cassandra ! first security rule: listen to Cassandra ! 

DO(O) Data Object (On line) 

DOOH Digital Out Of Home (Digital Signage. Fr.: signalisation numérique)(see OOH) 

Doomboot Trojan (March 2005) 

DoS Denial of Service (see CoS, DDoS) 

DOS Delivery Offer Sheet (see also Export lingo ) 

DOS Disk Operating System (see BIOS, IOS, OS, WOS) 

DOSF Distributed Office Support Facility 

DoT Department of Transportation (USA) 

DOT NYSE's Designated Order Turnaround (see CCT, OARS, SOR) 

DOT Digital Online Terminal 

Dotcom .com : domain_name.com or domain-name.com 

Down payment Acompte (Fr) 

DP Death Penalty 

DP Decoupling Point 

DP Demand Planning 

DP Data Processing 

DPA Data Privacy Act (EC) 

DPA Director of Program Area 

DPC Delivery Point Code (see USPS, CR&DPC) 

DPD Data Processing Division 

DPI Dot Per Inch 

DPI Deep Packet Inspection (see IDS, IPS) 

DPM Display Power Mgmt 

DPM Distributed Project Mgmt (MS Project) 

DPMI DOS Protected-Mode Interface 

DPO (Fr) Direction Par Objectif (see MBO) 

DPO (Fr) Diagramme de Processus Organisationnel 

DPO Document Process Outsourcing (see BPO, HRO, KPO, …) 

*.dpp Draw Plus (file) 

DPP Daily Production Plan (see MPP, MPS, WPP, YPP) 

DPP Direct Product Profitability 

DPropR Data Propagator Relational 

DPS Damage Per Second 

DPS Digital Processing Simulation: digital analysis and simulation integrated within the product development 

DPS Digital Processing System (see DPT) 

DPS Document Processing System 

DPST Display Power Savings Technology (Intel) 

DPT Digital Processing Technology (see DPS) 

DQL DataEase Query Language (DatEase Int'l) 

DQM Data Quality Management 

DR Digital Rights (see DRM, IR, IRM) 

DR Disaster Recovery (see CDR, DMU, RM, RTO, RPO) 

DRDA Distributed Relational Database Architecture (see RDBMS) 

DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory (see MRAM, RAM) 

DRDA Distributed Relational Database Architecture (see RDBMS) 

DR-DOS Digital Research DOS 

DRM Digital Rights Management (see IR, IRM, RMS) aka CRAP 

Droid mobile phone utilizing Google's Android SW: it features a GPS and navigation application 

DRR Disaster Risk Reduction 

DRRM Disaster Risk Reduction Management 

DRS Data Removal Software 


DRS Data Reporting System 

Drucker Peter author of the famous "knowledge worker ". He died on Nov 11th 2005 at the age of 95 years. 

*.drw draw (picture file / Micrographx Designer) 

DRY Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY approach) 

DS Disk Slave 

DS Data Service 

DS Directory Service (net) 

DSA Digital Signage Application (see DSP, DST) 

DSA Digital Signature Algorithm (see RSA) 

DSA Digital Studio Administration (see DSM) 

DSA Directory Service Agent 

DSA Distributed Scheduling Architecture 

DSC Digital Social Connectivity 

DSC Dynamic Supply Chain (John Gattorna)(see ASC, CRSC, LSC, SCM, SCEM) 

DSD Dashboard & Scorecard Design (see ADI, ADM, ADO) 

DSG (car) Direct-Shift Gearbox 

DSHEA Dietary Supplement Health Education Act (USA, 1994) 

DSI (Fr) Directeur des Systèmes d'Information (France)(see CIO, ISM) 

DSL Digital Subscriber Line (see DSLAM, VDSL) 

DSL Domain Specific Language: programming language oriented to a determined domain and typical problem 

DSLAM DSL Access Multiplexer (see DSL, VDSL) 

DSM (EU) Digital Single Market 

DSM Digital Studio Management (see DSA) 

DSN Data Source Name 

DS&N Distributed Systems and Networks 

DSO Day Sales Outstanding (about time on accounts receivable) 

DSO Domain Specific Ontology 

DSO Decision Support Object (see DSS) 

DSP Digital Signage Player (see DSA, DST) 

DSP Digital Signal Processor / Processing (see ADC, DAC, DSR) 

DSP Digital Sound Processor (see ADC, DAC, DSP, DSR) 

DSPP Discounted Share Purchase Plans 

DSR Damage Survey Report (FEMA Form 90-91) 

DSR Digital Service Record 

DSR Digital Sound Recorder (see DSP) 

DSRC Dedicated Short Range Communication (see EPC, RFID) 

DSS Data Security Standards (see PCI/DSS) 

DSS Decision Support System (see AT, CBML, CPM, DSO) 

DSS Department of Social Service (see HR, HRA) 

DSS Desk System Service 

DSS Dolby Surround Sound / System 

DSSM Desk System Service Management 

DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum 

DST Data Storage Technologies 

DST Daylight-Saving Time (summer & winter light adjustment). In 2007 the U.S. will start DST the second Sunday in 

March at 2 a.m. local time and return to standard time the first Sunday in November. 

DST Design for Scaling & Transformation (see DCS): www.worldscibooks.com/business/7098.html 

DST Digital Signage Technology (see DSA, DSP, IDS) 

DST Digital Signature Transponder (see RFID) 

DST Distributed Storage Manager 

DSTN Dual STN 

DSVD DataSpan (Multitech) 

DT Desk Top (see DTP) 

DT Decision Tree (strategy, management and control) 

DTA Direct Tape Access (Seagate) 

DTC Distributed Transaction Coordinator (see MS DTC) 

DTD Detailed Technical Designs 

DTD Document Type Definition 

DTE Data Terminal Equipment 

DTM Data Text Merge 


DTM Digital Terrain Models 

DTMS Data Transformation Mgmt System 

DTNs Delay Tolerant Networks 

DTP Desk Top Publishing (activity, package) (see DT) 

DTP Digital Text Processor (see DWP) 

DTR Data Terminal Ready (modem) 

DTS Daily Treasury Statement 

DTS Data Transformation Services (http://search.msdn.microsoft.com/search/) 

DTU Data Transfer Utility 

DTUG Development Tools Users Group (see TUG, UI) 

DTV Digital TV (see HDTV) 

DU Definitional Uncertaintity (see IE) 

Dual-Core Chip 2 CPUs sharing memory cache & bus connections to the system for more performances (see quad-core ) 

dubbing the process of copying 

DUI (car ) Driving Under Influence (see DWI) 

dummy a "place holder" used by administrators and programmers 

Dunning Action undertaken for reminding the customers of their outstanding debts / relance 

Dunning area Organizational unit that can be defined as a division, distribution channel, sales organization within a company code. 

Dunning key identifies items to be dunned separately 

Duqu troyan 

DUT Device Under Test 

DUW Distributed Unit of Work 

DV Digital Video (see DivX) 

DVA Depth Velocity Analysis 

DVB Digital Video Broadcasting (world organization) 

DVB-C DVB for Cable 

DVB-H DVB for Handheld (see DVB, DVB-C, DVB-SH, DVB-T) 

DVB-SH DVB Satellite-based for Handheld (see DVB, DVB-C, DVB-H, DVB-T) 

DVB-T DVB Terrestrial (see DVB, DVB-C, DVB-H, DVB-SH) 

DVCP Dynamic VPN Configuration Protocol 

DVD Digital Video Disc (at first), Digital Versatile Disk (after)(see Blu-ray , CD, HDCD, MMCD, SD) 

DVEBMGS Dialog, Update, Enqueue, Background processing, Message, Gateway, Spool (central services) 

DVI Digital Video Interface 

DVD Jon Jon Johansen has been the first CSS system cracker. 

DVR Digital Video Recorder 

DW Data Warehouse / Warehousing (see EDW) 

DWA Dynamic Web Application(s) (see GWT, SAST) 

DWB Development WorkBench (SAP) 

DWB Doctors Without Borders 

DW/BI Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence (see BI, DW) 

DWDM Dense Wavelenght-Division Multiplexing (see SDH, SON, SONET, TDM, WDM) 

DWG Auto CAD DraWinG 

DWI (car) Driving While Intoxicated (see DUI) 

DWP Digital Word Processor (see DTP) 

DWS Data Warehousing Specialist (see DWT) 

DWS Digital World Services 

DWT Data Warehousing Team (see DWS) 

DWT Discrete Wavelet Transform: mathematical logic-based compression (see DCT) 

DXF (*.dxf) Drawing eXchange Format (AutoCAD) (file) 

DXI Data eXchange Interface 

Dylan a programming language invented by Apple and inluenced by Lisp 

DynPro Dynamic Program (SAP) 

DZN Dozen (ISO) 

E Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

e designates "electronic" 

e³ Extended Electronic Enterprise 

E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo (see Game , Gaming ) 

E3 France, Germany and UK (European countries with the largest economies and population) 

EA Extended Attribute 

EABIS Academy of Business in Society 


EAC e-Business Advisory Committee: vision, mission, strategy and responsibility (see e-BAC) 

EAC Estimate At Completion (see EV, ACWP, BAC, BCWP, BCWS, VAC) 

EACA European Association of Communication Agencies (www.eaca.be) 

EADTU European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (www.eadtu.eu) 

EA/EMP Environmental Assessment and Management Plan (see EMF) 

EAF Enterprise Ajax Framework 

EAI Enterprise Application Integration (Methodology & tools) (see BI, EII) 

EAI External Authoring Interface (VRML) 

EAM Enterprise Asset Management 

EAM Enterprise Attention Management (see AugCog , HCI, UI) 

EAN European Article Numbering 

EAO (Fr) Enseignement Assisté par Ordinateur (see CAL) 

EAP Employee Assistance Program (see ESS) 

EAP Environment Action Program (see EU) 

EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol 

Early Birds first coming participants 

Early Watch Proactive system diagnosis (early stage help for going live ) 

EARN European Academic and Research Network 

EAS Electronic Article Surveillance (see EIS) 

EAS Enterprise Application Software (see EAI, ERM, ERP) 

EAS Enterprise Application Search : a tool for locating data in the applications 

EAS Enterprise Application Service 

EASDAQ European Association Securities Dealers Automated Quotations 

EASI European Academic Supercomputing Initiative 

Easter eggs PDA's hidden features or program's hidden apps / functions. 

e-auction online auction 

EAWAC European Authority for Web Accessibility Certification (www.accessiweb.org/) 

EBA European Banking Authority 

e-BAC e-Business Advisory Committee: vision, mission, strategy and responsibility (see EAC) 

EBB Electronic Bulletin Board 

EBC Event-Based Computing (being more "in" along the already old "event-driven" principle) 

EBCDIC Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code (see Unicode ) 

EBDIT Earnings Before Depreciation, Interest and Tax 

EBIC European Banking Industry Committee 

EBIS Enterprise BI Suite (see EAI, ERM, ERP) 

EBIT Earnings Before Interest and Tax 

EBITA Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Amortization 

EBITDA Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation, Amortization 

EBML Extensible Binary Meta Language (see MCF) 

e-BOK see OLBK 

EBOK Engineering BOK 

EBOK Evolving BOK 

EBP (S) Enterprise Business Planning (Solution) : for keeping the business on the right track (see ERM, ERP) 

EBP European Border Police (see CSDP, EDP) 

EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 

EBS Elastic Block Store (Amazon service: online DB & administration)(see cloud computing , EC2) 

EBS Electronic Bank Statement 

e-BSG e-Business Steering Group (see ESG): it sets the strategic goals & manages the working groups 

EBT Earnings Before Taxes 

e-Biz see e-Business 

e-Book digital book (see Kindle , tablet ) 

e-Business Business via Internet (see e-Commerce , e-Gov ) 

ebXML Web-based model for the Electronic Business XML initiative (open standard) (OASIS specs) 

E&C Engineering & Construction (see E&P, R&D, R&I, ...) 

EC Enterprise Controlling (R/3 Bus. Application Area). Fr.: Contrôle de gestion d'entreprise 

EC European Commission 

EC European Community (see EU) 

EC Executive Committee (see BOA, BOD, BOE, BOM, EO, …) 

EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon's utility computing: http://aws.amazon.com/windows/)(see EBS) 

ECA Embedded and Communication Alliance 


ECAs Enhanced Capital Allowances (UK): 100% first-year allowances claim on spending of qualifying plant, machinery 

ECA Entertainment Consumers Association (www.theeca.com) 

ECA Evolutionary Computation Applications (see ECT) 

ECAD Electronic CAD 

ECAFE Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East 

ECB European Central Bank (see BCE) 

EC - BP Business Planning supports preparation of business plans at high level of aggregation 

ECC Elliptic Curve Cryptography 

EC - CS Enterprise Controlling - Consolidation 

ECE Economic Capital Estimation 

ECES Economic Capital Estimation & Setting 

ECF Environment Complexity Factor (see PF, TCF, UAW, UCP, UUCW, UUCP) 

e-CFR electronic CFR 

EC - EIS Enterprise Controlling-Executive Information System (see SEM). Fr.: tableau de bord 

ECH Engineering Change Hierarchy. Priorization of several change master records with functions = 

change package, leading change master record (see ECM, ECR & ECO) 

ECIS Entrepreneurial CIS 

ECIU European Consortium of Innovative Universities (http://www.eciu.org/links.php) 

ECL Enterprise Centralized Logistic (see ECS, MML) 

ECM Engineering Change Mgmt. Suite of functions allowing to change objects with history (records). Changes are made 

with references to a change MR (master record): revision level to a specific change status of a material (see ACM, OCM) 

ECM Enterprise Content Management (see CM, CMF, CMS, ECMS, WCM, WCMS) 

ECMS ECM System 

EC - MC Consolidation 

ECN Electronic Commerce Network (Commerce One, Inc + SAP solution) 

ECN Electronic Communication Network (see FECN) 

ECN Explicit Congestion Notification (transport layer) 

ECO Engineering Change Order : assigns a revision level to changes statuses of docs & materials 

It comes after the approval of the ECR (see also ECM & ECH). 

e-Commerce Commerce via Internet (see e-Business, e-Gov) 

Economic unhappiness Trevor Swan's diagram showing 4 economic unhappiness zones 

Economy creatures BRIC, BRICK, BRICKS, BIRCS, CIVETS, PIGS 

e-Content Electronic Content 

ECOP Collection of methods that affect organizational objects : 

* listed activities for selected organizational objects (IMG : enterprise structure >maintain structure > definition) 

* methods for organizational objects that are stored in BOR 

ECOT ECO Time 

ECP European Cloud Partnership 

ECP Extended Capacity Port (mode) 

ECP Event-Controlled Process 

ECPA Electronic Communication Privacy Act (1986)(see CALEA) 

EC-PCA Profit Center Accounting. Fr.: Comptabilité des centres de profit 

ECR Engineering Change Request : revision level to changes statuses of docs and materials 

(see ECM, ECH, ECO) 

ECR Efficient Consumer Response (SAP Retail Store) 

ECS Enterprise Centralized Shipping (see ECL, MML) 

ECT Evolutionary Computation Theory (see ECA): scheduling, control, power systems, robotic, signal processing, 

data mining, bioinformatics. 

ECTS European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System 

ECU European Currency Unit 

ECUANET European Corporate Universities and Academies Network (www.ecuanet.info) 

ECW, *.ecw Enhanced Compressed Wavelet 

ED Environmental Data 

ED Event-Driven (see EDP, TD) 

ED Executive Director (see BOA, BOD, BOE, BOM, EC, EO, …) 

EDA Electronic Design Automation (see CAD) 

EDA Event-Driven Architecture (Oracle component of the SOA2 ) (see BDA, ED, TD) 

EDAY End of the Day (see BDAY) 

EDB Engineering DB (DataBases) 

EDD Estimated Dates of Discharge (see PDD) 


EDD Event-Driven Development (FBC>s business development methodology) 

EDE Electronic Data Exchange 

EDF Enterprise Data Fabric 

EDF Environmental Defense Fund (US org.1967, 700.000 members) (www.edf.org) 

EDFA Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers (see DWDM, ONE, SDH, SON, SONET, WDWM) 

EDFs Electric-Ducted Fans (pressured air for cooling servers) 

EDGAR Electronic Data Gathering Archive (SEC) 

EDGE Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution : 2,75G (see GPRS) 

EDI Electronic Data Interface / Interchange 

EDID Extended Display Identification Data 

EDIFACT EDI For Administration Commerce and Transport 

EDM Electronic Document Management (see EDMS, EDMRS, GED) 

EDM Enterprise Data Model 

EDM Enterprise Decision Management (see BRMS) 

EDM MM Enterprise Data Management Maturity Model (see CMM, CMMI) 

EDMS Enterprise Data Management System 

EDMS Electronic Document Management System (see EDM, EDRMS, GED) 

EDMS Emissions and Dispersion Modeling System (developed by the US FAA) 

EDMSIM Crisis Management Simulation (see MILSIM) (C4ic, www.c4ic.com) 

EDNMS Enterprise Decision Network Management System supplies information on the status and the evolution 

of decision-making abilities, verifies inconsistencies, supplies indications on internal & external scenarios evolutions. 

EDOS Environment for the Development and distribution of free Software (EC project) 

EDP European Defence Policy (see EBP) 

EDP Event-Driven Process(es) 

EDPC Event-driven Processes Chain (see SCEM) 

EDRMS Electronic Document and Records Management (System) (see EDM, EDMS, GED) 

EDS Ecosystem Distress Syndrome (see NC) 

EDT Eastern Daylight Time. Australian EDT is 11 hours ahead of UTC (Greenwich Mean Time) 

EDUG European DDC Users’Group 

Edupunk a sort of DIY education (Jim Groom's blog / May 25, 2008) 

EDV Entreprise Desktop Virtualization (see VD and others) 

E2E Engineer to Engineer (collaboration, collaborative / intelligent design, CoPs, ...) 

E2E Enterprise to Enterprise : generally known as B2B for being more commercially perceived.. 

E2SP Environmental Enterprise Service Provider 

EE Enterprise Edition 

EEA European Economic Area (EU-number of the members) 

EEA European Environment Agency (see EU) 

EEAS European External Action Service 

EEC European Economic Community 

EED Embedded Electronic Device(s) (see MEP) 

EED Energy Efficient Design (see RD, R&D, PLC) 

EEM Enterprise Engineering Methodology 

EEN Enterprise Europe Network (49 countries, +600 partners) 

EEO-1 Equal Employment Opportunity ("gender equality" in FBC BizMagazine 2: www.fbc-e.com) 

EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (US) (see OFCCP) 

EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone 

EFD Error-Free Delivery 

EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org/): digital ID defense & Internet consumerism 

EFI Extensible Firmware Interface 

EFLOPS ExaFLOPS (see EXA, FLOPS) 

EFQM European Foundation for Quality Management (see QA, QC, QI, QM, TQM) 

EFR Enhanced Full Rate (GSM high definition digital sound) 

EFS Encrypted File System 

EFSA European Food Safety Authority (see FDA) 

EFSF European Financial Stability Facility 

EFT Electronic Funds Transfer 

EFT Emotional Freedon Technique(s) 

EFTA European Free Trade Association (see AFTA) 

EG Educational Game (see Game , Gaming , …) 

e-G8 meeting of the Internet and medias giants before the G8 (Paris 2011) 


EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter 

EGA Enterprise Grid Alliance (consortium of 30 leading vendors and customers) 

EGEE Enabling Grids for E-sciencE : European project for Grid computing 

EGI European Grid Initiative (see Grid computing ) 

EG-MMS Experts Group Manufacturing Message Specification (see MMS) 

EGO Equal Goals in Occupations 

Egosurfing searching for his name on the Net (found in Wired Magazine)(see GQ) 

e-Gov e-Government (citizens and government relationships via the Net)(see e-Biz , e-commerce, G2C) 

Steven Clift : "e-Government has been made for the revenues declaration, e-Democracy 

has been made for demanding explanation about the use of the collected money" 

E-GPS enhanced GPS (see A-GPS), 

EGPRS Enhanced GPRS, see also EDGE 

EHEA European Higher Education Area (see HEIs) 

EHF Extremely High Frequencies 

EHL Evolution of Human Languages (http://ehl.santafe.edu/intro1.htm) 

EHR Electronic Health Record (see HHS, NHIN) 

EHS Extremely Hazardous Substance (see H&S, EH&S) 

EHS or EH&S Environment, Health & Safety. It includes components such as Occupational Health, Product 

Safety, Dangerous Goods Management, Industrial Hygiene, etc. with high degree of integration 

EI Economic Identity 

EI Emotional Intelligence (Daniel Goleman)(see EIN, E&SI, EQ, IQ, GQ, MI) 

EIA Electronic Industries Association 

EIA Energy Information Administration (see EID) 

EIA Envrionmental Impact Accounting 

EIA Environmental Impact Analysis 

EIAA European Interactive Advertising Association (annual publication of media usage figures) 

EIB European Investment Bank 

EICAR European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research (http://www.eicar.org/)(see WHID) 

e-ID electronic ID (see e-Gov , e-Stress ) 

EID Environmental Information Documents (see EIA) 

EIDC Eco-Industrial Development Council: environmental concern and action 

EIDE Enhanced IDE (see also FIDE) 

EII Enterprise Information Integration (see BI, EAI, ETL) 

EIM Enterprise Information Management 

EIM Executive Interim Management (see the FBC Magazine #6 … soon)(www.ceo-europe.be) 

EIN Emotional Intelligence Network (see EI, EIS) 

EIN Employer Identification Number 

e-ink electronic ink (see e-paper) 

EIP English for International Purpose (see BEIP, TOEFL) 

EIP Enterprise Integration Patterns 

EIP Enterprise Information Portal 

EIP Extended Instruction Pointer (register) 

EIR Environmental Information Regulations 2004 

EIS Electronic Item Surveillance (see EAS) 

EIS Emotional Intelligence Solution (see EI, EIN) 

EIS Executive Information System 

EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture (see ISA) 

EISAS European Information Sharing and Alert System 

EIT Enterprise Integration Technologies 

EIT European Technology Institute 

EITI Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (see CPI, FTI, GFI, TJN), 

EITO European Information Technology Observatory 

EJB Enterprise JavaBeans 

e-Journal Electronic Journal (see e-Commerce , e-Content , e-Marketing ) 

EK Explicit Knowledge (see KM, TK) 

EKI Enterprise Knowledge Infrastructure: spectrum of bottom-up KM solutions 

EKMC European KM Community 

EKP Enterprise Knowledge Portal (see KM, KVC and others) 

EL Expression Language 

ELA Emergency Liquidity Assistant 


ELAN Emulated Local Area Networks (see BAN, LAN, PAN, SAN, WAN, …) 

ELC Emerging Languages Camp (see OSCON) (http://emerginglangs.com/about/) 

ELC Employee Life Cycle (see LC, CLC, KLC, PLC, SLC, VLC, ...). Critical aspect: staff rotation 

e-Learning "e" supported and organized learning (see CMC) 

Electronic highway see Information highway (outdated), infobahn (outdated), Internet 

Elevator pitch sort of personal USP to be emphasized for avoiding a standard classification (see Taxonomy) 

ELF E-Learning Framework 

ELINT ELectronic INTelligence (see HUMINT, OSINT) 

ELISE Electronic Invoice Standard EDIFACT 

ELLP Environmental Literacy Learning Progression (see ES) 

e-lobbying Electronic lobbying: it means using all forms of Internet-based/related communications 

ELP Entity-Link Property (see ER and others) 

ELSR Edge LSR 

EM Emerging Market (emergence related event) (see EMRA/M) 

EM Energy Management: it has numerous meanings and forms of control. 

EMA Enterprise Marketing Automation (could be part of a CRM, see also SFA) 

e-mail Electronic Mail exchanged in between computers and / or other dedicated devices (see IMAP, POP, snail-mail ) 

e-Marketing leverages the Internet to plan, design and execute campaigns more effectively because Internet has redefined the way 

we are conducting businesses, communicate with others and purchase goods and services (see digital marketing , DM) 

EMAS Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (see EU) 

EMBA Executive MBA 

EMBI Emerging Markets Bonds Index 

EMC ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EM vagaries)(see EMP, HPMT) 

EMCS Excise Movement Control System: tracking system of the transit transport in Europe 

EMDR Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: rapid eye movements for traumatic souvenirs attenuation 

EMEA European MEdicines Agency (www.emea.europa.eu/htms/human/epar/eparintro.htm) 

EMEA Europe, Middle-East, Africa (markets, territories) (see ROW) 

EMF (*.emf) Windows Enhanced Metafile (Microsoft) 

EMF Environmental Management Framework (see EA/EMP) 

EMI ElectroMagnetic Impulse (see EMC, EMP, HPMT) 

EMI ElectroMagnetic Interference 

EML Exporting Maturity Level (see CMM) 

EMM Expanded Memory Manager 

Emoticon or smiley sign expressing an emotion 

:-) happyness, smile 

:-)) very happy 

:-))) very, very happy 

:-D large smile, laughing 

o:-) saintly 

}:-| deeply thinking 

:-( unhappy, sad 

:-(( very unhappy, very sad 

:-|| angry 

%-) confused 

;-) wink, happy contentment 

:-* kiss 

:'-) happily crying 

:-o shouting, surprised 

:-b drooling 

{*} warm hug (hug & kiss) 

e-mouth the "word of e-mouth " on the Net / Web 

EMP ElectroMagnetic Pulse (see EMC, EMI, HPMT) 

EMP Environmental Management Plan (generally assisted by a KBS) 

e-MPS e-Mail Preference Service (www.e-mps.org) (see MPS) 

EMRA/M Emerging Market Risk Analysis / Management 

EMS Electronic Manufacturing Service 

EMS Environmental Management Service 

EMS Expanded Memory Specification 

EMU Economic & Monetary Union. Euro currency is accelarating the e-Business 

EMV European Master Card Visa (chip card) 


(EN) (English) 

ENDA Environment & Development Actions (Stockholm, 1972) 

ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator. First computer.1943, Pennsylvania University. 

1946-1955, US War Department: 30 tons, 167m², 18.000 lamps, 300 multiplications or 5.000 

additions/sec. High voltage consumption and heat dissipation. 

Popular Mechanics (1949): "computers in the future may weigh no more than 1,5 tons" (see UNIVAC) 

ENISA European Network and Information Security Agency 

ENoLL European Network of Living Labs (http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/about.html) 

ENS Executive News Service 

ENSS Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (see SenSys, WSN) 

entreprenaut entrepreneur + internaut or entrepreneur on Internet 

entropy disorder level (see negentropy ). Kevin Kelly has brought "extropy " in the technium . 

ENUM tElephone Number Mapping or Electronic NUMber: feature supported by the SIP proxy server 

EO Executive Office (see PMO, PSO, …) 

EOA Environment-Oriented Approach (see BOA) 

EOC Equal Opportunities Commission (UK, about the gap between British men and women) 

EOD / EOF End Of data / End Of File 

EOI Evidence Of Identity (see PKI, PKC) 

EOMs Equations Of Motion (see DOFs) 

Eonia Euro Over-Night Index Average (see Euribor, longer delays) 

EOTD Enhanced Observed Time Difference (see LAT) 

EOQ Economic Order Quantity: order size minimizing the carrying and ordering costs total (see ROP) 

E&P Exploration & Production (see R&D, R&I) 

EPA Environmental Protection Agency (USA). Tailpipe emissions released by a vehicle and polluting the air: 

hydrocarbon, nitrous oxides, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde pollutants (see greenhouse gas ) 

e-paper electronic paper (see e-ink) 

EPAR European Public Assessment Reports 

EPBR Extended Partition Boot Record 

EPC (average) Earnings Per one hundred Clicks (see metrics ) 

EPC (T) Electronic Product Code (Technology) (see IoT, RFID) 

EPC Engineering, Procurement & Construction 

EPC European Payments Council 

EPC European Policy Center 

EPC Event - controlled or driven - Process Chain (SAP) 

EPCIP European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection (see CIIP)(http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/po 

EPCIS EPC Information Services (standard) (see RFID) 

EPEAT Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool 

EPF Enterprise Portal Framework 

EPFL École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (see HBP)(www.epfl.ch) 

EPI Earth Policy Institute (USA) (www.earthpolicy.org) 

EPI Environmental Performance Index (http://epi.yale.edu/)(see ESI) 

EPIC Electronic Privacy Information Center (see CASPIAN) 

EPIC Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computer (Intel) 

Epic 0wnage the rewarded most creative hacking activity 

EPIK Equal Partners in Knowledge (see CIS, KM) 

EPLRS Enhanced Position Location Reporting System 

EPM Engineering Project Management (see PM, PMI, …) 

EPM Enterprise Performance Management 

EPO Enabling Process Owner (see EWC) 

EPO European Patent Office (see IPC, WIPO) 

EPON Ethernet-Based PON 

e-Portal Works with already in place information and technologies and deliver them to people who are willing to know about 

advertising, sales, promotion, projects, reports, colleagues activities. Depending on the content, it could be an intra or EXTRA portal. 

ePoS or EPOS Electronic Point-Of-Sale (see POS) 

EPP Enhanced Parallel Port 

EPPM Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (see PPM) 

EPR paradox Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox: measurements of microscopic systems and their description 

Eprint Archive collection of digital documents: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/#Eprint-Archive 

EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (see ROM) 

EPS Earnings Per Share 


EPS Electronic Payment System 

EPS, *.eps Encapsulated PostScript 

EPS External Project Software 

EPSRC Engineering and Physical Science Research. Council 

EPSS Electronic Performance Support Systems 

EPST European Pilot Selection & Training : HQ in Utrecht (see FSTD) 

EQ Emotional Quotient (see Egosurfing , EI, GQ) 

EQR Enviroeconomic Quality Rating: an Eco-Intelligence measure for categorizing products according to their environmental impact 

EQS Entangled Quantum State (see the Brunnian model) 

ER Entity Relationship (see ELP, ERC, ERD, ERM, FER, FRBR, FRSAD, TSER) 

ERA Enterprise Reference Architecture 

ERA European Rating Agency: first European rating agency. 

ERAN EDGE Radio Access Network (see GERAN, GRAN) 

ERASMUS European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students 

ERC Educational Resource Centres (see DIC) 

ERC Entity Relationship Context (see ER, ERD, ERM, FER, TSER) 

ERC Ethics Review Committee 

ERD Entity-Relation Diagram (see FER, TSER, ERM) 

e-reputation reputation build along a personal branding e-strategy 

Ergonomics man's integration with machine (see GUI, H2H, HMI, M2H, M2M, UI) 

ERM Employee Relationship Management (see ESS, ELC) 

ERM Enterprise Resources Management (see ERP) 

ERM Enterprise Risk Management (see RM) 

ERM Entity Relationship Model / Modeling (see ERD, FER, TSER) 

ERM with UML Robert A. Maksimchuk and Eric J. Naiburg : ejnaiburg@us.ibm.com (see BPML, UML) 

ERM Environmental Resource Management 

ERMS Electronic Records Management System 

ERMS eMail Response Management System 

ERO Environment Resource Officer (see ERR) 

ERP Enterprise Resources Planning (see XERP, PGI) 

ERP Extended Resources Planning (see COBRA)(FBC>s concept & methodology) 

ERR Environment Review Report (see ERO) 

ERS (MM) Evaluated Receipt Settlement 

ERT European Round Table 

ERTMS European Railway Traffic Management System 

ES Embedded System (see ESD, EST) 

ES Engineering Simulation (see ESS, PLC, RD, R&D) 

ES Enterprise System (see PEAS) 

ES Environmental System(s) (see ELLP) 

ESA Enterprise Services Architecture 

ESA Entertainment Software Association (www.theesa.com/) 

ESA European Space Agency (see EU, JAXA, NASA) 

ESA European System of Accounts 

ESB Enterprise Services Bus (see ISB, USB) 

ESBDD Ethnographic Study-Based Design & Development: anthropology & socialization observations added to these processes 

Esc Escape (Command character ) 

ESC External System Change 

ESCA European Corporate Security Association (www.ecsa-eu.org/) 

e-Science electronic exchanges in between universities and R&D centers (see EGEE) 

ESD Embedded Security Device(s) 

ESD Embedded System Display (see ES, EST) 

ESDS Economic and Social Data Service 

ESF European Science Foundation (http://www.esf.org/media-centre/) 

ESG e-Business Steering Group (see e-BSG): it sets the strategic goals & manages the working groups 

ESGC Environmental, Social and Governance Criteria (see CSR) 

ESI Edge Side Include 

ESI Energy Smart Industry (see EST) 

ESI Environmental Sustainability Index (see EPI) 

E&SI Emotional and Social Intelligence (see EI) 

ESIA Environmental & Social Impact Assessment (see SBA, SIA) 


ESIs Enhanced Singular Individuals (see AR, genoble , singularity ) 

E-Sign Act USA federal law granting electronic record and signature legal recognition (same as paper) 

ESIP European Safer Internet Program 

ESL English as a Second Language (see TOEFL) 

ESLR Expanded Set of Life Rules (FBC>s OB)(FBC>s concept & methodology)(see 4LP) 

ESM Editable Source Master 

ESM European Stability Mechanism 

ESMTP Extended SMTP 

ESN Electronic Serial Numbers 

ESO Expanded Service Option 

esp. especially (used in dictionary abbreviation) 

ESP Expert Sales Procedures 

ESP ExtraSensory Perception (coined by Sir Richard Burton, adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine) 

ESR Enterprises Social Responsability (see 3P, CSR) 

ESRB Entertainment Software Rating Board (see Game , Gaming ) 

ESRB European Systemic Risk Board: prevention of the 2008 crisis come back (see ASR) 

ESS (HR) Employee Self-Service (employees access and maintenance of their own data)(see EAP, ERM, HR-ESS) 

ESS Embedded Simulation Service (C4ic, www.c4ic.com) 

ESS Engineering Simulation Software (see ES, PLC, RD, R&D) 

ESS European Statistical System (http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/about_eurostat/european_... ) 

ESSI European System and Software Initiative 

ESSO Enterprise Single Sign-On 

EST Eastern Standard Time (see WST) 

EST Embedded Systems Technologies (see ES, ESD) 

EST Energy Saving Technology (see ESI) 

e-Stonia see CCDCOE 

e-Strategy Strategy that is including the activities and the deployment on the WEB & Cloud (B2B, B2C, …) 

e-Stress huge e-mails flows are considered as an important source of stress (several studies conclusion) 

ET Emerging Technology 

ETA Estimated Time of Arrival (see ETD) 

etc. et cetera 

Etcetera East-West Technical Cooperation in the R&D of Electronic Trading 

ETD Estimated Time of Departure (see ETA) 

ETF Exchange Traded Fund ("trackers") 

ETFS ETF Securities 

ETL Extraction, Transformation and Load (data) 

ETML Extraction Transformation Move and Load (data) 

ETMS Electronic Territory Management System 

ETNO European Telecommunications Network Operator (Assn)(report on the IT tribute to the green house effect) 

ETO Engineer To Order 

ETP Economic Transformation Programme (see GTP) 

ETP European Technology Platform 

e-Trading Electronic Trading (see Etcetera ) 

ETS Emissions Trading Scheme / System (pollution)(EU) 

ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute 

ETT European Tech Tour Association 

ETUD Emerging Technologies Update Day (see First Tuesday , Mobile Monday ) 

ETX Expected Transmission Count 

.eu .eu domain (see DNS, Eurid, Icann) 

EU European Union (see EC, EUMS, EURO, US, USA) 

EU-27 European Union of 27 members states (as from January 2007) 

EU-25 European Union of 25 members states (from 1 May 2004 to 31 December 2006) 

EU-15 European Union of 15 members states (from 1 January 1995 to 30 April 2004) 

AT Austria 

BE Belgium 

BG Bulgaria 

BLEU Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union 

CH Switzerland 

CY Cyprus 

CZ Czech Republic 


DK Denmark 

DE Germany 

EE Estonia 

EL Greece 

ES Spain 

FI Finland 

FR France 

HR Croatia 

HU Hungary 

IE Ireland 

IS Iceland 

IT Italy 

LI Liechtenstein 

LV Latvia 

LT Lithuania 

LU Luxembourg 

MK former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 

MT Malta 

NL Netherlands 

NO Norway 

PL Poland 

PT Portugal 

RO Romania 

SI Slovenia 

SK Slovakia 

SE Sweden 

TR Turkey 

UK United Kingdom 

EU Evaluation Unit (see measure , metrics ) 

EUC End User Coach(ing) (see TUG) 

EUL End-User Layer 

EULA End User Licence Agreement 

EUM Exchange Unified Messaging 

EUMS European Union Member States (see EC, EU) 

EUP Energy Usage Profile (related to the GCA) 

EUPF European Procurement Forum (www.eupf.org) 

EUR Euro (see EU) 

EUR.1 see export lingo 

EUREKA European Research Coordination Agency 

EUREX European Experience Exchange (activity within the ESSI) 

Euribor Euro Interbank Offered Rate (see FMA) 

Eurid European Registry for Internet Domain (".eu" domain) 

EURO As of R/3I the procedure description for changing over the EURO and the relevant section of the 

IMG are found under Cross Application Components>European Monetary Union:EURO. 

EURO Information Center is available on SAPNet : "euro". The EURO Customizing Assistant 

is made for performing and verifying EURO-related tasks. See CA-EUR-CNV & GEN. 

W/i SAP, the payroll currency is separately managed from the pay scale currency for allowing 

the management and unions to freely decide when they change over to EURO (sap.com/euro) 

EUROBASE Eurostat's reference database 

Eurocham European Chamber of Commerce (see CC, CCI, ICC, Amcham ) 

Europeana EC digital library (2008) 

Europol European Police Office 

Eurostat Statistical Office of the European Communities (EC) 

EUS End User Services 

EUSAS European Society for Automatic Alarm Systems (http://www.eusas.ch/) 

EU-SILC European Union Statistics on Income & Living Conditions 

E-UTRA Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (see LTE, UTRA, UTRAN) 

EV Enhanced Vision 

EVA Earned Value Analysis (voir EVC) 

EVA Economic Value Added: a value-based metrics (see MVA) 


EVC Earned Value Calculation 

EVD Enterprise Value Delivery (methodology) 

EVDO Evolution Data Optimized (speeds ranging from 400 Kbps to 2 Mbps) 

EVI Economic Vulnerability Index: used by the UN for identifying the LDCs 

EVP Executive Vice-President (see CEO and other CxO, VP) 

EVT Extreme Value Theory: cross-applicable mathematical method applied in FRM 

EWA European WEB Assn (http://212.78.187.13/dev/www.ewa-belgium.com/index.php?id=12) 

EWC Enabling Work Center (see EPO, MIS-EWC) 

EWG (UN/)EDIFACT Working Group 

EWG Environmental Working Group (US) 

EWMAchart control chart representing exponentially weighted moving average (QM) 

EWS Early Warning System. Exceptions management (out of standard or drifting from the usual trend as 

officially identified: not comparable with the planned figures / values)(see AVIEWS) 

Exaoctet 1024 x Petaoctet (see Bit, Mega, Giga, Tera, Peta, Zeta, Yotta)(see GESC) 

EXCEL sophisticated flexible spreadsheet, an application being part of Microsoft Office 

Exchange rat e type : storing of different exchange rates for different purposes for the same date and currency combination in 

the system. Only one maintenance tool per exchange rate: inversion, base currency, exchange rate spreads. 

Exercice com ptable/version : périodes de l'exercice, périodes spéciales, (pér. déterminées par le système) 

ex factory the goods are made available at the producer's premises (see ex works , export lingo ) 

Exif Exchangeable Image File Format (see KML) 

EXIF EXtended INFormation (Viewer) supports JPEG, TIFF and RAW Formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, 

PEF, RAF, X3F, RAW, BAY, ORF, MRW, SRF). 

expat expatriate 

Export lingo and linked to Logistics (mostly US) 

ASN Advanced Ship Notice 

ATP Available To Promise 

AWB Air WayBill (see HAWB, SWB) 

BG Bank Guarantee (see L/C) 

types of BG (UBS : http://www.ubs.com/) 

Bid bond (tender bond) 

Advance payment guarantee 

Performance bond 

Guarantee for warranty obligations 

Payment guarantee 

Guarantee securing a credit line 

Letter of indemnity for missing bill of lading 

B/L Bill-of-Lading (sometimes spelled BoL or BOL) 

B4Now Before now 

CAD Cash Against Document 

C&F Cost & Freight 

CI Consular Invoice 

C&I Costs and Insurance 

CIF Cost, Insurance, and Freight 

CIFC Cost, Insurance, Freight, and Commission 

CIFCI Cost, Insurance, Freight, Commission, and Interest 

CIFE Cost, Insurance, Freight, and Exchange 

CIFI Cost, Insurance, Freight, and Interest 

CIM international convention for the transport of goods by rail 

CMR transport documents for the shipment of goods by road 

COC Certificate of Origin and Consignment 

COCOM Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls Group 

COD Cash On Delivery 

COD Collect On Delivery 

COE Certificate Of Exportability 

CV Carrier Vessel 

C/V Certificate of Value 

c.v.d. Cash Versus Documents 

D/A Document against Acceptance 

DL Distribution license 

DISC Domestic International Sales Corporation 


D/P Document against Payment 

Draft Bill of Exchange 

Drawback recovery of duties paid on imported merchandise when re-exported 

EEA Export Enforcement Act (1979) 

EUR.1 export to EU countries + associated regions (EEA) through free trade agreements 

EUTR EU Trade Representative 

FAS Free Alongside Ship 

FCL Full Container Load (see LCL) 

FCPA Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 

FCR Forwarder’s Certificate of Receipt 

FIO "Free IN, Free OUT" 

FOB Free-On-Board 

FOD Free-On-Dock 

FOR Free-On-Rail 

FOT Free-On-Truck 

FSC Foreign Sales Corporation 

FTZ Free Trade Zone 

GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (see DDA, WTO, …) 

GSP formA Generalised Systems of Preferences certificate of origin Form A 

HAWB House Air Waybill (see AWB, SWB) 

HS Harmonized System 

IVL Individual Validated License 

IP Intellectual Property 

ISP98 International Standby Practices (see UCP) 

LASH Lighter Aboard Ship : floatable large container 

L/C Letter of Credit (see BG) 

LCL Less than Container Load (see FCL) 

LoI Letter of Intent 

LOI Letter of Indemnity 

MR Mate’s Receipt: interim document until the B/L is issued 

MTD Multimodal Transport Document 

NICs New Industrializing Countries 

NTB Non-Tariff Barrier (see TB) 

NVOCC Non Vessel-Owning/Operating Common Carrier (forwarder/operator) 

OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development 

POD Proof Of Delivery 

SFSC Shared Foreign Sales Corporation 

SIC Standard Industrial Classification (see ISO) 

SITC Standard Industrial Trade Classification 

s.t.c. said to contain 

s.t.w. said to weight 

SWB Sea WayBill (see AWB, HAWB) 

TB Tariff Barrier (see NTB) 

TD Trade Development 

UCP Uniform Customs and Practice 

UN United Nations 

URC Uniform Rules for Collections 

URDG Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees (from ICC, Paris) 

USTR US Trade Representative (see EUTR) 

EXTRANET Business processes automation with partners having access to the Intranet over the Internet 

extropy increasingly intelligent systems including life itself (Kevin Kelly) (see entropy , negentropy ) 

ex works the goods are deliverable at the producer's premises (see ex factory , export lingo , FOB, FOD, FOT, ...) 

F Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

FA Financial Aid 

FA Financial Acronym 

F&A Facilities & Administration (costs) 

FAA Federal Aviation Administration (see EDMS) 

FAC Finance and Audit Committee 

Facebook the largest social network on Internet (www.facebook.com)(see LinkedIn ) 

FaceSync face synchronization with lips and feelings: useful for 3D avatars animation (see lip-sync ) 


Face tagging identification of the individuals. Useful on SNW photographs. Filing is simplified. Security takes advantage of it (see AugId 

That system is confronted with legal aspects and subsequent restrictions 

Fact-checking as from the « truth-o-meter » of the Saint Petersburg Times (US) 

FAD Finance and Administration Division 

FAFNER Factoring via Network-Enabled Recursion (see Grid computing , Y-WAY) 

FAH Folding At Home 

FAI (Fr) Fournisseur d'Accès à Internet (see ASP, IP, ISP) 

FAN File Area Network (NW) 

Faning becoming fan: largely catalyzed and instituted on FaceBook 

FAO (Fr) Fabrication Assistée par Ordinateur (see CAP, CAD, PAO) 

FAO Food & Agriculture Organization (United Nations: www.fao.org) 

FAO For (the) Attention Of 

FAP Food Aid Program (see FAO) 

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions (see A2Q, Q&A). Fr: Foire Aux Questions 

FAPI Foreign Accrual Property Income rules 

FARS Fatality Analysis Reporting System (Database) 

Farshoring very distant Offshoring (see nearshoring ) 

FAS Federal Accounting Standards (USA) (see CPA, IAS) 

FAS Free Along Ship (Incoterm)(see FOB, FOT, C&F, CIF, export lingo ) 

FASB Financial Accounting Standard Board 

FAST Finance and Administration Services Team 

FAST Flexible Area Synchronized Transfer 

FAST Future of Advertising STakeholders (www.fastinfo.org/measurement/) 

FAT File Allocation Table (12, 16 or 32 bits) 

FATF Financial Action Task Force (see FSF, OFCS) 

FAWN Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes : cluster architecture for power-efficient key-value storage. 

FAX Fac Simile 

F&B Food and Beverage 

FBC Faster, Better, Cheaper : company development views, institutions reorganization principles, … 

FBC File Bag Collection 

FBC Financial Business Case 

FBC Find By Content 

FBC Flat Belt Conveyor (Systems) 

FBC Floating-Body Cell 

FBC Folded Binary Code 

FBC Foreign Bank Charges (accounting terminology) 

FBC Foreign Buyers Club (international business, groups, …) 

FBC Form Based Code 

FBC Fully Buzzword Compliant (…?) 

FBC Furnished by Contractor 

FBC>s FBC>s / Future-Based Consultancy & Solutions (www.fbc-e.com) 

Business & Change Management, BPR, transformational organization, KM, Intellectual Capital 

evaluation - investment - management. www.fbc-e.com 

FBCS Fellow of the British Computer Society 

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA) (see CIA, IFCC, NSA) 

FBKM Future-Based KM (read our "Futuring KM " articles) 

FBM Free Business Magazine Future-Based Management Business Magazine on our site 

FBWP Free Business White Page. Available when specified in our "translator" (www.fbc-e.com) 

FC French Community 

FCAPS Fault - Configuration - Accounting - Performance - Security (service management tasks) 

FCC Federal Communication Commission (USA) (see FCC, FDA, FPC, FTC) 

FCCU Federal Computer Crime Unit (Belgium) 

FCDR Failure Cause Data Report 

FCFS First Come, First Served (see BPR/M, DD, FIFO, LIFO, LPT, PLC, PLM, PM, PSO / PMO, SPT, …) 

FCIP Fibre Channel over IP 

Fco Foreign Company 

f-commerce Facebook Commerce: Facebooks' utilities-based commerce initiatives and activities. 

FCPA Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (1977) 

FCPGA Flip Chip Pin Grid Array 

FCS First Commercial Shipment 


FD Financial Director 

FD Fire Department (Example : NYFD = New York Fire Department) (see PD) 

FDA Food & Drugs Administration (USA) (see EFSA, FCC, FTC, GMP, HACCP) 

FDD Frequency Division Duplexing (see TDD) 

FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface (see CDDI) 

FDE Fly Disk Encryption: SW for securing the data confidenciality on a HD or in a Container 

FDI Foreign Direct Investment 

FDM Frequency-Division Multiplexing 

FDM Fused Deposition Modeling (3D printing) (see SLS) 

FDS Full Day Schooling (see SEQUAP) 

FE Far-East (see EMEA, ME) 

FE Finite Element 

FECN Financial ECN 

FED FEDeral Reserve Bank (USA)(see FRB) 

FED Field Emitting Display (see i-FED) 

FEE Front End Electronics 

FEM Finite Element Method 

FEM Formal Engineering Methods (see BPE) 

FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency (USA) (see DSR) 

Fembot female robot (see gynoid ). Before : bionic woman , robotess (1921) (see bot , RR) 

Femto cells little devices-based in-house mobile phones network for transmitting the messages via Internet 

FET Field Effect Transistor 

FET Future Emerging Technologies (EC project)(see futuring KM , futuring innovation ) 

FFII Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure: NPO for the spread of data processing literacy (www.ffii.org/) 

FNE Fully Network Enabled (see cloud computing ) 

FERMA Federation of European Risk Management Association (see RM) 

FERT It sounds for "fertig" = Finished Product (SAP : MM/Material Type). Fr.: Produits finis 

FESE Federation of European Securities Exchanges (www.fese.be/) 

FEST Fixtures for Easy Software Testing: collection of APIs to simplify the SW testing 

FF Fast Forward: command on a tape recorder (see REC, REW) 

FFA Field Force Automation (see SFA) 

F-Factor how friends, fans & followers influence consumers’ purchasing decisions in ever-more sophisticated ways (TrendWatching.com) 

FFAG Fixed Field Alternating Gradient accelerators 

FFIEC Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (USA) 

FFII Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure 

FFT First Fundamental Triad (FBC>s concept and managerial deployment methodology: www.fbc-e.com) 

F2F Face-to-Face (the best way to "humanly" communicate) (see P2P) 

FEU Forty-Foot Equivalent Unit (see TEU) 

FG Finished Goods (see JIT, WIP) 

FHD Flash Hybrid Drive (see FSSD, HSD, SSD, …) 

FI Financial Accounting (module : R/3 Business Application Area) 

FI Futuring Intelligence (see BI, CI, SI, SEW) 

FIA Future Internet Assembly 

FIA Future of Internet Architecture 

FI-AA Assets accounting. Fr: Comptabilité des immobilisations 

FI-AP Account Payable. Fr: Comptabilité fournisseurs 

FI-AR Account Receivable. Fr: Comptabilité clients 

FIB Focused Infrared Beam (see IR) 

FIC Foreign Invested Company (see FIE, FIO, WOFE) 

FI-CM Cash Management (SAP Finance module) 

FIDE Fast IDE (see also EIDE) 

FIE Foreign Invested Enterprise (see FIC, FIO, WOFE) 

Fields O/I determine whether the account can use SAP clearing functionality. This is commonly used in A/P 

and A/R and clearing accounts 

FI-FA Financial Assets Management (SAP)(see AA, AM, F&AM) 

FI-FC Financial Controlling (SAP)(see CO) 

FI-FIS Financial Information System (SAP)(see IS) 

FI-FM Financial Managemen. Fr: Comptabilité budgétaire 

FIFO First In / First Out (inventory management principle) (see LIFO) 

FIFO Fit In or Faze Out (IT related syndrome) 


fig. figurative, figuratively (used in dictionary abbreviation) 

FIG Functional Interest Groups: responsible experts grouped around a particular business area (see SIG, WG) 

FI-GL General Ledger (accounting)(see S/L). Fr: Comptabilité générale 

FI-GLX Extended General Ledger 

Fiji Windows update to Media Center functionality of Vista (late 2008) 

FI-LC Financial Accounting - Legal Consolidation. Fr: Consolidation légale 

Financial calculator acronyms 

COMP compute 

ENT Enter 

EXP Exponential function 

FV Future Value (see PV) 

LOG Natural Logarithm 

PMT Payment 

PV Present Value (see FV) 

SQR Square Root 

DTW Day To Week 

DTM Day To Month 

DTQ Day To Quarter 

DTY Day To Year 

WTM Week To Month 

WTQ Week To Quarter 

WTY Week To Year 

MTQ Month To Quarter 

MTY Month To Year 

QTY Quarter To Year 

FIND Future INternet Design (USA project) (see FIRE) 

FING Future Internet NW Design (BNN Technology in charge of the definition) 

Fin.mgmt are a = périmètre financier (Fr) 

FIO Foreign Invested Organisation (see FIC, FIE, WOFE) 

FIP Foreign Intelligence Press 

FIPA Full Integrated Police Action 

FIPB Foreign Investment Promotion Board (India) 

FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard 183 &184 (USA): aerospace domain 

FIR Finite Impulse Response (see IIR) 

FIRE Future Internet Research and Experimentation (European project) (see FIND) 

firewall net protection / control of the PC ports access. Fr : pare-feux de protection du PC, du réseau 

FireWire commercial name designating the IEEE1394 technology 

FIRM Fundamental Information Risk Management (RM) 

FIRST Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams 

"First Triad" Communication - Integration - Synchronization (also known as unified communication + collaboration)(see FFT) 

First Tuesday networking event (London, Oct '98) that has become a meeting place for dotcom actors (ETUD, MoMo) 

FIS Factory Information System (see Bill Inmon's CIF) 

FI-SL Special Ledgers (accounting). Fr: Comptabilité spéciale 

FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (USA) (see SM, RM) 

FIT Financial Information Technology 

FI-TM Travel Management. Fr: Comptabilité des frais de déplacement 

FK Foreign Key 

FK Futuring Knowledge (see futuring , KM and others) 

FKM Futuring KM: moving beyond the "regular accumulation"! (see futuring , LLA) 

FLAC (*.flac) Free Lossless Audio Codec. Lossless audio compression codec (sound file format) 

Flash Macromedia technology for the use of the "Rich Media" (banner animation, sound, video) 

flash memory non-volatile electronic memory that can be erased and recorded 

FLEA Four Letter Extended Acronym (see AAAAAA, TLA, YAAS, YABA, YATLA) 

FlexiSpy spying application (March 2006) 

FLI Foreign Language Instructor (see TOEFL) 

flight to liquidity seeking more liquid investments (see flight to quality ) 

flight to quality seeking backed / safe investments values (see flight to liquidity ) 

flip domain names buy a DN for a few dollars and sell it later for thousands (see domain flipping ) 

FLO Fairtrade Labelling Organization (International) 

FLOPS Floating points of Operations Per Second (see GESC) 


FLS Formal Learning Standards 

FLS Forward Looking Statement: what the public expects from a large company's CEO (see CRO) 

*.flv FLASH video file 

FLV, *.flv Youtube video format (see *.flv) 

FM Facility Management (see MFM) 

FM Frequency Modulation (see AF, AM, IF, LW, SW) 

FMA Financial Markets Association (see Euribor) 

FMAC Financial and Management Accounting Committee (see IFAC) 

FMC Fixed Mobile Convergence 

FMC Flash Memory Card 

FMCG Fast-Moving Consumer Goods 

FME Feature Manipulation Engine 

FMEA Failure Modes & Effect Analysis: root cause analysis, failure scenarios, impacts observation (see DEA) 

FMIS Facility Management Information System (see IS) 

fMRI functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (see MRI, NMRI) 

FMS Fieldbus Message Specification (see VD or VFD) 

FMS Financial Management Service (US Department of the Trasury)(http://fms.treas.gov/) 

FN File Name (see FNE) 

FNE File Name Extension (see FN) 

FO Front Office (see BO, CRM) 

FOA Front Office Application (see BOA, CRM) 

FOAF Friend Of A Friend, semantic WEB application (RDF graph defining relationships). Initiative for a 

"who is a friend on Internet" norm (see Second Life , WEB2.0) (http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/) 

FOB Free On Board (see FOT, Export lingo ) 

FOC Free Of Cost 

FOCUS FOcus on CUStomer (SAP) 

FOD Free On Dock (see ex works , FOB, FOR, FOT) 

FOG Free Online Game 

FOIA Freedom of Information Act 2000 (USA)(http://www.treas.gov/foia/) 

FOISA Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 

FOLDOC Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing 

FOLDOC Free On-Line Doc 

FOLED Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (see LED, OLED) 

Folksonomy collaborative classyfying system (folk + taxonomy ) 

FOMC Federal Open Market Committee (USA) 

FOOT Forum for Object Oriented Technology (see OO, OOA, OOIE, OOM, OOP, OOT) 

FOR Free On Rail (see FOB, FOT, export lingo ) 

forensics forensic science: use of a wide assortment of sciences to solve problems as from many knowledge and points of views 

FOREX FOReign EXchange: trading one type of currency for another (see FX market ) 

FORTRAN FORmula TRANslation (IBM programming language, 1956) 

FOSS Free and Open Source Software 

FOT Fiber Optic Technology (see EFD) 

FOT Free on Truck (see FOB, FOD, FOR, Export lingo ) 

FOTW Flags of the World. Site founded in 1994 (see vexillology )(http://www.fotw.net/flags/index.html) 

FoV Field of View (related to monitoring devices capabilities) 

FP7 EU's 7th Framework Program (for research and techological development) 

FPC Federal Power Commission (USA) (see FCC, FTC) 

FPC (SAP) First Productive Customers 

FPE FORTRAN Programming Environment 

FPF Forward Planning Fund 

FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array 

FPP Fixed Price Projects 

fps feet per second (imperial speed unit) 

fps frames per second (see Telecine) 

FPS First-Person Shooter (a shooting-centered video game ) (see frags , ODST) 

FPU Floating Point Unit (processor): computer part designed to process calculations on floating point numbers 

FPX, *.fpx Flash Pix Format 

(Fr) (French) 

FR Face Recognition (see face tagging , FRoM, …) 

FR Forfaiting Request 


FR Functional Relationship (see ER). Fr: Relation Fonctionnelle 

FRA Forward Rate Agreement (TR-TM) 

Fractal organization divides the enterprise into organizational units that act autonomously (self-organ.) 

FRAD Frame Relay Access Device 

FRAD Functional Requirements for Authority Data (see FRBR, FRSAD, IFLA) 

frags to kill someone temporarily when video gaming (the term has a military origin)(see FPS, ODST) 

FRAM Ferroelectric Random Access Memory 

Frame one frame represents one image in a movie 

FRANAR Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (see FRAD) 

FRAND Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (licence) (see SEP) 

FRAR Functional Requirements for Authority Records (see new name FRAD) 

FRB Federal Reserve Bank (USA)(see FED) 

FRBR Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: conceptual ER model (see FRSAD, IFLA)(www.frbr.org) 

FRBRoo FRBR-object oriented: a joint initiative with the CIDOC 

FRD Fire RetarDant 

frequency the number of times a signal is oscillating per second 

Freeware Free program, copyright is not granted / Graticiel, programme gratuit sans droits de reproduction 

(see/voir Public Domain/Domaine Public, DRM) 

FRM Financial Risk Management 

FRoM Face Recognition on Mobile (see face tagging , FR, …) 

FRS File Replication Service (see change journal , RIS, RS, USN) 

FRSAD Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data: conceptual model (see FRBR, IFLA) 

FSA Financial Services Authority 

FSB Front Side Bus (PC specs : FSB speed): it helps connect the CPU to system components 

FSC Financial Statement Chart (SAP) 

FSC Financial Supply Chain (financially oriented supply chain) 

FSC Free Speech Coalition: a NPTA of the US adult entertainment industry 

FSCM Financial Supply Chain Mgmt (financial management along the SC or FSC) 

FSCT Financial Supply Chain Transactions (financial transactions along the SC) 

FSD Financial Service Department 

FSD Full-Scale Development. 

FSDB Fusion Safety DataBase 

FSF Financial Stability Forum (see FATF, OFCS) 

FSF Free Software Foundation by Richard Stallman and others in 1983 (see GNU) 

FSG Field Status Group (SAP). Can be determined at 2 or 3 levels : 

Client level General Data (niveau Mandant) 

CyCd level CyCd Data (niveau Société) 

Acct Gr level Sales Data (niveau groupe de comptes dans SD par exemple) 

and is managing the status of the fields : hidden, optional, required 

FSI Failed States Index (USA) 

FSI Financial Software Industry 

FSI Free Standing Insert (sales promo) 

FSK Frequency Shift Keying (see ASK, PSK) 

FSIO Financial Systems Integration Office (USA) 

FSO Free-Space Optics 

FSOC Financial Stability Oversight Council (Oct. 2010) is gathering the ruling organisms 

FSSD Flash SSD (see HSD) 

FSTC Financial Service Technology Consortium 

FSTD Fligth Simulation Training Device (see EPST) 

FStZ (Fr) Variante de Statut de Zone 

Fsutil command-line utility (Windows) 

FSV Financial Statement Version (SAP) 

FSV Field Status Variant : combination of FSG assigned to each company code (CyCd) 

FT Functional Test 

FTA First Time Adoption 

FTC Federal Trade Commission (USA)(see FCC, FDA, FPC) 

FTE Full-Time Employee 

FTE Full-Time Equivalent 

FTI Financial Transparency Index (see TJN) 

FTIR Fourier Transformed. InfraRed (spectroscopy) 


FTIR Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (see TIR) 

FTL Faster-Than-Light in "Star Trek " (see warp speed ) 

FTP File Transfer Protocol (see 0 Day) 

FTPCS Fault Tolerant Parallel Ccomputing Systems (see PCS) 

FTSE Financial Times Stock Exchange 

FTTB Fiber-To-The-Building (see FTTH, FTTN) 

FTTC Fiber-To-The-Cabinet (see FTTB, FTTH, FTTN, …) 

FTTH Fiber-To-The-Home: optical fiber line to the home / 100 Mbits/sec ! Already in Japan/2004 ! (see FTTN, FTTB) 

FTTN Fiber-To-The-Node or the Neighborrood: the topology needs create the terminology (see FTTH, FTTB) 

FTTO Fiber-To-The-Office 

FTTP Fiber-To-The Premises 

FTTP Fiber-To-The Production (line) 

FTTW Fiber-To-The Warehouse 

FTZ Foreign Trade Zone 

FU Functional Unit (see SMFU) 

FUD Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt: result of threatening collection of events (a change management related problem) 

FUI Friendly User Interface (see GUI, UI) 

FUI Frontend Usability Infocentre (see UX) 

Funky brand a modern differentiated brand that's attracting and seducing the Y generation 

FUP Follow-UP 

FURP collection of factors (Functionality, Usability, Reliability, Performance, Supportability) proposed by 

HP for measuring applications, processes and that could also be used for qualifying SW. 

future pertaining / connected with times to come: if you don't think about the future , you won't have one! (see History ) 

futuring search forward in terms of future practicability readiness 

futuring innovation www.fbc-e.com/fbce/FBCBusinessMagazine.htm (see OI, OLI) 

futuring KM www.fbc-e.com/fbce/FBCBusinessMagazine.htm 

futuristic pertaining to the future 

fv folio verso 

FVD Flow Vehicle Data (JIT trafic control / tracking) (see GPS) 

FWD (car) Front-Wheel Drive (see AWD) 

FWG Futures Working Group (http://futuresworkinggroup.cos.ucf.edu/) 

FWIW For What It's Worth (see IL or InLin) 

FX or Fx special effects (see 3Dfx) 

FX market Foreign Exchange Trading Market (see FOREX) 

FXSR Floating Point Save and Restore 

FY Fiscal Year (see CY, FYV) 

FY Full Year 

FYI or fyi For Your Information (see DIY) 

FYV Fiscal Year Variant (i.e. SAP : K4) 

G Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

g gram 

G1 Garbage First (see JDK) 

G2B Government To Business 

G2C Government To Citizen (see e-Gov, G2E) 

G2E Government To Employee 

G3 Games , Gaming , Gambling industry (coined by Accenture)(see also rich media ) 

*.g3 Raw Fax format CCITT G3 (image file format) 

GA Geometric Algebra (see CCF) 

GA General Administration (see GS, GSA) 

GA Genetic Algorithms (search procedures based on the nature selection mechanics)(see ANN, GP) 

GA Grants Accounting 

GAAC Google Analytics Authorized Consultant 

GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (USA) (see GAS) 

GAAR General Anti-Avoidance Rule 

GaAs Gallium Arsenide. It is used for the production of microwave frequency IC, IR light-emitting diodes, ... 

GAB Government Accountability Board 

GABBP Generally Accepted Best Business Practices (FBC>s culture & change management concept/index) 

GAC Global Assembly Cache 

GAC Government Advisory Committee (see ICANN) 

GACD Generally Accepted Change Difference (FBC>s change management concept/index)(see ECF, TCF) 


GACL Generally Accepted Complexity Level (FBC>s change management concept/index)(see ECF, TCF) 

GAE Google Apps Engine (see AWS, CCS, …) 

GAID Global Alliance for ICT and Development 

GALE Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/gale/)(see LDC) 

GALE will consist of three major engines: Transcription, Translation and Distillation 

Galileo European GPS (see GSS) 

Game(s), Gaming and more … see rich media , SGA, SGD, SNG, social gaming , ... 

Advergame : marketing-oriented (video) game for advertising (see ATL, BTL, TTL) 

AIGameDev : combination of AI, physics, biomechanics plus neural networks to control the force to be applied 

ARG : Alternate Reality Games, Augmented reality Game 

Art Game : unconventional aesthetic design to make the game being perceived as an artistic creation 

Business Game : game simulating the business for management education and / or business decision purposes 

Casual Game : rapid and easy, played by masses of casual gamers (generally more women and older persons) 

Game : let's take the opportunity to talk about "artificial" and "virtual" 

Game Addiction : interfering psychological disorder after an overuse/compulsive use of games 

Game Design : full conception process (scenario, content, actors, players, rules, options, interfaces (graphisms, tools, …) 

Game Theory : branch of applied mathematics used in several sciences for capturing behaviors under complex situations 

Gamertising : interactive game requesting various knowledge (pop-culture, music, sports, media) to win cash prizes 

Gamification :leading technologies in the serious game trend to capture the imagination with game "mechanics" for 

marketing campaigns, educational purposes, stretching philosophical approaches and views, etc ..) 

Nice to remember: “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn” 

PEGI: Pan European Game Information 

Persuasive Game : advergame with strong opinions (video game by Ian Bogost, a Goergia Tech professor) 

Retrogaming : vintage videogame 

Serious Game : used for education, training, information, supporting decision, collaborating, teaming, marketing, selling, etc 

Serious Gamification : turning serious situations into a sort of game (see Gamification ) 

Strategy Game : requests top situational analysis skills for deciding about the best outcome along a precise decision tree 

Video Game : an electronic game with a display and connected hanheld devices to be used by one or more players 

Video Game Art : see Art Game 

GAMS General Algebraic Modeling System (see AML) 

GAN Generic Access Network (3GPP of the UMA) 

Gantt chart Planning/mgmt methodology & display of tasks, processes within their time slot (see BPR, CPM, PERT) 

GAs Genetic Algorithms (search procedures based on the nature selection mechanics) 

GAS General Accounting System (see GAAP) 

GAS Governmental Alphabet Soup: ironic designation of certain official publications 

GASAG Global Aviation Security Action Group (see ACI) 

GASB Governmental Accounting Standards Board (USA) 

Gate Organizational unit defined for flow through processes (see BPLC, BPM, BPML, …) 

Gateway Intelligent interface that connects dissimilar networks (different protocols)(BC-KRN) 

GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 

Gb see Giga 

GBA Generational Business Analytics: adapt the data delivery speed to the actual generation. It doesn't wait! 

GBA Government Budgetary Accounting (see GMBA) 

GBAM General Bidirectional Associative Memory: immediate intelligence, skills (see AI, EI, …) 

GBAORD Government Budget Appropriations or Outlays on R&D 

GBC Global Business Change (see GBD, GCM) 

GBD Global Business Driver (see GBC, GCM) 

GBIC GigaBit Interface Converter (see Gb) 

GBL Game-Based Learning (see DGBL, game , gaming , …) 

GBP Global Best Practices (Arthur Andersen in the 90s), 

G2C Government-To-Citizen (see B2B, B2C, B2G) 

GCA Green Computing Architecting (see EUP) 

GCC Gulf Cooperation Council 

GCC (Fr) Gestion Commande Client 

GCL (Fr) Gestion de la Chaîne Logistique (En:see SCM) 

GCM Global Change Management (top CM issue) (FBWPA : www.fbc-e.com) 

GCM Global Commerce Mgmt (elimination of cross-border trade obstacles: regulatory, logistical and financial constraints) 

GDAIS General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems (see GDIT) 

GDB GNU Debugger 

GDEM Global Digital Elevation Model. Downloadable as from asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp 


GDH Gross Domestic Happiness (see GDP) 

GDIT General Dynamics Information Technology: on behalf of the HSD (US) (see GDAIS) 

GDMO Guideline for the Definition of Management Objects 

GDOS Graphics Device Operating System 

GDP Gross Domestic Product (goods and services produced in the economy)(see AGI, GDH) 

GDPc Gross Domestic Product per capita 

GDS Global Distribution System 

GDSS Group Decision Support System (see DSS) 

GED (Fr) Gestion Electronique des Documents (see the English translation EDMS) 

Geek Internet "maniac" 

Geekonics short for Geek phONICS. See digispeak , geekspeak , Internetspeak , nerdspeak , 

Geekspeak technically oriented language. See digispeak , Geekonics, Internetspeak, nerdspeak, 

Gen Yers people born in the 80ties (see Y Generation , Z Generation ) 

GERD Gross Domestic Expenditure on R&D 

GeSI Global e-Sustainability Initiative (BT, Deutsche Telekom, HP, Microsoft, Nokia) 

GFE Good Faith Effort 

GFS Google File System 

GFSI Global Financial Stress Index 

GEH Governance, Equity and Health 

Genchi Genbutsu go and see for yourself . Part of the Toyota Production System (see TPS). 

Genoble genetic nobility: genetic technologies for artificial human enhancemens (see AR, norms , singularity ) 

Genobility see Genoble 

Genopersistation action upon an object having both mathematical and systemic meaning (Dean, 1993) 

Geofencing creation of a virtual barrier around a person or a zone to allow the broadcasting of a signal when the barrier has been crossed. 

GERAN GSM EDGE Radio Access Network (see ERAN, GRAN) 

Generonym generic + name 

GERT Graphical Evaluation & Review Technique: analysis technique based on flows through networks (see PCM, PERT) 

GESC Global Exaflop Supercomputing Cloud (see cloud computing , grid computing , ExaOctets, RBS) 

GeSI Global e-Sustainability Initiative (see corporate governance , GGI, 3R, RRR, SSS, waste hierarchy , …) 

GFCI Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupters: safety regulation 

GFDL GNU Free Documentation License (see LGPL) 

GFI Global Financial Integrity (see TJN) 

GFLOPS GigaFLOPS (see Gb, Giga, FLOPS) 

GFS Google File System 

GG "Geek Gap" (http://www.geekgap.com/) 

GGF Global Grid Forum (see OGSA, OGSI) 

GGI Global Governance Initiative 

GHDB Google Hacking Database (maintained by the johnny.ihackstuff.com community) 

GHE Genetic Heuristic Engine 

GHE Green House Effect. 

GHG Green House Gases 

GHO primary association with the archive file "Ghost" from Symantec Corporation 

GHz GigaHerz (see GB, Giga, Herz) 

GIAC Global Information Assurance Certification (see CISA, CISM, CISSP, CSO, UAC, US) 

GID General IDentifier (see EPC, RFID) 

GIF (*.gif) Graphics Interchange Format (Compuserve). 2 versions: 1987 and 1989 

Giga 1024 Megabytes (octet). See Tera, Peta. 

GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out : don't say that the computer is responsible of the "trouble" ! 

GII Global Innovation Index (see WIPO) 

Gilder's law the total bandwidth of communication systems triples every 12 months (see the law of Mertcalf and Moore ) 

GIM Global Information Management (see CMS) 

Gimp GNU Image Manipulation Program 

GIMS Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (see Mersenne Prime ) 

GINA Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (USA) 

GIPS Global Investment Performance Standards 

GIS Geographic Information System 

GISW Global Information Society Watch covers critically the state of the information society from the perspectives of civil 

society organisations across the world. Report is downloadable as from this address www.giswatch.org/gisw2009/ 

GIT Graphics and Interactive Techniques (see ACM) 

GITs Geographic Information Technologies (see GIS) 


GIV Gross Industrial Value (see SSI) 

GKEC Global Knowledge Economic Council (see KMBC) 

GKN Global Knowledge Network (see KM, Ontology , SIMD, and more …) 

GKP Global Knowledge Partnership : 41 workshops in November 2005 / Tunis. 

GKS Global Knowledge Services (Andersen) 

G/L General Ledger. Fr: Grand Livre 

G/L Account used for yearly & P+L statements. Has a number, a name, features for automatic processing. Is created in Chart of Account at 

the CyCd level and the settings are made via the Acc.Gr. Can be identical accross several CyCd 

Glamping glamorous camping (trendy marketing and merchandizing) 

Glazing it means sleeping with the eyes open during an early morning meeting (see 404) 

GLBA Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act: protection of the consumer’s personal financial information 

Glocal Global-Local: an invitation to "Think Globally and act Locally". It means "holistically -oriented" 

Glog General log (output program) 

GLP Generative Leadership Program 

Glyph small bitmap 

GM General MIDI 

GMAO (Fr) Gestion de la Maintenance Assistée par Ordinateur 

GMAT Graduate Management Admission Test (see BS, MBA, TOEFL, …) 

GMBA Government Management & Budgetary Accounting (see GBA) 

GMI Genomic Medicine Institute 

GMM Global Mobile Management (see mobile2.0 and more) 

GMP General Maintenance Practice 

GMP Good Manufacturing Pratice, equivalent of the FDA 

GMSP Geographic Messaging Services Platform (Alcatel-Lucent) 

GMT Greenwich Mean Time (see CET, TAI, UTC) 

GND short for GROUND 

GNG Grid National Governance 

GNH Gross National Happiness (let's talk about the future …) 

GNI Gross National Income (see GNP) 

GNP Gross National Product (see GNI) 

GNSO Generic Names Supporting Organization 

GNU FSF Unix-like operating system (Project founder: Richard Stellman) 

Go see Giga 

GOALS II Government On-line Accounting Link System: agencies report & view of their fin. information to US Treasury 

GOF Guest Observer Facility (see XMM-Newton) 

GOGO Aircell supplied WiFi in the Virgin America planes 

GOMB Global Operational Management Board (G7) 

Google more than 1400 questions/sec (end 2009), about 15.050.000.000 results (in 0.09 seconds, April 21, 2012) 

It comes from googol = 1 and 100 zeros ! 

Googol 1 and 100 zeros (see Google) 

GOP Grand Old Party (US Republican Party) 

Gopher hierarchy of menus used for browsing the Internet 

GOPM Group-Oriented Project Management (see PM, PMI, PMO) 

GOT Gift Of Thinking (see Henry Ford's quote) 

GOV Government sector 

Governance something above the "best practices " and related to the (social) responsibility of the managers 

GP Genetic Programming (see AI, AL, ANN, GA) 

GP General Protection (see GPF) "Thinking is the hardest work 

GPAI Global Program for Avian Influenza (see AIERP, HPAI) there is, which is the probable 

GPE General-Purpose Engineering (see GPSS) reason why so few engage in it" 

GPF General Protection Fault Henry Ford 

GPG GNU Privacy Guard 

GPHR Global Professional in Human Resources (see HR, SPHR) 

GPI Genuine Progress Indicator 

GPIB General Purpose Interface BUS (IEEE488 std) 

GPIM Global Product Information Management (see PLC) 

GPIMS General Purpose Information Management System (see BIS, IMS, IS, MIS) 

GPIO General Purpose Input/Output 

GPL General Public License (see DRM) 

GPLI General Purpose LAN Interface (see BAN, PAN, SAN, VLAN, WAN) 


GPLv3 GPL with provisions about DRM 

GPO General Plant Overhead 

GPO(s) Global Process Owner(s) (see SPO) 

GPPS Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability 

GPRS General Packet Radio Services (standard for improving WAP quality and speed : 170kbps to 

handle voice and data transfer). Step-up toward EDGE and UMTS 

GPS Global Positioning System (SAP is supporting the GPS-based trucks/ships tracking w/i LES) 

Competitors: Galileo from Europe and GLONASS from Russia. Compatibility is expected. 

GPSS General Purpose Simulation System (IBM all purpose simulation program)(see GPE) 

GPTF Group Policy Task Force (common standard promotion in AD Group Policy) 

GPU Graphic Processing Unit (see PCU) 

GQ Google Quotient (how many times are you referenced on Google?) (see Egosurfing , EQ, IQ) 

GRA General Representative Agency 

GRAN GSM Radio Access Network (see ERAN, GERAN) 

Granularity level of data summarization 

Granularity manager SW component (it takes raw data from the WEB site, edits & manipulates them before the sending to the DW) 

Grapevine informal channel of communication in between the organization members: rumor or support to formal comm. 

GRAS Generally Recognized As Safe (first use in the food domain and by the FDA) 

GRASP General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception: University of Pennsylvania's Lab 

Gray gold price that business-as-usual policies extract from the elderly population (Amazon) 

GRC (Fr) Gestion de la Relation Client (see CRM, GRE, GRF, GRP) 

GRC Governance, Risk, Compliance. Multi-systems architectures require access control in case of cross-enterprise integration 

GRDDL Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Language (see SWT) 

GRDI Global Retail Development Index (A.T. Kearney : www.atkearney.com) (see RMS) 

GRE (Fr) Gestion de la Relation Employés (see ELC, ERM, GRF, GRP) 

Great Firewall Great Wall and Firewall: China is limiting the access to Google 

Green computing see Green IT 

Greenhouse gas released by vehicles: carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane (see EPA) 

Green IT Environmentally-concerned IT management : electricity consumption, recycling process, etc. 

Greenwashing " green" and "whitewash". A sort of brainwashing applied to green / ecological matters 

Grey asset(s) see Grey matter 

Grey gold see Gray gold 

Grey matter older and experienced people within a company mainly counting young executives 

GRF (Fr) Gestion de la Relation Fournisseur (see GRC, GRE, GRP, SLC, SRM, VLC) 

GRI Global Reporting Initiative (UN) 

Grid matrix of dots in the drawing area 

Grid computing distributed large-scale of interconnected computers operating like a computing utility 

GRIMM Graphical Link Mapping Method (see Brain mapping ) 

GR/IR Goods Received / Invoice Received (see EM/EF) 

GRML General Reuse Markup Language 

GRMM GRaphical Models in Mallet 

Grooming Child grooming or actions undertaken to establish close connections with kids and initiate illegal relations and/or businesses 

Grouping profile/selection of accounts, levels & groups displayed for cash position or cash forecast 

Grouping key is defined in customer/vendor Master Record 

Groupware evolved SW for collaborative environment that facilitates information and knowledge exchange 

GRP (Fr) Gestion de la Relation Partenaires (see GRE, GRF, PRM) 

GRUB GRand Unified Bootloader, a flexible and powerful boot loader 

GS General Service (see GA, GSA) 

GSA General Service Administration (see GA, GS) 

GSCF Global Supply Chain Forum (see c-SCM, SCEM, SCM). 

GSCI Goldman Sachs Capital Investment (index) 

GSCMSD Global SCM System Development 

GSE Ground Support Equipment 

GSI Grid Security Infrastructure 

GSM(C) Global System (for) Mobile (Communication) (see GSMA) 

GSMA GSM assn: worldwide mobile communications industry (219 countries, 800 mobile operators) (see WAC) 

GSP Generalized System of Preference (see USTR) 

GSS Galileo Sensor Station 

GTA Grand Theft Auto, a famous game from Rockstar with an interesting background made of the american criminal anthropolgy 

GTC General Terms & Conditions (see MOU, TOR) 


GTIM Global Information Technology Management 

GTD Get the Thing Done / Getting Things Done 

GTL Gas To Liquids 

gTLD Generic Top Level Domain (see Icann, TLD)(http://www.icann.org/newgtlds) 

GTM Generative Topographic Mapping (see SOM) 

GTM Global Trade Management 

GTN Global Technology Network (http://www.usgtn.org): trade lead program to match US companies 

with opportunities in +40 countries. 

GTP Government Transformation Programme (see ETP) 

GTP GPRS Tunneling Protocol (3GPP standardized) 

GTS Global Trade Service (s) 

GUF General University Funds 

GUI Graphical User Interface (see API, ergonomics , UI, HMI) 

GUID Globally Unique ID 

GURPS Generic Universal RolePlaying System: role-playing game system (www.sjgames.com/gurps/) 

GVIS geographic visualization (see 2,5D, axonometric ) 

GVF Gradient Vector Fields 

GVF Gradient Vector Flow: computer-generated curves moving w/i images to find object frontiers 

GVF Graph Visualization Framework 

*.gvp Google Video Player 

GVU Graphic - Visualization - Usability (Center part of Georgia Institute of Technology) 

GWA General Warehouse Accruals 

GWDD Global Warming Discovering Density (see GWP) 

GWG Grids World Governance (sum of the Grids National Governances)(see Grid computing ) 

GWH GigaWatts / hour (see Gb, Giga) 

GWP Global Warming Potential (see GWDD) 

GWT Google Web Toolkit for the DWA maintenance 

GXT Ext-GWT for accelerating the Web apps development 

Gynoid short of Gynecoid / Gynaecoid (medical terminology in US or UK) and refering to the female human form (see fembot ). 

GZIP GNU ZIP 

H Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

H+ see transhumanism (see also WTA) 

Hidden (application's main window) 

H.264 New standard for HD digital video 

HA High Availability 

HA Hyper Access (OS/2 Warp IBM) 

HaaS Hardware as a Service (see DaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) 

HACCP Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (FDA-established rules for food industry)(see ISO 22000:2005) 

Hackday event that is gathering designers, developers, scientists and geeks to create / build really new "things" 

hacker pirate (on the Net. See cracker ) 

hacking a hacker is hacking 

hacktivism ideologically pirating the Net (see Cyber War ) 

Hairpin Telephony term that means sending a call back in the direction that it came from 

HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer 

HAL Heuristically (programmed) Algorithmic Computer, HAL 9000 is the self-aware "machine" in the Arthur C. Clarke's 

novel "2001: A Space Odyssey". Also a famous same name movie of Stanley Kubrick in 1968. 

HAL H next letter and A next letter and L next letter = IBM ("Hal's birthday" in the FBC Biz Mag issue 5) 

HAM Home Area Manager: home gateway (see also WAF) 

HAMR Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (is 5-10 years away) for solving data recording problems on small surfaces 

handheld device see mobile , PDA, smart phone 

handovers transfer systems 

hands-on manager delegated person who is physically involved with the business at all levels 

happiness index UK plan for measuring the "general wellbeing". Canada and France are studying the principle. 

hard curr. Second currency used in high-inflation countries 

hard salary salary according the official government rules (see soft salary ) 

harvest(ing) scanning the Internet to locate email addresses and create spams 

Hashtag on Twitter : # (see Cashtag ) 

have a body one too many … an evocation of the two lifes we're exeperiencing: real and virtual 

HB House Bank (SAP) 

HBA Host Bus Adapter (interface card) 


HBB Home Based Business (02/230.9590) (see MBB, SOHO) 

HBDCP High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection: BluRay flow in between the player and the TV screen 

HBP Human Brain Project: a Paneuropean project under the direction of the EPFL (Lausanne / Switzerland) 

HB3D Hyper bluffing 3D games and serious games : contextualization reality, moves detection accuracy, … (see SRE) 

HC Head Count 

HCA Human Capital Accounting (see HCI, HCM, HR, HRA, IC, ICA) 

hCard HTML vCard (see vCard, Versit) 

HCC Hobby Computer Club (www.hcc.nl/) 

HCCLE Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments (IEEE symposium) 

HCFCs HydroChloroFluoroCarbons (see CFCs) 

H channel high-speed channel 

HCI Harnessing (the) Collective Intelligence (see IC, CI) 

HCI Host Controller Interface : standardized Bluetooth command language (see BTCLI) 

HCI Human Computer Interaction (see AugCog , EAM, HMC, HMI, UI …) 

HCI Human Computer Interface (see GUI, HMI, UI, VHMI) 

HCI Human Capital Intelligence (see HCA) 

HCIP Human Capital Intelligence Process (see CHCO) 

HCM Human Capital Management (see HCA, HR, HRA, IC, ICA) 

HCM Human Centered / Centric Management (see CCM, KCM, PCM) 

HCO Human Capital Officer (see CEO and other CxO, HR) 

HCO Human Centric Organisation (see HSM) 

HD High Definition for TV (see HDMI) 

HD ready 1280 x 720 pixels 

full HD 1920 x 1080 pixels 

4K 4096 x 2160 pixels for new technologies 3D TV (see 2 and 4K displays) 

8K4K 7680 x 4320 pixels for new technologies 3D TV 

HDBaseT up to 100m connectivity of uncompressed full HD multimedia content and up to 100 watts (charging power) via a single cable 

HDCD High Definition CD (see also CD, DVD, HD, MMCD, SD) 

HDCP High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection 

HDDVD High Definition DVD (compatible HDTV) (see Blu-ray ) 

HDE Heterogeneously Diversified Environments (see e-learning , VR, …)(FBC>s concept & methodology) 

HDI Human Development Index 

HDLC High-Level Data Link Control 

HDMI HD Media Interface (can be now used over IP) 

*.hdr High Dynamic Range (image file format) 

HDP Human Decision Process (see EI, HR, OB, …) 

HDPE High-Density PolyEthylene (see PET) 

HDSL High-data-rate Digital Subscriber Line 

HDTV High Definition TV (see HDMI) 

HE Higher Education (see EHEA, HEI) 

Headend End point of a broadband network 

Header Control information placed before data when encapsulating that data for network transmission 

HEC Header Error Control 

Hedge Funds investment funds (generally risked) 

Heijunka production smoothing . part of the Toyota Production System (see TPS). 

HEKW High End Knowledge Worker (see KM, KW, …) 

Heloc Home Equity Line Of Credit 

HEIs Higher Education Institutions (see EHEA) 

HEPnet High-Energy Physics Network 

HEQ High Environmental Quality (see BREEAM) 

Hertz Measure of frequency 

HES Higher Education Sector 

HEX HEXadecimal (16) 

HF High Frequency (see LF, UHF) 

HFC Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial 

HFCs HydroFluoroCarbons (more and more commonly related to the energy efficiency)(see HCFCs) 

HFNs Hastily Formed Networks 

HFS Hierarchical File System 

HFT High Frequency Trading (see CCT, DOT, NYSE, OARS, SOR) 

H2H Human to Human (see HMC, H2M, M2H, M2M) 


H2HC H2H Communication 

H2HCS H2HC System 

HHS Health & Human Services (medecine and hospitals domain)(see EHR) 

HIA Health Impact Assessment (see SBA, SIA) 

HIA Human Intellect Augmentation (see AKW, AR, …) 

HID Human Interface Devices (see AR, HCI, HMI, HTI, UI) 

Hidden Web Invisible Web that isn't accessed by the standard Web browers (see also Deep Web ) 

HIDS Host-based Intrusion Detection System (see AIDE, HIPS, NIDS, WHID) 

Hierarchology Science that is containing the famous Lawrence Peter organizational principle 

HighMAT High Performance Media Access Technology 

HIPAA Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 

HIPC Heavily Indebted Poor Countries 

HIPS Host-Based Intrusion Prevention Systems: developed along the firewall principles (see AIDE, HIDS) 

hire & fire CEO is hiring when the enterprise is profitable and firing when the trend goes down (see HR, HRM, …) 

HiRISE High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (see THEMIS) 

HISHE How It Should Have Ended (movie sketches proposing alternative ending stories) 

History Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it ! (see Future , Being good ) 

HIT Health care IT : more "connected health" 

HIT Human Interface Technology (see AR, HMI, HMC) 

HK HeaderKeys (see MK, SK) 

HKD Hong Kong Dollar 

HLA Hybrid Learning Algorithm 

HLC High Layer Compatibility (code) (see ISDN) 

HLP (*.hlp) Help / help file format (see *.cnt) 

HLPSL High-Level Protocol Specification Language (description of Internet protocol suites, security goals) 

HLR Home Location Register (see VLR) 

HLW Human-Like Walking (www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvbAqw0sk6M&feature=player_detailpage) 

H2M Human to Machine (see ergonomics , H2H, M2H, M2M) 

HMA High Memory Area 

HMC Human & Machine Cognition 

HMC Human Machine Communication: tries to demonstrate that it is similar to H2H (see HCI, MHMC) 

HMC Human-made Capital (see EDS, NC) 

HMD Head Mounted Display: optical see-through or video see-through in nature (see HUD) 

HMI Human Machine Interface (e.g. interface for the disabled) (see AR, HCI, HID, HTI) (HMI Master in USA) 

HMQUs Hours per Month per Qualified User: metric of success for replacing page views 

HO Head Office (see HQ) 

hoax rumor on the web (list on www.ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html, also hoaxbuster.com) 

Hogel holographic element (similar to pixel , element of a photo) 

Holacracy new operating system (Kurzweil) 

HOLAP Hybrid OLAP (see DOLAP, MOLAP, OLAP, ROLAP) 

Holistic managerial approach that encompasses all human needs according a careful ordering of the 

elements for producing a significant result that is greater than the sum of its parts (see Glocal ). 

Holistically see Glocal , Holistic 

Holodeck Star Trek's simulating deck that's replicating unknown worlds crew members will have to explore (see AR). 

Homo Communicans Homo Sapiens successor in a new anthropologic Web-based space (Pierre Lévy)(see STU) 

HOSE HCMC (Ho Chi Minh City) Stock Exchange (see NYSE and others) 

HOSTexploit cybercrime research site (http://hostexploit.com/) 

Hotspot Wireless Internet Hotspot or available wireless public Internet connection (WiFi) 

House Bank dealing with customers & vendors, various currencies, … 

HP HorsePower, Horse Power 

HP Human Performance (see HR) 

HPAI Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (see GPAI) 

HPAES High Performance Asian Economies 

HPC High Performance Compiler, Handheld PC 

HPC High Performance Computing 

HPCC High Performance Computing and Communications 

HPCS High Performance Computing Systems 

HPDC High Pressure DieCast (fabrication process) 

HPI Human Poverty Index. That financial index is linked to many other social parameters. 

HQ Head Quarter (see HO) 


HIPPI High-Performance Parallel Interface 

HPFS High Performance File System 

HPMAT High Performance Media Access Technology (see MAT) 

HPMT High Power Microwave Technology (see EMC, EMI, EMP) 

HPR High Performance Routing 

HR Human Resources (department and ERP module supporting work force management)(see RR) 

Matsushita Electric's slogan: “We make people before we make products. Human resources 

development is an investment that must be planned carefully … 

HRA Human Resources Accounting (+/- 1970) (see HRC, HRM, ICA) 

HRA Human Resources Administration (see DSS) 

HRC Human Resources Cognition (see HRK) 

HRC Human Resources Committee 

HRC Human Resource Computing (see HRA) 

HRCA Human Rights Compliance Assessment (see HREOC) 

HRCM Human Resource Change Management 

HRD Human Resources Development 

HRD Human Resources Director (FBC>s did participate with the HRD Brussels' Summit 2009) 

HRD Human Resources Department 

HRD Human Resources Division 

HRED High Resolution Electronic Display (see HRT, OLED, …) 

HREOC Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (see HRCA, SDA) 

HR - ESS Employee Self-Service (participation in HR activities: data access and maintenance via the Net 

and over the phone -see speech recognition-) 

HRI Human-Robot-Interface (see HMI) 

HRIM Human Resources Information Management (see HRIS, LIS, MIS, SIS, …) 

HRIS Human Resources Information System (see HRIM, LIS, MIS, SIS, …) 

HRK Human resources Knowledge (see HRC) 

HRLC Human Resources Life Cycle (see CLC, ELC, PLC, VLC, …) 

HRMA Human Resources Management Audit 

HRMC Human Resources Management Committee 

HRMIS Human Resources Management Information System 

HRMP Human Resource Management Processes 

HRM(S) Human Resources Management (System) (see HR, HRA, HRIS,) 

HRO Human Resources Officer (see CEO, CFO, CHRO, CIO, COO, CKO, CTO, …) 

HRO Human Resources Outsourcing (see BPO, DPO, KPO, …) 

HRP Human Resources Professional(s) 

HR-PA HR - Personnel Administration 

HR-PA-APP HR - Applicant Management 

HR-PA-BEN Benefits Administration (HR Personnel Administration) 

HR-PA-COM Compensation Administration 

HR-PA-EMP Employee Management (see ERM, ESS) 

HR-PA-INW Incentive Wages 

HR-PA-PAY Payroll 

HR-PA-TIM Time Management 

HR-PA-TRV Travel Expenses 

HR - PCP Personnel Cost Planning 

HR-PD HR - Planning and Development 

HR-PD-OM Organizational Management (see OB) 

HR-PD-PPD HR - Personnel Planning & Development 

HR-PD-RPL Room Reservations Planning 

HR-PD-SCM Seminar and Conventional Management 

HR-PD-WFP HR - WorkForce Planning (see CATTS, PM, …) 

HR-PE HR-Training & Event Management 

HR-PRM HR-Profiled Recruitment Management: accelerated synchronization (® FBC>s concepts and methodologies) 

HR-PT HR-Personnel Time Management (within HR) 

HR-PY-xx Payroll Accounting (PY-xx table per country to comply with the local laws and rules) 

HRR Human Resources Recruitment (see TRM, TRR) 

HRR Human Resources Request (see CATS) 

HR&RM Human Resources and Relationships Management 

HR-SC Human Resources - Score Card (see BSC) 


HRSPIN Hampton Roads Software Improvement Network 

HRST Human Resources in Science and Technology (see R&D, S&T, …) 

HRSTC Human Resources in Science and Technology - Core 

HRSTE Human Resources in Science and Technology - Education 

HRSTO Human Resources in Science and Technology - Occupation 

HRSTU Human Resources in Science and Technology - Unemployed 

HRT High Resolution Tiles (see HRED) 

H&S or HnS means "hack and slash " and designates venture and /or combats oriented games 

H&S Health and Security (see EHS, EH&S) 

HSA Hybrid Storage Alliance (Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate Technology, Toshiba) 

HSBKM Human System Bio - based Knowledge Management (http://mobeeknowledge.ning.com/)(see KM) 

HSC Harmonized System Code (HS code) (see CRC) 

HSCI High-Speed Communications Interface 

HSD Homeland Security Department (US): assisted by GDIT (for more cyber security: Cyber War ) 

HSD High Speed Data (mobile phone) 

HSD Hybrid Storage Drives (see FSSD, SSD) 

HSDPA High Speed Data Packet Access to provide 8-10 Mbps data rate from a W-CDMA base station 

HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access (receiving data through UMTS devices)(see HUSPA) 

HSE Health, Safety, Environment 

HSE Hybrid Search Engine 

HSI Human System Integration (see RR) 

HSM HW Security Module 

HSM Hierarchical Storage Management (see DLM, ILM, LC, PLC) 

HSM Human System Management (see HCA, HR, HRM, …) 

HSRP Hot Standby Router Protocol 

HSS Hyper SCADA Server 

HSSB High Speed Serial Bus (Interface) 

HSSI High-Speed Serial Interface 

HSV Hosted SW Vendors (ASP is somewhat out of the new practices) 

HSYNC Horizontal Synchronization Signal (see VSYNC) 

HT Heard Through = according to. It may be used as a Twitter command. 

HT Hierarchical Tree 

HTG High-Technology Group (see IPC) 

HTML Hyper Text Markup Language (see HTML5, SGML, XHTML, XML) 

HTML5 exchanges facilitation in between the PCs and the WEB apps and more (http://openvideo.dailymotion.com) 

HTT Hyper-Threading Technology 

HTTP Hyper Text Transport Protocol 

Hub device being the center of a star-topology NW. Active when regenerating the signal. 

HUD Heads-Up Display: displaying the dashboard infos on the pilot helmet shade (see AR, IHUD, JHMCS) 

Hue overall gradation of color 

HUI BUGS Index 

HUMINT HUMan INTelligence (military terminology) versus AI (see ELINT, OSINT) 

HUSPA High Speed Uplink Packet Access (sending data through UMTS devices)(see HSDPA) 

HUVR Heads-Up Virtual Reality 

HVD Holographic Versatile Disc 

HVD Hosted Virtual Desktop’ 

Hybrid calculator use of analog and discrete representation for the data handling 

Hybrid network Internetwork made up of more than one type of network technology 

Hyperchange the 21st Century will be equivalent to 20.000 years of progress at today's rate of progress" (Kurzweil) 

HyperTransport AMD technology for increasing the communication speed between IC 

Hz see Hertz 

I Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

IA Intelligent Agent (see IAW) 

IaaS Infrastructure as a Service (see DaaS, PaaS, SaaS) 

IAB Internet Architecture Board: it supervises IRTF and IESG 

IAB Interactive Advertising Bureau (USA) 

IAB Internet Advertising Bureau (USA) 

IAC International Access Code (phone access code) 

IACET International Association of Continuing Education and Training (see CEU, IEEE) 


IACs Internet Application Components 

IACF International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation 

IAD Integrated Access Device 

IADAS International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (see Webby Awards ) 

IADB Inter-American Development Bank 

IAG International Auditing Guidelines (see AICPA, CPA) 

IAHC Internet International Ad Hoc Committee 

IAITAM International Association of IT Assets Managers (http://www.iaitam.org) 

IAL International Algebraic Language (see ALGOL) 

IAM Identity (and) Access Management (see IDM, WAM) 

IAM Intangible Assets Monitor (see IC) 

IAM Integrated Assessment Model 

IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (financed by ISOC)(see IGF, NRO, RIPE, RIR) 

IAR Industrial Augmented Reality (see AR) 

IAR Intelligence-Augmented Resources: a step toward singularity , androidic resources and more (see AI) 

IARP International Advanced Robotics Program (see AI, IFR, RR) 

IARPA Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity (see LLL, LLLA) 

IAS Increased Attack Speed 

IAS(B) International Accounting Standards (Board) (see IFRS) 

IASC International Accounting Standards Committee 

IAT International Automated Clearing House Transaction 

IATA International Air Transport Association 

IAW Intelligent Administration Workforce (see IA) 

IBAN International Bank Account Number (Country ISO code+Control Number+Actual Bank Account 

Number. Example: Belgium 510-0075470-61 > IBAN BE62 5100 0754 7061). More infos 

available on this WEB page http://www.abb-bvb.be (see BIC, SEPA) 

IBBA International Business Brokerage Association 

IBM initialism for International Business Machines (see Big Blue ) 

IBO Internet-Based Organization 

IBOS InterBank Online Systems 

I-BOK Integration Body Of Knowledge (see BOK, KM) 

IBP Identified Best Practice(s) (see BBP) 

IBPS InterBank Payment System 

IBR Income-Based Repayment.(personal finance) 

IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development 

IBT Internet-Based training (see CAT, CBT, LCMS, LMS, WBT) 

IBTC International Business & Technical Consultant (see BTC) 

IBTS IntraBank Transfert System 

IBUs Industry Business Units (SAP) 

IBV Internal Business Volume 

IC Intellectual Capital (mgmt) (see ICA, ICM, IP, IPR, TRIPS) 

IC Integrated Circuit (techn)(see dip or DIP) 

IC3 Internet Crime Complaint Center (USA, http://www.ic3.gov/) (see NW3C, WHID) 

ICA Intellectual Capital Accounting (see HCA, HRA, ICM) 

ICA Innovative Communication Alliance (Strategic Alliance in between Microsoft and Nortel) 

ICANN Internet Authority for Assigned Names and Numbers (http://www.icann.org/) 

Icao International Civil Aviation Organization 

ICC Information Coding Classification 

ICC Inter Client Communication (BC-SRV) = front end component communication 

ICC International Chamber of Commerce (founded in Atlantic City in 1919)(see CCI) 

ICC International Cultural Cooperation 

ICCC Internet Crime Complaint Center (see IC3) 

ICCC International Computer Communication Conference (Washington, October 1972) 

ICCO International Cocoa Organization (see Cocoa, ICCOa) 

ICCOa International Cocoa agreement (WG in London / 11-15 Jan 2010: www.icco.org/) 

ICD International Code Designator 

ICDL International Computer Driving License 

ICDT Information-Communication-Distribution Technologies (see ICT) 

ICE In Case of Emergency (Mobile phone:could be useful to indicate who has to be dialed to) 

ICE Interactive Connectivity Establishment 


ICE Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics : enterprise firewalls 

ice breaker malware application to crack the enterprise firewalls 

ICES Intelligence Community Enterprise Services (see Intellipedia ) 

ICGA International Computer Games Association (see IGDA) 

ICH Inventory Collaboration Hub (scenario like Kanban ) 

ICI Institute for Competitive Intelligence (see CI) (www.institute-for-competitive-intelligence.com/) 

ICI Intercultural Communication Index 

ICI Inter/Interexchange Carrier Interface (see ICIP) 

ICIP ICI Protocol 

iCKM International Conference on Knowledge Management (see iKMS) 

iCloud Apple online data banking 

ICM Image Color Matching (Eastman Kodak) 

ICM Intellectual Capital Management (FBWPA : www.fbc-e.com)(see HRA, IC, ICA) 

ICMB ITIL Certification Management Board 

ICMI International Conference of Multimodal Interface 

ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol 

*.ico (Windows) Icon 

ICO Information Commissioner's Office 

ICOE Industry Centers Of Expertise (SAP develops new information technologies in these centers) 

ICP Integrated Communications Provider 

ICR Initial Cell Rate 

ICRI Interdisciplinary Center for Law and ICT (www.law.kuleuven.be/icri/) 

ICS Intelligent Community Standard (US) (see SCIF) 

ICSC Interconnect Software Consortium 

ICT Information & Communication Technology (see IT, ITC, IT&C) 

ICTD Information, Communication, Transaction, Distribution (see IT, ICT, ICDT, NIT) 

ICT4D Information and Communication Technologies for Development 

ICTF International Contactless Technologies Forum (see CT) 

ICVS International Crime Victimization Surveys (see UCR) 

ID IDentity / IDentification (see IDM, IDN, RFID) 

I-D Internet-Draft 

IDA Infocomm Development Authority (see TTP) 

IDA International Development Association 

IDARSs Integrated Document Archive and Retrieval Systems 

IDB Intelligent Data Base (data modeling+index system+querying language)(see IRDB, RDB) 

IDB International Data Base 

IDBM(S) Intelligent Data Base Management (System) 

IDC Isolation Displacement Contact 

IDD International Direct Dial 

IDE Integrated Development Environment (see IDEs) 

IDE Integrated Drive Electronics (see ATA, SATA) 

IDE Intelligent Drive Electronics (interface standard) 

IDEA International Data Encryption Algorithm (see AES) 

IDEA International Digital Economy Agreement: ITA expansion 

IDEAL Initiating, Diagnosing, Establishing, Acting, Leveraging method 

IDEF Integrated DEFinition (language): analysis method and functional specification 

iDEN Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (see WiDEN) 

Identity theft or ID theft : Malware , Pharming , Phishing , SMShing , Vishing 

IDEs Integrated Development Environments (see IDE) 

IDES International Demonstration and Education System. R/3 environment: +300 business processes based on 

a multinational group and subsidiaries manufacturing different products. It has examples of Internet functions (see ATS) 

IDI Initial Domain Identifier (see ID) 

IDJ International Investment & Urban Development Joint Stock Company 

IDK "I don't know" used on social network … sometimes carelessly / erroneously / selfishly (yes!) ... 

IDL Interface Description Language 

idle status of an inactive computer 

IDM IDentity Management (see IAM, ID, RFID) 

IDM Integrated Document Management (SAP) 

I&DM Information & Document Management 

IDMEF Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format (see IODEF) 


IDN IDentification Number (see ID) 

IDN International Data Number 

IDN International Domain Names (30-10-2009) 

IDOC Intermediate DOCument 

IDP Initial Domain Part 

IDQ Information Data Quality (investment, management, monitoring to sustain key processes) 

IDR Institute for Dispute Resolution (could be contacted for Internet conflicts resolution) 

IDRC International Development Research Centre (www.idrc.ca/en/) 

IDS Integrated Data Store 

IDS Interactive Digital Signage (see DSA, DSP, DST) 

IDS Intrusion Detection Systems (see AIDE, DPI, HIDS, ICE, IPS) 

IDSA Interactive Digital Software Association (see ESA) 

IDSL ISDN Digital Subscriber Line 

IDT Interpersonal Deception Theory (related to communication : read our white paper on www.fbc-e.com) 

iDTV interactive Digital TV 

IE Information Economics (FBWPA : www.fbc-e.com)(see KE, TCE) 

IE Windows Internet Explorer (Microsoft) 

IE 7.0 Windows Internet Explorer 7 

IE 8.0 Windows Internet Explorer 8 

IE 9.0 Windows Internet Explorer 9 (March 14, 2011) 

IEA International Energy Agency (www.iea.org/) (see LNG) 

IEC (Fr) Immeuble En Construction (see / voir AUC / AM) 

IEC International Electrotechnical Commission (all fields of electrotechnology standards)(www.iec.ch) 

IEC International Engineering Consortium (www.iec.org) 

IED Intelligent Electronic Device 

IEEE Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (see AVB, CEU, HCCLE, IACET, ISTQB, 802.11, PAN, WLAN) 

IEEE/CS IEEE Computer Society 

IEF International Energy Forum 

IEIP Industrial Enterprises Innovation Processes (see http://www.mitip.org/) 

IER(s) Information Exchange Requirement(s) (see ADatP-3, MTF, USMTF) 

IES Information Exchange Specifications (see Asatp-3, ebXML, MTF, USMTF, …) 

IES Institute for Environment and Sustainability 

IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group 

IET International Emissions Trading 

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force (http://search.ietf.org/) 

IF Integration Framework 

IF Intermediate Frequency (see FM) 

IFAC International Federation of Accountants (see CPA, FMAC) 

IFC International Finance Corporation 

IFCC Internet Fraud Complaint Center (FBI) 

IFCR International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society 

IFD Information Flow Diagram 

IFD Innovative Future Design. More on our site www.fbc-e.com : Futuring Innovation , Futuring KM 

i-FED Intelligent Field Emitting Display 

IFF Identify Friends or Foes (see RFID, Transponder ) 

IFF, *.iff Interchange File Format of Amiga 

IFF International Finance Facility (see IFRS) 

IFGRA International Federation of Green Regions Associations (see SESEC)(www.ifgra.org) 

IFLA International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (see FRBR, FRSAD) 

IFM Image File Format 

IFMA International Facility Management Association (www.ifma.be) 

IFMS Integrated Financial Management System 

IFR International Federation of Robotics (see AI, IARP) 

IFRS International Financial Reporting Standards (Mandatory for public European enterprises)(see GAAP, IASB, IFMS) 

IGDA International Game Developers Association (see ICGA) 

IGF Internet Governance Forum. Created in 2006 by the United Nations (see ICANN) 

iGem Interational Genetically Engineerd Machine (organized by the MIT) 

IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol 

IGV Information Grand Voyage: search engine Japanese initiative (see CHORUS, VITALAS) 

IHS International Headache Society: besides some health problems, headaches could be caused by the stress, anxiety … 


IHUD Interactive Heads-Up Display (see HUD) 

IIA Institute of Internal Auditors 

IIC Infranet Initiative Council : Juniper, AOL, BT, Ericsson, France Telecom, Lucent, … 

IIDRS Intelligent Intrusion Detection and Response System (see WDIDS) 

IIE Institute for International Economics, Washington, USA (an excellent address: www.iie.com) 

IIM Intelligent Information Management 

IIIMP3D Intelligent IIMP3D 

IIMP3D Interactive Immersive Multi-Platform 3D (see game , gaming , …) 

IIMS Integrated Information Management System 

IIOP Internet Inter-Orb-Protocol 

IIR Infinite Impulse Response (see FIR) 

IIS Intelligent Information System 

IIS Internet Information Services (Microsoft). 

IJE Informal Justice Expert 

IJO Informal Justice Organization 

IKE Internet Key Exchange 

IKM Information and KM (see iCKMS, KM, KMiB) 

iKMS Information & Knowledge Management Society (see iCKM, KM, KMiB) 

IL Integrity Levels 

IL or InLin Internet Lingo, also called PC talks 

2L8 Too Late 

AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact 

AAP Always A Pleasure 

AAR At Any Rate 

AEAP As Early As Possible 

AFAIAA As Far As I Am Aware 

AFAIC As Far As I am Concerned 

AFAIK As Far As I Know (see LMK) 

AFAIKT As Far As I Know Today 

AFAIR As Far As I Remember 

AFC Away From Computer 

AFJ April Fool's Joke 

AFK Away From Keyboard 

AIMB As I Mentioned Before 

AISI As I See It 

AIUI As I Understand It 

AKA or aka Also Known As 

AMBW All My Best Wishes 

APOL Alternate Person On Line 

ASAIC As Soon As I Can 

ASAP As Soon As Possible 

ASF And So Forth 

ATB All The Best 

ATFSM Ask The Friendly System Manager 

ATM At The Moment 

ATST At The Same Time 

ATT At This Time 

AWA A While Ago 

AWB A While Back 

AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again? 

AWHFY Are We Having Fun Yet? 

AYCS As You Can See 

AYEC At Your Earliest Convenience 

AYFT Are You Free Today? 

AYOR At Your Own Risc 

AYS Are You Serious? 

AYST Are You Still There? 

AYW As You Wish 

B4 Before 

B4N Bye For Now 


BAK Back At Keyboard 

BAYK Back At Your Keyboard 

BBL Be Back Later 

BBS Be Back Soon 

BFFs Best Friends Forever 

BRB Be Right Back 

BRT Be Right There 

BTW By the way 

CU See You 

DAT Do Another Thing 

F2F Face-to-Face 

FCOL For Crying Out Loud 

FWIW For What It's Worth 

FYI For Your Information 

GFU Good For You 

GJ Good Job 

GL Good Luck 

GOK God Only Knows 

Gratz See GZ 

GZ Congratulations (from "gratz ") 

HAM Half As Much 

HHOK Ha, ha … only kidding 

HHOS Ha, ha … only serious 

HRU How Are You ? 

IDC I Don't Care 

IDK I Don't Know (the person who is willing to become "my friend") 

IDMI I Don't Mean It 

IDST I Didn't Say That 

IDTS I Don't Think So 

IIRC If I Recall Correctly 

IKYP I'll Keep You Posted 

IMI I Mean It (see IDMI) 

IMO In My Opinion 

IMHO In My Humble Opinion 

IMMO In My Modest Opinion 

IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion 

IOW In Other Words 

ISOW In Some Other Words 

IRL In Real Life 

ISBT It's Strange But True 

ISOW In Some Other Words 

KIT Keep In Touch (see PKIT) 

KMP Keep Me Posted 

KYFC Keep Your Fingers Crossed 

LMK Let Me Know (see AFAIK) 

LMNO Leave My Name Out 

LOL Laughing Out Loud 

LTNS Long Time No See 

NB Not Bad 

OMW On My Way 

OTOH On The Other Hand 

P2P Peer To Peer 

PKIT Please Keep In Touch (see KIT) 

PLMK Please Let Me Know 

PLZ Please 

POV Point Of View 

ROFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing 

RUL Read You Later 

SCNR Sorry, Could Not Resist 

TAFN That's All For Now 


TFYM Thanks For Your Message 

TIA Thanks In Advance 

TLA Three-Letter Acronym 

TLDR Too Long, Didn't Read 

TOY Thinking Of You 

TTYL Talk To You Later 

TY Thank You 

TYT Take Your Time 

TYVM Thank You Very Much 

U2 You Too 

W8 Wait 

WAG Wild (Arsed) Guess 

WKYP Will Keep You Posted 

WLOG Without Loss Of Generality 

WTB Want To Buy (see WTT, WTTF) 

WTHDTIM What The Hell Do These Initials Mean? 

WTT Want(ed) To Trade 

WTTF Want To Test First 

WTTM Without Thinking Too Much 

WUWU What's Up With You ? 

WYS Whatever You Say 

YAAS Yet Another Acronym Server 

YABA Yet Another Bloody Acronym 

YABSA Yet Another Bloody Stupid Acronym 

YAFIYGI You Asked For It, You Got It 

YKWIS You Know What I'm Saying 

YMMD You Made My Day 

YOYO You're On Your Own 

YOYOW You Own Your Own Words 

ZZZ Tired and Fallen asleep 

ILC Information Life Cycle (see CLC, DLM, ELC, HSM, IPM, LC, PLC) 

ILC Innovation Life Cycle (see ILCM) 

ILCM Innovation Life Cycle Management (see ILC, IM, IMS, IMT) 

ILDSE Interactive LDSE 

ILEC Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (see CLEC) 

ILM Information Life Cycle Management (see CLC, DLC, DLM, HSM, IPM, KLCM, LC, PLC, SLC) 

ILN International Location Number 

ILO International Labor Office / Organization (see SA8000) 

ILP Inductive Logic Programming 

ILT Instructor-Led Training (see CBT, CATT, LMS) 

IM Information Management (see IS, IT) 

IM Innovation Management (see IMT and our Innovation-related vocabulary list) 

IM Instant Messaging 

IM Intelligent Matters (see BI) 

IM Interim Management / Manager 

IM Investment Management (R/3 Business Application Area)/ Gestion des investissements 

IMA Integraty Measurement Architecture (developed by IBM for Linux) 

IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol: protocol for e-mail retrieval (see POP) 

IMC Internet Mail Consortium (imc.org/) 

IMC Information Management Compliance (SOXA context) 

IMCCA Interactive Multimedia & Collaborative Communications Alliance: it focuses on UCC (www.imcca.org) 

IMCR Incident Management and Crisis Resolution: wisely set along the Value Chain (see DR, RM, QM) 

IMD Inbound Marketing Data (see IMM) 

IMD International World Competitiveness Year Book 

IMDb Internet Movie Database 

IME Input Method Editor 

IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity (see SIM) 

IMF Integrated Maintenance Facility 

IMF Integrated Management Framework 

IMF International Monetary Fund 


IM-FA Tangible Fixed Assets (SAP/ investment mgmt) 

IM-FI Financial Investments (SAP/ investment mgmt) 

IMFN International Model Forest Network 

IMG Implementation Guide (SAP). It gives the system its country + company specific characters. 

The system has provision of default values. Select what you need or define others. 

Reference IMG = base set, all available transactions and functionalities are in there 

Enterprise IMG = typical configured transactions applicable to a company. Can be extended with other modules 

Project IMG = subset of the preceding. Needs to be configured to complete a specific project. 

project # 1 : with the initial implementation 

project # n : for each subsequent rollout of functionalities 

IMG Innovation Management Guide (see IM, IMS, IMT) 

IMHO In My Humble Opinion (see IL or InLin) 

IMINT IMagery INTelligence (see ELINT, HUMINT, SIGINT) 

IMIS Inventory Management Information System (SAP) 

IMM Inbound Marketing Management (see IMD) 

IMM Interactive Multimedia 

IMM International Monetary Market (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) 

IMO In my Opinion (see IL) 

IMO International Maritime Organisation (www.imo.org/) 

i-Mode "Japanese pocketable Internet" 

IMP Inbound Marketing Process (see IMD, IMM) 

IMP Instant Message Programming 

IMP Inventory Management Process 

"implementation path " in between the "as is " and "to be " (see MOC) 

IMS Innovative Management Solutions (see IMT) 

IMS IP Multimedia Subsystem 

IMSI International Mobile Station IS 

IMT Information Managment Team (see SMT) 

IMT Innovation Management Theory (see IM, IMS and our Innovation-related vocabulary list) 

IMT Internet Media Type (see MIME) 

IMT2000 International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 

IMT2000 MC IMT-2000 Multi-Carrier 

IMU International Mathematical Union (www.mathunion.org) 

IN International Development (R/3 Business Application Area) 

IN Intelligent Network (ITU-T) 

IN-BVS Integrated Networked Business Voice Solution 

inc. incorporated 

Incoming links links number pointing to a Website from other Websites 

Inconvenient Truth (an) global warming documentary film of former US Vice President Al Gore 

Incoterms International Commercial Terms (i.e. CIF, FOB, FAS, …) 

indef. indefinite (used in dictionary abbreviation) 

Index curr. Stipulated currency for external reporting in high-inflation countries (defined at country level; it can be overrided 

during the transaction) 

Indexable Web see surface Web 

Individual Account has a unique number. The 1st digit=digit of the corresponding Acct class 

inf. informally (used in dictionary abbreviation) 

INFJ Introversion, Intuition, Feeling, Judging used in the MBTI 

Inflation Accounting module supporting the inflation complexities w/i high inflation territories 

.info .info domain (see DNS) 

Infobahn see electronic highway (outdated), information highway (outdated), Internet 

Infocube Advanced data storage technology: set of relational tables assembled in a star pattern with a large fact table at the 

center surrounded by dimensional tables. The fact table stores key figures at the lowest level of details. Dimensional 

tables store characteristics needed for reporting and analyzing these indicators but are not directly interacting as they 

are linked to the fact table. The net effect is to multidimensionally store all data in the info cube. 

InfoDB comprehensive repository of educational information for training with R/3 functionalities 

Info object Key figures and characteristics (data, texts and hierarchies) gathered w/i an info source 

Information highway / superhighway see electronic highway (outdated), infobahn (outdated), Internet 

Info source pieces of information that logically belong together. Can include transaction data, master data, 

text and hierarchies relating to master data also known as info object. Info source = set of 

info objects. Each info source is assigned to source systems and to the BIW 


infostealer an information "thief" installed after the fraudoulous entrance of a trojan 

Infotype Unit of information grouped as a set of data field. In DBM they store old data (historical reason) 

System controlling characteristics (logically grouped data) (HR) 

Infowar INFOrmation WARfare. Old system that has added the power of Internet to its arsenal (see Cyber War ). 

INMARSAT International Maritime Satellite Organization (see INTELSAT) 

Innovation articles in several issues of the FBC>s Business Magazine (www.fbc-e.com) FBM 

It could be radical or incremental . KIBS facilitates the radical approach. 

INS Insert (word processor mode) 

INSEA INformation SErvices Association 

INSIGHT Information System Integrated by using Global Hypermedia Technology 

in-sourcing internal competencies localization or rapatriation of the out-sourced activities 

Insufficient Anti-automation attack method 

INT CA International Chart of Account. Fr : Plan Comptable International 

Intellipedia project of the ODNI, DNI CIO Intelligence Community Enterprise Services 

INTELSAT International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (see INMARSAT) 

Interface device enabling the information exchanges in between 2 computers or peripherals 

Interoperability systems ability to clerverly exchange applications for operating efficiently together 

Int'l international 

Interleaving process of sticking audio and video tracks at predetermined points 

Internet Abbreviation of "Internetworking", a way of networking based on the TCP/IP protocol 

NW of NWs of computers and the extension of the value chain plus the mgmt of that extension (see Web) 

Internetspeak same as digispeak . See also geekspeak , Geekonics , nerdspeak 

INTERPOL International Criminal Police Organization 

INTP Interplanetary Network Transport Protocol: for long-range connectivity with the Internet even at extreme ranges 

Intranet Mostly IP-based private internal NW resembling the Internet in more than name (see Extranet, VPN) 

Intrapreneurship inside creativity and innovation 

Invisible Web see Deep Web , Surface Web 

INW Internal NW (must become an Internal SP) 

IO Infrastructures Optimization 

IO Internal Orders 

I/O Input / Output 

IOA Information Organisation & Access 

IOA Innovation-Oriented Architecture (see SOA) 

IOAU Input Output Access Units (another name for IOPU) 

IOC (U) Input Output Control (Unit) 

IOC International Olympic Committee 

IOC Initial Operational Capability 

IOD Information On Demand 

IOD Intelligence On Demand 

IODEF Incident Object Description & Exchange Format : format XML IODEF. (see IDMEF) 

IOIR Infrastructure, Optimization, Implementation, Requirement 

IOL InterOrganizational Learning 

IOM Infrastructure Optimization Model (see BSRD) 

IOP InterOPerability. It could be a group, a team, a system ... (see IOS) 

IOPS Input/Output Operations Per Second 

IOPS Internet Official Protocol Standards (see IMAP) 

IOPU Input Output Processing Unit (see IOAU) 

IORTD Input Output Relationships and Timing Diagram 

iOS iPad and Iphone Operating System (see OS) 

IOS Internet Operating System (see DOS, OS, WOS) 

IOS Inter-Organizational Systems : facilitating / supporting KM initiatives and implementation (see IOP) 

IoT Internet of Things : people and / or assets 

IOTA Internet Over The Air 

IoTET Internet of Things Enabling Technologies 

IP Innovation Process: idea generation and idea implementation (see IPM) 

IP Intellectual Performances (see IQ) 

IP Intellectual Property (see IPW) 

IP Internet Protocol (see IPT, TCP/IP, UC) 

IP Internet Provider (see ASP, ISP) 

IP address PC address number on the Internet 


IPA International Phonetic Alphabet 

IPA Intelligent Process Automation (IDC concept: convergence of BI tools and BPA deployment SW) 

IPA International Publishers Association 

iPad Apple Computer Tablet PC (see iPhone, iPod) 

IPAM IP Address Management 

IPC International Patent Classification (see EPO, HTG) 

IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (see UNEP) 

IPCC Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (see EU) 

IPCC Internet Provider Contact Center 

IPDRs Internet & Phone Detail Records (see CDRs) 

iPEM Integrated Plastic Encapsulated Microcircuit 

iPhone Apple Computer portable digital audio and video player + telephone (see iPad, iPod) 

IPI International Payment Instruction 

IPIECA International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association 

IPKM InterPersonal KM (see KM, PKM, …) 

IPM Information Product Manager: information is also a product and has its own life cycle (see ILC, PLC) 

IPM Innovation Process Mgmt (see our Innovation-Related Vocabulary list on www.fbc-e.com: Magazine 8) 

IPM Information Processing Model (see IPT) 

IPN Internet Protocol Network (see SIPRnet) 

IPNG Internet Protocol Next Generation (see IPV6) 

IPO Initial Public Offering (Stock Exchange) (see NYSE) 

iPod Apple Computer portable digital audio and video player (see iPad, iPhone) 

IPP Internet Payment Platform: payment information service freely provided the US FMS 

IPPD Integrated Product and Process Development: DoD (USA) management technique 

IPR Institute for Public Relations (see PR) 

IPR Intellectual Property Rights (see DRM, IC, ICA, IP, IPM, TRIPs) 

IPS Innovation, Policy and Science 

IPS Inventive Problem Solving (Theory of IPS) 

IPsec IP security set of protocols developed by IETF & supporting Transport & Tunnel encryption modes 

IPSes Intrusion Prevention Systems (see DPI, ICE, IDS). Examples: antivirus system, firewalls … 

IPT Information Processing Theory (see IPM, IT) 

IPT (Fr) Interface de la Planification du Transport 

IPT IP Telephony 

IPTO Information Processing Technology Office 

IPTV Internet Protocol TV 

IPV4 Internet Protocol Version 4 (see NRO) 

IPV6 Internet Protocol Version 6: (10)38 "machines" connected to Internet (see IPNG, NRO) 

IPW Intellectual Property Writer 

IPY International Polar Year 

IQ Intellectual Quotient (see EI, EQ, GQ, IP) 

IQL Interactive Query Language (see SQL) 

IQMS Integrated Quality Management System (see EFQM, QC, QM, TQM, …) 

IR Infra-Red 

IR Intellectual Rights (see DR, DRM, IRM) 

IRA Individual Retirement Account (personal finance) 

IRA Individual Retirement Annuity (personal finance) 

IRC International Committee for the Red Cross 

IRC International Record Carrier 

IRC Internet Relay Chat 

IRCT Inductive Rolling Code Tags (related to access control systems) 

IrDA Infrared Data Assn 

IRDB Intelligent Relational DB (see DBMS, IDB, OODB) 

IRDP ICMP Router Discovery Protocol 

IRG Integrated Review Group (see CoPs, SIG) 

IRIS Integrated Risk Information System (http://www.epa.gov/IRIS/) 

IRL In (the) Real Life (see avatar , MUD, VR, …) 

IRM Information Rights Management (Microsoft) (see DRM, RMS, WRM) 

IRM Information Risk Management 

IRM Insurance Risk Management (see RM) 

IRM Intellectual Rights Management: IR transformation into assets and profit (see DR, DRM, IR) 


IRR Internal Rate of Return 

IRS Internal Revenues Service (USA : taxes administration)(see AMT, TOW) 

IRTA International Reciprocal Trade Association 

IRTF Internet Research Task Force 

IS Industries Solutions (R/3 Business Area Solutions) 

IS Information System (see MIS, LIS and others) 

IS International Standard (see ISO) 

ISA Industry Standard Architecture (see EISA) 

ISAs International Standards on Auditing (see AICPA, CPA, ISACA) 

IS-AA Industry Solution - Accelerated Automotive 

ISACA Information Systems Audit and Control Assn (see CISA, CISM, …)(www.isaca.org/) 

ISADN International Standard Authority Data Number (see FRAD, FRANAR) 

ISAE International Standard on Assurance Engagements 

IS-AFS IS for Apparel Footwear Solution manages the supply chain in that business (see SCEM, SCM, …) 

ISAKMP Internet Security Assn and Key Management Protocol 

ISAKMP/Oakley Protocol for sharing a public key (see PKA, PKC, PKI) 

ISAR International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (Geneva, February 1999) 

ISB Internet Service Bus (see ESB, USB) 

ISBD Int'l Standard Bibliographic Description for Electronic Resources (see AACR2, FRBR, FRSAD, IFLA) 

ISBN International Standard Book Number 

ISC Instruction Set Computer 

ISC Internal System Change 

ISC International Steering Committee 

ISC International Strategy Committee 

ISCA International Symposium on Computer Architecture 

ISCED International Standard Classification of Education 

ISCO International Standard Classification of Occupations 

iSCSI Internet SCSI 

ISDN Internet Security Department (see ISM) 

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network (Fr.: RNIS) 

ISE Integrated Systems Europe: global forum for AV business (www.iseurope.org) 

ISE Internet Search Engines (see ASR, Microsoft's IE) 

ISEB Information Systems Examination Board (British Computer Society) 

ISF Information Security Forum (see BC, FIRM, IRM, RM, WHID) 

ISFE Interactive Software Federation of Europe 

ISG Intelligent Serious Game (see Game , Serious Game , …) 

IS-H Industry Solution for Hospitals (SAP module) 

IS-HCM Industry Solution for Hospital Communications 

IS-HCO Industry Solution for Hospital COntrolling 

Ishikawa cause and effect / impact diagram (fishbone diagram): simple problem solving process (see LO) 

IS-HPA Hospital Patient Accounting 

IS-HPM Hospital Patient Management 

ISI In-Service Inspection (see BA, QC, QCM, RM, …) 

ISI InterSymbol Interference (see MIMO) 

ISKO International Society for Knowledge Organization (see KM, KO)(www.iskouk.org/conf2011/index.htm) 

IS-M/AM Media Advertising Management 

ISM Information System Manager / Management (see DSI) 

ISM International Security Management 

ISM Internet Security Management (see ISD) 

ISM RF Industrial-Scientific-Medical Radio Frequency 

ISMS Information Security Management System (Re: BS 7799 / ISO 17799 Standard)(see SC27) 

ISMSF ISMS Framework 

IS-M/SD Industry Solution - Media Sales and Distribution 

ISN Integrated Social Network (see NW, SN, …) 

ISO International Standardization Organization (see ANSI, JIS) 

ISO 3166 countries abbreviations codes 

ISO 9000 the general quality management system 

ISO 9001 quality 

ISO 13485 medical devices & procedures 

ISO 14000:2004 environmental quality management system 


ISO 14001 environment (environmental performances) 

ISO 14004 environmental management best practices 

ISO/IEC 15504 Processes evaluation, IT Service Management, Operational Risks, … 

ISO/TS 16949 automotive industry (related to FMEA) 

ISO 17799 ISO for the security 

ISO 18000 occupational health and safety management system 

ISO/IEC 20000 Service Management 

ISO 22000:2005 / HACCP food safety management system 

ISO 22000 / BRC / IFS / GMP (agro) food 

ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management (BS 7799: British Standard for Information Security) 

ISO/IEC 38500 ICT Governance 

ISOC Internet SOCiety 

ISODE ISO Development Environment 

Isode products used internationally by ISPs, Multinational Corporations, Governments, Universities (www.isode.com/) 

ISOE In Search Of Excellence 

IS-OIL Industry Solution - SAP Oil & Gas 

ISOM Information Systems and Operations Management 

ISP In System Programming 

ISP Integration Service Provider (see BTM) 

ISP Internet Service Provider (see ASP, PSP) 

ISPA Internet Service Provider Association (see ASP): publication in assn with InSites Consulting 

ISPBX special network terminator (see ISDN) 

IS-PS Industry Solution - SAP Public Sector 

IS-R Industry Solution for SAP Retail 

IS-RE Real Estate Management : mgmt of real estate, rental processes, 3d party management, real 

estate business controlling, evaluation mechanisms. 

ISS Information Society Standardization System 

ISS Improvement Support Systems 

ISS Internal Service Systems 

ISS Internet Security Systems (see ICE, WHID) 

ISS International Space Station 

ISSA Information Systems Security Association 

ISSC Information Systems Steering Committee 

ISSO Information System Security Officer (see CSO) 

ISSSP International Society of Six Sigma Professionals (see TQM …) 

ISSU In Service Software Upgrade 

IS-SW Industry Specific Component - Software 

IST Information Society Technology (http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/) 

IST German current "as is" (BPR. See also "SOLL") 

IS-T/NM-NEL Telco (component) / Network Management - Network Element Logistic 

ISTQB International Software Testing Qualifications Board (see IEEE) 

IS-T/RM-CA Telco (component) / Revenue Management - Contract Accounting 

ISU Infrastructure Support Unit 

IS-U SAP Ind. solution Utilities 

IS-U/CCS IS-U Customer Care and Service (utilities ind.SAP module) 

IS-U/FERC IS-U Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (utilities ind. SAP module) 

ISV Independant Software Vendor 

*.it ImpulseTracker modules (sound file format) 

IT Information Technology :more and more the essential business enabler (see IT&C, ICT, NIT) 

IT Information Theory (see IPT) 

ITA Interim Type Approval 

ITA IT Agreement: template for future work in the WTO (1996/72 countries)(www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/inftec_e/inftec_e.h 

ITA International Trade Administration (trade.gov/) 

ITAA Information Technology Association of America 

ITaaS IT as a Service, toward a 100 percent infrastructure virtualization (see IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, …) 

ITAM IT Asset Management (see AA) 

ITB&O In-sourced Team Building & Optimization (FBC>s concept and methodology) 

ITC International Trade Commission (see USITC) 

ITC (SAP) International Training Center 

IT&C Information Technology & Communication (see ICDT) 


ITDP Improved Total Development Process : quality engineering using robust design (CEPRA) 

ITEL Interactive TEL 

Item level control (SD) Each item entered on an order is automatically assigned an item category which 

is controlling how an item reacts in its interfacing with the other modules 

ITF Interleaved Two of Five (14-char. Code for article numbering) 

ITGI IT Governance Institute 

iThing device from Apple: iPhone, iPad, iPod 

ITI IT Intelligence (see BI, CI, SI) 

ITIL IT Infrastructure Library (definition and systematization of the supporting services processes)(see ICMB) 

ITL International Transaction Log: market place for the C02 quotas (see CITL) 

IT ladder toward the Zettabyte era ! 

ITM IT Management 

ITMS IT Management Solutions 

ITO IT Officer (see also CCO, CEO, CFO, CIO, CRO, CTO, CKO, COO, ERO,…) 

ITO IT Organization 

ITO IT Outsourcing / Off-Shoring (see BPO, KPO) 

ITP Information Technology Project (see IT, PM, …) 

ITP Internal Technical Preview 

IT&PC news www.01-informatique.com 

ITPI IT Process Institute, a non-profit organization to improve IT service management (www.itpi.org/) 

ITQI International Taste & Quality Institute 

ITS Information Technologies Standards 

ITS Information Technology Support(s) 

ITS Intelligent Transport System (see mobility , SCM and more) 

ITS Internet Time Service (see NIST) 

ITS Internet Transaction Server (Interface in between the HTTP server and R/3) 

ITS (Federal) Intelligent Transportation Systems (addressed by the U.S. DoT). 

IT/S Information Technology and Systems 

ITSC IT Service Company 

ITSEF IT Security Entrepreneurs' Forum 

ITSM Information Technology Service Management: responsivity to the business users (see BSM) 

IT teens see digital native 

ITU International Telecommunications Union (www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/.../S03-WSIS-DOC-0004!!PDF-E.pdf) 

iTV Internet TV (see iVoice, smart TV ) 

IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature 

iVoice landline phone 

IVR Integrated Voice Response (see UC) 

IVR Interactive Voice Response 

IVRR Interactive Voice and Response Recognition 

IVT Initial Vocational Training 

IVTC Inverse Telecine 

IW3C2 International World Wide Web Conference Committee (see WWW) 

I-WAY Information Wide Area Year (see Grid computing ) 

IWB Interactive White Board: finger and/or stylus operated display connected to a computer and projector 

IWG Integration Working Groups: teamed experts providing technical foundations & specs applied across functional areas 

IWG Interlingua Working Group (see KIF, KQML). 

IWP Implementation Work Plan (see PM, PMI, PMBOK) 

IWS Integrated Warehousing Solutions (IRMS) 

IWS Internet World Stats : 233 countries (www.internetworldstats.com) 

IXC IntereXchange Carrier 

J Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

J2EE Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (convenient platform for EAI implementations) 

J2ME Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (for mobile applications) 

J2SE Java 2 Standard Edition 

Jabber Instant Messaging and Presence technology (see JEPs, JUD) 

JAD Joint Application Development 

jailbreaker hacker utilizing the jaibreaking process for fraudulously entering the iOS 

jailbreaking allows iPad, iPhone users to run unsigned code by unlocking the iOS and freeing the root access. 

JAO Joint Assistance Operations 

Java integral to the Internet and intranet applications and other e-business solutions 


JavaBean serializable Java Object 

JavaFX delivers rich media and content across all the screens 

JAVASCRIPT SUN MICROSYSTEM trademark used for technology invented and implemented by NETSCAPE 

JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (see ESA, NASA) 

JAXM Java XML Messaging 

JAXP Java XML Parsing 

JAX RPC Java API for XML-based RPC 

JBCE JavaBean Calculation Engine 

JBT Just-Before-Time (FBC>s concept : anticipation of the expectation / need)(see also JIC, JIT) 

JCP Java Community Processes 

JD Julian Date (Julian Calendar) 

JDBC Java Database Connectivity 

JDK Java Development Kit 

JDO Java Distributed Objects 

JEDEC Joint Electron Devices Engineering Council has become JEDEC Solid State Technology Association 

JEPs Jabber Enhancement Proposals 

JETRO Japan External Trade Organization 

JHMCS Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System: equipment of the Jet F16 (see AR, HUD) 

JI Joint Implementation 

JIC JIT Instance Context 

JIC Just-In-Case (production to inventory) (see JIT, JBT and JTL) 

JID Jabber IDentifier (see ID) 

Jidoka automation & human intelligence combination . Part of the Toyota Production System (see TPS). 

Jiffy specified or unspecified brief interval of time 

*.jng JPEG Network Graphics (image file format) 

JINI (SUN) enables interconnection with any equipment (equiped with a processor of about 1 Mo memory) 

JIS Japanese Industrial Standards (see ISO, JSA) 

JIT Just-In-Time: delivery and related extended management concepts (see JIC, JBT and … JTL) 

The principle is also known as "dynamic transaction", "dynamic translation". 

JIT-d JIT design 

JIT-p JIT production 

JIT-c JIT commerce 

JIT-s JIT supply 

JITFTE Just-In-Time-Fetch-The-Expert 

JITT Just-In-Time Teaching : Web-supported pedagogical strategy (see KA, WBL) 

JITTDL JITT Digital Library 

jitter distortion in a digital signal that can cause errors in the data reading 

JMAPI JAVA Management API 

JMS JAVA Message Service 

JNDI JAVA Naming Directory Interface 

Jobhopping repeated staff rotations (could be decreased with the support of loyalty programs) 

JOLAP JAVA Online Analytical Processing 

JOOMLA! open source content mgmt system platform: content publication on the WWW & Intranet 

JOOTT Just One Of Those Things … showing up and disappearing … 

JP Joint Publication 

JPA JAVA Persistence API JOBS: all around the world ,,, www.fbc-e.com 

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group 

*.jpg JPEG image compression (file) (see mpg) 

JPO Japanese Patent Office (see EPO) 

JPS JAVA Portlet Specification 

JRC Joint Research Center 

JRMP JAVA Remote Method Protocol 

*.js JAVA script 

JS Joint-Stock 

JSA Japanese Standards Association (see JIS) (www.jsa.or.jp/default_english.asp) 

JSF JAVA Server Faces 

JSP JAVA Server Page 

JSR JAVA Specification Request 

JSTA Japan's Science and Technology Agency (see Ultra Computer ) 

JTA JAVA Transaction API 


JTC1 Joint Technical Committee 1 (see SC27) 

JTI Joint Technology Initiative 

JTL Just-To-Late (delivery … ironically said) (see JBT, JIC, JIT) 

JTRS Joint Tactical Radio System 

JTS JAVA Transaction Service (see JTA) 

JTWI JAVA Technology for the Wireless Industry 

JUD Jabber User Directory (see JEPs) 

JUDDI JAVA Universal Description, Discovery & Integration (open source specification for the Web)(see UDDI) 

JUG JAVA Users Group 

junk bonds highly risky bonds 

junk email unsollicited email to be dumped (see spam , hacking , hoax ) 

JUNOS Juniper OS 

JUSE Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (see 7QC) 

JVM (SUN) JAVA Virtual Machine 

JWICS Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (U.S. DoD, U.S. Department of State) 

K Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

K one thousand (bits or bytes or meters, liters, etc.) 

K Potassium 

K4D Knowledge for Development Program (World Bank Institution)(see WB) 

KA Knowledge Acquisition (see JITT, KM, LLL) 

KA Knowledge Assets (see KI) 

KAA Knowledge Assets Accounting (see AA, ICA, HCA, HRA, …) 

KAD Knowledge-Aided Design (see CAD, KAM, KM) 

KADS Knowledge Analysis and Design System 

KAE Key Account Executive (see AE) 

Kaikaku PM activity overhaul to create more value. A sort of breakthrough kaizen .(see KPM) 

Kaizen improvement continuity (Japanese concept / Masaaki IMAI)(see WCM). Also part of the TPS (Toyota) 

Kaizen costing production cost reduction during the Kaizen implementation (see TPS) 

KAM Key Account Manager (see AE, KAE) 

KAM Knowledge Aided Manufacturing (see KAD) 

KAM Knowledge Assessment Methodology (see KDP, KEI, KI) 

Kanban display card / production & material flow control that enables the reordering of the processes 

Also part of the Toyota Production System (see TPS). 

Kanban card replenishment signal sent by the consumer to the supplier 

KAP Knowledge Application Practices 

KAR Knowledge-based Augmented Reality (see KARMA, KB) 

KARMA Knowledge-based Augmented Reality Maintenance Assistant (see AR, AV, MAR, SAR) 

KAT Knowledge Acquisition Team 

kB kilobyte (see kBps, ko, octet ) 

KB Key Benefits 

KB Knowledge Base or Knowledge-Based (enabled by KM aspects of business) 

KB KnowledgeBoard (www.knowldegeboard.com)(see also KMiB) 

KB Knowledge Bulbs .. to be lighted up (as said during a KM forum) ! 

KBA Knowledge-Based Administration (private / public. Public KBA is supporting the economy more adequately) 

KBB Knowledge-Based Business (see KM) 

KBCA Knowledge-Based Competitive Advantage: contribution to the position defendability (see CI) 

KBD Knowledge-Based Design 

KBD Knowledge-Based Development 

kBps kilobits per second (see kB, octet ) 

KBE(s) Knowledge-Based Economy(ies) (see KDP) 

KBE Knowledge-Based Engineering (see KAD, KAM) 

KBES Knowledge-Based Economy Services 

KBI Key Business Indicator(s) (see KPI) 

KBI Knowledge-Based Innovation (FBC fundamental principle: www.fbc-e.com) 

KBP Knowledge-Based Project(s) 

KBR Knowledge-Based Research(es) 

KBR&D Knowledge-Based Research & Development 

KBS Knowledge-Based Services 

KBS Knowledge-Based System(s) 

KC Knowledge Construction (see LinCS) 


KC Knowledge Culture (see OC) 

KCA Knowledge Capital Accounting (see HRA, ICA) 

KCM Knowledge Centric Management (see KCO) 

KCO Knowledge Centric Organization (see KM, KME, KMF, KMiB, KMIS, KMMM, KMS, KMO, etc) 

KCP Key Control Point (see KPI) 

KCS Knowledge Classification Systems: they have roles in the Web Semantic development 

KD Knowledge Discovery 

KD Knowledge Diversity (see KDI) 

KDC Knowledge-Driven Community 

KDD Knowledge Discovery Database (mining operation in the DB : that isn't the "full" Knowledge) 

KDE Knowledge Desktop Environment: free SW project aiming at an easy-to-use desktop environment (see KE, Kubuntu) 

KDF Knowledge Discovery Framework (see KDS, RBKO) 

KDI Knowledge Diversity Integration (see RBKO) 

KDM Knowledge Discovery Metamodel 

KDP Knowledge for Development Program: challenges/opportunities when moving to the KBE (economy) 

KDR Knowledge Deficiency Report 

KDS Knowledge Discovery System (see KDF) 

KE Knowledge Ecology 

KE Knowledge Economics (FBWPA : www.fbc-e.com)(see IE, TCE) 

KE Knowledge Economy 

KE Knowledge Engineering (see KS) 

KE Knowledge Environment (see KME) 

KEA Knowledge Engineer Architecture (Office Integration) 

KEA&D Knowledge Econometric Analysis and Design (see CKSE) 

KEI Knowledge Economy Index (edited by the KAM) 

Keiretsus Conglomerate of Japanese firms sharing one or several common denominators (Chaebol in Korea) 

KEP Knowledge-Embedded Process (see KEWP) 

KERMA Kinetic Energy Released in MAterial (see KERS) 

KERMIT Knowledge Extraction, Representation & Mgmt by means of Intelligent Techniques (www.kermit.ugent.be/ 

KERS Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems: the recovery and storage of a moving vehicle kinetic energy (see KP) 

KEWP Knowledge-Embedded Work Process (see KEP) 

Keyboard warrior someone aggressively typing rude words and pushing them on the Internet 

Key figure Definition of quantifiable variables measuring performances (see SKF) 

Key logger intruder that is logging your access codes for sending them to cyber-crooks. 

Key Master Data (CM) includes the planning type, planning level, planning source, planning group 

kF Kilofarad 

KFX Copenhagen Stock Exchange (see SE, SEC) 

kg kilogram 

KI Knowledge Index (edited by the KAM. See also KDP) 

KI Knowledge Intangibles (see KA) 

KIBP Knowledge-Intense Business Processes (see KM, KPI) 

KIBS Knowledge Intensive Business Services (see KM, KIBP, …) 

kiddie toolkit tools allowing amateurs to develop malwares 

KIDS Knowledge-based Integrated Design System (see R&D, RD, …) 

KIF Knowledge Information Format (international standard proposition) 

KIFs Knowledge Intensive Firms (see MAKE) 

KII Knowledge Innovation Initiative (see KIP, KM, …) 

Kill switch remote activation that renders the device inoperable and erases the stored data 

Khz KiloHertz 

KiloHertz Thousand cycles (see Hertz , Khz) 

Kindle Amazon's e-Book 

Kinect Kinetic + Connect : Microsoft allows the users interacting with its XBox360 without any game controller (see KP) 

KIP Knowledge Innovation Policy (see KII, KM, …) 

Kippers Kids in Parents Pocket Eroding Retirements Savings (UK) (see Neet , Twixters ) 

KIS Knowledge Information Strategy: going further than BI (see CIS, SI) 

KIS Knowledge Innovation Strategy (see KII, KIP, KM, …) 

KIS Knowledge Intensive Services (see LKIS) 

KISS Keep It Simple and Stupid: no overdesign, keep it simple to understand and assimilate (see R&D, RD, PLC) 

KJ method Affinity Diagram method: data collection and analysis by mutual affinity. 

KLOC Thousands of Lines Of Code (see LOC) 


KLC Knowledge Life Cycle (see CLC, DLC, ELC, ILC, KVC, KVCC, PLC, …) 

KLCM Knowledge Life Cycle Management (see KLC, KVC) 

KLV Key Length Value 

Km / km Kilometer 

Km² / km² square kilometer 

KM is NOT "a" Software ! much on the contrary! Personal & Interpersonal KM first! (see PKM)(http://futuring-km.blogspot.com/) 

KM Knowledge Management (free articles available) (see AKW, CKO, cognition , EK, KBB, OKF, NK, TK) 

Meet us on KMiB and DayTimeNews (www.daytimenews.com/feeds/4459.html) 

KM Knowledge Manager (usually said "KM manager" !) 

KM2.0 KM for social-networking, wikis, folksonomies, collaboration and sharing facilitation 

KM3.0 KM for 3D, semantic and geospatial WEB, content access by multiple non-browsing apps, toward TK... 

(www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-DqZ8jAmv0, www.slideshare.net/arts118/web3-a-simple-and-visual-explanation) 

KM4.0 Interconnection of the collective intelligence groups toward a sort of ubiquity (see UKP) 

KM in Google http://groups-beta.google.com/group/km-qa and (limited) attached practices / targets 

Knol accumulation, amalgamation, analysis, access & availability maintenance, assimilation, capitalization, 

community(ies) development, contextualization, continuous completion, control, creation, culture, 

diffusion, distribution, diversity, efficiency increase, explicitation, internalization, lifecycle management, 

maturity acceleration, openess, organization, process optimization, promotion, sharing, socialization, 

sponsoring, support, transfer, … 

KM Knowledge Map 

KM Knowledge Marketing (we recommend KMg) 

KM Knowledge Magazine 

KMA Knowledge Management Assistant (see CKMs) 

KMC Knowledge Management Community (see CoPs) 

KM Café rotating tables attendees are talking about K-related subject for finding issues to complex cases 

KMCB Knowledge Management Certification Board: part of the KMPro (see GKEC) 

KM- community dancrenson(at)km-community.be or via www.knowledgeboard.com/open_groups/km_in_belgium/ 

KME Knowledge Management Environment (see KE) 

KMF Knowledge Management Forum 

KMF Knowledge Management Functionality 

KMg Knowledge Marketing 

KMI Knowledge Management Initiative 

KMiB KM in Belgium (SIG editor: Daniel C. Renson with +380.000 clicks, see KM-community ) 

KM in Belgium www.knowledgeboard.com/open_groups/km_in_belgium/ 

KMIS Knowledge Management Information System 

KML Keyhole Markup Language (see Exif, OGC): file format displaying geographic data in an Earth browser 

KML Knowledge Maturity Level ® (FBC>s concept and methodology) (see cognition ) 

KMM Knowledge Maturity Model: audit to be made before a KM initiative (see CMM) 

KMMM KM Maturity Model (registered by Siemens: a very limited proposition only based on a CMM & EFQM reading) 

KMO Knowledge Management Office (see PMO, PSO) 

KMO Knowledge Management Organization (see PMO, PSO) 

KMODC Key Management Ordering and Distribution Center 

KMPro Knowledge Management Professional Society: an independent NPO (see KMCB) 

KMQ KM Questionnaire: several updates already achieved, various domains covered. 

KMS Knowledge Management System 

KMSA Knowledge Management System Architecture 

KMS&V Knowledge Management Strategy & Vision 

KMT Knowledge Management Team 

KMT Knowledge Management Technologies (see KMS, TGC) 

KMT Knowledge Management Tool(s) 

KMTT KM Think Tank (see BIZ352) 

KMWG Knowledge Management Working Group 

kN kilo Newton (see N, Nm) 

Knol contraction of Knowledge in the new WEB2.0 encyclopedia of Google (see KM in Google) 

It designates a unit of knowledge in http://knol.google.com/k 

Knowledge2be http://groups.google.com/group/knowledge2be 

ko kilooctet: unit of computer storage (see octet ) 

KO Knowledge Organization: academic publication of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (see ISKO) 

Characterized by the 3S-Principles 

*.koa Commodore 64 Koala (image file format) 


KOF Knowledge Organization Fields 

KOLs Key Opinions Leaders 

KOSs Knowledge Organization Systems (see SKOS) 

KP Kinetic Parameters (see KERMA, KERS, Kinect) 

kph kilometer per hour (speed) 

KPI Key Performance Indicator (535 referenced KPIs within Global ASAP)(see BI, KBI, KIBP, KSF, SI) 

KPM Kaikaku Project Management: relevant Japanese PM in a world that's shorthening the organizations lifecycles 

KPMG Klynveld, Peat, Marwick, Goerdeler : multinational consultancy office. 

KPO Knowledge Process Outsourcing: considered as a suite of BPO for more advanced competitive solutions (see ITO) 

KPS Knowledge Pool System 

KQML Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language (international standard proposition) (see IWG, KIF) 

KR Knowledge Repository (collection of information or knowledge bank) 

Kr Krypton 

KRE Vendor Account Group. Fr: Groupe de Comptes Fournisseurs 

KRI Key Risk Indicators (see KPI, RM) 

KRL Knowledge Representation Language (knowledge Machine: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/porter) 

KRN Kernel 

KRP Knowledge Resource(s) Planning (see CRP, KM, KVC, KBCA, etc …) 

KRS Knowledge Representation Structures 

KRS Knowledge Retrieval System: hard to achieve without the group / corporate taxonomy 

KS Knowledge Sharing (versus "my Knowledge is my Power") requires a supporting organizational culture (see OC) 

KS Knowledge Structuring (see KE) 

KS Knowledge Syndication: Alliance Relationship & KM 

KSA Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: eligibility factors (see HRM, HCA, KM, ROK, ROP, ...) 

KSA Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 

KSETP TM of the Knowledge Systems Engineering Training Program 

KSF Key Success Factors (see KPI, SKF) 

KSP Key Storage Provider : access security 

KSS Knowledge Supporting Software: KM is not a Software ! 

KTG Knowledge Training Group, is considered as an active controling group 

Kubuntu Linux Ubuntu operating system derivative meaning "free" in Kirundi. It uses the KDE. 

kV Kilovolt 

KVC Knowledge Value Chain (see KM, SCM and c-SCM, VC) 

KVCC Knowledge Value Chain Cycle (see KLC, KM, SCM, c-SCM, VC) 

KVM Keyboard / Video / Mouse 

KVMoIP Keyboard / Video / Mouse over IP for remotely managing servers. 

KW Knowledge Warehouse (see BW/SAP, DW, KM, KME, KMT, ... ) 

KW Knowledge Work (remember the "Knowledge Worker " of Peter Drucker)(see HEKW) 

kW KiloWatts (see MW) 

kWH KiloWatts / Hour 

KYC Know Your Customer (see BI, CLC, CRM) 

L Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

L 50 (fifthy) in the Roman numeral system 

L2TP Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 

LA Limited Access 

LACNIC Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry 

LAD Local Access Database 

LAFTA Latin American Free Trade Association 

Lag delay after a logical relationship modification in a project schedule (see Lead ) 

LAM Logical Application Mart (see PAM, VAM) 

LAMP Linux - Apache Web server - MySQL database engine - PHP application development tool 

LAN Local Area Networks (see BAN, LAWN, PAN, SAN, VLAN, WAN) 

LAN party LAN set for starting a MCG / MMOG (see game , gaming , …) 

LANE LAN Emulation 

lang. language 

LAO Lean Administration Officer … a new trend ! Life cycles 

Laptopreneur Laptop-based entrepreneur: mobile / nomade enterprise indicative list 

Large caps Large Capitalizations application 

LARPG Live Action RPG (see ARG, game , gaming , MMO, …) client 

LAS League of Arab States communication 


Laser Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (see anacronym) data 

LAT Living Apart Together data system 

LAT Location-Aware Technology (see EOTD) employees 

LATA Local Access and Transport Area information 

latency synonym for delay in a NW infrastructure 

LAWN Local Area Wireless Network (see BAN, LAN, PAN, SAN, VLAN, WLAN, WPAN) knowledge 

LBA Local Business Ads partners 

LBI Lean Business Intelligence (see BI, CA, CI, SI) products 

LBI Leverage Buy-In (see BIMBO, LBO, LMBI, LMBO) suppliers/vendors 

*.lbm Amiga IFF (image file format) systems 

LBO Leverage Buy-Out (see BIMBO, LBI, LMBI, LMBO) technologies 

LBS Location Based Services (the client is localized on his mobile phone) They all have to 

LBU Leverage Build-Up (see BIMBO, LBI, LBO, LMBI, LMBO) be synchronized 

LBX Letterboxing 

LC Learning Community (see CoPs) 

LC Life Cycle (see CLC, ELC, LCA, LCG, LCM, LT, PLC, … TLM and the here above indicative list) 

L/C Letter of Credit 

LCA Life Cycle Analysis (see CLC, CLCM, ELC, LC, PLC, … TLM and the here above indicative list) 

LCD Liquid Crystal Display 

LCD projector see projector and projector related acronyms 

LCD Lowest Common Denominator 

LCG Life Cycle Gap (see CLC, ELC, LC, LCA, LCM, LT, PLC, … TLM and the here above indicative list) 

LCIS Local CIS 

LCM Life Cycle Management (see LC, PCR, PLC and more) 

LCMS Learning Content Management System (see LMS) 

LCO Lowest Cost of Ownership (see TCO) 

LCPs Legal Change Patches (releases about legal requirement changes) 

LCPUE Life Cycle Perspective for Ubiquitous Engineering (www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/) 

LCR least cost routing: cost decrease when using the cheapest route. 

LCR Local Continuous Replication (Microsoft Exchange Server 2007) 

LCTVS Locally Convex Topological Vector Space (see GVF) 

L&D Learning and Development (see LD, LLA, LLL, …) 

LD Laser Disc (see Blu-ray , Laser ) 

LD Learning Design (see LDSE, ILDSE) 

LD Learning Disabilities 

LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol 

LDAR Leak Detection And Repair 

LDC Linguistic Data Consortium. It supports the GALE Program (www.ldc.upenn.edu/) 

LDCs Less Developed Countries (see LLDC, NDC) 

LDoS Last Day of Support 

LDP Label Distribution Protocol 

LDSE Learning Design Support Environment (see ILDSE, L&D, LD) 

LDW Logistics Data Warehouse (LIS) 

LE Limited Edition (see SE) 

Lead acceleration after a logical relationship modification in a project schedule (see Lag ) 

LEAP (E&Y) Learning Environment to Accelerate Performance (E&Y program that supplements SAP InfoDB) 

LEAP Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol 

Leap day or leap year date. It designates the date of February 29 that comes every four years 

Least squares operational methodology (mathematics). Fr. moindres carrés (méthodes des -) 

LEC Local Exchange Carrier 

LEC LAN Emulation Client 

LED Light Emitting Diode (see LEECs, OLED, PRS-LED): diode generating photons when electrons passes trough it. 

Ledger Accounting book. Fr: livre comptable 

LEECs Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells (see LED, OLED) 

LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design 

LEM Low Emitting Materials 

LEMONADE Licence to Enhanced Mobile Oriented and Diverse Endpoints (www.lemonadeformobiles.com) 

LEMONADE Profile1 collection of standards extensions for the IMAP and SMTP protocols to provide efficient mobile email 

access and mobile email services that have been associated with proprietary devices and servers before June 2006 

LEO Logistic Execution Optimiser 


LES Locally-Engaged Staff 

LES Logistics Execution System (www.sap.com/products/les/) 

LESS Least Cost Estimating and Scheduling (see LRU). Only one time estimate per operation 

LES - TMS Transportation Mgmt System (Shipment scheduling & routing, freight cost mgmt, monitoring) 

LES - WMS Warehouse Mgmt System (In/outbound processing, planning, storage, warehouse technology) 

*.lex file with a *.l exension is a lex source file containing a program knowing how to create an object file 

LF Low Frequency (see HF, UHF) 

LFRs Less-Favored Regions 

LFS Labo(u)r Force Survey (EC) (see CLFS) 

LGPL Lesser General Public License (see GFDL) 

LHA file format for a compressing utility popular in Japan 

LHC Large Hadron Collider (http://en.rian.ru/img/117913317_free.html) (see WLCG) 

LHV Longer Heavier Vehicle: long supertruck of about 60 tons. 

Licenseware License is paid upon purchase of the shareware. Fr : licenciel ou légaliciel 

LIDAR LIght Detection And Ranging of Laser Imaging Detection And Ranging 

LIDI Line Item Display Indicator (see further) 

LIDS Linux Intrusion Defence System (www.lids.org) 

LiF (Fr) Livraison Finale (code apposé à l'entrée marchandise ou dans le poste du contrat cadre) 

LIF Location Interoperability Forum 

LIFFE London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange 

Li-Fi Light-Fidelity (see WiFi) 

LIFO Last In / First Out (inventory management) (see FIFO) 

LIL Logistics Information Library (see LIS, MIS) 

LiMo Linux Mobile 

LIMS Laboratory Information Management Systems 

LinCS Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society (Swedish Research Council) 

Line item part of a document containing information on a single item. Its entry is controlled by a posting 

key (2 digits) : debit/credit, account type, layout of entry screens (amount + or -, account 

number, information on the transaction) 

Line item display line item can be reported in allowing the drill-down 

Line item displ. indicator determines whether the individual line items that are posted can be displayed 

through reports. The LIDI allows the user to drill down from an Acct balance to the individual document. 

LION Leading International Open Networkers on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/) 

Link bait attractively designed website content for inviting one to link and move to another site. Used in SEO (see clickbait ) 

LinkedIn the largest business oriented social network (see Facebook ) 

Linux a Unix-like operating system (see Selinux, Tux ) 

LipSync lips synchronization: useful for 3D avatars animation (see FaceSync ) 

LIRs Local Internet Registries 

LIS Logistics Information System (see LIL, MIS) 

LIS Library and Information Science (see DILL) 

Lisp LISt Processing, high-level programming language (1958) favored for AI applications & researches 

LKIS Less Knowledge-Intensive Services (see KIS) 

LLA Life Long Amalgamation (see LLL, LLP) 

LLC Limited Liability Company: partnership within a corporate structure. 

LLDCs Least Developed Countries (see LDC, NDC) 

LLI Lower Layer Interface 

LLK Life Long Kindergarten: attentively studying the learning in the digital age (http://llk.media.mit.edu) 

LLL Life Long Learning (see CBT, e-Learning, LLA) 

LLLA LLL Activities 

LLLP LLL Program (see CONTSENS, LO) 

LLM Master of Laws 

LLP Lead Logistics Provider (see SC, SCEM, SCM, SCPM) 

LLP Lifelong Learning Program 

LLPLG Life Long Process of Learning and Growing: education. And it is related to best governance 

LLW Limited Lifetime Warranty 

LLWR Low Level Waste Repository 

LM Load Modulation (see AFK, FSK, PSK) 

LMAC Lightweight Medium ACcess (protocol) 

LMBI Leverage Management Buy-In (see BIMBO, LBI, LBO, LMBO) 

LMBO Leverage Management Buy-Out 


LMDS Local Multipoint Distribution System / Service 

LME London Metal Exchange 

LMIC Low and Middle Income Countries 

LMIS Lloyd's Maritime Information System 

LMP Level Monitoring Program 

LMS Learning Management System (see CAT, CBT, IBT, ILT, LCMS, ROLE, WBT) 

LMSR Large, Medium-Speed, Roll-on/roll-off (ships) 

LNG Liquefied Natural Gas (about resources: energy. See IEA). Fr. GNL / Gas Naturel Liquéfié 

LO Learning Organization: adaptive organization interacting constantly with its environment to learn and evolve (www.eclo.org/ 

LO Living Object (see OO and others) 

LO Logistics - General (SAP R/3 Business Application Areas) 

LoA Line of Action 

LOA Letter Of Agreement / Acceptance (see LOI, LOS, MOU) 

LoB Line of Business 

LOB Large OBject 

LOC Library of Congress Classification (see Taxonomy ) 

LOC Lines Of Code (see KLOC) 

LOC LinkedIn Outlook Connector (http://blog.linkedin.com/2010/02/17/linkedin-microsoft-outlook/) 

LOD Linked Open Data (see Dbpedia, RDF, Web3.0) 

LOD com W3C Linking Open Data community 

LO-EHS LO - Environment Management (SAP) 

LoI Letter of Intent (see export lingo , LOA, MOU, TOR) 

LOIC Low Orbit Ion Cannon from the game Command and Conquer to test the Web server resistance 

LOL Laughing Out Loud (Internet jargon)(see IL) 

LO-LIS LO - Logistic Information System (SAP) 

LOM Learning Object Metadata (see LTSC) 

LO-MM Materials Management 

LOMS Logical Output Management Systems (see OMS, XOM, ROMS) 

Longhorn Windows Vista edition … heavily criticized. Successor: Window 7 

Long Tail Internet related to Life After Television (Gilder): wide bandwidth-based first choice on Internet 

LO-PM Plant Maintenance 

LO-PP Production Planning & Control (see APO) 

LO-PP-PI Process Industries 

LO-PS Project System (see CPM, Gantt Chart , PERT, PM, PMI, PM-BOK, ..) 

LO-QM Quality Management (see QA, QC, EFQM, TQM, ..) 

LOR Learning Object Repository 

LOS Letter Of Service (see LOA, MOA, MOU, TOR) 

LOS / NLOS Line-of-Sight / Non-Line-of-Sight 

LO-SD Sales and Distribution 

LO-SM Service Management 

LOT Lab of Tomorrow (project integrating HW and SW for teaching modern physics) 

LOT Life Orientation Test (American test) 

LP Life Process (see LC, HRLC, …) 

LP Linear Programming (Excel may be used for performing it)(see MCLP) 

LP Long Playing (record) (see also CD, DVD, HDCD, MMCD, SD) 

L2P Learn To Play 

LPD Laser Phosphor Display: more flexibility and less power consumption 

LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas 

Lpi Lines per inch (printing business) 

LPP Legitimate Peripheral Participation 

LPSDRAM Low-Power Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory 

LPT Longest Processing Time (see BPR/M, DD, FCFS, LTP, PLC, PLM, PM, PSO / PMO, SPT, …) 

LP WiFi Light Painting WiFi: WiFi networks capture with LED equipped masts (Postscapes Awards 2011) 

LR Leverage Ratio (Basel III)(see Basel 2 ) 

LR Likelihood Ratio 

LRAC Long-Run Average Cost 

LRE Law of Rare Events (ignored in Japan/March 2011: the case of the Fukushima atomic central) 

LRU Least Recently Used (see LESS) 

LS Learning System (see MLS) 

LSC Lean Supply Chain (see ASC, CRSC, SCM, SCEM, …) 


LS E London Stock Exchange (see NYSE) 

LSEO Local SEO 

LSM Lame-Stream Media 

LSM Lean Selling Machine (see CRM, ERP, SCEM, SCM, TPS, …) 

LSMW Legacy System Migration Workbench (allows data transfer without programming) 

LSP Layered Service Provider 

LSR Lasers (HTG within the IPC) 

LST Living System Theory (James Grier Miller): 21 primary subsystems for defining all living systems (see CA) 

LSX Lotus Script Extension 

LT Life Time or Lifetime (see LC, LTP, LTV, PLC and others) 

LTCM Long Term Capital Management (1990) (see LTRO) 

Ltd Limited 

LTE (3,9G) Long Term Evolution (Nokia, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia Siemens Networks, Sony Ericsson) 

LTE advanced LTE complying with the IMT 4G specs (see NGT) 

LTER Long Term Ecological Research 

LTI Linear Time Invariant 

LTO Limited Time Offer (see POS) 

LTO Linear Tape Open : cassette storage standard (see DLT & AIT) 

LTP Long Term Planning (see BPR/M, DD, FCFS, LPT, MTP, PLC, PLM, PM, PSO / PMO, SPT, …) 

LTP LifeTime Profit (see LTV) 

LTRO Long Term Refinancing Operations (see LTCM) 

LTS Long Term Strategy (see LTE) 

LTSC Learning Technology Standardization Committee (http://ieeeltsc.wordpress.com/)(see LOM) 

LTV Lead Time, Variability 

LTV LifeTime Value (see LTP) 

LUA Limited-User Accounts (to increase control and flexibility for user privileges and permissions) 

LULUCF Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry 

LVD Low Voltage Directive (EU safety standards) 

LVP Lowest Value Principle 

LVA Low Value Assets (AA) 

LW Long Wave (radio) (see AF, AM, MW, SW) 

LWR Light Water Reactor (see NPPs) 

LWRS Light Water Reactor Sustainability (see NPP) 

LWSS LightWeight SpaceShip 

LWUIT Lightweight UI Toolkit (see AI, GUI, UI) 

LZW file format for algorithms-based data compression by Lempel and Zev 

M Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

3M Maintenance and Material Management (see MMM) 

m meter 

m² square meter 

m³ cubic meter 

M3 Maximum Mobility & Manipulation (program) (DARPA www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YqpO58x7vuE 

M 1,000 (Thousand) in the Roman numeral system (see C, X) 

MA Master of Arts in … (see BS, MBA, MEM, MIS, Ph.D., …) 

MA Mobile Access (see MT) 

M&A Merge & Acquisition 

MaaS Marketing as a Service (see SaaS, PaaS, XaaS) 

MAAWG Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (http://www.maawg.org/home) 

MAC Mandatory Access Control (see DAC) 

MAC Material Acquisition Costs 

MAC Material Adverse Change 

Mac address Media Access Control address 

MACE Minimum Average Correlation Energy 

Machine learning development of algorithms allowing computers to evolve with the perceived environmental data accumulation (see AI) 

macronym an acronym that is containing another one. Example: ODMA = Open Document Management API 

MAD Mobile Applications Development (see OHA) 

MADD Mothers Against Drunk Driving (USA) 

MAI Machine Augmented Intelligence 

MAI Maintenance Administrative Instruction 

MAI Multilateral Agreement on Investment 


MAID Massive Array of IDLE Disks (see RAID) : for storing long-term data 

mainframe high-performance computer for large computing purposes 

MAIS MAterial Information System (SAP) 

MAKE Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (see KIFs, KM) 

Malvertising malicious advertising links 

MalWare MALicious SoftWare (see Adware , Spyware , Zombie attack / NW )(see FBM, Mag 3, www.fbc-e.com) 

Malware-related hoaxes incorrect information that are stressing the users and pushing them to perform errors 

MAN Metropolitan Area Network (see LAN, PAN, VLAN, WAN) 

Management attitude management approachable or not ? (article in the 3d issue of the FBC>s Business Magazine) 

Manager's Workbench enables line managers to easily perform administrative tasks (accounting -assets, budgets, HR) 

Mandant SAP : Client (0001 = delivery, 800 = training). Entity representing a business system that has 

the purpose of acquiring, producing … goods and services 

MANETs Mobile AdHoc Networks 

Mango Windows7 update: advanced social media interface (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Web access, coupled email boxes) 

MAPI Messaging Application Programming Interface 

MAPP Microsoft Active Protections Program 

MAPS Middleware Application Platform and Service 

MAR Mobile Augmented Reality (see AR, AV, SAR, …) 

MARA Mobile Antivirus Researchers Association 

MARC21 Machine-Readable Concise (Format) 

MARP Most At Risk Populations 

MARS Middleware And Related Services 

MARS Monitoring - Analysis - Response System (CISCO Security) 

MAS Mobile Agent System 

Mashboard a Web 2.0 buzzword used to describe analytic mash-up (s) 

Mashup lightweight tactical integration of multisourced applications or content into a single offering 

MASP Multi Annual Strategic Plan (see EMCS, PLDA) 

masquerade masquerading = stealing the Net ID of someone else (see Hacking , Spoofing ) 

Mass mingling social-network aided gathering / proximity organization, events on-line sharing (see maturialism , nowism ) 

MAT Media Access Technology (see HPMAT) 

Matchcode Tool for finding records 

Matchcode ID /A = search using address data 

/C = search by class 

/D = search using the "search term" field in the MR or search by Company Code 

/E = search by country (foreign customers) 

/K = search by account group 

/S = search by sales organization (SD) 

/Z = search by account number of the head office 

Matchcode/customer acct is DEBI . It determines which DB tables & fields are required for the matchcode ID 

Material Type / DIEN Services (SAP) 

Material Type / FERT Finished products (german : fertig) (SAP) 

Material Type / FHMI Production resources / tools (SAP) 

Material Type / HALB Semi-finished products (SAP) 

Material Type / HIBE Operating supplies (SAP) 

Material Type / ROH Raw material (SAP) 

Material Type / VERP Packaging (SAP) 

Maturialism mature-materialism: evidence of an advanced customer (among others) concrete / anticipative activism maturity 

Maturialist see maturialism , mass mingling , nowism , ... 

MAU Multi station Access Unit 

Mb see Mega 

MBA Master of Business Administration (see EMBA, MEM, MIS) 

MBB Mobile Based Business (see HBB) 

MBBS Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery 

MBM Management By Metrics 

MBNQA Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (1987) for outstanding quality control management recognition 

MBO Management By Objectives (see DPO) 

Mbps or mbps megabits per second (see Mo) 

MBR Master Boot Record 

MBR Multiple Bit Rate 

MBS Mortgage-Backed Securities 


MBSA Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsahome.mspx) 

MBTI Meyers Briggs Type Indicator (see INFJ)(www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/the-16-mbti-types.asp) 

m-Business mobile business (see momo ) 

MBWA Management By Walking About : management principle 

*.mbx designation of the Outlook (Microsoft Windows) files containing the emails (see .dbx) 

MC Mobile Centralisation 

MCA Machine Check Architecture 

MCA Micro Channel Architecture 

MCA Mobile Cognition Acquisition 

MCBI Mission Critical Business Intelligence (see BI, CI, SI ...) 

MCC Mobile Country Code 

MCDM Multi-Channel Digital Marketing (see e-Marketing ) 

MCE Machine Check Exception (Processor information) 

MCE Management Center Europe (www.mce-ama.com/)(see AMA) 

MCG Multiplayer Computer Game (see gaming , MMOG, …) 

MCF Maturity Class Framework (see CEM, CMA, …) 

MCF Multimedia Container Format (see EBML) 

MCI Malicious Call Identification (service) (see ISDN) 

MCI Media Control Interface 

MCLP Multiple Criteria Linear Programming (see LP) 

MC²LP Multiple Constraint Level Linear Programming 

MCM Media Content Management (see CM, ECM, WCM) 

MCMIS Motor Carrier Management Information System 

MCMLL Monte Carlo Machine Learning Library: Open Source C++ template library 

MCMXCIX 1999 in Roman numeral system 

m-Commerce Mobile Commerce (see D-Commerce, m-Customer, MoMo) 

MCP Microsoft Certified Professional 

MCPP Microsoft Communication Protocol Program 

MCPS Microsoft Certified Solution Provider 

MCQ Multiple Choice Questionnaire (see MCT) 

MCR Minimum Capital Requirement (see SCR) 

MCRM Mobile Client Relationship Management (see CRM, MM, MSCM) 

MCS Microsoft Consulting Services 

MCSA Microsoft Certified System Administrator 

MCSA Mobile Computing Systems and Applications 

MCT Multiple Choice Test (see MCQ) 

MCU Mobile Collection Unit 

MCU Multipoint Control Unit 

mCustomer Mobile Customer (see mCommerce , MoMo) 

MD (Fr) Marchandise Dangereuse 

MD Mini Disc (see CD, DVD) 

M.D. Medical Doctor 

MDA Mail Delivery Agent (push mail) 

MDA Model Driven Architecture (see MDSD, SOA) 

MDAC Microsoft Data Access Components (www.microsoft.com/data/MDAC27Info/ReadMe.htm.) 

MDBMS Multi-Dimensional Data Base Mgmt System 

MDBs Message-Driven Beans (see Java) 

MDCP Multi-Duplicitous Communication Protocol (see example of APRIL) 

MDE Meta-Data Environment (see MME) 

MDF Main Distribution Frame 

MDGs Millennium Development Goals 

*.mdi Microsoft Document Imaging (file) 

MDI Multi-Document Interface (see EDI) 

MDM Market Data Management (devises, titres, statistiques, … ) 

MDM Master Data Management (see DB, DBMS, DW, … RDBM, RDBMS, …) 

MBM Mobile Device Management (see WNM) 

MDMM Metric -Driven Mobile Marketing 

*.mdmp minidump media player (see Minidump ) 

MDMP Multi-Display, Multi-Processing 

MDMS Mobile Digital Media Server 


MDOP Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 

MDPs Markov Decision Processes (see POMDPs) 

MDS Multidimensionnal Scaling (see GTM, SOM) 

MDSD Model-Driven Software Development (derived from MDA) 

MDU MultiDwelling Unit 

MDW Mobile Data World 

MDX Multi-Dimensional eXpression (language for multidimensional data manipulation) 

ME Mechanically Enhanced (see AR, MEP) 

ME Middle-East (see FE) 

M&E Monitoring & Evaluation 

MEA Middle-East and Africa (see ASEAN, APEC, EMEA, …) 

MEA Mobile Excellent Awards, US association awarding the best innovations for mobile phones 

Measure If you can't measure it, you won't be able to manage it (Peter Drucker)(see metrics ) 

MEB Mechanically Enhanced Body (see AR, BAN, ME, MEP) 

MEDLINE freely accessible Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (USA)(see NLM, PMID) 

M-education Mobile education: McKinsey & GSM Association about the mobile-based courses 

Meebo web platform for IM on any NW or site: FaceBook, Google Talk, MSN, Yahoo, MySpace, etc. 

MeeGo operating system code with the open source community for mobile (Nokia and Intel teams) 

Mega Mega Octet : 1.048.576 Bytes (1KB x1024) (see mbps, Go, To, Po, …) 

Mega - … often used as a prefix to let think about a largely sized phenomenon or something else 

Megaco Media Gateway Control Protocol (application layer) 

megahertz million hertz (see Mhz) 

MEI Maturity Efficiency Indicator (see MLD) 

MEM Master of Engineering Management (see MBA, MIS, MSEM, …) 

Meme cultural information unit, transferable from one mind to another (Richard Dawkins, '76) It facilitates the replication 

memristor memory & resistor 

MEMS Micro Elecro-Mechanical Systems: combination of computers with tiny mechanical structures on silicon chips 

(see Cicada, CILIA) 

MENA Middle East & North Africa (region)(see ASEAN, APEC, EMEA, MEA) 

MEP Mechanically Enhanced Person (see AR, EED, ME, MEB) 

MEP Mobile Electric Power 

MERIT Method to Extend Research in Time 

Mersenne primes collection of prime numbers (47 prime numbers as of june 2009)(see GIMPS, Grid ) 

MES Manufacturing Execution Software 

MES Mobile Embedded Systems 

Mesoeconomics "meso-" (= "middle") and "economics": in between microeconomics and macroeconomics 

Mesoeconomy intermediate level of the firms activity (to say it very simply) 

Metadata data details, fundamentals, definition. Heterogeneity varies: business, communication, operation, technique, etc 

Files of libraries catalogs (see LOM, Ontology , SIMD, XMP) 

Metaverse meta universe (see multiverse ) 

Metcalf's law the NW value is proportional to the square of the nodes number (see SNV, the law of Gilder and Moore ) 

Metrics If you can't measure it, you won't be able to manage it (Peter Drucker)(see measure ) 

MF Monetary Fund 

MFC Microsoft Foundation Classes (library) 

MFM Master of Facility Management (see FM) 

MFN Most Favoured Nation: basic status of international economic and/or politics negociations (see ITA, NTR) 

MFOQA Military Flight Operations Quality Assurance: US Navy best integration and analysis of flight data 

MFPs MultiFunctional Products or Printers 

MFT Master File Table 

MG Manufacturing Grid 

MG Multi-Grid 

MGCC Micro-Grid Central Controller (low-voltage distribution systems: http://microgrids.power.ece.ntua.gr) 

MGCP Media Gateway Control Protocol (application layer) 

MGE Micro-organism and Generic Engineering (HTG within the IPC) 

M Generation see Z Generation . M stands for multitasker (see also Y Generation ) 

MGIF Mobile Gaming Interoperability Forum 

Mgmt Management (common abbreviation) 

Mgr Manager (common abbreviation) 

MGT Mobile Ground Terminal 

MGX Microsoft's Global Exchange: previous annual sales conference 


MGX Microsoft's Global Experience: recent annual sales conference 

M2H Machine to Human (see H2H, H2M, HMC, M2H, M2M) 

MHD magnetohydrodynamic (generator) (see AC, DC, DCG) 

mHealth mobile health: a future killer app? 

MHL (MHDL) Multimedia High Definition Link 

MHMC Multimodal HMC (includes different types of input methods:natural language, gesture, face & handwriting characters) 

MHz MegaHertz 

MI Market Intelligence (see BI, CI, EI, RI, SI) 

MI Marketing Intelligence (see BI, CI, EI, RI, SI) 

MI Mobile Imagination 

MI Mobile Information (see MIS) 

MI Mobile Intelligence 

MIC Microsoft Innovation Centers: +170 in the world 

MICE Meetings, Incentives, Conventions, Exhibitions 

Micral First personal computer, 1972 in France: R2E and André Truong (see PC, PDA) 

microblogging low blogging activity (see Twitter) 

microcredit microloans granted to low-income entrepreneurs 

microfinance financial services provided to low-income clients 

microloans little loans 

Microsoft microcomputer software, coined by Bill Gates 

microTAS micro Total Analysis System : labs-on-a-chip 

*.mid MIDI Sequence (sound file format) 

MID Mobile Internet Devices (see MDMS, UMPC) 

Middleware "in-between" SW 

MIDI Musical Instrumental Digital Interface 

MiFID Markets in Financial Instrument Directive: EU demands + information retention & integration to financial institutions 

MIG Metal Inert Gas, part of a welding process (see TIG) 

MIIS Microsoft Indentity Integration Server 

Miki mobile Wiki 

Milestone event of special significance (see PM, PMO, PS, PSO). Fr : jalon 

Millennials WEB2.0 workers, used to work digitally with the new tools and media 

Millennial Generation see Y generation 

MILSIM Military Simulation (see EDMSIM) (C4ic, www.c4ic.com) 

MIM graphical modelling program (http://www.hypergraph.dk/) 

MIM Man-in-the-Middle: computer networking way of aggression 

MIM Master In Management (see MBA, MEM, MIS, MSEM, …) 

MIM Master In Marketing 

MIM Master of Information Management 

MIM Miranda Instant-Messaging: open source application for Windows 

MIMAP Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic and Adjustment Policies 

MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (see IMT, S/MIME) 

MIMO Multiple Input Multiple Output: technology using multiple antennas at both ends of a wireless link (see ISI) 

MIND Mobile Internet Navigation Device (see MDMS) 

Mind mapping mind activity representation (www.fbc-e.com/news/magazines/Maga_issue5_2007_Dec.pdf) 

Minidump file containing the most important parts of a crashed application (see *.mdmp). More on : 

www.codeproject.com/debug/postmortemdebug_standalone1.asp 

MINISIS Interactive Microcomputer System for Information Retrieval and Library Management 

MIOD Mobile Implementation Officer (see CEO, CIO and others) 

MIOD Mobile Information Officer 

MIOA Marketing & Innovation Oriented Architecture 

MIOD Message Input-Output Device 

MIP Multilateral Interoperability Programme 

MIPA Mutual Internet Practices Association (http://mipassoc.org/) is hosting DKIM 

MIPS Microprocessor without Interlocking Pipeline Stages 

MIPS Million Instructions Per Second 

M4IS Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information Sharing (Sweden)(see KM) 

MIS Management Information System (see EWC) 

MIS Marketing Information System (see MRM) 

MIS Master of Information System (Techno-MBA) 

MISB Motion Imagery Standards Board 


MIS-EWC see MIS and EWC 

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA : www.mit.edu) 

MITIP Modern Information Technology in the Innovation Processes (see IEIP, www.mitip.org/) 

MITRE Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Establishment 

MIT Medical Information Technology 

MIT Module Integration Test 

MITM Man-In-The-Middle: attacks 

MJD Modified Julian Date (http://tf.nist.gov/general/misc.htm#Anchor-40346) 

MK MasterKey (see HK, SK) 

*.mka Matroska audio files (see *.mks, *.mkv) 

mkg marketing (common abbreviation) 

*.mks Matroska files for sub-titles (see *.mka, *.mkv) 

*.mkv HD H. 264 video file 

*.mkv Matroska video files (see *.mks, *.mka) 

MKV Multiple Kill Vehicle : missile for the US defense program 

M2M Machine To Machine: 27,7 billions € in 2013 (see H2M, M2H, MtoM, RR, RRR) 

M2M Member To Member (social or professional network, sport clubs, …) 

M2M Mobile To Mobile (see m-Monday , Miki , MoMo) 

M2MC Mobile to Mobile Convergence 

ML Master List (see BPML) 

ML Maximum-Likelihood (see BFA, RM) 

MLA Mutual Legal Assistance (see CIAC) 

MLC Multi-Level Cell (see SLC) 

MLD Maturity Level Determination (see MEI, SGA) 

MLD Most Likely Duration: a parameter used in PM or PERT activities / calculations (see MLE, MLET, MLT) 

MLE Most Likely Expectation (see MLD, MLET, MLT) 

MLET Most Likely Expected Time (see MLD, MLE, MLT, TTx) 

MLM Multi-Level Marketing (see MMM, MMP) 

MLMS Mobile LMS 

MLR Money Laundering Reporting 

MLS Mobile Learning Strategy (see MLS) 

MLS Modular Learning System (see e-learning , LS) 

MLT Most Likely Time: a parameter used in PM or PERT activities / calculations (see MLD) 

MLTM Mobile Local-Owner Trusted Module (see MRTM) 

MM Materials Management (R/3 Business Application Area) is primarily concerned with the material flow w/i a company. 

MM Media Marketing (see DM, DMM, DRM, SM, SMM, …) 

MM Mobile Marketing 

MMA MIDI Manufacturers Association 

mmbd Million Barrels Per Day 

MMC Matroska Multimedia Container : a free open standard container format 

MMC Microsoft Management Console (management tools for NW, services, computers, components …) 

MMC Multi-Media Command (set) 

MMCD MultiMedia CD (Philips and Sony) (see also CD, DVD, SD) 

MMD Man-Machine Dialog (see HMI, VHMI) 

MMD Mobile Malware Development / Developers 

MMDS Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service 

MME Managed Meta Data Environment 

MME Mobile Micro Electronics 

MMI Mobile Marketing Intelligence 

MML Multi-Modal Logistic (see ECL, ECS, MMT, SCM, …) 

MMM Maintenance and Material Management (see 3M) 

MMM Matrix Managers' Meeting 

MMM Metrics, Measurements & Management (see 3M) 

MMM Money Making Machine (see MLM, MMP, MMS) 

MMO Massively Multiplayer Online (see gaming , MMOGs) 

MMOBBG Massively Multiplayer Online Bulletin Board Game (see gaming , MMOBBRPG, … ) 

MMOBBRPG Massively Multiplayer Online Bulettin Board Role-Playing Game 

MMOCCGs Massively Multiplayer Online Collectible Card Games 

MMOFPS Massively Multiplayer Online First-Person Shooter (see gaming , MMO, MMORPG, …) 

MMOGs Massive Multiplayer Online Games (see GURPS, MMOBG, MMORPG, MMORTS) 


MMoM Monthly Minutes of the Meeting (see PM) 

m-Monday mobile Monday (based on the First Tuesday event principle) (see M2M, MoMo) 

MMOPGs Massively Multiplayer Online Puzzle Games 

MMOR Massively Multiplayer Online Racing (see game , gaming , MMO, …) 

MMORPG Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (A huge phenomenon. Visit the site of Anshe Chung: 

www.anshechung.com or the auction sites such as ige.com, wow4sale.com.buygamegold.com 

MMORTS Massively Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy game (see Game , Gaming , MMOGS, MMORPG) 

MMOSG Massively Multiplayer Online Sport Game (see game , gaming , …) 

MMP Mobility Management Protocol 

MMP Money Making Program (see MLM, MMM) 

MMR Mobility Management Requirement 

MMS Manufacturing Message Specification (MMS - ISO 9506)(see EG-MMS) 

MMS Microsoft Media Server (see UDP, TCP) 

MMS Money Making System (see MLM, MMM) 

MMS Multimedia Messaging Service (see SMS): long texts, sounds (music & voice records), pictures 

and photos in between GSM and email adresses 

MMS-IOP MMS Interoperability Group 

MMT Maximum amount for Meals/Time 

MMU Mobile Money for the Unbanked (administered by the GSMA Foundation) 

MM-WM Warehouse Management (in SAP MM) 

MN Milestone 

MNC Multi-National Company 

MNG, *.mng Multiple Network Graphics (image file format) 

MNO Mobile Network Operators 

MNU Mediatic Noise Unit (UBM translation) 

Mo see Mega 

MOA Memorandum Of Agreement (see CA, LOA, LOS, MOU, NDA, NCA, TOR) 

MOA Mobile Oriented Architecture (see SOA) 

MOAB Month of Apple Bugs (!) 

mobblogging Mobile Blogging (see Blog ) 

Mobile2.0 something like WEB2.0 but mobile (http://www.awt.be/web/mob/index)(see MoMo) 

mobile Blogging blogging as from the mobile phone (see Blog , Mobblogging ) 

mobile clouding cloud computing applied to mobility 

mobisphère www.mobisphere.be/ (see Blogosphere ) 

mobile TV TV programs reception on the mobile phone 

Mobilité (Fr) DVS Magazine, décembre 2009 www.dvsm.fr/DVSM_site01/Images/images_news/dvsm85ol.pdf 

Mobility relates to motion and is applicable to many domains: electronic devices, sociology, studies, transport, … 

MOBIO MObile BIOmetry (http://www.mobioproject.org/accessibility-info) 

MOC Matrix Of Change (MIT, USA : BPR and Change Management methodology / tool) 

Mod moderator 

*.mod ProTracker/FastTracker modules (sound file format) 

MOD Magneto Optical Disc 

MoD Matter of Debate 

MoD Mobility on Demand: in view of a future sustainable urban mobility 

MODEM MOdulator/DEModulator (see YAM) 

MOE Main Object of Expenditure 

MoF Ministry of Finance 

MOF Managed Object Format (used by the WBEM initiative) 

MOF Meta-Object Facility: definition language for the UML & CWM model writing language 

MOF Microsoft Operation Framework (see MSF) 

MOFF Microsoft Office File Format (see BFF, MOFV) 

MOFV Microsoft Office File Validation (see MOFF) 

MOLAP Multi-Dimensional OLAP (see DOLAP, HOLAP, ROLAP) 

MOLED Molecular Organic LED (www.oled-display.net/technology/moled) 

MOLO MObile LOcal: Mobile Internet-based Local commerce (see digital marketing ) 

MOM Manufacturing Operations Manager 

MOM Mail Order Manager 

MOM Multichannel Order Manager (see MOM) 

MOM Message-Oriented Middleware 

MOM Microsoft Office Manager 


MOM Microsoft Operation Management 

MOM Minutes Of Meeting 

MoMo Mobile Monday (along the First Tuesday event principle)(see mCommerce , mCustomer, ... ) 

MOMOCS MOdel driven MOdernisation of Complex Systems: EC research agreement for solving the dilemma between 

bureaucratic methodologies and agile ones 

Money mule financial intermediaries participating with fraudulous operations on the Net 

monkey testing random testing 

Monoline supported credit line 

Monte Carlo simulation random numbers-based applied mathematics experiments 

MOO Object Oriented MUD (see mudding ) 

MOOD Metrics in OO Developments 

Moore's law the processors' power is doubling every 18 - 24 months (see the law of Gilder and Metcalf ) 

MOOTW Military Operations Other Than War: response to highly critical crisis situation(s) for peace recovery. 

MOP Meta-Object Protocol 

MOQ, MOQs Minimum Order Quantity, Minimum Order Quantities 

MOS Metal Oxide Semi-conductor (see CMOS, XCMOS) 

MOS Microsoft Office System (Microsoft Office and Office Server) 

MOS Mobile OS (see WebOS) 

MOSS2007 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (edition 2007) 

motn short for "motion" (see *.motn) 

*.motn file extension for an Apple SW (www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/motion/) 

MOU or MoU Memorandum Of Understanding (see also LOA, LOI, LOS, MOA, NB-SOTs, TOR) 

*.mov Apple Quick Time (movie file) 

mp3 Moving Picture Experts Group Layer-3 Audio (audio file format) 

mp4 MPEG Layer-4 Audio (see AAC) 

MPA Mobile Phone Architecture (see MPRA) 

MPAA Motion Picture Association of America (see RIAA) 

MPC Massively Powerful Computer Moore 

MPC Mobile Personal Communication Metcalfe 

MPCS Multi-Point Communication Structure Gilder 

MPD Meals Per Day (Per Diems for Meals) 

MPDT Per Diems for Meals / Time 

MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group 

MPEG-4 MPEG with more compression, interactivity, internet access. MPEG-4 is the global multimedia standard, 

delivering professional-quality audio and video streams over a wide range of bandwidths, from cell phone to 

broadband and beyond (Quick Time) 

*.mpg movie compression (file) (see jpg) 

mpg miles per gallon (3,8 liters) 

mph miles per hour 

MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching: type of network that could be a base for a VPN or a WAN step-up 

A standards-approved technology for speeding up network traffic flow 

MPM Mobile Platform Management (see MPS) 

MPN Manufacturer Part Number 

MPO Music Power Output 

MPP Monthly Production Plan (see DPP, MPS, WPP, YPP) 

MPRA Mobile Phone Reference Architecture (see MPA) 

MPS Managed Print Services 

MPS Master Production Scheduling 

MPS Mobile Platform Support (see MPM) 

MPS Mobile Payment Service 

MPS Mobile Phone Software (see apps , SW) 

MPS Most Preferred Service 

MPWG Mobile Phone Working Group (see WG) 

MPX Microsoft Project Exchange File 

MR Mandatory Relationship. Fr: Relation Obligatoire 

MRAM Magnetic Random Access Memories (see DRAM, RAM) 

MRC Marketing's Revenue Contribution 

MRD Marketing Research Department 

MRD Material Required Date (see PO) 

MRD Minimum Required Distribution 


m-Retail Mobile Retail as from mobile smart devices 

MRG Malware Research Group (www.malwareresearchgroup.com) 

MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging (see fMRI, NMRI) 

MRM Market Risk Management (TR - MRM) 

MRM Marketing Resource Management (see MIS) 

MRO Maintenance, Repair and Operation 

MRP Material Requirement Planning, Production Planning Control (PP) 

MRPC Maximum Residual Packet Capacity 

MRPT Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (see Kinect, SDK) 

MRR Master Release Rights (see PLR, RR) 

MRS Multi Robot Systems (see RR) 

mrt Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool 

MRTG Multi Router Trafic Grapher (Internet) 

MRTM Mobile Remote-Owner Trusted Module (see MLTM) 

MRU lists Most Recently Used items / lists 

MRZ Machine Readable Zone 

MS Member States (EC) 

MS MicroSoft (see Windows) 

M.S. or M.Sc. Master of Sciences in ... (see BS, MBA, MEM, MIS, MSEM, Ph.D., …) 

M.Sc.IS Master of Sciences in Information Systems 

M&S Modeling and Simulation 

MSA Mobile Services and Applications (see MSA, MSP, MoMo, Mobile2.0) 

MSAT Microsoft Security Assessment Tool 

MSC Mathematical Subject Classification 

MSC Mobile Switching Center 

MSCM Mobile SCM 

MSCS Microsoft Cluster Service: clusters represent just one resiliency layer in the data protection strategy (see wolfpack ) 

MSD Mobile Software Development 

MSDE Microsoft Desktop Engine 

MS-DOS Microsoft Disk Operating System (see QDOS) 

MSDS Material Safety Data Sheets (see EHS, EH&S, H&S) (SAP form) 

MS DTC Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator 

MSE Mobile Subscriber Equipment 

MSE Multi-Screen Emulator 

MSEM Master of Science in Engineering Management (see BS, MBA, MEM, MIS, Ph.D., …) 

MSF Microsoft Solution Framework (see MOF) 

*.msi Microsoft Windows installer (file format) 

MSN Microsoft's portal, offering MSNBC News, sports, MSN Money, games and more 

MSN Multiple Subscriber Number (service) (see ISDN) 

MSNBC Microsoft & NBC: US-based cable news channel (www.msnbc.msn.com/) 

MSN-WLM Microsoft - Windows Live Messenger 

MSP Managed Service Provider (see ASP, MSPA) 

MSP Mobile Service Providers (see ASP, ISP, MSA, MSP, Mobile2.0, MoMo) 

MSP Multi-Services Player(s) 

MSPA Managed Service Provider Alliance (see ASP, MSP) 

MSR Management Social Responsibility (see CSR, ESR) 

MSR Marketing Support Representative 

MSR Model Specific Registers (processor information) 

MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price 

MSS Maximum Segment Size 

MSSG MPEG Software Simulation Group 

MSSP Managed Security Service Providers 

MSTI Main Science and Technology Indicators (OECD) 

MT Mobile Technology (see MA, MI, MSE, MSP, MTS) 

MTA Make-To-Availability: an operation mode required in the SCM for aligning it properly (see MTO, MTS) 

MTBF Mean Time Between Failure (see MTTR) 

MTD Multimodal Transport Document (see export lingo ) 

mtDNA Mitochondrial DNA. Used in forensics researches. 

MTF Message Text Format (see USMTF) 

M-Theory Multiverse (related to-) 


MTM Mobile Trusted Module (see MLTM, MRTM, MT) 

MTO Make To Order (see MTA, MTS) 

MTO Multi-Modal Transport Operation / Operator 

MTOM Machine To Machine (see H2M, M2H, M2M) 

MTP Medium Term Plan (see LTP) 

MTRR Memory Type Range Registers 

MTS Make To Stock (see MTA, MTO) 

MTS Mobile Technology Services (see MT) 

MTS Mobile TeleSystem 

MTTA Mean Time To Answer 

MTTC Mean Time To Change 

MTTM Mean Time To Market 

MTTP Mean Time To Product 

MTTR Mean Time To Repair (see MTBF, TTR and other TTx) 

MTTR Mean Time To Resource(s) 

MTU Maximum Transmission Unit 

MUD Multi-User Dungeon or Multi-User Dimension (see MOO, mudding ): NW-accessible, multi-participant, 

user-extensible virtual reality (VR). User's interface is completely textual. 

MUDs Multi-User Domains 

Muda economic waste. Part of the Toyota Production System (see TPS). 

Mudding Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities (see MOO, MUD) 

MULTI Multi Level Task Integration is bottom up fine-tuning the organizational transformation 

Multiprocessing simultaneous programs executions with access to common memories 

Multiverse assemblage of universes (see metaverse , M-Theory ) 

mumpreneur mamy ('mum') and entrepreneur 

MUR Media Usage Rights (see DRM) 

MURA Microsoft’s Upstream Reference Architecture 

Mura unevenness . Part of the Toyota Production System (see TPS). 

Muri overburden. Part of the Toyota Production System (see TPS). 

Murphy’s Law "whatever can go wrong will go wrong" (1949) but it has never been really founded 

MUS Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems 

MUVEs MultiUser Virtual Environments 

MUX MUltipleXer (see DEMUX) 

MVA Market Value Added (see EVA) 

MVA Microsoft Virtual Academy. 

MVC Model-View-Controller (example JOOMLA) 

MVNE Mobile Virtual Network Enablers (see MVNO) 

MVNO Mobile Virtual Network Operators (see MVNE, VNO). Example: Apple after its partnership with Gemalto 

MVOIP Mobile VOIP 

MVR Mean Value Ranking 

MVS Microsoft Virtual Server 

MVS Multiple Virtual Storage (IBM OS) 

MVVM Model-View-ViewModel (pattern) 

MVW Mobile Virtual Wallet (see NFC) 

MW Medium Wave (radio) (see AF, AM, LW, MW, SW) 

MW MegaWatt 

MW MicroWireless 

MW Middle Ware 

MWADD Mobile Web Applications Design and Deployment 

MWBP Mobile Web Best Practices, working group to set best practices (see W3C) 

MW MegaWatts (see KW) 

MWh MegaWatt / hour (see TWh) 

MWIF Mobile Wireless Internet Forum 

MWM Master(ing) What Matters (Brian Flook) 

MWM Measuring What Matters (Rod Napier) 

MXF Material Exchange Format (see AAF, BWF) 

MXML Macromedia XML (see NXML) 

N Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

N Newton (see kN, Nm) 

N Nitrogen 


N²0 Nitrous Oxyde 

NAAG National Association of Attorneys General (USA) 

NAAIM National Association of Active Investment Managers (USA) 

NABS Nomenclature for the Analysis and comparison of scientific programmes and Budgets (EC) 

NAC NW Access Control 

NAC (Cisco) NW Admission Control: only protected PC have access to the NW (see NAP, UAC, US) 

NACE Statistical classification of economic activities in the EU 

NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement 

NAI Network Address Information (see NAT) 

NAL NetWare Application Launcher 

NAL Network Abstraction Layer 

NAL Novell Application Launcher 

NALC New Applications License Charge (IBM) 

NAMA Non-Agricultural Market Access (see Doha, GATT, WTO, …) 

NAMEA National Accounting Matrix including environmental accounts 

nanoscale manipulation processing at one billionth of a meter (see Nanotech , np, NAST) 

nano-SIM nano sized SIM card 

Nanotech Nanotechnology (see np, NAST) 

NAPs Network Access Points 

NAP (Microsoft) NW Access Protection: only protected PC have access to the network 

NAREGI National Research Grid Initiative (see NGI) 

NAS Network Attached Storage (see BAN, DAS, LAN, SAN, WAN) 

NAS Newly Associated States (EU) 

NASA National Aeronautics Space Agency (USA)(see ESA, JAXA) 

NASBA National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (www.nasba.org) 

NASD3110 National Association of Securities Dealers Books and Records rule 

NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (see NYMEX, NYSE, SEC) 

NAST Nanoparticle Aerosol Science and Technology (see np) 

NAT Network Address Translation: middleware modifying NAI (translating IPV4 into IPV6) 

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization (see PfP) (Fr. OTAN) 

Nature compt able (Fr): sert au classement des coûts imputables à un centre de responsabilité (FI utilise des 

comptes généraux pour classer les ressources tandis que CO utilise des natures comptables). 

NAV Nano Air Vehicle : mini-drone 

NAV CE Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 

NB Nota Bene 

NBIC (convergence of) Nanotechnologies - Biotechnologies - Information sciences - Cognitives sciences 

NBNS NetBios Name Service 

NBS (ERP progresses into) Network Business Systems (see Web2.0, Cloud computing ) 

NB-SOTs Non-Binding Summaries of (key) Terms (see MOU, NDA, TOR) 

NC Natural Capital (see EDS, HMC) 

NC Natural Computation 

NC Net Computer 

NCA Non-Competing Agreement (see MOU, NDA, NCC) 

NCC Network Control Center (see SCC) 

NCC Non-Competing Continuation (see NCA) 

NCCA National Commission for Certifying Agencies (www.noca.org/ncca.htm) 

NCIJTF National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (USA) 

NCIS National CIS 

NCP NetWare Core Protocol 

NCSC National Cyber Security Center (USA) 

NDA Non Disclosure Agreement (see also MOU, NB-SOTs, NDNUA, TOR) 

NDC Newly Developed Countries (see LDC, LLDC) 

NDMP Network Data Management Protocol 

NDNUA Non Disclosure and Non Use Agreement (see CA, NDA, …) 

NDP Neighbor Discovery Protocol 

NEA Nuclear Energy Agency 

NEAR Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (see NEO) 

Nearshoring close / proximate Offshoring (being often a Farshoring enterprise / venture) 

n.e.c. not elsewhere classified 

NED Non-Executive Director 


Neet Not in Education, Employment, Training: young adults still living in their parent's home (UK) (see Kippers , Twixters ) 

negentropy order level (see entropy ) 

NEMA National Electrical Manufacturers Association (USA) 

Nemawashi Japanese consensus-building to ensure intelligent growth 

NEO Near Earth Object (could be a "geocruising " asteroid: risk of a serious damageable impact)(see NEAR) 

Neologism Word invented to depict more adequately / precisely a new reality. 

! The Global Language Monitor has announced that Web 2.0 has become the 1,000,000th English word 

! added to the codex of fourteen hundred-year-old language (June 10, 2010 at 10:22 am GMT) 

! English is currently generating about 14.7 words/day or one every 98 minutes (www.languagemonitor.com) 

neo millennial multimedia learning style and model supposed to have emerged as from 1982 

NEP New Economic Platform 

nerd lonesome person having active intellectual activities. Now is it also applicable to informatics addicted individuals. 

nerdspeak technically oriented language. See digispeak , Geekonics , geekspeak , Internetspeak 

nerdy characteristic of what goes with nerd . Example: a nerdy tie 

Net / NET Network (see NW, WEB) 

.net .net domain (see DNS) 

NetBook compact PC : originally built for surfing with an 8 to 13" screen (see smart phone ) 

Netentrepreneur entrepreneur on the NET 

Netizen citizen of the Net 

netlag physical side-effects resulting from an excessive netsurf activity. Something resembling the jetlag 

NET-speak typically related to the NET jargon or words. Examples : Intranet, Extranet. 

netsurf surfing on the net (see netlag ) 

NetWeaver SAP processes support that collect and transform data within the business intelligence (see BI) 

Networking action of creating a NW. 2 main NW: (1) social NW (see SNA) in between persons and groups, (2) digital NW (see 

social gaming , schmoozing ) 

Neural NW network of biological neurons or electronic elements simulating the neurons activities (see ANN, NI, NN) 

Nevertiree person choosing never to retire (possibly coined by Barclay’s Wealth)(see neologism ) 

Nevertirement see Nevertiree (possibly coined by Barclay’s Wealth) 

Nexus One Google phone 

NFC Near Field Communication: technology to develop proximity transactions between mobiles and contactless readers 

NFS NW File System. Allows files of another computer to be accessed and enables communication 

between programs on different computers. 

NFV Net Future Value (see NPV) 

NGDM Next Generation Data Mining (see KM4.0, UKM) 

NGG Next Generation Grids (see Grid Computing ) 

NGN Next Generation Network (sometimes it means New Generation in the Telecom domain)(see NGT) 

NGNA Next Generation Network Architecture 

NGO Non-Governmental Organization (see NPO) 

NGOSS Next Generation Operational Systems and Software (OGSS) 

NGT Next Generation Technology (see LTE) 

NHIN National Health Information Network (USA)(see HHS, EHR) 

NHPT Nine-Hole Peg Test (used in clinical assessments)(see PIH) 

NI Neuro Informatic (see AI, ANN, AR, Bionics , neural NW , NN …) 

nibble a 4 bits unit of information 

NIC Network Interface Card 

NIC Network Information Center (see ARPANET) 

NICE No Inflation Continuous Expansion: the pre-2008 crisis period as designated by the economists. 

NICs Newly Industrializing Countries (see Export lingo , NIE) 

NIC3 Numerically Intensive Computing, a 1300 processors super-calculator (Liège, Belgium) 

NIDS NW-based Intrusion Detection System (see HIDS, HIPS) 

NIE Newly Industrializing Economy (see Export lingo , NICs) 

NIH Not Invented Here (could lead to a syndrome: "that thing has no value as it's a NIH stuff "!)(see NOMA) 

NIM NW Infrastructure Management 

nimby not in my back yard (see pimby ) 

NINJA No Income No Job or Assets (borrowers without any …): related to the desastrous story of the "subprimes" crisis 

NIPA National Income and Product Accounts (USA) 

NIPC National Infrastructure Protection Center (USA) 

NIR National Inventory Report 

NIST National Institute of Standards & Technology. It has selected the AES (USA : http://cio.nist.gov/) 

NIST-F1 NIST Cesium Fountain atomic clock (see UTC, http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/service/time-computer.html) 


NIT New Information Technology (see IT, ICDT, NICT) 

NITO Network and Information Technology Operations 

NK Networked Knowledge (see KM, RBKO) Base of the FBC 's working collaboration full dedication 

nl News Letter 

NLA Network Location Awareness 

NLM (US) National Library of Medicine (Classification)(see MEDLINE, PMID) 

NLP Natural Language Processing: computers and human languages (example: could be useful for better BI) 

NLP Neuro-Linguistic Programming: psychotherapy and organizational change (see PNL) 

NLS National Language Support 

NLTM Network Lifetime Maximization 

NLTS Natural Language Technology Support 

Nm Newton meter (see kN, N) 

NM Network Marketing (see NW) 

NM Network Monitoring (see NW) 

NMA New Millenium Age (see NML) 

nme name (see Search tm ) 

NML New Millenium Learner (see NMA) 

NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 

NMRI Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (see MRI) 

NMS Network Management System 

NMS Network Marketing Strategy 

NMT Nordic Mobile Telephone : analog technology operating within the 450 and 900 MHz bands 

NN Neural Network (see ANN, GA, GP, NI, NLP) 

NNMF Non-Negative Matrix Factorization 

NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol (application layer) (see also FTP, TCP/IP) 

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA) 

NOC Network Operation Center (see SOC) 

NOCA National Organization for Competency Assurance (www.noca.org) (see NCCA) 

Node multi-branching point in a place, within a NW, the Internet (see "cloud ") (BC-BE-IMG) 

NODI Network Operation Data Infrastructure 

Noise undesirable interference (data, radio, video transmissions) 

NOMA Not On My Agenda (see NIH) 

Nomadism digitally-actualized def.: smart devices-assisted persons moving frequently and/or cyclically (see cloud2 ) 

Nomial a single name or term (in mathematics) (American Dictionary of the English Language) (see Acronomia ) 

Nomophobia no mobile phone phobia (UK Post Office and the UK survey organisation YouGov): related to mobile users anxiety 

Nook reader of the Barnes & Noble subsidiary 

NOOP No Operation: a command sent by the IMAP IDLE 

Noopolitik Noos (Knowledge in Greek) and (German) Politik to conceptualize the soft power (John Arquilla & David Ronfeldt) 

NOPAT "No Problem AnyTime" (see SLRP) 

NOPAT Net Operating Profit After Tax 

NOPLAT Net Operating Profit Less Adjusted Taxes 

Norms population without any enhancement (see genobility , singularity ) 

Notwork not working NW 

Nowism now-ism: instantaneity is required from who/what is around the individual (mobile assistance is concerned by the exigence) 

np nanoparticle or nanopowder (see NAST) 

NPAEs Non-Publicly Accountable Entities 

NPC Non-Player Character 

NPD New Product Development 

NPDP New Product Development Professional (Certification) 

NPO Non-Profit Organization (see NGO, NPTA). Fr.: Association Sans But Lucratif (ASBL) 

NPOM Non-Profit Organization Management 

NPOs National Productivity Organizations 

NPP(s) Nuclear Power Plant(s) (see LWR, LWRS) 

NRO Number Resource Organization: related to the IPv4 and IPv6 allocations. 

NPS Net Promoter Score for checking about the company's promoters and detractors 

NPS Network Policy Server 

NPV Net Present Value (see NFV) 

NPVCM NPV Compounded Monthly 

NPVCQ NPV Compounded Quarterly 

NPVCS NPV Compounded Semiannually 


NPVCA NPV Compounded Annually 

NPTA Non-Profit Trade Association (see NPO) 

NRDB Non-Relational Data Base (see RDB, RDBMS): middleware will be required to achieve some interoperability. 

nrg4SD Network of Regional Governments for Sustainable Development (www.nrg4sd.org/) 

NRSROs Nationally RecognizedStatistical Rating Organizations (USA) are CRA registered with the SEC 

NRZ No Return to Zero (2-level coding system) (see RZ) 

N&S Networking and Services (see R&D) 

NSA National Security Agency (see BOS, CIA, FBI)(USA) 

NSF National Science Foundation 

NSF Non Stop Forwarding 

NSI Network Solution International 

NSIC National Storage Industry Consortium (USA) objective : 1 To of data storage per square inch by 2008 

NSLookup delivers information of a given DNS 

NSO Name Supporting Organization 

NSP Native Signal Processor (Intel) 

NSP Network Service Provider (see ASP, CSP, ISP, …) 

*.nsv Nullsoft Streaming (file) 

NT New Technology (Microsoft) 

NTCI (Fr) Nouvelles Technologies de la Communication et de l'Information 

NTFP Non-Timber Forest Products 

NTFS New Technology File System 

NTIA National Telecommunications & Information Administration 

NTP Network Time Protocol 

NTR Normal Trade Relations (see MFN) 

NTS New Trading System 

NTSC National Television System Color / National Television Standards Committee (see PAL, SECAM) 

NTSC "Never Twice the Same Color" (critics about the poor quality of the NTSC system at the start) 

N.U.D.E Natural Ultimate Digital Experiment (http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/4353/) 

Nudge "a friendly note sent to a friend's phone" (Twitter) 

NUI Natural User Interfaces: movements and / or voice operation (see game , Kinect, …) 

NUS Network Unified Storage (see US) 

NUTS Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (EC) 

NVoD Near VoD 

NW NetWork (see Net, NM, NWM, PM, PS) 

NW Northwest or Northwestern 

NWG Network Working Group 

NWLC NetWork Life Cycle (see PLC and others) 

NWM(S) NetWork Management (System) 

NWOW New World Of Work is characterized by the mobility, the nomadism, the workplace absence … 

NWOWC New World Of Work Community 

NW3C National White Collar Crime Center (USA) (see IC3). 

NXML Nexaweb XML (see MXML) 

Nyetscape nickname for a low featured Web browser (see WWW) 

NYP Not Yet Published 

NYMEX New York Mercantile Exchange (see NASDAQ) 

NYSE New-York Stock Exchange (see DOT, IPO, SE, SEC) 

O Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

#op operation to set a website out of service 

OA Open Access 

OAA Overall Application Architecture 

OADM Optical Add / Drop Multiplexer (see DWDM, ONE, SDH, SON, SONET, WDWM) 

OAG Open Applications Group (integration standards specification) 

OAI Open Archives Initiative : http://www.openarchives.org/ 

OAI-PMH Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 

OAJ Open Access Journal 

OAM Operation and Maintenance 

OAPEC Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (see OPEC) 

OAPEN Open Access Publishing in European Networks 

OAR Open Access Repository / Repositories 

OARS Opening Automated Reporting System (see CCT, DOT, SOR) 


OASIS Object-Aware Situated Interactive Systems from Intel Labs (see AR) 

OASIS Org.for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (see SAML)(www.oasis-open.org) 

Decisions for easiest e-Biz communication (see also TOSCA) 

OATH-OTP Open Authentication-One Time Password generator 

OB Organizational Behavior (see BC, CM, ECM, HDP, OC, OD, OK, OCM, OM, pop culture , ... ) 

FBC >s OB FBC >s set of OB principles & rules 

BASIC Beginner's All-Purpose Individual Systemic Construction 

DESB Dynamic ESB 

ESB Enhanced Structured Behavior 

ESBC Ethnographic Study Based Design 

ESLR Expanded Set of Life Rules (see the 4LP) 

IB Idle Behavior 

IE Individual Empowerment 

SB Structured Behavior (FBC>s -Change Management) (FBWPA : info@fbc-e.com) 

SIM Synchronized Interim Management … send a RFIM / Request For Interim Management 

OBD-codes On-Board Diagnostics codes (car application) 

OC Organizational Creativity 

OC Organizational Culture (see CM, OB, OD, OK, OM, pop culture , …) 

OCC Overhead Cost Controlling (SAP) 

OCD Online Customer Data (see CEM, CRM, …) 

OCE Office of Congressional Ethics (USA) 

oCERT open source CERT 

OCGA Oriented CGA 

OCI Occupancy Cost Index (AOS Studley: 11.808€/workplace/2011. ICT = 35%) 

OCI Organizational Change Inventory 

OCL Object Constraint Language 

OCM Online Community Manager (see CM, SMD, SMO) 

OCM Organizational Change Management (see ACM, ECM, OCM) 

OCN Owner-Centric Networking (see centric ) 

OCR Optical Character Recognition (BC-SRV-ARL) 

OCRO Office of the Chief Research Officer 

OCRO Office of the Chief Risk Officer (Canada) (see CEO, COO, CRO, CTO, …) 

OCS Office Communication Server (Microsoft) 

OCS Office of the Corporate Secretary 

OCS Office of the Cyber Security (UK) 

OCTAVE Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation (Carnegie Mellon, USA, 1999) 

Octet 8 bit byte (see ko) 

OCW Open CourseWare 

OD Organizational Development: based on planned improvements (see BPR/M, EAI, IEM, OB, OC, OK, OM) 

OD Original Design (see R&D) 

ODA Official Development Assistance (USA) 

OData Open Data Protocol 

ODBs On-line DBs 

ODBC Open Data Base Connectivity (standard)(see IRDB) 

ODBO OLE DB for OLAP 

ODC Open Distributed Computing 

ODC Offshore Development Center) 

ODE Open and Distance Education (see ODL, OER) 

ODF (*.odf) Open Document Format (see *.odt, *.ods, OpenXML, PDF, *.pdf) 

ODI Open Data Link Interface 

ODL Open & Distance Learning (see ODE) 

ODL Optical Disc Library 

ODM Object Data Manager 

ODM Original Design Manufacturers (see CM, OEM, R&D) 

ODMA Open Document Management API 

ODNI Office of the Director of National Intelligence (USA)(see Intellipedia ) 

ODP On-Device Portal: pre-installed application for a simplified navigation. 

ODP Open Distributed Processing 

ODS Operational Data Store 

ODST Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (Halo, a reference for the frags maniacs) 


*.ods Open Document Spreadsheet: spreadsheet processing file format from the OpenOffice Suite (see *.odt) 

*.odt Open Document Text: word processing file format from the OpenOffice Suite (see *.odf, *.ods) 

ODT Open Document Table 

ODT Old Data Takeover 

ODT Overseas Deployment Training 

OE Operational Entity. Fr : Entité Opérationnelle 

OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development 

OECS Organization of Eastern Caribbean States 

OEE Overall Equipment Effectiveness 

OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer(s) (see ODM) 

OEP Open Educational Practices (see OER) 

OER Open Educational Resources (UNESCO) (see ODE, OLR) 

OF Open Flow (technology) 

OFA Order Frequency rAte 

OFB Open File Backup 

OFCCP Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (USA) (see EEOC) 

OFCS Offshore Financial Centers 

OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (see COFDM, MIMO) 

OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access: multi-user version of OFDM 

Off-the-peg ready to take and wear (see off the shelf ) 

Off-the -shelf ready to take and start using 

OF/OP (Fr) Ordre de Fabrication / Ordre de Process (conversion ordre planifié en -) 

OGC Open Geospatial Consortium (see GIS, KML) 

OGF Open Grid Forum (definition of Grid middleware standards)(see Grid computing ) 

*.ogg Ogg Vorbis Sound (sound file format) 

OGRE Open Graphics Engine 

OGSA Open Grid Services Architecture (see GGF) 

OGSI Open Grid Services Infrastructure (see GGF, WSRF) 

OH OverHeard = I've been told that …. . It may be used as a Twitter command. 

OHA Open Handset Alliance (30 enterprises for the Android plateform: MAD/mobile applications development) 

OHI Organizational Health Index 

OHLCV Opening, High, Low, Closing, Volume (of trading - Stock Exchange) 

OI Open Innovation (see A&D, CI, OLI, OS, OT, R&D) 

OI Organizational Innovation (see OIM) 

OI Organizational Intelligence (Harold L. Wilensky’s vision in 1967) (see CI, Kn, KM, OC, SI, …) 

O/I Documents are archived if all line items have been cleared. It's possible to look at the O/I and clear them : assign items 

on the debit side to items on the credit side. Clearing date and clearing document number are stored in each line item 

OIL Ontology Inference Language (see OWL)(www.ontoknowledge.org/oil) 

OIM Operational Integrity Management 

OIM Organizational Innovation Management (see OI) 

O/I management acct managed on a O/I base can be cleared from the acct (clearing functionality) 

OIS Optical Image Stabilization 

OIS Overnight Indew Swap 

OIT Office Imaging Technologies 

OIW Open Information Warehouse 

OK Organizational Knowledge (see OB, OC, OD, OM, …) 

OKF Organizational Knowledge Flow (see KM and more) 

OKF Organizational Knowledge Framework (see KM and more) 

OKM Online KM 

OKP Online Knowledge Process 

OL Organizational Learning (see KM, LMS, OCM) 

OLA On-Line Access 

OLAP On-Line Analytical Processing. Fr.: traitement analytique en ligne (see DOLAP, HOLAP, MOLAP, ROLAP) 

OLBOK On-Line BOK (see EBOK, PMBOK) 

OLCC Online Library Computer Center 

OLCM Online Community Manager (see CM, SMD, SMO) 

OLE Object Linking and Embedding (set of APIs) 

OLED Organic LED (see FOLED, QLED) 

OLI On-Line Innovation (see futuring innovation , OI, R&D) 

OLIR On-Line Information Resources 


OLL On-Line Learning 

OLL On-Line Library 

OLO On-Line Ordering 

OLO Other Licensed Operator 

OLPC (F) One Laptop Per Child (Fundation) : the 100$ LapTop project (www.olpceu.org) 

OLR Open Learning Resources (see OEP, OER) 

OLS On-Line Support 

OLSR Optimized Link State Routing (protocol) 

OLT On-Line Teaching / Training (see LMS, OLTL, ...) 

OLTL On-Line Teaching / Training Lab (see CBT, LMS, OLTP, …) 

OLTP On-Line Transactional Processing 

OLVT On-Line Virtual Tour 

OLWM On-Line WEB Manager 

OM Operating Manuel (see TM) 

OM Operation Management (see COO) 

OM Organizational Management (see BC, OB, OC, ECM, OCM, pop culture , ...) 

O&M O&M: operations & maintenance (expenses) 

OMA Open Mobile Alliance (previously named WAP Forum) 

OMC (Fr) Organisation Mondiale du Commerce (see WTO) 

OMG Object Management Group (www.omg.org) (see ORCA) 

OML Overall Migration Limit 

OMP Operation Management Paradigm(s) 

OMS Output Management System (see XOMS, LOMS, ROMS) 

OMS Order Management System 

OMT Object Modeling Technique (James Rumbaugh) 

OMTP Open Mobile Terminal Platform 

OMTs Outright Monetary Transactions 

ON Open Network (see CON, ONE) 

ONA Open Networker Alliance 

ONC Open Network Computing (see ON, ONA, CONC) 

ONE Open Network Environment (see CON, ON) 

ONE Optical Networking Element (see DWDM, OADM, SDH, SON, SONET, TDM, WDM) 

OneBox Google Search Appliance extension 

O*Net Occupational Information Network (http://online.onetcenter.org/) 

ONS Object Name Service (see DNS) 

Ontology Study & representation of concepts categories within a domain and their relations between them 

OO Object-Oriented (see AOT, BO, LO, MOOD, OOA, OOAD, OOD, OODBMS, OOIE, OOM, OOP, OOT) 

00A Object-Oriented Analysis (see OOAD) 

OOA Object-Oriented Approach 

OOA Object-Oriented Architecture (see OOAD, OOD, OOP, …) 

OOA(&)D Object-Oriented Analysis & Design (http://sern.ucalgary.ca/courses/cpsc/451/W97/OOD.html) 

OOBE Out Of the Box Experience 

OOBS Out Of the Box Strategy 

OOD Object-Oriented Design (see OOA, OOAD, ...) 

OODBMS Object-Oriented Database Management System 

OOGL Object-Oriented Graphics Library 

OOH Out Of Home (see DOOH) 

OOIE Object-Oriented Information Engineering 

OOK On/Off Key(ing): modulation (see ASK, FSK, PSK) 

OOM Object-Oriented Modeling 

OOo OpenOffice.org: free bureautic suite. 

OOP(S) Object-Oriented Programming (System) 

OOP Out-Of-Position (detection operation acronym)(see TOF-CV) 

OOSAD Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design 

OOT Object-Oriented Technology 

OOXML Office Open XML 

OP Operating Platform (see OS) 

OPA Online Proposal Appraisal 

OPA Open Patent Alliance (WiMAX deployment acceleration: Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Clearwire, Intel Corporation, Samsung El., Sprint ) 

OPAL Online Programming for All Libraries (Alliance Library System) 


OPC OLE for Process Control 

OPEC Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (www.opec.org/)(see OEPEC) 

Open-collar workers on-line at home working collaborators 

Open FI Open FI Interface for communicating w/o any modification in the SAP standards 

OpenVMS Open Virtual Memory System (see VMS) 

OpenXML Microsoft file system (see ODF, PDF) 

OpenXPS Open XML Paper Specification 

opérationnel (Fr): processus coordonné et reproductible en vue d'un but précis (EN: operational. See OPM) 

OPEX Operating Expenses (see CAPEX) 

OPEX Operation Excellence 

OPM Operational Performance Management 

OPM3 (PMI's) Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (see CMM, OM, PM) 

OPML Outline Processor Markup Language (format for the RSS import / export)(www.opml.org/) 

OPMS Online Persona Mgmt Service: programs for creating credible fake profiles on social NW (see Centcom , sock puppets 

OPPT Organization-People-Process-Technology: important constituents for a coherent organization 

OPS Open Pluggable Specifications (Intel) 

OPS Open Profiling Standard (was proposed to the Platform P3P) 

OPT Over Time Test (see OTD, OTP, OTS) 

OR (Fr) opérateur logique "soit/soit" 

OR Operational Research 

ORA Office of Regulatory Affairs (USA) 

ORB Object Request Broker 

ORCA OMG Regulatory Compliance Alliance 

ORDB Object Relational Database Management (see DBM, RDBMS) 

ORDBMS Object Relational Database Management System (see RDBMS) 

Order Type / KE Consignment Order (SAP) 

Order Type / OR Standard Order (SAP) 

Order Type / RA Return Order (SAP) 

ORF Open Reading Frame (sequence that can be translated) 

ORF Other Related Fields 

.org .org domain (see DNS) 

ORI Online Relationship Improvement (see CRM) 

Origami MS code name for UMPC 

ORM Object Relational Model 

ORM Operational Risk Manager (see RM) 

ORN Offshoring Research Network (see SOP) 

ORTS Online Real Time Strategy (see MMORTS) 

OS Organizational Security (see OSO, RM) 

OS Open Source (see OI, OT) 

OS Open Standard 

OS Operating System (see Cloud OS , DOS, IOS, OP, WOS) 

OSC Open Source Code (see OI, OS, OT) 

OSCAR Open Source Cluster Application Resources (see cluster computing ) 

OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe 

OSCON an O’Reilly’s Open Source Conference (July 21 - 22, 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA) 

OSCON Open Source Convention (July 2007, Portland, Oregon, USA) (http://www.oscon.com/) 

OSCOR 0pportunistic Source Coding and Opportunistic Routing: correlated data gathering in wireless sensor NW protocol 

OSD Open Source Definition (see OSI) 

OSD On Screen Display (TV) (see PAP, PAT) 

OSDC Offshore Software Development Center 

OSDI Operating Systems Design and Implementation 

OSE (Microsoft) Office Source Engine 

OSE Open Security Exchange 

OSEO Organic Search Engine Optimization (see SEO) 

OSF Open Software Foundation 

OSG On Screen Graphics 

OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Act / Administration (1970) 

OSI Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.org/osd.html) 

OSI Open System Interconnection (see AL) 

OSINT Open Source INTelligence (for accessing non-classified information) (see HUMINT) 


OSL Open Source Licensing (non-profit organisation: initiative for the open source licensing) 

OSL Operating System Level 

OSN Open Source Network 

OSO Organizational Security Operations (see OS, RM) 

OSP On-Site Service Provider (see ASP, ISP) 

OSPF Open Shortest Path First (see OSPF-IGRP) 

OSPF-IGRP routed protocol for the shortest pass to destination w/i the core. 

OSPT Open Standard for Public Transport. Alliance to make Cipurse the security std by the next ticketing system generation 

OSS One Stop Shop 

OSS Online Service System 

OSS Open Source Software 

OSS Operations Support System 

OSS Order Settlement Structure 

OSST Open Source Security Test (see OSSTMM) 

OSSTMM Open Source Security Test Methodology Manual 

OT Open Technology (see OI, OS) 

OT Operational Technology: systems used for controlling the machines and other infrastructure elements 

OT Organization(al) Tree (see HT, OC) 

OTA One Time Account (OTC = One time customer, OTV = One time vendor) 

OTA Over The Air 

OTC Over The Counter : CDS and other bonds that are not traded in the SE 

OTC Over The Counter (see POS, TR-TM) 

OTC One Time Customer (see OTV) 

OTD Over Time Double (see OPT, OTP, OTS) 

OTF Output Text Format (BC-SRV-ARL) 

OTIF On-Time In-Full (see JIT, SCM) 

OTN Open Transport Network 

OTP One Time Password (see OATH-OTP) 

OTP Over Time Premium (see OPT, OTD, OTS) 

OTP (Fr) Organigramme Technique de Projet (Base opérationnelle de planification dans PS).Quand un ordre est 

affecté à un élément d'OTP, il ne peut aussi être affecté à un programme d'investissement (see WBS) 

OTR One Touch Record 

OTRS Open-source Ticket Request System: open-source for the ticket management 

OTS Over Time Straight (see OPT, OTD, OTP) 

OTS Opportunity To See: it's about repetition, frequency of the seen messages 

OTT Opportunity To Talk: it's about the repeated possibilities to express ideas / opinions 

OTV One Time Vendor (see OTC) : severely controlled in USA. Example: AASIS 

OTV Overlay Transport Virtualization 

OU Organizational Unit 

OVA Overhead Value Analysis 

Overclocking modifying the processor speed 

OVML Open Video Markup Language (read "Pull: the power of the semantic Web", David Siegel, Portfolio 2009) 

OVO Operating Virtual Organization (see VO, VR, …) 

OVP Office of the Vice-President (see EO) 

OVR Overwrite (word processor mode) (see WP) 

OVWG Online Virtual World Games 

OWA Outlook Web Access 

OWA Open Web Application 

OWASP Open Web Application Security Project: help to org. facing WEB security challenges (www.owasp.org) 

OWL Object Windows Library, 

OWL Ontology Web Language (see OIL) 

OWL Openwall Project : Linux distribution 

oxide recording particle on a dedicated surface (sound or video tape or disk) 

P Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

P Phosphorus 

P2P Peer To Peer 

P2V Physical to Virtual (search for Physical to Virtual conversion utilities for the concept application) 

P3P Privacy Preferences Project (see OPS) 

p.a. per annum or annually (see p.q.) 

PA Personnel Administration & Payroll Accounting (R/3 Business Applic. Area)(see the HR series) 


PA Personnel Accounting 

PA Public Affairs 

PAA Program Activity Architecture 

PaaS Platform as a Service: apps, databank, Java (case of Oracle), security system (see DaaS, IaaS, SaaS) 

*.pab Personal Address Book (Microsoft file extension)(see *.wab) 

PABX Private Automatic Business eXchange (see PBX) 

PAC Plan At Completion 

PAC (Fr) Politique Agricole Commune (CE) 

PAC-3 PATRIOT Advanced Capability 3 

PACE Pressure, Actions, Capabilities, Enablers 

PACeR Partnership to Advance Clinical Electronic Research (see HIT) 

Pac Rim Pacific Rim (see APEC) 

PACS Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (medical domain) 

PAD Project Appraisal Document (see PIP) 

PAD Project Approval Document (see PIP) 

PAE Physical Address Extension (processor) 

PAF Performance Appraisal Form 

PAF Potential Additional labor Force (Eurostat category, see ESS)(http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/…) 

Page rank refers to the number and weighting of links from other Websites (Google algorithm) 

PAI Process After Input (BC-DWB) 

PAL Phase Alternate Line (see NTSC, SECAM) 

Palo Alto Californian "behaviorism school" founded in the 60ties by Gregory Bateson (anthropologist)(see PARC) 

PAM Physical Application Mart (see LAM, VAM) 

PAMA Professional Audio Manufacturers Alliance (see AVB) (www.pamalliance.org/) 

PAN Personal Area Network (see BAN, LAN, WAN, …) 

PanCam Panoramic Camera 

PANDORA Prototyping A Navigation DB of Road-Network Attributes (Drive1 EC project) 

pangram a sentence made of all alphabet letters. 

PAO (Fr) Publication Assistée par Ordinateur (see also CAD, FAO) 

PAP Picture And Picture (TV) (see OSD, PAT) 

PAP Personnel and Administration Policy 

PAP Policy Administration Point (see PIP) 

PAP Predictive Analytics Principles (see ADI, ADM, ADO, DSD, …) 

PAPC Personnel and Administration Policy Committee 

Papy Boomerang when the Baby boomers start retiring in between 2005–2015 

PAR Performance Appraisal Report 

PAR Photosynthetically Active Radiation 

PAR Pixel Aspect Ratio (see DAR) 

Paradigm(e) Pattern or role model. Fr: Modèle 

Parallel valuation transfer pricing in Profit Center Accounting (PCA) 

PARC Palo Alto Research Center (California, USA). 

Parser program breaking what it receives into parts to be managed by other programs (complexity reduction) (see CaRP) 

Partagiciel (Fr) shareware 

Partner portal = Extranet when it is supporting the clients & suppliers relationships 

PASS Professional Association for SQL Server 

PAT Page Attribute Table 

PAT Picture And Text (TV) (see OSD, PAP) 

PA-TIM-EVA PA Time Evaluation Component 

PA-TRV PA Travel Expenses 

PaX Page eXecution 

PayD Pay as you Drive (UK insurance system under discussion in other countries) 

Payment advice Bank statement posting anticipation. Also used for adjustement entries 

PB Program Branch 

PBA Performance-Based Allocation (used by international development banks) 

PBDMI Performance-Based Data Management Initiative 

PBI Predictive BI (see also CI, SI, …) 

*.pbk PhoneBook (Microsoft extension file). 

PBL Problem-Based Learning 

*.pbm Portable Bitmap (BINARY) (image file format) 

PBO Process Before Output (BC-DWB) 


PBS Pattern-Based Strategies (Gartner) 

PBS Phone Banking System 

PBS Product Breakdown Structure: pieces list for the assembly (see WBS) 

PBT Profit Before Tax 

PBX Private Branch Exchange (see PABX) 

PC Personal Computer (see Virtual PC ) 

PC virtualisat ion making a single physical computer running simultaneously several virtual PCs 

PCA Password Cracking Application 

PCA Profit Center Accounting 

PCB Printed Circuit Board 

PCB Process Control Block 

PCC Pervasive Computing and Communications 

PCC OTC Paper Check Conversion Over the Counter 

*.pcd Kodak PhotoCD (image file format) 

Pce Piece (ISO) 

PCFGs Probabilistic Context Free Grammars 

PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect 

PCI Personal Communication Index 

PCI Personal Communications Internetworking (see CII, WPC) 

PCI Payment Card Industry (http://securitymetrics.com/) 

PCI / DSS PCI Data Security Standards : 12 mandatory security rules (related to TLM) 

PC&IT news www.01-informatique.com 

PCL (Fr) Plan Comptable Local (voir PCO) 

PCM Parallel Climate Model 

PCM Process Change Management (see CCM, TCM, GCM) 

PCM Product Centric Management (see CCM, KCM) 

PCM Pulse Code Modulation 

P-CMM People-CMM: 5-level improvement path of the knowledge, skills, and motivation of the workforce (see SEI). 

PCMN (Fr) Plan Comptable Minimum Normalisé 

PCN Plant Control Network 

PCN Plastic Card Network (now CAS) 

PCO (Fr) Plan Comptable Organisationnel (voir PCL) 

PCO Principal COordinate Analysis 

PCP Personal Cost Planning 

PCR Product Change Request (see PDT, PLC, PM, …) 

PCR Project Completion Report 

PCR Public Computer Room (see PIAP) 

PCS Parallel Computing Systems (see FTPCS) 

PCS Personal Communications Services 

PCS Process Control Systems 

PCT Parallel Computational Tasks (FTPCS, PCS, PRA, …) 

PCT Patent Cooperation Treaty (see EPO, IPC, JPO, …) 

PCT Production Cycle Time (see PLC) 

systems and then transfer the data via a PDC data transfer to the R/3 system) 

PC talks see IL / Internet Lingo 

PCTS POSIX Conformance Test Suite 

PCU Personal Computer Unit (see GPU) 

*.pcx Zsoft Paintbrush PCX bitmap (image file format) 

PD Personnel Planning and Development (R/3 Business Application Area) 

PD Police Department (example : LAPD = Los Angeles Police Department)(see FD) 

PD Proactive Detection (see RAC, RD) 

P.D. Per Diem 

PDA Personal Digital Assistant: coined by previous Apple CEO John Sculley in '92 (see PDO, smart phone ) 

PDC Plant Data Collection (cross-application function to cfm NW in external 

systems and then transfer the data via a PDC data transfer to the R/3 system) 

PDC Professional Developers Conference 

PDC Program Delivery Control 

PDC Personal Digital Cellular (Japanese standard)(see PDA, PDO) 

PDCA Plan, Do, Check, Action method (Deming) 

PDD Planned Dates of Discharge (see EDD) 


PDD Professional Disk for Data 

PDM Project Document Management (see PM, PMI, PMBOK) 

PDF (*.pdf) Portable Document Format (Acrobat Reader / Writer from ADOBE) 

PDF Pair Distribution Function 

PDF Pooled Development Fund 

PDF Printer Description File 

PDG (Fr) Président-Directeur Général (France) 

PDHs Professional Development Hours (1 CEU = 10 PDHs) 

PDI Personal Data Interchange (technologies) (see vCard, hCard, Versit) 

PDIK Powered Digital Ink : the FBC>s Business Magazine Dynamic Style (www.fbc-e.com) 

PDK Portal Development Kit (Oracle) 

PDL Page Description Language (printing business) 

PDM Product Data Management : manages product-related data across the products life cycle 

PDMI Portable Device Media Interface 

PDN Packet Data Network 

PDO Personal Digital Organizer (see PDA) 

PDP Personal Development Program 

PDP (Neo) Plasma Digital Display. Neo: improvement of the actual TV plasma screen contrast & colors 

PDPC Process Decision Program Chart (Mizumo, 1988) 

PDR Power Distribution Rack: rack mounted power distribution set (see RPP) 

PDR Product Department Resources 

PDR Product Development Resources 

PDSNR Plant Data Sequence Number (see PDC) 

PDT Product Development Team (see PLC, PM, …) 

PDU Protocol Data Unit (messaging) 

PD-WP PD-Workforce Planning 

PE Portable Executable: Win32 executable file format 

PE Private Equity (capital investment) 

P/E Price/Earnings (ratio) 

peaks highest level of a signal strength 

PEAS Packaged Enterprise Application Software (see ES) 

PECR Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 

PED Performance-Enhancing Drug 

PED Project Entropia Dollar: currency in the Project Entropia MMORPG 

PEE Policy Enforcement Extension 

PEER Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (www.peerproject.eu/fileadmin/media/reports) 

Peering point exchanging traffic node (voluntary interconnection) (see BGP) 

Peer-to-Peer each party has the same authorization / capability in the NW / system (see P2P) 

PEG Price Earnings to Growth (ratio) 

Pegging evaluation displaying the source requirements or the source order proposal of a particular MRP element 

PEM, *.pem Privacy Enhanced Mail: files and formats (see DER) 

PEM Project Expenditure Management (see PM) 

PEN Project in Emerging Nanotechnologies (see np) 

PEP Poverty and Economic Policy (Network) (see CBMS) 

PET PolyEthylene Terephthalate (example : plastic bottle) (see HDPE) 

PET Population-Environment-Technology: global energy-economic growth metric for demographic impacts on climate change 

PET Privacy Enhancing Technologies 

PENG Personalized News Content Programming: system for aiding article writers in their information searches 

Penny stock shares of low value (less than 5 dollars) 

Pentest Penetration Test 

PER Price/Earnings Ratio 

PER Privacy Enabling Registration 

Per diem(s) means "per day" : daily compensation for general expenses (could vary with the destination) 

Périmètre financier (Fr) Y sont effectués la planification, la gestion et le contrôle de moyens ou budgets financiers (SAP) 

Perl Programming Language, Larry Wall, 1987 (see CPAN)(www.perl.org). 

Perl Practical Extraction and Report Language: retro-acronyme for the Perl name chosen by Larry Wall 

Personal Branding self-branding , self-promotion (supposed to be initiated and managed on the Internet)(see PKM) 

Personal Futuring developping personal scenarios for what the future might entail (Verne Wheelwright) 

PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique: 3 time estimates/operation (US NAVY: Polaris rocket, 1958)(see GERT, CPM) 

PERTS Passion, Experience, Relationship, Teamwork & Smart 


pervasive computing see ubiquitous computing 

PESO Public Electronic Services On-the-Internet. Texan WG: personal privacy & information, usage limitation 

Peta / Po 1024 x Tera / To (see Bit, Mega, Giga, Exa, Zeta, Yotta) 

Petaflops Peta floating points of operations per second 

Petaflopic super-computer: 1015 operations / sec 

*.pf Preftech files (resource list in Win XP for fast application load. It depends on the Task Scheduler service) 

PF Page File (see PFU) 

PF Pink Floyd (… good joke …)(see AEM) 

PF Process Framework 

PF Productivity Factor (see ECF, EM, TCF, UAW, UCP, UUCW, UUCP) 

PF Pro Forma 

PFCs PerFluoroCarbons (see CFCs, HCFCs, HFCs, …) 

PFI Police Futurists International (www.policefuturists.org/) 

PFIF Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (Software Freedom Law Center organization) 

PFLOPS PetaFLOPS (see FLOPS, Pb, Peta) 

PfP Partnership for Peace (see NATO) 

PFS Process Flow Scheduler 

PFU Page File Usage (element of the displayed computer performances) 

PFUOL Process as a Federating Universal Organizational Language (FBC>s concept & methodology) 

FBWPA (EN) : www.fbc-e.com 

PGC (Fr) Pédagogie Générale du Changement, Marcel G. Renson, Montaigu-le-Blin / France (see WTG) 

PGE Page Global Enable 

PGI (Fr) Programme de Gestion Intégré (see ERP) 

PGM, *.pgm Portable GreyMap (file) 

PgmID Program Identification 

PGML Precision Graphics Mark-up Language (standard for e-Books developped by ADOBE, Netscape, SUN, IBM) 

PGO Profile Guided Optimization 

PGP Pretty Good Privacy (MS) : encryption form 

PGR Push Button Graphics (SAP) 

Pharmerging booming countries in the pharmaceutical business 

Ph.D. Philosophical Degree / Philosophy Doctor (see BS, MBA, MEM, MIS, …) 

Phishing used by criminals illegal email scheme (fictitious emails creation that seems to come from well known companies 

or governmental agencies trying to get confidential/sensitive information from the addressees to gain accounts access) 

It represents another form of identity theft. 

Phisherman cyber criminal utilizing the phishing trick to get personal details and enter private zones (bank, social security) 

PHP Personal Home Page 

PHS Personal Handyphone System (NTT DoCoMo Network) 

PHP PHP Hypertext Preprocessor aka Personal Home Page: scripting language and more (see LAMP) 

PI Personalization Index (see PQ)(metrics) 

PI Physical Intrusion 

PI Process Instruction (SAP sheet) 

PI Program Initiative 

PI Portable Interceptor (CORBA) 

PI Presence Information (example: buddy lists) 

PI Practical Intelligence (see CI, EI, IQ, PIQ) 

PI Public Intelligence (see BI, CI, SI) 

PIA Peripheral Interface Adapter 

PIAP Public Internet Access Point (see PCR) 

PIC (Fr) Planification Industrielle et Commerciale 

PICR Performance Improvement & Cost Reduction 

PICR Product Improvement Change Request. 

PICS Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement 

PIF (*.pif) Program Information File (Windows) 

PIG Portugal, Italy, Greece: 3 countries endangering the Euro zone because of their bad governance 

Piggy-back Kangouroe export based on a international cooperation in between companies having a common interest. 

PIH Peg-In-Hole (assessment) : a 3D task presented in a virtual space (see NHPT) 

PII Public Interest Immunity 

PIM Personal Information Management 

PIM Platform Independent Model 

pimby please in my backyard (see nimby ) 


PIM(S) Product Information Management (System) 

PIMS Profit Impact of Market Strategy (Economy, Finance, Marketing) 

PIN Personal Identification Number (PIN code)(see BIN, PWD, VIN) 

PIO Process Improvement Objectives (see BPD) 

PIP Policy Information Point (see PAP) 

PIP(s) Process Integration Pack(s) 

PIP Project Implementation Plan (see PAD) 

PIP Public Information Program 

PIPA Protect IP Act (see SOPA) 

PI-PCS Process Control Systems 

Pipeline managemen t flow of income management (see PMS) 

PIQ Practical Intelligence Quotient (see CI, IQ, PI) 

PIS Purchasing Information System 

PIT Program Initiative Team 

PITL Program Initiative Team Leader 

pita Pain In The Ass (Robert Orndorff & Dulin Clark: The Pita Principle, JIST Publishing) 

pixel picture element (see hogel , voxel ) 

PK Posting Key (SAP). Fr: Clé de comptabilisation 

PKA Public Key Algoritmes (see DNSSEC) 

PKC Public Key Cryptography (separate pairs of keys for authentication -public key- and encryption -private key-) 

PKI Piblic Key Infrastructure 

PKI Public Key Interface or X.509 (for user identification) (see PKC, XKMS) 

PKM Personal Knowledge Management (see IPKM, KM, ...): contributes to personal branding 

PKRS PoKeRuS or Pokemon virus 

PKW Partnered Knowledge Warehouse (see KM) 

P+L or P&L Profit and Loss (balance) 

PL/1 Programming Language (number) 1 

P/L Acct Type /type de compte de résultat : établir pour le compte de résultat sur quel compte de report du 

bénéfice le résultat de clôture d'exercice doit être transféré 

Planning area (CO) Specific budgeting option for a given period or periods (CCA) 

Planning type probability of cash receipt or disbursement 

Plant produces and/or stores materials. Is assigned to a CyCd. 

Plant abroad module supporting the sales tax processing within the European Union 

Plc Public Limited Company 

PLC Product Life Cycle (see CLC, ELC, GPIM, ILM, PLM, SLC … they all have to be synchronized: "First Triad ") 

PLC Program Logic Control / Programmable Logic Controller(s) 

Pl.Cp (Fr) Plan Comptable 

PLDA Paperless Douane & Accises (see EMCS, MASP) 

PLF Pay for Listing 

PLI Programming Language Interface (see BPML, UML, …) 

PLLT Principle(s) of Language Learning and Teaching 

PLM Product Lifecycle Management (see CLC, ELC, PLC, SLC, VLC, ...) 

PLMK Play List MaKer: a utility for creating a textfile from a Winamp M3U file 

PLN Personal Learning Networks. A book about the power of connections to transform education (Will Richardson) 

plog Web-based project log to maintain exchanges in between the project team members (see PMO/PSO) 

PLoS Public Library of Science 

PLR Prior Learning Recognition (see RPL) 

PLR Private Label Rights (see MRR, RR) 

PLT Powerline Telecommunication (see BPL, PLC, PoE, PPC) 

Plug n' Play a newly connected to the PC device automatically identified by the OS for an immediate use 

Plug n' Play could be said about a rapidly efficient new comer (see our dynamic Step-in Manager concept, WESP) 

Pluto portlet container providing a runtime environment (see JPS) 

PM Personal Marketing (see Personal branding , RM) 

PM Plant Maintenance (SAP R/3 Business Application Area) 

P.M. post meridiem (from Latin) means "after noon" (see A.M.) 

PM Product Management 

PM Project Management (see PM, PMI, PMO, PS, PSO) 

PM-BOK Project Management (Institute) Body of Knowledge (see PMI, PMO, PSO) 

PMC Pervasive Mobile Computing 

PMD Personal Media Drive (PC add-on HD of +500 Go from HP) 


PMI Project Management Institute (see PMO, PSO) 

PMI Purchasing Managers' Index (16 countries using the Euro)(also called ISM in USA). 

PMID PubMed ID: database accessing the MEDLINE database on life sciences and biomedical topics 

PMIS Plant Maintenance Information System 

PMIS Project Management Information System (see PM, PMI, PMO, PMBOK, PS) 

PML Physical Markup Language 

PMO Project Management Office (see PMBOK, PMI, PMIS, PSO) 

PMO Project Management Officer 

PMQT Prime Minister's Question Time (UK government organization) 

PMR Private Mobile Radio (GSM Technology)(see mobility , MoMo, …) 

PMR Project Monitoring Report 

PMRS Performance Monitoring & Reporting System 

PMS Pipeline Management Systems 

PMS Property Management System 

PM/SM Plant Maintenance/Service Management 

PN Partners Network 

P/N PIN Number (see S/N) 

PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (http://www.pnas.org/) 

PND Personal Navigation Device (see GPS, PDA, PDO) 

PND Portable Navigation Device 

PNG *.png Portable Network Graphics 

PNL (Fr) Programmation Neuro-Linguistique 

PNP Private Non-Profit sector 

PNR Passenger Name Registration (see ID, PIN, …) 

P2P Point-to-point 

P2PC Point-to-Point Construction 

P2P Peer-To-Peer 

PnP Plug and Play (see P&P) 

PNS (Fr) Postes Non Soldés 

PO Program Officer (see CPO) 

PO Purchase Order (see POD, RFP, RFQ) 

POC Percentage Of Completion 

POC Proof Of Concept 

POD Pay On Delivery 

POD Performance Optimized Datacenter (HP) 

POD Printing On Demand (digital publishing) 

POD Proof Of Delivery (see PO) 

Podcasting "iPod" (Apple mp3) and "broadcasting" 

PoE Power over Ethernet (see PLC, PLT) 

POF Portable Object Format (see PDF) 

POF Proof Of Funds (see also Export lingo ) 

POI Point Of Interest (cartography, GPS) 

POI Process Oriented Implementation 

POIS Production Order Information System 

Poison pill corruption of the balance sheet to make the company less attractive (repell the raiders) 

POJOs Plain Old Java Objects 

Poka-Yoke avoiding inadvertent errors . Part of the Toyota Production System (see TPS). 

Polymorphic viruses changing their physical form complex file infectors 

P/OM Production & Operations Management 

POM Program & Operations Meeting 

POMDPs Partially Observable MDPs 

PON Passive Optical Network 

Ponzi scheme tricky financial system in which people invest to get exceptional high returns (first investors being reimbursed by later investors). 

Pooling Integration of the company subsidiaries resources (e.g. for reciprocal assistance) 

PoP Point of Presence: shops, market, Internet (see PoS) 

POP Post Office Protocol : protocol for e-mail retrieval (see IMAP) 

POP Predictive Object Point 

Pop culture popular culture (see CM, OC) 

POPS PetaOperations Per Second (Bull and its partners) 

Porg Purchasing Organization 


Portal "One stop shopping" place offering all services and tools (see Vortal ) 

PoS Point of Sale (see ePoS, PoP) 

POSIX Portable Operating System Interface (see PCTS) 

Posting key 2-digit code controlling the document line item entry. It's entered for an account type which 

(clé de is valid for the document type / Clés de comptabilisation (indépendantes du plan comptable) : 

compta- Sub-ledger 01 outgoing invoice / debit CGS 09 client / debit 

bilisation) 11 customer credit note / credit 19 client / credit 

31 incoming invoice / credit 29 vendor / debit 

G/L 40 G/L account debit posting 39 vendor / credit 

50 G/L account credit posting 

Assets 70 Debit Asset 

75 Credit Asset 

G/L 80 Inventory taking debit 

90 Inventory taking credit 

Posting perio d max 16 (12 + 4 special) 

POTS Plain Old Telephone Service 

PowerPoint sophisticated flexible slides maker, an application being part of Microsoft Office (see *.ppt) 

P2P peer-to-peer : each party has the same authorization / capability in the NW / system. 

PP Parallel Processing (see BPR, process , RE, …) 

PP Partnership Project (see 3GPP, PPP) 

PP Photon Polymerization (see 2PP) 

PP Production Planning (R/3 Business Application Area) 

PPC Power Plus Communications (see BPL, PLC, PLT, PoE) 

P&P Plug and Play (see PnP) 

*.ppa PowerPoint Add-in (Microsoft filename extension) 

PPB Parts Per Billion (see PPT) 

PPB Project Planning Board (see PMO, PSO, SPB, WBS, WBSB) 

PP-BD Basic Data for Production (see PP/R3) 

PPBS Planning Programming Budgeting System: Integrating various techniques planned budget approach & development 

PPBV Part Per Billion by Volume (see PPMV) 

PPC Pay Per Click (advertising practice on the NET) 

PPC Production Planning & Control (see ERP, MRP, MRPII) 

PPCA Pay Per Click Advertising 

PP-CBP Constraint-Based Planner 

PP-CRP Capacity Requirements Planning 

PP-DS Production Planning / Detailed Scheduling 

PPE Personal Protective Equipment 

PPE Prepaid Postal Expense 

PP&E Property, Plant & Equipment 

PPIC Private Placement Investment Contract 

PPK Passport Protection Key 

PPL Parallel Processing Letters: worldwide rapid dissemination with short papers 

PPM, *.ppm Portable Pixelmap (BINARY) (image file format) 

ppm parts per million (see PPB, PPT). Fr: parties par million 

PPM Project and Portfolio Management (see EPPM) 

PPM Production Process Model (BOM+Routing) 

PPM Pulse Position Modulation 

PP-MP Master Planning 

PP-MRP Material Requirements Planning (see MRP, PPB, PPBS, ...) 

PPMV Part Per Million by Volume (see PPBV) 

PPP Point to Point Protocol (see PPTP) 

PPP Project-Program-Portfolio 

PPP Public-Private Partnership (see 3GPP, PP) 

*.ppp page plus publishing (Serif program file) 

PP-PC Product Costing (see PP) 

PP-PDC Plant Data Collection 

PP-PI Production Planning for the Process Industries 

PPPM Planning Public Policy & Management 

PPS Production Planning & Scheduling 

PPS Purchasing Power Standard 


PP-SFC Production Orders (formerly Shop Floor Control) 

PP-SOP Sales and Operations Planning 

*.pps Microsoft PowerPoint slide show format (file) (see *.ppa, *.ppt) 

PPSW Personal Productivity SW 

*.ppt Microsoft PowerPoint template format (file) (see *.ppa, *.pps) 

PPT Parts Per Trillion (see PPB) 

PPT Pulse Pair Timing 

PPTP Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (see PPP) 

PPV Posting Period Variant. It contains the open periods and has to be manually maintained. 

p.q. per quarter (see p.a.) 

PQ Personalization Quotient (see PI)(metrics) 

PQS Perceived Quality Score 

PR Public Relations (public communication department)(see IPR) 

PR Plural Relationship. Fr: Relation Plurale 

PRA (30B+D interface) Primary Rate Access (see BA, ISDN) 

PRA Parallel Reduction Algorithms (see FTPCS, PCS, PCT, … ) 

PRAM Phase-change RAM 

Prd ("prod" ) Production 

PRD Pattern Release Date 

prez president (USA) 

PRINCE PRojects IN Controlled Environment (project management methodology)(see PM, PMI) 

Printer TCO useful to estimate the hard copy costs (HP FirstView TCO Tool) (see Web-Based TCO ) 

PRKS Project Record Keeping System 

PRM Partner Relationship Management (see CRM, ERM, PRM) 

PRM Process Risk Management (see RM) 

PRN Premium Rate Numbers (phone numbers charging for the offered services) 

PRN Projects Reference Number (see PM, PMO, PSO) 

PRO Pricing & Revenue Optimization 

Problem-Based Learning educational method challenging students to "learn to learn" collaboratively for solving problems 

Process to be continuously optimized sequenced tasks or set of recurring tasks (see BPR, PP, RE) 

procedure/group of procedures for which automatic posting can be generated (recurrence) 

Intelligently designed processes are parts of an organization asset: they contain the best of its knowledge 

Projector LCD and DLP projectors 

ANSI American National Standard Institute for measuring the lumens 

DLP Digital Light Processing 

DMD Digital Micro Mirror Device 

LCOS Liquid Crystal On Silicon 

VGA 640x480 resolution 

SVGA 800x600 resolution 

XGA 1024x768 resolution 

SXGA 1280x1024 resolution 

UHE lamp Ultra High Efficiency 

UHP lamp Ultra High Performance 

Prosumer pro ducter & consumer (see Prosumption ) 

Prosumption (see pro duction & consumption (see Coopetition ) 

Proxy server Internet connection device 

PRS Pattern Recognition System 

PRS Personal Response System 

PRS-LED Photon Recycling Semi-conductor LED: delivers pseudo-white without phosphor (Fred Schubert, Boston Univ) 

PRT Production Resources and Tools 

PrtScn Print Screen (Command character ) 

PS Project Summary (see PM, PMI, PSO, …) 

PS Project System (R/3 Business Application Area), Overview PS : CA080 course 

P&S Publish & Subscribe (the principle has been applied to DW for more information dissemination) 

PSA Production Sharing Agreement 

PSA Professional Services Automation 

PSAUMM Pratical, Service-oriented Architecture, Unified Maturity Model (UMM) 

PSC Public Service Commission (USA) 

PSCOE (SAP) Public Sector Center Of Expertise 

*.psd Adobe Photoshop (image file format) 


PSD Production Scheduled Date 

PSE Page Size Extension (processor) 

PSE Personal Sharing Device (example : Leyio) 

PSE36 36-bit PSE 

psf pound per square foot 

psi pound per square inch 

psia pound per square inch absolute 

PSK Phase Shift Keying (see ASK, FSK) 

PSL Personnel 

PSM Platform Specific Model 

PSO Project Support Office (PMI initiative, PMI BOK, PMO) 

*.psp Paint Shop Pro (file extension). Note: PSP10 has been taken over by Corel 

PSP Payment Services Provider : processing PSP, collecting PSP (see ASP, ISP) 

PSP Policy Support Program (could be associated with other acronyms. Example KMPSP) 

PS-PIS (SAP) Project System Information System 

PSR Potential Support Ratio 

PSRAM Pseudo Static RAM for 2.5G and 3G handset devices 

PST or P.s.t. Pacific Standard Time (see CST) 

PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network (see VoIP: carried on the Internet voice, data, image, video) 

PSV PlayStation Vita (Sony Computer Entertainment)(see game / gaming ) 

PT Project Team(s) (see PM, PTM) 

PTM Project Team(s) Manager 

PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: cause of flashbacks, edginess, emotional numbness. 

PTT Push To Talk: special button added to a Mobile phone for an immediate "get in touch" 

PUA Potentially Unwanted Application (See PUP). Examples : Caishow, Adware.Dm.F 

*.pub "Publisher" Microsoft Application file 

Public Domain Free program and copyrights. Fr : Domaine public incluant droits de reproduction 

PUC Public Utility Commission (USA) 

PUE Power Usage Effectiveness (see Green computing , Green IT , Green washing ) 

PUF Physical Unclonable Function 

PUI Perceptual User Interface (see FUI, GUI, UI) 

PUI Posted Under Influence (related to SN) 

pump & dum p fraudulous financial manipulation to push low stocks and dump them after 

PUP Potentially Unwanted Programs (See PUA) 

PUPM Price per Unit Per Month 

PUPS Possibly Unpopular Software Detection 

Purchasing organization is attached to a CyCd (legal) and may supply many plants 

PURCHIS Purchasing Information System 

P2V Physical-to-Virtual 

PVA Private VoIP Applications 

PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit 

PVC Physical Vapor Deposition 

PvE Player versus Environment (see Game , Gaming ) 

PvP Player versus Player 

PvX Player versus Anything 

PVS Product Variant Structure 

PVSS Prozeßvisualisierungs- und Steuerungssystem 

PWAF Plant With A Future (see FBC>s , Futuring Innovation , Futuring KM ) 

PWB Program of Work and Budget 

PWD PassWorD 

*.pwd Pocket Word document (Microsoft filename extension) 

*.pwz PowerPoint Wizard (Microsoft filename extension) 

Python multi-paradigm interpreted programming language 

PZEV Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle : new smoke emissions rules 

PZMI Pseudo Zernike Moment Invariant 

Q Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

q codepoint U+0071 in Unicode 

Q codepoint U+0051 in Unicode 

Q&A Question & Answer (see FAQ) 

QA Quality Analysis (see EFQM, QC, QI, QM, TQM) 


QA Quality Aspect: Maintainability, Reliability, Portability, Functionality (AQCM metrics) 

QA Quality Assurance 

QAA Quality Assurance Activities 

QAE Quality Assurance Engineer 

QAM Quality Assurance Manager 

QAs Quality Attributes 

Q-API Queue Application Program Interface 

QBE Query By Example (Data Base Management) 

QBM Quad Band Memory 

QC Quality Control (see EFQM, QA, QI, QM, TQM) 

QCC Quantum Computing Control 

QDDR Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review 

QDI Quality Data Interchange 

QDOS "quick and dirty operating system" transformed into MSDOS by Microsoft 

QE Quantitative Easing : actually QE2 by the US Federal Reserve 

QFD Quality Function Deployment (Mitsubishi and Kaizen: toward TQC)(see EFQM, QA, QC, QM, …) 

QFH Query From Hell 

QI Quality Inspection (see QA, QC, QM, TQM) 

QIG Quick Install Guide 

QIO Quality Insurance Officer (see also the series of CxO or Chief something Officer, CEO, COO, ...) 

QLED Quantum -dot LED (see OLED) 

QM Quality Management: processes harmonization throughout the enterprise to create an environment that 

leads to high-quality products development (see EFQM, TQM) 

QMC Quasi-Monte Carlo 

QM-IDI Laboratory Information Management Systems 

QMVI Quantum Mechanics Visualization Instrument 

QoS Quality of Service (see CoS) 

QoQ Quarter On Quarter 

QPST Qualcomm Product Support Tools (Qualcomm chips ) 

QR Quick Response (see QR Code) 

QR Code Quick Response-code: 2D barcode with up to 2953 octets of information.Could be printed on a business card 

QRQC Quick Response Quality Concern (see QC, QM, TQM, …) 

*.qry Query (Microsoft file extension). 

QSC a supercomputer (2004-2007) at US Los Alamos National Laboratory 

QT Quick Time (player) ( www.apple.com/quicktime ) 

*.qtc Quick Time Component (file extension) 

*.qti Quick Time-related Image (file extension) 

QTI Question & Test Interoperability (specification) 

*.qtif Quick Time-related Image (file extension) 

*.qtm QuickTime Movie (file extension) 

*.qtp Quick Time Preference (file extension) 

qty quantity 

Quad-core chip allows 4 CPUs sharing memory cache & bus connections to the system for more performances 

Quadruple play triple play + wireless 

Quant -finance quantitative finance 

Quantum quantity of something that can be enumerated and figured out (see Quantum Computing , QCC) 

Quantum Computing convergence of quantum mechanics, nanotechnology, computer science, applied mathematics is 

impacting our technologies (www.networkworld.com/community/node/35245) 

qubit(s) Quantum bit(s) (of information): 0 or 1 or both (see Binary system , Quantum Computing , QCC) 

QVC Quality, Value, Convenience 

QVT Query/Views and Tranformations 

QWANGOs Quasi Autonomous Non Governmental Organizations 

QWERTY first letters of the US keyboard first line 

QWL Quality of Working Life 

R Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

® Registered (see ©, ) 

R/2 1997: 1300 customers worldwide. News, migration, training at http://www.sap.com/products/r2 

R/2 on the Internet ? By means of the WebRFC technology, component 048 

R/3 Real Time / 3 (see RT) 

R/3 system Services central instance offering DVEBMGS (dialog, update, enqueue, background processing, message, 


gateway, spool) 

RA Radio Access (Telecom) 

RA, *.ra Real Audio (Format) 

RA Resource(s) Allocation (see RAM) 

RA Risk Analysis (see RM) 

RA Risk Assessment (see RQ) 

RAA Referenced Application Architecture (see UAA) 

RAB Radio Access Bearer (Telecom) 

RAC Radio Admission Control (Telecom) 

RAC Real Application Clusters (Oracle) 

RAC Realtime Analysis Component (see PD, RD) 

RAD Rapid Application Development 

RAD Role Activity Diagram (see RBAC) 

RADAR RAdio Detection And Ranging 

Radio button Graphical control element to select an item from a list of fields 

RAIC Redundant Array of Independent Chips (see MAID, RAID, RAIN, …) 

RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (see MAID, RAIN) 

RAID-0 2 linked Hard Disks running together (1 defect means the loss of the whole) 

RAID-1 2 synchronized Hard Disks with the same data (Problem ? The valid will update the new one) 

RAID-10 a set of 4 disks. It combines the RAID-0 and -1 

RAID-5 minimum 3 disks. Each disk uses 1/3 of its surface for the back-up of the 2 others. 

RAIGE RAID Across Independent Gigabit Ethernet 

RAIN Redundant Array of Independent Nodes (see MAID, RAID, …) 

RAISE Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements (see MAID, RAID, RAIGE, RAIN, …) 

RAM Random Access Memory (see ROM). www.kingston.com offers a practical «memory search» function 

RAM Resource(s) Alignment Matrix from Metrilogic (http://www.metrilogics.com/) 

RAM Resource(s) Allocation Management (see RA) 

RAMAC Random Access Method of Accounting and Control, 24-inch platter from IBM (1956) 

http://news.com.com/2300-1015_3-6110361-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg 

RAMD Random Acceleration Molecular Dynamics 

RAMG Regulatory Assistance Management Group 

RAMP Repair And Maintenance Program 

RAMS Reliability and Maintainability Symposium : product assurance professionals meeting 

RAMS Risk Analysis and Management System(s) (see RM) 

RAMT Risk Analysis and Management Team (see RM) 

RAN Radio Access Network (Telecom) 

RANAP Radio Access Network Application Part (Telecom) 

RAN-sharing Radio Access Sharing in between operators 

Ransomware the infected machine owner has to pay for freeing his computer 

RAP Remote Access Program (see RAT) 

RAP Resource Allocation Protocol 

RAP Rich AJAX Platform 

RAPEX EU rapid alert for dangerous non-food consumer products (http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/safety/rapex/) 

Rapid prototyping defining business processes within a small team of experts 

RAR (*.rar) compression system for archiving files (shareware, Eugene Roshal) (see ZIP, CAB) 

RAROC Risk Adjustment Return On Capital: methodologies for pricing purpose 

RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol 

RARS Regional ATVOS etransmission Service (see ATVOS, TIROS, TOVS) 

RAS Random Access Storage 

RAS Redundant-Acronym Syndrome 

RAS Registration, Admission and Status (see DAS) 

*.ras Sun Rasterfile (image file format) 

RASTI RApid Speech Transmission Index 

RAT Remote Access Tool: it imports fraudulously a stealing malware (example: Poison Ivy)(see RAP) 

RAT Remote Administration Tool 

Rating evaluation (notation) of a State, a Bank, an enterprise, a share, a credit product. 

RATs Remote Administration Trojans 

RB Resources Branch 

RBAC Role-Based Access Control (see RAD): identification of the application operations needing an authorization 

RBB Really Big Botnet 


RBB Results Based Budgeting 

RBB Reverse Body Bias (electronics) 

RBB Residential Broadband (electronics) 

RBE Reverse BE (see BPR, BPM) 

RBF Radial Basis Function 

RBKO Relationship-Based Knowledge Organization (see KM, NK, SNBKO and more) 

RBL Real-time Blackhole Lists (for blocking the spammers)(see spam ) 

RBLS Realtime (spam ) Black Lists 

RBM Results-Based Management 

RBOC Regional Bell Operating Companies : AT&T splitted up into 7 "Baby Bells" (1984) 

RBS Robust Broadband Services (see GESC) 

RBT (SAP) Role Based Training 

RBVO Request-Based Virtual Organization 

RC Regional Controller (see RD) 

RC4 stream cipher (128 bits algorithm) made by Rivest for RSA Data Security 

RCA (plug) audio phono (plug) 

RCIS Regional CIS 

RCL Radio Communication Links 

RCO Request for Change Order (see RFP, RFQ, …) 

RCQ Regulatory Compliance and Quality 

RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (USA) 

RCS Remote Computing Service 

RD Rapid Development: can be crowd-sourced , simulation-aided, game -supported, etc ... 

RD Reactive Detection (see PD, RAC) 

RD Regional Director (see RC) 

RD Robust Design (see ES, PLC, R&D) 

R&D Research & Development (see A&D, N&S, OI, RDI, S&E, S&T, T&D) 

RDA Recommended Daily Allowance (USA : multivitamin-multimineral supplements indication) 

RDA Rich Desktop Application (see RIA, RMA) 

RDB Relational DB 

RDBMS Relational DBMS (see IRDB, ORDBMS) 

RD Caps (Windows) Remote Desktop Connection authorization policies (see RD Raps) 

RDD Resulting Data Distribution 

RDEs Rapidly Developing Economies (see BRIC, BRICK, CIVETS) 

RDF Resource Description Framework (semantic language based on XML developed by W3C for Data definition and index) 

(see DBpedia, FOAF, OPS, P3P, RSS) 

RDFS Resource Description Framework Schema (www.semantic-conference.com/session/698/) 

RDI Research, Development, Innovation (see R&D) 

RDM Resource Deployment Modeler (used for relocation feasability studies) 

RDP (Microsoft) Remote Desktop Protocol 

RDRAM Rambus Dynamic RAM 

RD Raps (Windows) Remote Desktop Resource authorization policies (see RD Caps) 

RDS Relational DataBase Service (Amazon) 

RDS (Fr) Report De Solde 

RDS Radio Data System 

RDS Resource Discovery Systems (see R&D, TTR and others from the TTx series) 

RDS CALs Remote Desktop Services Client access licenses (see RD Caps, RD Raps) 

RDT Radio Data Terminal 

R&E Research and Exploration (see R&D, R&I) 

RE Reverse Engineering (see BPR, BPM, RBE) 

REA Rich Enterprise Applications (see Apps ) 

REACH Registration, Evaluation, Authorization of CHemicals 

RE-ADSL Reach Extended ADSL : ADSL distance optimization (up to 8 Km) 

REALWSN Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (see WSN) 

REBT Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (see RET) 

REC RECord: command on a tape recorder (see FF, REW) 

Reconciliation account customers -> receivable 4000, vendors -> payable 4400 (voir collectif) 

Reconciliation ledger stores all infos from sender & receiver based on the affected documents for value 

flows. Can be used for evaluating the amounts crossing CyCd and Bus. Areas 

Recurring entry Periodically posted entry / pièces périodiques 


Recursive acronym same as recursive abbreviation (see backronym ) 

RED Random Early Detection: implemented to deliver packet level admission control (data traffic) 

RED Runtime Error Detection 

RedBrowser Trojan (February 2006) 

REE Rare Earth Elements (see LRE) 

REF Rarest Element First: algorithm (see RPF) 

RFDC Request for Document Change (see DCR, RFP, RFQ, ...) 

R4R Request For Resources 

Regedit registry edition: a Windows function 

Registrar Companies registering domain names (.aero, .biz, .com, .coop, ,eu, .info, .museum, .name, .net, .org, .pro, etc) 

Relationship FS : Finish-Start. Between the finish of one activity and the start of its successor 

(in beween tasks) SS : Start-Start. Between the start of one activity and the start of its successor 

FF : Finish-Finish. Between the finish of one activity and the finish of its successor 

SF : Start-Finish. Between the start of one activity and the finish of its successor 

Relative global warming potential of a car : see Greenhouse gas and EPA 

Renminbi Yuan or the Chinese money (see RMB) 

RePEC Research Papers in Economics 

REPROM REProgrammable ROM (see EPROM) 

REO REOrganization (of DATA) (SAP) 

Repo Repurchase agreement 

Reporting Tree : IMG -> Basis Component. The report tree contains all applications and can be customized 

Requirement tracking number monitoring of the procurement of required materials. It allows the grouping 

(numéro de besoin)(Fr) of purchasing docs that exist for a certain material requirement. 

RES Renewable Energy Sources (see Greenhouse gas , EPA) 

Reservation Request to the warehouse to keep material ready. Manually (directly entered) or automatically 

(reservation for orders, networks, WBS element, stock transfers/automatic reorder point) 

Resiliency buoyancy, vivacity 

Resonate capability to relate with customers' expectations (see Buzzword compliance ) 

REST REpresentational State Transfer, WEB original architecture (see WOA) 

RET Random Equipment Registration 

RET Rational Emotional Training: how to ponder emotions (see REBT) 

RET Resolution Enhancement Technology (HP) 

Retronym acronym composed after a new occurrence (see backronym ) 

REU Remote Control Electronic Unit 

Reverse publishing Web is first, paper is second 

Revise Ch.of Accounts * Revise the number of G/L accounts 

* Adapt for utilizing it with various CyCd 

* Extend the length of the accounts numbers 

* Moving from cost accounting being carried out in FI to cost accounting as a 

separate component 

REW REWind: command on a tape recorder (see FF, REC) 

RF Radio Frequency (see RFID, SAR) 

RFA Request For Action / Assistance (see RFC, RFCA, RFI, RFP, RFPs, RFQ, …) 

RFA Request For Application 

RFC Remote Function Call (SAP interface protocol that simplifies the programming of communication) 

RFC Request For Comment (see RFA) 

RFCA Request For Corrective Action (see RFI, RFP, …) 

RFI Radio Frequency Interference 

RFI Request For Information (see RFA, RFP, RFQ, …) 

RFICs Radio Frequency ICs 

RFID Radio Frequency ID (electronic "sticker" as a extended step-up for the bar-code)(see AIDC, BIT, DSRC, EPC, IFF, NFC) 

RFID chipping action of installing / inserting a RFID Chip 

RFMs RFC-enabled Function Modules 

RFT Right First Time 

RFP Request For Price (see PO, RFA) 

RFPs Request For Proposals (see RFA) 

RFQ Request For Quotes / Quotations (see PO, RFA, RFI, RFP, ...) 

RGB Red Green Blue (Standard Color Model) 

RGP Redemption Grace Period 

R&I Research & Innovation (see R&D, R&E) 


RI Relationship Intelligence (see BI, CI, SI, EI, CRM, KM) 

RIA Rich Internet Applications (Macromedia)(see RMA, SaaS) 

RIAA Recording Industry Association of America (see MPAA) 

RIB (clé) (Fr) contrôle l'exactitude des codes en France (banque, guichet et n° de compte). 

Rich media contextualized media, ideally with the use of advanced technologies (i.e. serious games ) 

RID Recorder Identification Code (see XCP) 

RID Regressive Imagery Dictionary: coding scheme analyzing texts to measure “primordial” and conceptual content. 

RID Relative ID (see SPID) 

RILO Review In Lieu Of 

RIM Rapid Implementation Management 

RIMOS OS for RIM BlackBerry 

RIP Raster Image Process (analysis and conversion of the page content) 

RIP Research In Peace: ironically said when talking about a dead researcher! 

RIP Routing Information Protocol (application layer) 

RIPE NCC European RIR (European ID network)(see IANA, NRO, …) 

Ripper program picking a sound from a source (CD, Radio, …) onto the PC hard drive 

RIR Regional Internet Registry (example AfriNIC)(see IANA, NRO, RIPE, …) 

Ris Research Infrastructures (see R&D) 

RIS Remote Installation Service (see FRS, RS, USN) 

RIS Retail Information System (enables goods movements to be planned, monitored and tracked 

throughout the supply chain). Business applications : FI, CO, TR, PP, PS, HR, QM. 

RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer (see CISC) 

RISS Reference Information Storage System (HP) 

RJ Registered Jack (e.g. RJ 11: jack for phone devices. RJ 15: jack for the NW line). 

RJE Remote Job Entry 

RKB Risk Knowledge Base 

RL Real Life (see Second Life , VL, VO, VR ...) 

RLC Revolving Line of Credit 

RLDRAM Reduced Latency DRAM (see RRAM) 

RLL Relay Ladder Logic 

RLO Reusable Learning Object (see LOM, LOR) 

R&M Refining & Marketing (see R&D) 

RM Relational Marketing (see e-Marketing , Personal Branding , …) 

RM Risk Management (see RA, RMA, RMD, RMS) 

RM Record Management 

RMA Rich Mobile Application (see RDA, RIA) 

RMA Risk Management Assistant (see RM) 

RMB Renminbi 

RMBS Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (see Alt-A) 

RMD Risk Management Discipline(s) (see RM, RMA) 

RME Relationship Modeling Engine 

*.rmi MIDI Sequence (sound file format) 

RMI Remote Method Invocation 

RMICC Records Management Interagency Coordinating Council.www.tsl.state.tx.us/SLRM/RMICC.html 

RMOA Realtime Multimedia Over ATM 

RM-OA Reference Model for the Orchestra Architecture (Risk Mgmt applications interoperability)(see DEWS, SANY) 

RMON Remote MONitoring 

RMP Return Material Processing 

RMP Risk Management Practices 

RMS Retail Management System 

RMS Rights Management Services (Windows) (see DRM, IRM) 

RMS Risk Management System (see RM, RMA, RMD) 

RMS Root Mean Square 

RMS (Microsoft) Retail Management System (see GRDI) 

RMT Research Methodology Techniques 

RNA Ribonucleic Acid: it stores information and carry it between DNA molecules 

RNIS (Fr) Réseau Numérique à Intégration de Services (EN.: ISDN) 

RNS Radio Network Subsystem 

RNS Roman Numeral System 

RO Rank Order 


RO Research Officer (see CEO, CIO, CKO, COO, CRO, CTO, …) 

ROA Resource-Oriented Architecture (see SOA, WOA) 

ROA Return On Assets (see ROCE, ROE, ROI, RONA, ROOA) 

ROACE Return On Average Capital Employed 

ROC Rate-Of-Change 

ROC Return On Capital (see ROCE, ROI and more) 

ROCE Return On Capital Employed (finance)(see ROA & ROOA, ROE, ROI, ROK, RONA, ROP, ...) 

Rock phishing phishing organized as from a fraudulent domain significantly difficult to shut down 

ROE Return On Equity (finance)(see ROA & ROOA, ROCE, ROE, ROI and also ROK, ROP) 

ROE Return On Experience (see VAE) 

ROE Rules of Engagement (see ROI) 

Rogue code Programming code that makes a virus 

Rogue ISP Provider originating knowingly unsollicitated mail (spam ) (see ASP, ISP, …) 

Rogue WEB Challenging site that shows up to replace the legitimate one 

ROH Raw Material (MM/Material Type). Fr: Matériel brut 

RoHS Restriction of use of certain Hazardous Substances (in electrical & electronic equipments)(EC 01-07-2006) 

ROI Return On Innovation 

ROI Return On Investment (finance)(see ROA & ROOA, ROC, ROCE, ROE, RROI, RRR and also ROK, ROP) 

ROI Rules of Interaction (see ROE) 

ROIA Return On Interim Activities (see ROK, ROP, WESP) 

ROIC Returns On Invested Capital 

ROK Return On Knowledge (see KM, ROKI, ROP) 

ROKI Return On Knowledge Investment (see KM, ROK, ROP) 

ROKS Research on Knowledge Systems (see KMS, KMT) 

ROKSO Register of Known Spam Operations (http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/) 

ROLAP Relational OLAP (see DOLAP, HOLAP, MOLAP) 

ROLE Research On Learning in Education (see LMS) 

ROM Read Only Memory (see CD-ROM, RAM, WOM) 

ROMS Real Output Management System (see OMS, LOMS, XOM) 

RON Run Of Network : online advertising schedule (see ROS) 

RONA Return On Net Assets (see ROA, ROOA, ROCE, ROE, ROI) 

ROOA Return On Operating Assets (see ROA, ROI, RONA) 

Root primal directory on the hard disk 

Rootkit detec tion Microsoft Rootkit Revealer, F-secure Corp's Blacklight, McAfee Inc's Rootkit Detective, Sophos' Anti-Rootkit … 

ROP Raster OPeration 

ROP Remote Optical Platform (see FTTH, FTTN, VDSL) 

ROP ReOrder Point : when a new order may be placed (see EOQ) 

ROP Return On People (Bob Nelson)(see HR, IC, ICA, ROI, ROIA, ROK, ROKI) 

ROR Rate Of Return (see ROI and more : synchronization in the BSC) 

RoR Ruby on Rails: Open Source Network (OSN) 

ROS Return On Sales (see ROA & ROOA, ROCE, ROE, ROI) 

ROS same as RON but only one selected site to advertise 

ROSCA Rotating Savings and Credit Assn: individuals agreeing to save and borrow together for a specified time period 

ROSI Return On Security Investment (see ROI) 

Router Data Packets Routing device (net) 

ROV Remote Operated Vehicle … "rover" 

ROV Return On Value (see SCM, VCM) 

Roving bug criminal investigation based on a mobile phone's microphone remote activation to catch nearby conversations 

ROW Rest Of the World (see ASEAN, EMEA) 

RP Research Project (see R&D) 

RP (SAP) Requirement Planning 

RP Role-Play (see BPML) 

RPC Remote Procedure / Process Call (see DCOM) 

RPC Rough-cut Capacity Planning (see MRP) 

RPE Resource(s) Pack Evaluation (see HR, CRE, ...) 

RPF Rarest Piece First: algorithm (see REF) 

RPG Report Program Generator 

RPG Resource Policy Group (see RSG) 

RPG Role Player Game. Example: Clash of Heroes (Might & Magic), Final Fantasy (series). 

RPL Recognition of Prior Learning: credit for previously accumulated experience and knowledge (see KM, LLL) 


RPM Revolution Per Minute 

RPN Reverse Polish Notation (calculation) 

RPN Risk Priority Number (see SOD) 

RPO Recovery Point Objective (see DR, RTO): disk mirroring and synchronous replication of data 

RPP Remote Power Panel (see PDR) 

RPV (Fr) Réseau Privé Virtuel (see VPN) 

RQ Risk Quotient (see RA, RM) 

RQBE Relational QBE 

RR Resale Rights (see MRR, PLR) 

RR Risk Register 

RR "Robot Resources" (our near future according The Corporation of the Best Jokers / Dan C. Renson)(see RRR) 

R&R Request & Reply 

RRAM Resistive RAM 

RRAS Routing & Remote Access Service 

RRDB Rich Relational Database 

RROI Rapid ROI 

RRP Recommended Retail Price (marketing) 

RRR Ready to Run R/3 (already documented core process for a preinstalled technical infrastructure) 

(complement to the ASAP method) 

RRR Reduce, Reuse, Replace: environmental best practices command that should be applied to ITS design (see value ) 

RRR Required Rate of Return (see ROA, ROC, ROE, ROI, ROK, ROP, …) 

RRR "Robot Resources Recruitment" (see RR) 

RRRS Read Uncommitted, Read Committed, Repeatable Read, Serializable: isolation levels (see SQL) 

RS Remote Storage (see change journal , FRS, RIS, USN) 

RS232 international norm for defining the serial connectors 

RSA Rivert, Shamir and Adleman (algorithmic encryption form with a public key) (see DES, DSA) 

RSG Resource Services Group (see RPG) 

RSI Repetitive Strain Injury: could impede the use of the mouse (see FUI) 

RSI Requirement Stability Index (used within a project conduct) 

RSI Relative Strength Index (gives sensitive change indication in price movement) 

RSL Resilient Server Link (dynamic access) 

RSM Removable Storage Media (see also CD, DVD, HDCD, MMCD, SD) 

RSM Reactive Synchronous Model 

RSPAN Remote Switched Port Analyzer (see SPAN) 

RSS Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary (RSS2 on http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss) 

RSS RDF Site Summary, a content distribution tool developed by Netscape, used by Bloggers 

RSVP Resource Reservation Setup Protocol (IETF). 

RSVP2 Resource Reservation Protocol (transport layer) 

RT Real-Time (see JIC, JIT, JBT, TC): a competitive advantage when properly implemented. Add BI ! 

RTC Real-Time Clock 

RTC Return To Control 

RT3D Real Time 3D 

RTDinfo Magazine on European Research (http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/rtdinfo/index_en.html) 

RTE Rich Text Edit (control) 

RTESS Realtime, Embedded and Specialized Systems 

*.rtf (RTF) Rich Text Format 

RTFM Read The F… Manual (Net language acronym / jargon) 

RTL Run-Time Library 

RTL Register Transfer Level (for digital HW design) 

RTLS Real Time Location Systems (see RFID) 

RTM Roots of Trust for Measurements (see RTR, RTS, RTV) 

RTM Round Table Meeting 

RTMS Retail Target Marketing System (Archer) 

RTO Recovery Time Objective (see DR, RPO) 

RTOS Real Time Operating System 

RTR Roots of Trust for Reporting (see RTM, RTS, RTV) 

RTS Real Time Strategy (see ERP, gaming , JIT, MMORTS, …) 

RTS Remote Transaction System (save time, travels, opportunity costs to isolated communities) 

RTS Request To Send (see RFQ, RFP) 

RTS Roots of Trust for Storage (see RTM, RTR, RTV) 


RTs Retweet via Twitter 

RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol (application layer) 

RTTI Run-Time Type Identification 

RTU Remote Terminal Unit 

RTV Roots of Trust for Verification (see RTM, RTR, RTS) 

RVI Refined Vulnerability Information sources 

RVM Relational Metric Value 

RTW Ready-To-Wear (planner/planning) 

RTXT Rich TeXT (see TXT) 

Ruby open programming language : object oriented (OO) and multi-paradigm 

RUI Remote User Interface (see FUI, GUI) 

RUL Research Unit Leader (see R&D) 

RUL Rural Urban Limit 

Runtime program executing an application whose language is unavailable 

RUP Rational Unified Process (Rational Inc) 

RWA Risk-Weighted Assets 

RWD Responsive Web Design 

RZ Return to Zero (3-level coding system) (see NRZ) 

S Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

S3 Simple Storage Service (Amazon service: data backup) (see EC2, cloud computing ) 

*.s3m ScreamTracker 3 modules (sound file format) 

SA Situational Analysis (see SNA, XSA) 

SA Social Assessment 

SA Strategic Alliance 

SA Strategic Architecture (see SOA) 

SA Sustainable Architecture (see SIS) 

SA8000 Social Accountability (label): similar to ISO along the ILO rules. 

SaaS Security as a Service (offered by Panda) 

SaaS Software as a Service (model) (see Cloud Computing , DaaS, IaaS, ITaaS, PaaS) 

SAA Systems Application Architecture 

SAA Swift Alliance Access 

SAAL Signalling ATM Adaptation Layer 

SAAL Single Address Assembly Language 

SAARC South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation 

SACL System Access Control List 

SAD Seasonal Affective Disorder 

SAD System Analysis and Design (see SADT) 

SADT Structured Analysis and Design Technique (see SAD) 

SAE Serious Adverse Event (see SCEM) 

SAE Society of Automotive Engineers 

SAE System Architecture Evolution 

Safari Apple's browser (for smartphones) 

SAF-TE SCSI Accessed Fault Tolerant Enclosure 

SAID Self-maintaining Array of Identical Disks (see MAID, RAID, RAIN, …) 

SAL Self Addressed Envelope (see SASE) 

Sales area combination of sales organization, distribution channel and division. 

Sales group records the data on the employees of a sales office. Sales groups are assigned to sales offices 

Sales office geographical aspects of the organizational structures in business development 

Sales organization organizational structure w/i SD which is assigned to a CyCd 

sality.gen virus designed to neutralize large networks 

SALM Strategic ALM 

SAM Service Activity Management (see BAM) 

SAM Security Account Manager 

SAM Shared Accounting Module 

SAM Supply Account Manager 

SAM Software Asset Management 

Samba SMB implementation within the Open Sources parameters 

SAML Security Assertions Markup Language (one only connection for accessing all applications and 

servers. It's a specification of the OASIS)(www.projectliberty.org) 

Sample Account Used to determine fixed values in G/L account 


SAN Storage Area Network (see BAN, LAN, PAN, VLAN, WAN, WLAN, DAS, NAS) 

SAN System Area Network 

SANY Sensors ANYwhere (see DEWs, SensorSA) 

SAOL MPEG-4 Structured Audio Orchestra Language (www.dart-europe.eu/full.php?id=149984) 

SAP Service Advertising Protocol 

SAP Stakeholder Advisory Panel 

SAP Statutory Accounting Principals for insurance companies: more conservative than GAAP 

SAP SystemAnalyse und Programmentwicklung (SAP AG since 1972 !)(www.sap.com/) 

SAP System Analysis and Program development (SAP AG) 

SAP (Fr) Soucis d'Accroître la Productivité (very unofficial definition !) 

SAP Banking / SEM consists of : 

BA Balance Analyzer 

Basel II & III 

PA Profit Analyzer 

RA Risk Analyzer (see IRM) 

SA Strategy Analyzer 

SAP IS (SAP) Industry Specific Component : Industry Solution 

SAP/R3 Systems Applications & Products in Data Processing/Real Time: www.sap.com. Founded in '72 

SAP-BG SAP Business Graphics 

SAP - CTO Change and Transport Organizer (customizing organizers/transaction SE10) 

SAP - CTS Change and Transport System 

SAPnet Topics, forum, services, R/3 support, … at http://sapnet.sap-ag.de (ID+PWD needed) 

SAP - OSS SAP Online Service System 

SAP - SEM Strategic Enterprise Management (see SEM) 

SAP - TCC Technical Core Competence 

SAP - TMS Transport Mgmt System (performs imports for all R/3 systems w/i a system landscape) 

SAP XI SAP eXchange Infrastructure (for data transfer) 

SAP Situated Audio Platform (Russel Davies): guiding voice addition to mobile applications 

SAR Search-And-Rescue 

SAR Segmentation And Reassembly 

SAR Spatial Augmented Reality (see AR, AV, MAR) 

SAR Specific Absorption Rate (mobile phone related measure: RF impact on the user) 

SARTRE Safe Road Trains for the Environment (automated road transport project) 

SAS Serial Attached SCSI 

SAS Social Analysis Systems (see SNA) 

SAS Space Adaptation Syndrome(see Coffin , WP) : adrenaline, heart-beat, flight away reflex 

SAS Statement of Auditing Standards 

SAS Single Attached Stations (see DAS) 

SASE Self Addressed and Stamped Envelope (see SAL) 

SASL Simple Authentication and Security Layer (see TLS) 

SAST Static application security testing tool (see DAST) 

SAT Scholastic Achievement (or Aptitude) Test(s) 

SAT Student Aptitude Test 

SATA Serial ATA (Bus Attachment) 

SAW Surface Acoustic Wave (identifier chip) 

SAWSDL Semantic Annotations for Web Services Description Language (see WSDL) 

SAX Simple API for XML 

SB Social Business (see SN) 

SB Structured Behavior (FBC>s -Change Management) (FBWPA : info@fbc-e.com) 

SBA Scenario-Based Approaches 

SBA Side Band Addressing (port: see AGP), Small Business Administration (USA) 

SBA Small Business Act (see EC, EU) 

SBA Small Business Administration (US) 

SBA Social Baseline Assessment (see SIA) 

SBC Server-Based Computing 

SBC Smart Bitrate Control (new way to encode DivX) 

SBC Software-Based Communication 

SBD Statistics-Based Debugging (enabled by WER) 

SBN Social Business Network (see SB, SN) 

SBO Small Business Owner (see SME, SMI, VSE, VSI) 


SBP Serial Bus Protocol 

SBP Service-Based Pricing 

SBPM Semantic Business Process Management (see BPM) 

SBR Statistical Bit Rate 

SBS Small Business Server 

SBS Smart Battery Specification (Duracell + Intel) 

SBU Strategic Business Unit (management)(see BU) 

SBV Solution Business Value 

SC Scientific Computing 

SC Semantic Component 

SC Smart Card (see smart phone ) 

SC Smart Cities (see SWC) 

SC Standard Cost 

SC Supply Chain (see 3PLs, APO, FSCT, SCM, SCEM, SCOR, SVC, …) 

SC27 IT security techniques sub-committee of ISO/IEC JTC1 

SCA Self-Contained Approach 

SCA Sensor Chip Assembly 

SCA Shipping Control Authority (see export lingo ) 

SCA Single Connector Architecture 

SCA Smarter Cities Assessment (IBM, CLIMACT)(see SC, UCRM) 

SCA Software Communication Architecture 

SCA Source Code Analyzer 

SCA Sustained Competitive Advantage (see CA, CI, SI, …) 

SCA Sustainable Competitive Advantage (see CA, CI, SI) 

SCADA Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition 

Scam fraudulent scheme (example : the Nigerian tricky financial offers)(see Shams ) 

SCART euroconnector 

Scashing scan & cashing: mobile payment in between 2 smartphones QR 

SCC Supply Chain Cockpit (see SCOPE) provides a graphical user interface to manage and 

optimize the supply chain. SCC synthesizes collaborative businesses and decision data. 

SCC Supply Chain Council (for setting SCM standards)(see also SC, SCEM, SCN) 

SCC System Control Center (see NCC) 

SCCM System Center Configuration Manager (Microsoft) 

SCCs SuperComputer Centers 

SCD System Context Diagram 

SCE Sales Configuration Engine (see SCM) 

SCE Supply Chain Engineer enables planners to build a graphical model of the supply networks 

SCE Supply Chain Environment: virtuality has the power to reproduce the related expert design 

SCEM Supply Chain Event Mgmt: event occurrence mgmt within the SC (see EDPC) (see FBM, Magazine 4) 

Schmoozing efficient networking 

School Graduation (High -) : level and discipline 

A.Com Associate of Commerce 

B.A Bachelor of Arts 

B.Sc. Bachelor of Science 

MBA Master of Business Administration (see MIS) 

MIS Master of Information System (Techno-MBA) 

D.Sc. Doctor of Science 

Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy 

SCIF Secure Compartmented Information Facility (see ICS) 

sci-fi science-fiction (see SFRA) 

SCIP Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (see CI) 

SCIP Supply Chain Improvement Process 

SCM Supply Chain Management (see 3DLCP, APO, c-SCM, GCL, SCEM, SCME, SCOR) 

SCME Supply Chain Management Execution 

SCMO Supply Chain Management Outsourcing 

SCMS Serial Copy Management System: copy protection scheme 

SCMT Security Compliance Management Toolkit (Microsoft) 

SCMT Server Consolidation and Migration Toolkit (Novell) 

Scn Screen 

SCN Supply Chain Network (extended logistics chain) (see SCM and others) 


SCNP Security Certified NW Professional 

SCO Server Code Object (related to storing procedures) 

SCO Synchronous Connection Oriented 

SCOPE (SAP) Supply-Chain Optimization, Planning & Execution 

SCOR Supply-Chain Operations Reference (see SC, SCEM, SCM, SCN, ...) 

SCORM Sharable Content Object Reference Model 

SCOUT Secure Communicating Optical Ultra-small Transponder 

SCP Social Collaboration Power 

SCP Supply Chain Planning (with SAP APO)(see also SC, SCEM, SCM, SCN) 

SCPI Supply Chain Planning Interface 

SCPM Supply Chain Performance Management (see SC, SCEM, SCM, SCN, …) 

SCPT SCP Tool(s) 

SCQM Supply Chain Quality Management (see SC, SCEM, SCM, SCN, …) 

SCR Solvency Capital Requirement (see MCR) 

SCRAMNet Shared Common RAM Network 

Scrap percentage of a rejected material which does not meet quality requirements 

Screaming cell phone phone emitting a screaming noise when lost or stolen (see kill switch ) 

SCRM Social CRM: convergence of social networks and CRM 

SCRUM process used in agile SW development (www.scrum.org/, www.scrumalliance.org/) 

SCSI Small Computer System Interface (see SAS, iSCSI) 

SCT Source Code Tree (see CVS) 

SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol (transport layer) 

SD Sales & Distribution (SAP R/3 Business Application Areas) 

SD Secure Digital (card) 

SD Send Data (Net) 

SD Super Density laserdisc from Toshiba / Time Warner (see also CD, DVD, HDCD, MMCD, SD) 

SDA Static Data Authentification (see DDA) 

SDA Sex Descrimination Act (1984) (see HREOC) 

SD-BIL Sales & Distribution - Billing / Facturation (invoicing process w/i SD) 

SDC Service Delivery Control / Controller 

SD-CAS Sales & Distribution - Computer Aided Selling 

SDF Standard Delay File (format) 

SDF Sub Distribution Frame 

SD-FT Sales & Distribution - Foreign Trade (R/3 Business Application Areas) 

SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (see DWDM, ONE, SON, SONET, TDM, WDM) 

SD-IS Sales and Distribution - Information System (SAP R/3 Business Application Areas) 

SDK SW Development Kit 

SDLC Software Development LC (see also ELC, SLC, …) 

SDLC System Development LC (see also CLC, PLC, …) 

SD-MD Sales & Distribution - Master Data (R/3 Business Application Areas) 

SDMX Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange: Eurostat activities (see ESS) 

SDN Software Defined Networking (see OF) 

SDO Solar Dynamic Observatory 

SDR Strategy for Disaster Reduction 

SDRAM Synchronous DRAM 

SD-SHP Sales & Distribution - Shipping (SAP R/3 Business Application Areas) 

SDSL Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line (see ADSL) 

SD-SLS Sales & Distribution - Sales (SAP R/3 Business Application Areas) 

SDU System Development Unit 

SDX Storage Data Acceleration 

SE Search Engine (see SEO, SEOP) 

SE Second Edition (see LE) 

SE SECURITY Evangelist 

SE Small Enterprise (see SME, SMI, TPE, TPI) 

S&E Science and Engineering (see R&D, S&T, …) 

*.sea self extracting archives (compressed files) 

SEA Search Engine Advertising (see PFL, SEM) 

SEAL SEa, Air, Land (US Navy special force) 

SEAL Semantics-directed Environment Adaptation Language 

SEAL Simulated Evolution And Learning (Singapore, November 2002) 


SEAQ Stock Exchange Automated Quotation (many info providers use it for identifying quickly shares) 

Search tm search term utilizing a short nme (name) 

SEC Search Engine Change (see SEO, SERP, SES, …) 

SEC Search Engine Crawler 

SEC Securities & Exchange Commission (http://www.sec.gov/)(EDGAR) 

SEC Single-Edge Contact (interface/cartridge for Pentium II) 

SECPS Securities and Exchange Commission Practice Section (doesn't exist any more) 

SECAM (Fr) Système Electronique Couleur Avec Mémoire (see NTSC, PAL) 

SECON Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks 

Second Life 3-D virtual world (June 2003) where users can socialize through avatars (http://secondlife.com/) (see SL) 

SLLA members of a self-proclaimed Second Life Liberation Army (see Game , Gaming ) FBM 

SECS SEMI Equipment Communication Standard 

SECURITY main techniques (see also Identity theft and more on ….) FBM 

adware 

botnet 

cloaking 

hacking 

harvesting 

key logger 

malvertising 

malware 

phishing and rock phishing 

root kit 

scam 

slag 

SMShing 

trojan 

virus 

vishing 

whacking 

worms 

zombie attack 

zombies NW 

Secy secretary 

SEDIC Sensitive Dependence on Initial Condition 

SEE Silly Expert Experiment (see SEO) 

SEE Single Event Effects (see SEU) 

SEE Social and Economic Equity 

Seed capital see Seed money 

Seed money start-up money also named "first seed money" (see Seed capital , VC) 

S2F Send to Friends (invitation on many sites) 

SEF Security Entrepreneurs' Forum (see ITSEF) 

SEH Structured Exception Handler (process) 

SEI Software Engineering Institute (see CMM, P-CMM) 

SELinux Security Enhanced Linux 

SELOP SELect OPtion 

SEM Search Engine Marketing (www.dailymotion.com/video/xkb2h_le-sem_business)(see SEA, SEO, SERP, SES, ...) 

SEM Small Entrepreneurial Manufacturer 

SEM Security Event Management (see SIM) 

SEM Strategic Enterprise Management (SAP) 

Semantic Web collaborative effort led by the W3C to uniformize data formats on the WWW 

SEM - BCS SEM - Business Consolidation and Sourcing (R/3 Business Application Areas) 

SEM - BIC SEM - Business Information Collection (R/3 Business Application Areas)(see BI, CI, SI) 

SEM - BPS SEM - Business Planning and Simulation (R/3 Business Application Areas) 

SEM - CPM SEM - Corporate Performance Monitor (R/3 Business Application Areas) 

SEM - SRM SEM - Stakeholder Relationship Management (R/3 Business Application Areas)(see CRM, SRM, …) 

SEMI Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturing Industries (see SECS) 

SensorSA Sensor Service Architecture (see DEWs, SANY) 

Sensys Sensor System (see ENSS, WSN) 

SEO Search Engine Optimization (see OSEO, SEC, SEM, SEOP, SER, SES, SERP) 


SEO Silly Expert Opinion (Eric meyer, www.ericmeyeroncss.com/) (see SEE) 

SEOP Search Engine Optimization and Positioning (see OSEO, SEM, SEO, SER, SERP, SES) 

SEP Social and Economic Policy 

SEP Social Economy Productivity (see SEV) 

SEP SocioEconomic Position 

SEP Standard Essential Patents (see FRAND) 

SEPT Security and Emergency Planning Team (see SEM) 

SEPT. 11 Twin Tower 2001 aftermath: see the NYPD aerial pics http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/slideshow?id=9763032 

SEPA Single Euro Payments Area : harmonization of the payments within Europe (see BIC, IBAN) 

SEQUAP School Education Quality Assurance Programme: multi-donor budget (WB, United Kingdom/DFID & Belgium) 

SEQUEL Structured English QUEry Language: IBM (early 70s) first name of SQL (Oracle '79) 

SER Search Engine Registration (see SEM, SEO, SEOP, SERP, SES, ...) 

Serial process One after the other process 

Serious game see game ( s ), gaming, ... 

SERM Structured Entity Relationship Model (SAP development tool for creating data models) 

SERP Search Engine Results Page (see SEC, SEM, SEO, SES) 

SES Search Engine Sourcing 

SES Shared Earth System (part of the JIS) 

SES Single European Sky: an ambitious initiative of the EC to meet future capacity and air safety needs (see AIRE, SESAR). 

SESAC SEcurity and Stability Advisory Committee (ICANN) 

SESAR Single European Sky ATM Research (see AIRE, SES) 

SESEC Sustainable Environmental Solutions for Emerging Countries (www.sesec.org) 

Session Windows where the user processes a task 

Session mgr user interface for controlling the R/3 system from a frontend. The enterprise IMG has to be customized before the 1st 

generation of the company menu which is the basis for the definition of user menus. 

SET Secure Electronic Transactions 

SET Single Electron Transistor 

Set Object summarizing values or value intervals 

SETI Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (see AI, VI) 

SEU Single Event Upset (see SEE) 

SEV Social Economy Value (see SEP) 

SEW Search Engine Watch 

SEW Strategic Early Warning (see BI, CA, CI, FI, OI, SI) 

Sexting Sex + Texting on mobile phones screens 

Sextortion Sex + Extortion: sexual exploitation, often associated to sexting activities. 

SF6 Sulphur Hexafluoride 

SFA Sales Force Automation integrates the back office with the front office and uses several components: Contact Mgmt, 

Activity Mgmt, Calendar, Opportunity Mgmt, Order Mgmt, Quotation, Marketing Encyclopedia, Sales pricing engine, Sales 

configuration engine, Promotions/Campaigns, Customer Agreement, Inbox/outbox, Analysis tools (see CAS, CRM, FFA, SFC) 

SFC Sales Forces Collaboration (see CAS, SFA, SMA) 

SFH Synthesized Frequency Hopping (GSM) : prevents communication interruptions. 

SFIS Shop Floor Information System (see LIS, MIS, SIS, ,,,) 

SFM Sustainable Forest Management (see ISO 14001) 

SFRA Science Fiction Research Association (see sci-fi)(www.sfra.org/) 

SFSC Safety Function Status Check 

SFT Sales Force Team (see SFA) 

SFT System Fault Tolerant (system) 

SGA Serious Game Application (see SGD, Game(s) , Gaming , …) 

SGA Social Cognition Analysis (see MLD) 

SGA & MLD Social Cognition Analysis & Maturity Level Determination (see MLD) 

SGBD (Fr) Système de Gestion de Banque de Données (see DBMS) 

SGD Serious Game Design / Development (see SGA, Game ( s ) , Gaming , …) 

*.sgi Silicon Graphics image: SGI image format 

SGI Strategic Growth Initiative 

SGL Standard General Ledger (see USSGL) 

SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language (see HTML) 

SGNP Secure Grid Naming Protocol 

*.sgt DirectMusic segment files (sound file format) 

SHA Shared Hosting Account (see colocated server ) 

Shadow banking credits set across the financial system by unregulated intermediaries 


Shams mails participating with chain letters (see Scams ) 

Shark Tank American reality TV show considered as having educational values for entrepreneurs 

Shareware Try it freely before you buy. Fr.: Distribuciel ou partagiciel = libre-essais avant achat 

SHERQ Safety, Health, Environment, Risk and Quality 

SHGs Self-Help Groups 

SHL Shared Library (BC-SRV) 

Shoot the puppy do something uncommon 

Shoulder surfing looking over an ATM user shoulder to catch his PWD 

SHRDLU natural language understanding computer program (see NLP) 

S-HTTP Secured HTTP 

SI Security Intelligence (see CAS, SIEM) 

SI Social Intelligence (see EI, IQ, SIA, …) 

SI Source Index 

SI Special Intelligence (see CIA) 

SI Strategic Intelligence (see CA, CI, IE, FI, OI, SEW, S&OI …) 

SI System Integration 

SI System Integrator 

SIA Semiconductor Industry Association 

SIA Social Impact Assessment (see SBA) 

SIC Standard Industrial Classification 

SIC Sustainability Innovation Cube: model for structuring the Innovation (see CI, OI, SOI) 

Sick app application allowing sites attacks by amateur hackers (see cyber attack and more) 

SID Security ID 

SID Solid Ink Density (printing business, 3D printing) 

SID Special Initiatives Division 

SIEM Security Information & Event Management (see CAS, SI, …) 

SIF (Fr) Système d'Information Financier 

SIG Sender Identity Guaranteed 

SIG Special Interest Group (see FIG, WG) 

SIGINT SIGnal INTelligence (see ELINT, GIS, HUMINT, IMINT) 

SIGMA Software Industrialized Generator and Maintenance Aids (system) 

signal an electrically impulsed information 

SII Simple Indexing Interface 

SIIA Software & Information Industry Association 

SIL (Fr) Système d'Information de la Logistique (see IS) 

SIM Security Incident Management (see RM, SEM) 

SIM Society for Information Management (www.simnet.org/) 

SIM Subscriber Identity Module (see IMEI) 

SIM SW Security Information Management (see SEM, SIM) 

SIM Synchronized Interim Management ® : more in our BizMag1, Sept. 2006, pages 22-23 

SIMagine Mobile Telecom market applications (http://www.simagine.info/) 

SIMD Semantic Interoperability of MetaData … to approach a GKN? (see FRBR, KM, and more) 

SIMD Single Instruction (stream) Multiple Data (stream): multiprocessor architecture concept 

SIM-IM free software-based multiple protocol instant messenger (see IM) 

SIMM Single Inline Memory Module 

sims short for simulations (www.businesszone.co.uk/topic/technology/empire-building-and-balancing-books) 

SIMS Strategy Implementation Monitoring System (SAS Australia & New Zealand: info@oz.sas.com) 

Sinef Security Innovation Network (see ITSEF) 

Singularity related to our future capability to create superhuman intelligence because of the new technological means (see ESIs) 

SIO Security Intellligence Organisation (see CIA, FBI, NSA) 

SIP (Fr) Système d'Information du Personnel (gestion du -) 

SiP System-in-Package. Delivered when the solution is not possible on chip (see SoC) 

SIPs Statistically Improbable Phrases: most distinctive phrases in the text (Amazon.com)(see CAPs) 

SIP2 Session Initiation Protocol 

SIPRnet Government Secret Internet Protocol network (see IPN) 

SIR (Microsoft) Security Intelligence Report (see BI, CI, SI) 

Siri iPhone4S intelligent vocal technology 

SIS Sales Information System (see IS, LIS, MIS, …) 

SIS Social Information System 

SIS Strategic Information System (see TMS) 


SIS Structured Information Standards (see OASIS) 

SIS Sustainable Information System (see SA) 

SISEE Single Information Space for Environment and risk management in Europe (see RM-OA) 

SIV Structure Investment Vehicles (see ABCP) 

SIVA Solution, Information, Value, Access corresponding to the 4P Product, Promotion, Price, Place 

SixCs Capabilities of Competence, Creativity, Competitiveness, Connectivity, Cooperation, Communication. 

SK SecondaryKey (see HK, MK) 

SKA Shared Key Authentication 

SKE Senior Knowledge Expert 

SKF Statistical Key Figures (see DK, KPI, KSF) 

Skimmer(s) individuals utilizing equipment for Skimming 

Skimming action of capturing a credit card magnetic stripe and PIN at ATM machines, gas pumps, restaurants or others. 

Skinput computer interface allowing the operator to carry a virtual keyboard in his hand palm 

SKM Sales Knowledge Management (see CRM, CI, SMA) 

SKM Social Knowledge Management (see KM, …) 

SKOS Semantic Knowledge Management Organization (see FRBR, FRSAD, IFLA, KM, KOS, and more) 

SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System (see KM, KOS, SKS, …) 

SKS Structured Knowledge System(s) 

SKU Stock-Keeping Units: item identification code (see SCM, SKF) 

SLA Service Level Agreement (see SLS, TCO) 

SLAM Software, (programming) Languages, Abstraction, Model (checking): program-analysis to check an API usage 

SL Second Life (see SLLA) 

S/L Special Ledger (see FI-GL) 

Slack time Fr.: marge libre des tâches non critiques (CPM) 

Slag several meanings : one of them could correspond to the running of a destructive program 

SLAM Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (see 3D, AR, AV, Kinect) 

Slangacademic recognition of the popular language value input 

SLAPP Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (http://www.casp.net/) 

SLC Single-Level Cell (see MLC) 

SLC Supplier Life Cycle (see CLC, DLC, LC, CLC, ELC, OLC, …) 

SLC Supplier Logistics Center 

SLCM Software Life-Cycle Management (see PLC, PLCM, SaaS, and others) 

SLE Stressful Life Event (related to behavior and depression)(see NLP, TA) 

SLIC Specification Language for Interface Checking 

SLICK-DA Simple Language Independent Kit for OPC Data Access Server 

SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol 

SLLA Second Life Liberation Army (see SL) 

SLOC Source Lines Of Code (see also KLOC) 

Slow science servicing individuals instead of the speculating financial world 

SLRP Strategic Long-Range Plan (see NOPAT) 

SLS Selective Laser Sintering (3D printing)(see FDM) 

SLS Service Level Specifications (see SLA, TCO, TOR) 

SLT Social Learning Theory: related to the context / environment. Practical landscaping is required. 

SLT Supply Lead Time (see SCM, TTR) 

Slumdogs Social, Local, Mobile, Data, Gaming & Search (Coca-Cola advanced CRM and Slumdog movie analogy) 

SM Scientiae Magister (Master Of Science) 

SM Service Management 

SM Security Management (see FISMA, RM) 

SM Social Media (see DM, DMM, DRM, MM, SMM, … ) 

SM Strategic Match (IE) 

SM Stress Meter (see metrics ) 

SMA Sales Management Analytics (see CRM, SFA, SFC) 

SMA Surface Mount Assembly (see SMC, SMD, SMP, SMT) 

SMAC Society of Management Accountants of Canada 

Small caps Small Capitalizations (see Large caps ) 

SMART Self Monitoring And Reporting Technology 

SMART Standardize, Monitor, Account, Rethink, Transform (see BPR, BPM, RRR, …) 

smart card (intelligent) card with a built-in Chip (new generation : very smart card) 

smart card Surplus Marketing Administration (USA) 

smart cities management of communication, mobility, energy optimization, electricity peak time, urban renovation, security ... 


(see cogntitive cities ) 

smart phone advanced multi-capable handheld devices. Examples: Blackberry, HTC, iPhone, Samsung, ... (see PDA) 

smart TV Internet-connected TV (see iTV) 

SMB Small & Midsize Businesses (see SME, SMI, VSE)(Fr.: PME, PMI, TPE) 

SMB Server Message Block 

SMBA Share Memory Buffer Architecture (see UMA) 

SMC Semi-Conductors (HTG within the IPC) 

SMC Senior Management Committee (see BOA, BOD, BOE, CxO, …) 

SMC Surface Mounted Component (see SMA, SMD, SMP, SMT) 

SMD Social Media Director (see OCM, SMM, SMO) 

SMD Surface-Mount Device (see SMA, SMC, SMP, SMT) 

SME / I Small & Medium(-sized) Enterprises / Industries (see SMB, VSE) 

SME Society of Manufacturing Engineers 

SMED Single Minute Exchange of Dies. System originated in Japan for quick machines changeovers and low downtimes. A 

system considered as critical for the setting of the lean manufacturing and SVC (see RRR, waste hierarchy , …) 

SMF Super MetaFile 

SMFU Systems Management Functional Unit (see FU) 

SMI Social Marketing Intelligence (see MMI) 

SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language 

smiley (see) emoticon : graphisms, animations and sounds are also available 

S/MIME Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (see MIME) 

SMIS Service Management Information System 

SMIS Specific Management Information-passing Service (see OSI) 

SMI-S Storage Management Initiative Specification 

SMI-S Storage Management Interface Standard 

SMiShing short for SMS phishing : mobile attack using SMS to steal the SmartPhone user ID 

SMM Social Media Manager (see OCM, SMD, SMO) 

SMM Social Media Marketing (see DM, DMM, DRM, MM, SM, … ) 

SMME Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (see SE, SME, SMI, TPE, TPI) 

SMMT Sequential Matching Memory Test : related to the science of cognition 

SMO Social Media Optimization (SEO along the popularity)(see OCM) 

SMP Social Media Pipeline: www.twittermastermarketing.com/ 

SMP Surface Mount Packages (see SMA, SMC, SMD, SMT) 

SMP Symmetric MultiProcessing (is where OS and applications can share all the processors) 

SMR Sample Master Record 

SMS Short Messaging Service (mobile phone) (see MMS) 

SMShing SMS based Scams 

SMS MO SMS Mobile Originated 

SMS MO-R SMS MO Reverse Charging (cost is paid by the receiver) 

SMS MT SMS Mobile Terminated (Sent by a server to a mobile) 

SMS MT-R SMS MT Reverse Charging 

SMS Social Media Scientist 

SMS SW Management System 

SMS System Management Server 

SMT Self Management Team (organization) (see CFT) 

SMT Social Media Template 

SMT Surface-Mount Technology (see SMA, SMC, SMD, SMP) 

SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (see ESMTP) 

smurf attack exploiting the IP protocol features within the TCP/IP protocol 

SMWD Social Media Web Development 

S/N Serial Number (see P/N) 

SN Social Network (see ISN, NW, SB, SNA, SNS) 

SNA Social Network Analysis (go to www.fbc-e.com for more)(see Networking , SNS, SNP, 360°) 

SNA Social Network Architecture (see SNT, WNT) 

SNA System Network Architecture (IBM network protocol) 

SNAD SNA Distribution Service (see SNA IBM) 

Snail Mail ordinary postal mail versus email ! 

SNBKO Social Network -Based Knowledge Organization (see KM, KOS, RBKO, SNA, and more …) 

SNCC System and Network Control Center 

SNG SAP Supply Network Gateway 


SNG Social Network Game (see gaming , social gaming , …) 

SNI Social Network Intelligence (see BI, CI, SI, SNI, …) 

SNIA Storage Networking Industry Association (see HSD, SSD, …) 

Sniglet a word that should be in the dictionary but isn't (http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci506044,00.html) 

Snippet A snippet fulfills a specified task well without taking much extra code beyond the standard library 

SNM Social Network Management (see SN, Social Network , SNI, …) 

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol (Internet framework) 

*.snp Snapshot Viewer (file) 

SNP (Microsoft Access Report) Snapshot 

SNP Sensor Network Protocols (see SNPA) 

SNP Social Network Potential (see SNA, SNS, SNV) 

SNP Supply Network Planning. It integrates purchasing, manufacturing, distribution and transportation 

in one global model to shorter the response times and minimize the supply chain costs (see SCM, …) 

SNPA Sensor Network Protocols and Applications (see SNP) 

SNS Social Network System (see SNA, SNP) 

SNT Social Networking Technology (ies) (see WNT) 

SNU Social Network Users 

SNU Social Networking Users 

SNV Social Network Value (see Metcalf's law , SNA, SNP) 

SNW Social NetWork 

SNWS Social Networking Strategy 

SOA Service-Oriented Architecture: an advanced fundamental concept (see IOA, ROA, SONA, WOA) 

SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol (open standard accessing web service during execution) 

SOAP Study of Open Access Publishing, an EC subsided program 

SOA-RM SOA Reference Model 

SoC System-on-Chip (design) (see SiP) 

SOC Science Operations Center 

SOC Security Operations Center (see CSIRT, NOC, SOO) 

SOC Security Operations Officer (see CCO, CEO, CIO, CFO, CKO, CSO, CTO, ERO, ...) 

Social capital http://bizz-exert.blogspot.com 

Social CRM Social Networking concepts, principles, methodologies applied to CRM 

Social gaming gaming toward social interaction (see ARG, game , LARPG, MMO, RPG, … ) 

Social innovation innovative solutions and tools for facing societal challenges 

Social network network composed of individuals sharing a common objective (see CoPs, CoUs) 

Social network evangelist One of the numerous new jobs: he/she explains the new dimensions and advantages of 

other jobs: social network analyst (SNA), social network developer, enterprise social network architect, … 

Social shopping based on the Internet social networks. Example: Groupon (www.groupon.com/) 

Social software apps Blogs , cloud computing , Wikis , WEB 2.0 (http://web2bizclub.blogspot.com/) 

Société-SL Unité structurelle de la gestion comptable qui subdivise l'entreprise selon les exigences de la législation commerciale. 

(Fr) La fonction de la comptabilité financière se fait sur base des SL. Une SL peut comporter plusieurs sociétés. Il faut un 

même plan comptable et exercice comptable opérationnel. Les devises peuvent être différentes. 

sock puppets fake profiles on social networks (see Centcom , OPMS) 

socl Microsoft social browser 

SOD Severity, Occurrence, Detection (see RPN = S×O×D) 

SODIMM Small-Outline DIMM 

SOE (Biz) State-Owned Enterprise 

SOE Special Operations Executive 

SOE (IT) Standard Operating Environment. 

Soft salary salary calculated according the company rules (see hard salary ) 

Softy Sum Of The Year digits: regressive amortization method 

Software collection of programs containing the instructions a computer needs to operate (see SPA, SW). 

SOHO Small Office, Home Office (market)(see HBB) 

SOI Sustainability-Oriented Innovation: tool for addressing the sustainability and market uncertain issues (see SIC) 

S&OI Strategic & Operational Intelligence (see BI, CI, SI) 

SoLoMo Social - Local - Mobile. Also used to identify the SoLoMo Generation 

Solvency II insurance companies EC standards set for regulating their management (see Basel II ) 

SOM System Object Model 

SOM Self Organizing Map (categorizes texts according their register and style of the author)(see GTM) 

SOMA Self-Ordered Magnetic Arrays (requires special material) for approaching a capacity of 50 To per inch² 

SON Synchronous Optical Network (see DWDM, ONE, SDH, SONET, TDM, WDM) 


SONA Service-Oriented Network Architecture (see SOA) 

SONET Synchronous Optical Network (see DWDM, ONE, SDH, SON, TDM, WDM) 

SONOS Silicon-Oxide-Nitride-Oxide-Silicon: non volatile memory 

SOO Security Operations Officer (see CCO, CEO, CIO, CFO, CKO, CSO, ERO, SOC) 

SOP Sales and Operation Planning (provides a link between the sales forecasting and master production scheduling 

processes: information is shared on line between the sales department and production scheduling to keep and 

production scheduling to keep each up-to-date with the latest information) 

SOP Service Offshoring Practices (see ORN) 

SOP Standard Operating Procedures 

SOP Statement of Position (see AICPA, CPA) 

SOPA Stop Online Piracy Act (see BSA, PIPA) 

SOR Smart Order Routing (see CCT, DOT, OARS) 

SORBS Spam and Open Relay Blocking System (http://www.de.sorbs.net/) 

Sorting key posting data the SAP system will capture in the allocation field or a document mainly 

used for automatic clearing of account 

SOS Save Our Souls : emergency call 

SOS Service Oriented Security 

SOS Standardized Open Sources (Fr.: Open Sources Standardisé) 

SOW Statement Of Work (see BOW) 

SOX Sarbanes-Oxley 

SOXA Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002): new governance principles after the Enron and Walcom fraudulous bankrupcies 

SP Standard Play (sound, movie, …) 

SP Service Pack (Windows) 

SP2 Service Pack2 (Windows) 

SP3 Service Pack3 (Windows) 

SP Strategic Planning 

SPA Secure PWD Authentication 

SPA SW Publishers Association (see Software ) 

Spam junk email (spamming = junk email distribution) 

SPAM SAP Support Package Manager 

SPAN Switched Port Analyzer (see RSPAN) 

SPARQL SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (new standard query language of the Semantic Web) 

SPB Structure Planning Board (available within the SAP PS module) 

SPC Statistical Process Control (see SQC) 

SPE Strategize - Plan - Execute: global management approach. 

Spearphishin g combination of pharming and phishing 

Special G/L transaction Business transaction itemized differently in the balance sheet (i.e. notes, 

down payment, guarantees) 

Special purpose ledger general ledger based on user-defined elements and accessible via specially determined posting keys 

Spec(s) specification(s) 

Speech recognition. Over the phone speech-enabled SAP modules let representatives and customers determine the status of 

accounts, product availability and pricing, sales-order placement. HR module lets employees speak to access information about 

benefit, salaries, paychecks, travel expenses, time reporting, personal information (SpeechWorks International Inc.) 

SPF Sender Policy Framework (http://www.openspf.org/) 

SPF Single Point of Failure 

SPHR Senior Professional in Human Resources (see GPHR, HR, HRM) 

SPI Schedule Performance Index : work achieved / work scheduled 

SPI Service Programming Interface 

SPI Software in the Public Interest (NPO for helping companies in the open SW development) 

SPI Stateful Packet Inspection (see firewall , NAT). 

SPI Strategic Planning Initiative 

SPI Strategic Planning Interface 

SPID Service Profile IDentifier (see RID) 

SPIKE Student's Personalized Interactive Knowledge Environment (Portal of the Advanced Technolgy 

Development of the Wharton School of the Pennsylvania University. It has been developped with ColdFusion of 

Macromedia : www.wharton.upenn.edu) 

SPL Services Product Line 

Splash page advertising page displayed before the access to the site 

Splog contraction of spam and blog : fake blog 

SPM Source Program Maintenance 


SPO Senior Program Officer 

SPO Spending Pool Order 

SPO(s) SubProcess Owner(s) (see GPO) 

SPOC Single Point Of Contact 

Spock People-search engine (www.spock.com) 

Spoofing Identity Hacking, Masquerading 

SPOT Screening Passengers by Observation Technique (more intensively operated after "N-Y Sept 11") 

SPP Special Provision Package 

SQUID Superconducting Quantum Interference Device 

Spread spread in between 2 values 

SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 

SPV Sound Picture & Video (phone system from Orange) 

SPV Special Purpose Vehicle (see SIV) 

SPY ACT Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act: US anti-spyware bill 

Spybot Spying robot (see bot ) 

Spychip refers to RFID tags as privacy thieves 

Spyware Spying software 

SPF South Pacific Forum 

SPR Secure Pinpad Reader for reading the eID cards 

SQA SW Quality Assurance (see QA, QC, QCM, SQM) 

SQC Statistical Quality Control (see QA, QC, QCM, SPC) 

SQI Simple Query Interface (see SQL) 

SQ KM Square Kilometer 

SQL Structured Query Language (see DBA, DBP, RDBMS, RDBS, SEQUEL, SQI) 

SQM SW Quality Management (see QA, QC, QCM, SQA) 

SQS Simple Queuing Service 

SRB Social Responsabilities Board 

SRC Secure Server Certificate: intermediate certification (see ARC) 

SRE Scene Recognition Engine (see AR, HB3D) 

SRE Standard for Robot Exclusion 

SRI Socially Responsible Investment: investing in enterprises complying with the human rights & environmental rules 

SRM Service Request Management 

SRM Storage Resource Management (see MAID, NAS, RAID, SAN …) 

SRM Supplier Relationship Management (= GRF) 

SRT Selection-Recruitment-Training 

SRRT Simple, Routine, Repetitive Tasks (mental impairment assessment). 

SRU Search/Retrieval via URL (www.loc.gov/standards/sru/resources/diagnostics-list.html)(see CQL) 

SRV or srv server 

SS Self-Snoop 

SS Supplemental Specification 

SS7 Signaling System 7 

SSA Social Security Administration (US)(see SSN) 

SSA Space Situational Awareness (see SA, STU, …) 

SSA State-Sponsored Attacks 

SSARS Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (see AICPA, CPA) 

SSC Shared Service Centre 

SSCR SAP Software Change Registration : records which users are authorized to modify SAP 

repository objects in the R/3 system and which objects a user has modified 

SSCS Statements on Standards for Consulting Services (see AICPA, CPA) 

SSD(s) Solid-State Drive(s) (see FSSD, HSD) 

SSE Streaming SIMD Extension 

SSF (SNIA) Supported Solutions Forum 

SSI Small-Scale Industry (this size of industry plays a vital role in the countries growth: 40-50% of the GIV) 

SSID Service Set IDentifier 

SSII (Fr) Société de Service et d'Ingénierie Informatique (France)(see ITSC) 

SSIS SQL Server Integration Services (see SSUG) 

SSL Secured Socket Layer (security device) 

SSM Security Solutions Management 

SSM Single Supervisory Mechanism (for banks) 

SSM Soft Systems Methodology 


SSM Special Safeguard Mechanism (see Doha, GATT, NAMA, WTO, …) 

SSN Social Security Number (USA)(see SSA) 

SSO Simplified Sign-On 

SSO Single Sign-On (security) 

SSO Stateful Switch Over 

SSP Storage Service Provider (see ASP, ISP, WBS, …) 

SSS Smart Sustainabilty Strategy (see corporate governance , RRR, SMART, …) 

SSSR Site Specific Standard Request 

SST Sea-Surface Temperatures (see ATSR) 

SST "Single Source of Truth" (an interesting formulation as read in the Oracle Magazine ) 

SSUG SQL Server User Group (see SSIS) 

ST Social Technologies (see IT, STA, …) 

S&T Science & Technology (see R&D, S&E, …) 

STA Social Technologies Applications (see ST) 

STA sectors consumer packaged goods, retail financial services, advanced manufacturing, professional services. 

STAIRS STorage And Information Retrieval System 

Stakeholder Individual and/or group having typical interest in the company and/or the project. 

STAR Situation - Task - Action - Result : behavioral interview technique (BIT) 

STAR STock Appreciation Rights 

STB Set Top Box 

std standard 

STDF Standards & Trade Development Facility: WTO decisional framework 

Stealer Trojan that is gathering data from a system 

STF (5D) Space Time Fabric (see Ba, STU) 

STENO Science, Technology, Environment Organization 

Step-in Manager stepping-in dynamically. Go to www.fbc-e.com for more information 

Stick to your knitting Avoid excessive diversification (In search of Excellence, Peters ) 

STM Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (see AFM) 

STO Strategic Technology Office 

STOA Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (Committee) 

STP Straight Through Processing 

STR Special Theory of Relativity 

STRESS STructural Engineering Systems Solver: IT language to solve structural analysis problems in civil engineering 

Structure legal and internal flexible framework in which business transactions are supported and processed 

STTR Small Business Technology Transfer 

STU Space-Time Universe = 4D (3D + Time) (see the Japanese Ba , Homo Communicans , STF, VSTU) 

STUN Simple Traversal of UDP through NATs (used by ICE) 

Stuxnet Virus. It has attacked the nuclear plants in Iran. Israel and USA are suspected of this intrusion. 

Sub-ledger customers, vendors, assets / Fr: compta auxiliaire : clients, fournisseurs, immobilisés 

Subnet abbreviation for subnetwork but it could be a topological space in the mathematics domain. 

Subprime mortgage for (very) lowly reliable persons. 

SUMT Single Unified Measurement Tools (see BPML, metrics ) 

SUPA Smart Universal Power Antenna: electrical power induction 

supercookie more voracious cookie containing flash or HTML5 code fragments that is also able to reinstall itself. 

Superstitials advertising format developed by Unicast 

Super-Type d'objet (Fr) nœud supérieur de l'arborescence des types d'objets existants (voir BOB) 

Surface WEB indexed by standard search engines (see Deep Web , invisible Web , undernet …) 

Sustainability means meeting the needs of the presence without compromising the needs of the future (United Nations) 

SUV (car) Sport Utility Vehicle 

SV Schedule Variance (see CV) 

SVC Scalable Video Coding 

SVC Stereoscopic Video Coding (format)(see 2D+Z) 

SVD Scalable Video Decoder 

SVDS Scalable Video Decoding Software 

SVG Scalable Vector Graphical 

SVGrid Secure Virtual Grid computing environment 

SVMs Support Vector Machines 

SVP Senior Vice-President (see CEO, VP) 

SW Semantic Web (see COE, CSW, SWR, SWT) 

SW Short Waves (radio) (see AF, AM, FM, LW, MW) 


SWAG Scientific Wild Anatomical Guess : rough estimate of a project completion time / cost 

Swapware Rights to use are granted when purchasing another author's program / Fr: Troquiciel 

SWB Subjective Well-Being 

SWC Smart Work Center (see SC, SCA, smart cities , …) 

SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (see BIC) 

SWIG SAP WEB Internet Gateway 

*.swf Shock Waves Flash file / object 

SWK SpyWare Killer 

SWO1 transaction that starts the Business Object Builder (all objects) in SAP 

SWO2 gives a hierarchical list of all data in the SAP BOR. 

SWOMAP Social Word-of-Mouth Action Plan (see WOMAP, WOM, WOMM, …) 

SWOT Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats (see also COBRA from FBC>s ) 

SWR Semantic Web Research (see COE, CSW, SW, SWT) 

SWT Semantic Web Technology (see COE, CSW, SW, SWR) 

Symbol: statistical symbols 

b break in series 

e estimate 

f forecast 

P provisional 

r revised value 

s Eurostat estimate 

u unreliable data 

: data not available 

:c confidential data 

:u extremely unreliable data 

- not applicable or real zero 

0 less than fifty percent of the used unit 

SYNC SYNChronous (see ASYNC, first Triad ) 

synchronization see SYNC and first triad 

SYOR Set Your Own Rule(s): the risk attached to the BYOD mobile revolution forces IT architectures to be more adaptive 

sysops system operators 

T Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

TA Terminal Adaptor 

TA Transactional Analysis (see AT) 

TA Travel Authority 

Tablet aka "tablet computer": a fingertip-operated touch screen computer pack. It seems to succeed the e-Book. 

TAC Technical Advisory Committee 

TAC Travel Advisory Committee 

TAF Theoretical and Applied Finance 

TAF Thought Action Fusion Inventory 

TAF Tracking and Analysis Framework 

TAF Training Approval Form 

TAG Travel Approval Group 

Tango Down military jargon to inform about the target outblowing. 

Taguchi methods statistical methods developed by Genichi Taguchi to improve the quality of manufactured goods 

TAI International Atomic Time (see UTC) 

TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (common biz language) 

TAO Track-At-Once (see DAO) 

TAPI Telephone Application Programming Interface (see API, CAPI) 

TAR (*.tar) Tape ARchive: in a *.tar archive, files are gathered and not compressed. 

TAR Travel(er) Authorization Request 

tarball archive created with the UNIX utility system and filed with the *.tar (see TAR) 

Targed attack attack on transactions instead of computers 

TARP Troubled Assets Relief Plan (Henry Paulson, Finances Minister, USA, 2008) 

TAS Talents Acquisition System (see ATS, HRM) 

Taser conductive energy device: used by police forces. 

TATF Transatlantic Task Force on Trade (see TF) 

Taxonomy science of the classification (used within a real KM project)(see folksonomy ) 

Tax category of a G/L Acct. Tax types : input sales tax, output sales tax, fixed tax rates 

TB / Tb Terabytes (1024 x Gb / Giga) (see Petaoctet) 


TBA To Be Announced (see TBC, TBD) 

TBC Time Based Competition considers time as a manageable factor (aka "Time Compression Management" 

or "Cycle Time Reduction")(see AAT, TTC, TTL, TTM, TTR, "time is a resource ") 

TBC Time Base Corrector 

TBC To Be Confirmed (used in some offerings) (see TBA, TBD) 

TBD To Be Discussed (used in some offerings) (see TBA, TBC) 

TBE The Benchmarking Exchange 

TC Target Costing: Toyota (see TPS) uses value engineering to reduce the cost (see Kaizen costing ) 

TC Technical Committee (see TOSCA) 

TC Time Compression (see JIC, JIT, JTL, RT) 

TC Total Costs (see TCO) 

TCA Trip Costs Accounting (function available in the R/3 Release 4.0) 

TCA Transaction Cost Analysis. It assumes that all organizational processes contain 2 cost elements: production and 

transaction costs (see ABA, ABB, ABC, TCM). 

TCAM Ternary Content Addressable Memory 

TCB Trusted Computing Base (see MTM, TM) 

TCC Total Cloud Computing 

TCE Tangible Common Equity 

TCE Transaction Cost Economics (see IE) 

TCF Technical Complexity Factor (see ACF, ECF, GACL, PF, UAW, UCP, UUCW, UUCP) 

TCG Technical Consumer Goods 

TCG Total Cost of Green (see TC, TCO) 

TCM Time Compression Management (see TBC, TM, TTx): more to be done in much less time! 

TCM Total Change Management (addition / combination of major changes)(see GCM for top results) 

TCM Total Content Management (see CMS, ECM, WCM) 

TCM Transformational Change Management (see OCM) 

TCM Transaction Costs Management (see ABA, ABB, ABC, ABM, TCA). 

TCM Treasury Cash Management 

TCO Total Cost of Ownership (see LCO, TC). Fr: somme des coûts de matériel et de logiciel, dont l'architecture, 

et des coûts cachés relatifs à une activité particulière telle que l'utilisation de l'ordinateur par un utilisateur final. 

TCPA Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (Security Access Norms) 

TCP Transmission Control Protocol (transport layer) (see UDP, DCCP, SCTP, RSVP, ECN) 

TCP / IP TCP / Internet Protocol 

TCSEC Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria 

TCT Time-Critical Targeting (see TTC, TTM, TTP, TTR) 

TCT (car) Twin Clutch Technology 

TD Technology Domain 

TD Time-Driven (see ED) 

T&D Training & Development (see R&D) 

TDABB Time-Driven Activity-Based Budgeting (see ABB, ABC) 

TDABC Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (see ABC, TCA) 

TDC Time to Digital Converter 

TDC Total Direct Costs (see ABC, TC, TCO, …) 

TDC Transport Domain Controller 

TDD Test Driven Development 

TDD Time Division Duplexing (see FDD) 

TD-LTE Time Division - LTE (see FDD, TDD) 

TDM Time Division Multiplexing (see DWDM, SDH, SON, SONET, WDM) 

TDMA Time Division Multiple Access 

TDP Thermal Design Power (PC specs /example : 2,5w) 

TDR Time Domain Reflectometry (ability to test the cable integrity from the switch) 

TDS Target Day Supply / Detailed Scheduling (see DD, FCFS, LPT, PLC, PLM and others) 

TDWI The Data Warehousing Institute 

TEA Travel Expense Account / Accounting 

Team Coordinated net of people (see ATU, CFT, SMT, TU) 

Teaser short text about a story (see Kicker) 

Tech isolation high tech devices addiction could lead to lonelyness 

Technium technological ecosystem 

TED Technology Entertainment Design (A big annual Californian/Monterey ideas conference)(www.ted.com/) 

TEF Trade & Export Finance 


TEG ThermoElectric Generator: extraction of electrical energy from the temperature difference between a hot and a cold 

environment to power electronic devices (see AC, DC, DCG, MHD, ATEG) 

TEI Total Enterprise Integration (complete information integration throughout an enterprise and its SC)(see EAI) 

TEI Total Economic Impact (see IE / Information Economics) 

TEI Total Emotional Intelligence : FBC>s concept (see EI, EQ) 

TEL Technology-Enhanced Learning (see ITEL) 

TEL The European Library (digital library) 

Telecine process that brings a 24 fps movie to 29,97 fps. 

TELENET ARPANET commercial version 

Teleprocessing remote processing 

*.temp temporary (file) 

TEMS Travel and Expense Management System 

tentpole Hollywood major superproduction 

Tera / To 1024 x Giga / Go (see Tb, Petaoctet) 

Teraflops 1 billion of operations / sec (see flops ) 

TETRA Terrestrial Trunked RAdio (see USAT, VSAT) 

TEU Tertiary Education Union 

TEU Treaty on European Union 

TEU Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit (see FEU) 

TEV Total Economic Value 

text neck pain related to a long use of portables and tablets (see text thumb injury ) 

text-talk text-messaging based conversation (see TM) 

texting see text-talk 

text thumb injury pain related to a long use of portables and tablets (see text neck ) 

TF Task Force (see TATF) 

TFD Tax Freedom Day: the date as from which the population stops paying taxes and works for itself 

TFFIO Terrorist Funding / Finance Identification Operations 

TFP Text Formatting Program 

TFP Total Factors Productivity. Metrics related to the synergy & efficiency of capital and human resources utilization 

TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol. 

*.tga Truevision Targa files (image file format) 

TGC (Fr) Technologies de la Gestion des Connaissances (see KMT) 

THD Total Harmonic Distortion 

THEMIS Thermal Emission Imaging System (see HiRISE) 

Thin Client terminal-like computing architecture to improve the large enterprise NW manageability 

Thinking out of the box foreseeing : not considering the "out-of-the-self" as a serious immediate solution 

THMPD Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive (from CE, DG SANCO). 

TIA Thanks In Advance (see IL or InLin) 

TIA Totally Integrated Automation 

TIA Trend Impact Analysis 

TIC (Fr) Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (see ICT, ICDT) 

TID The Integral Dictionary (see CL) (http://www.memodata.com/2004/en/index.shtml) 

TIDS Total Inventory Days of Supply 

TIEAS Tax Information Exchange Agreements (see FATF, FSF, OFCS, TFD) 

*.tif Tagged Image Files 

TIG Tungsten Inert Gas (see MIG) 

Time event recorded clock-in/clock-out time 

Time is a resource FBC methodology associated to our KM and KMS enterprise strategic operations 

TIMITI Try It, Measure It, Tweak It (metrics ) 

TIMS Telecommunications Instructional Modeling Systems : common experimental platform 

TIN Taxpayer Identifying Number (US) (see PIN) 

TINA There Is No Alternative'. A hard short statement for pushing rude decisions 

TIP Actual Time (HR) 

TIP or TiP Theory Into Practice 

Tipping Point "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" (Malcom Gladwell) 

TIPS Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (US) 

TinyURL! create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires (http://tinyurl.com/) 

TIR Total Internal Reflection (see FTIR) 

TIROS Television Infrared Observational Satellite (see ATVOS, RARS, TOVS) 

TJN Tax Justice Network (2003): transparency in international finance & opposition in secrecy (www.taxjustice.net) 


TK Tacit Knowledge (see KM, EK) 

TK Transformative Knowledge (see KM3.0) 

TKB Terrorism Knowledge Base (see KM, RM, cyber terrorism and others) 

TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol: IEEE 802.11 wireless networking standard security protocol 

TL Team Leader 

TLA Technology Lifecycle Assessment (see LC, TLM) 

TLA Three Letter Acronym (see FLEA, IL, YATLA) 

TLD Top Level Domains (see DNS) 

TLD Tag Library Definition: XML file describing the tag by associating the tag name with the corresponding Java class 

TLEs Transposable Elements (they have mobility properties) 

TLM Technology Lifecycle Management (see LC, PLC, TLA) 

TLS Transport Layer Security (see SASL) 

T/M TeleMetry (see metrics ) 

TM Technical Manual (see OM) 

TM Text Messaging (see IM, text-talk ) 

TM Time Management (see TBC, TCM, TDABC, TMO, TTC, TTM, TTR and others from the TTx series) 

TM transaction Manager (is mapping a whole range of financial instruments for different terms and 

hedging purposes -from money market to securities, loan and derivative) 

TM Trade Mark (see ©, ®) 

TM Track Marketing (FBC>s Concept)(see commando marketing ) 

TM Trust Management: linked to risk and security mgmt, including WEB security concerns. 

(www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_6/khare/index.html) 

TMC Trafic Management Channel (see FVD, GPS) 

TMC Travel Management Company 

TMI Tax Misery Index (by FORBES: www.forbes.com/global/2009/0413/034-tax-misery-reform-index.html) 

TMIS Transactions on Management Information Systems (see MIS) 

TMN Telecommunication Management Network (IN) 

TMO Time Management Optimization (see TBC, TCM, TDABC, TTC, TTM, TTR and others from the TTx series) 

TMS Tactical Messaging System (see SIS) 

TMS Transport(ion) Management System: organizes, monitors, imports change request 

TMT Telecom Media & Technologies 

TN Thematic Network 

TNA Training Needs Analysis (see e-Learning , LLA, LLL, …) 

TNC Terminal Node Controller 

TOA Treasury Operations Analyst 

"to be " the destination point, the completion to achieve (see "as is ", "implementation path ", MOC) 

TOC Theory Of Constraints (Eli Goldratt: start with the operation that requires the defined bottleneck resources in the system. 

Remaining operations are scheduled on the non-bottleneck resources using a combination of backward and forward schedule 

techniques)(see COBRA from FBC>s, .CPM, PERT, … ) 

TOC Table Of Content (see TOR, TOS) 

TOD Television On Demand 

TOD Test Of Design 

TOD Time Of Departure 

TOD Time Of Delivery 

TOD(s) Transfer Of Document(s) 

TOD Transport stream On Disk: JVC tapeless video format 

TODS Transactions on Database Systems 

TOE TCP/IP Offload Engine 

TOE Ton of Oil Equivalent 

TOEFL Test Of English as a Foreign Language (see ESL) 

TOF Time-Of-Flight (technology) 

TOF-CV Time-Of-Flight based Computer Vision 

TOGAF (manual of) The Open Group Architecture Framework 

TOI Transfer Of Innovation (see DOI) 

ToIP Telephony over IP (see MVOIP, VoIP, VoW) 

Tokyo Tech Tokyo Institute of Technology (founded in 1881)(www.titech.ac.jp/english/) 

toon-shaded see cel-shaded 

ToP Taxonomy of Privacy (University of Pennsylvania, 2006) 

Topology geographical/physical setting/construction for the best network arrangement 

TOPs Task Optimized Processors 


TOR Terms Of Reference (see also GTC, MOU, NB-SOTs, NDA, TOC, TOS) 

TOR The Onion Router: free SW implementation of 2G anonymous communication (www.torproject.org/) 

ToS Type of Service (system management / maintenance) 

TOS Terms Of Services (see TOC, TOR) 

TOSCA Technique of Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications: Capgemini, CA Technologies, Cisco, 

Citrix, EMC, IBM, NetApp, PwC, Red Hat, SAP, Software AG, Virtunomic, WSO2 (see OASIS) 

TOU Terms Of Use (see MOU, NB-SOTs, TOR, TOS) 

TOW Tax On Web (Belgian system)(see IRS) 

TOWS see SWOT 

TP Terminal Portability (service) (see ISDN) 

TP (Fr) Type de Pièce 

TPA Third Party Administrator (see TPS) 

TPE Tender Preparation and Evaluation 

TPFKATA Jay Rosen manifesto: The People Formerly Known As The Audience (before the Blogosphere ) 

TPM Total Productive Maintenance (Nakajima, 1988) for supporting product manufacturing 

TPM Trusted Platform Module: embedded in a chip 

TPR Transformation Programme Roadmap 

TPS Third Party Solution (see TPA) 

TPS Total Plant Solution (see MRP) 

TPS Toyota Production System. Besides the well known JIT or other TQM, Toyota creates values with other methods: 

Andon, Genchi Genbutsu, Heijunka, Jidoka, Kaizen, Kanban, Muda, Mura, Muri, Poka-Yoke. 

TQC Total Quality Control (see ASQ, CTQ, EFQM, Kaizen, TQM, QA, QI, QC, QM) 

TQM Total Quality Management (see ASQ, CTQ, EFQM, QA, QI, QC, QM, TQC) 

TR Treasury (R/3 Business Application Area) 

TRA Theory of Reasoned Action: Icek Ajzen and Martin Fishbein's theory (psychology domain)(see CM, KM) 

Track record history of the finishing times 

Trackers see ETF 

Trans transaction 

Transaction program standing behind the R/3 menu. Min. 1 pce per transaction with a univocal 

number (manually/externally or automatically/internally determined) 

Transaction code 4-char. code representing a task for directly going to the task screen 

Transhumanism technology use for augmenting the human capabilities (see H+, AR) 

Transp transportation 

Transponder TRANSmitter resPONDER: automatic wireless communication (see IFF, RFID) 

TRASCOM Traveller Assistance for Combined Mobility in regional areas (see Mobile2.0, MoMo) 

TR-CM Cash Management. Fr: trésorerie, gestion des flux 

TR-FM Funds Management. Fr: comptabilité budgétaire 

Trial balloon test / scenario to analyze the reaction(s) of (a) targeted person(s), group(s), market(s) ... 

Trialware pre-installed SW on a new PC (see crapware ) 

Tribal marketing strategy trying to accustom a social groups buying a typical product (see viral marketing ) 

TriDiCam 3D camera (see TOF, TOF-CV) 

TRIP Terrorism Reinsurance and Insurance Pool 

Triple play Internet access, TV and phone on a single broadband connection (see Quadruple play ) 

TRIPS Trade-Related (Aspects) of Intellectual Property Rights: WTO's IP laws standards. See IC, ICA, IPM 

TRIPS Travel Information Processing System 

TRO Top Rank Objective 

Trojan an invading software that acts like the famous Trojan horse (Trojan War around the 13th century BC) 

*.trm Terminal (file) 

TRM Talents Resources Management (see HRM, HRR, TRR) 

TRM Total Reward Management 

troff DPS by ATT 

TRR Talents Resources Recruitement (see HRM, HRR, TRM) 

TRR Test Readiness Review 

TRR Transportation Research Record 

TRS Total Returns to Shareholders (see ROA, ROI, ROE, ROK, ROP …) 

TRS Transaction Reporting System 

TRT Transportation Research Thesaurus: list of terms indicating which of 2 or more synonymous terms is 

authorized for use. http://trt.trb.org/trt_glossary./asp 

TR-TM Treasury Management. Fr: Gestion de la trésorerie étendue 

TSA Transportation Security Administration 


TSANet Technical Support Alliance Network (1993: EMC, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Sun Microsystems, Unisys …) 

TSC Time Stamp Counter (processor) 

TSDB Time Series DB : important for KM time dimension added to real world DB (see DB, RDB) 

TSE Tokyo Stock Exchange 

TSER Two Stage Entity-Relationship (information modeling tool)(see ERD) 

TSF (Fr) Télégraphie / Téléphonie Sans Fil (Hertz, +/- 1888) 

TSID Transmitting Station ID (see CSID) 

TSM Technical Support Management 

TSM Total Security Management 

TSOP Thin Small Outline Package 

TSP Telecommunication Services Provider (see ASP, ISP) 

TSS Technical Support Services (from Google) 

TSS Touch Server Technology 

TSSDC Task State Segment Descriptor Cache 

TSUP (Fr) Témoin de SUPpression (archivage) 

TT Text Telephone (MS service) 

TTA Time-To-Answer (see TBC, TTC, TTM, TTP, TTR, TTSI, TTx) 

TTC Time-To-Change = total time needed to implement a project (FBC>s concept)(see TBC, TTL, TTM, TTR ) 

TTF (*.ttf) True Type Font (scalable font) (file) 

TTI Time-To-Innovation (see TTP, TTR, …) 

TTI Time-To-Intelligence (see BI, CI, SI, TBC, TTC, TTM, TTP, TTR, TTSI, TTx) 

TTIP Telephone-Television-Internet Provider (see ASP, IP) 

TTL Through The Line (advertising)(see advergame , ATL, BTL, ..) 

TTL Time-To-Live (see TBC, TCT, TTC, TTR, TTM, TTP): related to Life Cycles (LC) 

TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic 

TTM Time-To-Market aka speed to market. Total time a company needs to enter the market (see AAT, TBC, TTC, TTP ...) 

TTO Technology Transfer Office 

TTP Time-To-Product (it's related to the PLC)(see AAT, TBC, TCT, TTC, TTR, TTL, TTM) 

TTP Trusted Third Party: interoperability working group in the NFC domain. Managed by IDA 

TTR Time-To-Resolution (see TTC, TTM, TTP, TTR, TTx) 

TTR Total Tax Rate: global tax pressure made of all taxes and mandatory contributions 

TTR(A) Time-To-Resources (Available or to be found) = total time a company needs to find resources (see SLT, TTM) 

TTS Time-To-Supplier (negociation process duration, new one to be found)(see SLT) 

TTSI Time-to-Security Intelligence (a sort of typical CMM companies have to develop) 

TTT Train / Training-The-Trainer 

TTx global performance "pull models": TTC, TTM, TTP, TTR, … (article in the FBC>s BizMagazine 3)(see MLET) 

Tty Transaction type. Fr: Type de transaction 

TU Team Unit (see ATU, SMT, team ) 

TUAC Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD 

TUG Terminal User Guide (operating manual) (see EUC) 

TUG Tool(s) Users Group(s) (see DTUG) 

Turing test to determine the computer ability of thinking like a human (see AI, CAPTCHA) 

TURN Traversal Using Relay NAT (used by ICE) 

TUS (Fr) Type d'Unité de Stock (WM) 

Tux The name of the Linux penguin mascot (see the Linux illustration) 

TV TeleVision (see HDTV) 

TV2.0 connected (also connected to the Internet), mobile, social 

TVI Tutored Video Instruction 

TVOS TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (see ATVOS, RARS, TOVS) 

TVWS TV White Space band (see WRAN) 

TWF Total Welfare in the Family 

TWh TeraWatt / hour (see MWh) 

twip (one) TWentIeth of a Point 

Twitter Social networking and microblogging service utilizing instant messaging, SMS or Web interface. 

To utter a maximum of 140 characters about short and/or trivial matters (www.twitter.com) 

Twittizen a citizen who is utilizing Twitter 

TWS Timed Wire Service (telegraph) 

TWT Traveling Wave Tube (NEC) 

Twixters in betwixt adolescence and adulthood (US) (see Kippers , Neet ) 

TXT (*.txt) Text (non-formated file)(Windows note pad file)(see RTXT) 


Type d'objet description générique d'objets du même type avec les données correspondantes, les fonctions exécutables sur les objets, les 

modifications possibles du statut ainsi que l'implémentation correspondante dans le programme du type d'objet. 

Voir Super-Type d'objet (Fr). 

typosquatting a tricky domain name whose spelling and assonance is similar to a well known site to get part of its traffic (ex. Yahoooo) 

TZ Time Zone 

TZP Planned Working Time (HR in SAP) 

U Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

UAA Universal Application Architecture (see RAA) 

UAA Universal Audio Architecture (pilote for Windows XP) 

UAA Utilized Agricultural Area 

UAC Unified Access Control: Juniper standard (see NAC, NAP, US) 

UAC User Account Control 

U3D Universal 3D (Ecma International) 

UAE United Arab Emirates (see AU, EU, …) 

UAE Unrecoverable Application Error 

UAM User Authentification Method 

UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver / Transmitter 

UAT Unit Acceptant Testing 

UAT User Acceptance Test 

UAV(s) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(s): drone(s) 

UAW Unadjusted Actors Weight (see ECF, PF, TCF, UCP, UUCW, UUCP) 

UBE Unsolicited Bulk Email (see SORBS, Spam , UCE) 

Ubiko short for "ubiquitous computing ", a robot made by Tmsuk (Japan: Japanese female names often end with "ko") 

Ubimedia ubiquity + media: a word coined by Adam Greenfield for emphasizing the computer invasion 

ubiquitous computing same as pervasive computing (see Ubiko , Ubimedia ) 

UBL Universal Business Language (it has something to do with the semantic interoperability) 

UBM (Fr.) Unité de Bruit Médiatique (Taylor Nielsen Sofres): unit of media exposure (see MNU, UNM) 

UBR Unspecified Bit Rate (ATM) 

Ubuntu community developed Linux-based operating system 

UC Unified Communication: systems/models including unified messaging, collaboration, interaction systems (see IP) 

UC Upper Case 

UCaaS Unified Communication as a Service (see PaaS, SaaS, …) 

UCC Unified Conferencing and Communications (see IMCCA, UC, …) 

UCC Uniform Commercial Code (USA) 

UCD User-Centered Design (see GUI, UFI) 

UCE Unsolicited Commercial Email: often called UCEless (see UBE, SORBS) 

ucfbdrndd (Fr.) "utilise cette foutue boite de recherche nom de dieu" ("friendly" message on a French forum) 

UCI Unified Customer Interaction 

UCM Universal Content Management (see CM, ECM, TCM, WCM) 

UCP Uniform Customs and Practice (see export lingo ) 

UCP Use Case Points: method for calculating the workload (see ECF, PF, TCF, UAW, UUCW, UUCP) 

UCR Uniform Crime Report (USA / DoJ) (see ICVS) 

UCRM Urban CRM (see smart cities ) 

UCS Unicode Character System 

UCS Unified Certification Standard 

uD user Data 

UDC Universal Decimal Classification 

UDCC Universal Decimal Classification Consortium 

UDDI Universal Description Discovery & Integration (open standard accessing web service during execution) 

UDI User Driven Innovation (see ENoLL) 

UDO Ultra Density Optical (for archiving) 

UDP User Datagram Protocol (transport layer) (see STUN, TCP) 

UDRP Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (see DNS)(www.dns.be) 

UDRT Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (see DNS) 

UDS Unstructured Data Service 

UDT Uniform Data Transfer 

UE Universals and Evolution 

UEA Universals and Evolution Approach 

UEC Union Européenne des Experts Comptables Economiques et Financiers 

UED User-Experience Design 


U2DK Up-To-Date Knowledge (see KM) 

UET Uniform Electronic Transaction act (USA) 

UF User Friendly (see UFD, UFI) 

UFD User Friendly Design (see UFI) 

UFDL Universal Forms Definition Language 

UFI User-Friendly Interface (see API, GUI, HMI, IST, UCD, UFD, UI, UIE) 

UFIS User-Friendly Information Society (http://cordis.europa.eu/fp5/src/t-2.htm) 

UFP Ultra-Fine Particle (such as what you find in a laser printer cartdridge) 

UFS Unmaned Fire Scout: US military drone 

unfriend on a social network, someone you don't want to be a friend anymore (see defriend ) 

UFS Unix File System (see UID) 

UG User Group (see DTUG, UI) 

UGC User Generated Content (see CM, CMS) 

UGV Unmanned Ground Vehicle (see RR) 

UHF Ultra-High Frequency (see HF, LF, VHF, VLF) 

UHQ Ultra-High Quality 

UI User Interface (see AI, API, AugCog , EAM, GUI, HCI, HMI, PUI, UFD, UFI, UG) 

UI Unstructured Information : data and knowledge not stored in a searchable DB. A huge pack to be tapped! 

UIA Universal Information Architecture (www.databaseanswers.org/Future_of_Databases/) 

UIC Universal Image Code 

UID User Identification (UNIX) (see UFS) 

UIE User Interface Engineering (see API, UI, UFI) 

UIML User Interface Markup Language (see UIE) 

UIT (Fr) Union Internationale des Télécommunications 

UIT User Interface Tier (see BLT) 

UK United Kingdom (see BC, US, USA) 

UK Ultimate Knowledge: all what we are keeping ourselves searching for! 

u-KB Ubiquitous Knowledge Base (distributed knowledge base where the factual knowledge (i.e. individuals) is scattered 

between objects disseminated within a given environment with no centralized coordination)(http://aisel.aisnet.org/pajais) 

UKD Ubiquitous Knowledge Discovery (see KM4.0, NGDM) 

UKDU Ubiquitous Knowledge Discovery for Users 

UKF Ubiquitous Knowledge Framework (see KM, KM4.0, UKM) 

UKM Ubiquitous Knowledge Management (see KM, KM4.0) 

UKN Ubiquitous Knowledge Network. LMS is a good example of an efficient application 

UKP Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (Lab of Computer Science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt) 

UKW Ubiquitous Knowledge Work (see NGDM) 

UL Urban Legend (see UrLe) 

ULA Unlimited License Agreement 

ULSI Ultra Large Scale Integration (see Grid Computing ) 

Ultrabook ultra light and thin Netbook : maximum thickness of 2,1cm. Minimum autonomy: 5 hours. 

Ultra Comput er principle for high-resolution modeling of a "virtual earth" (NEC & JSTA) 

UM Unified Messaging (see UMS) 

UMA Unlicensed Mobile Access: NW architecture, dual band GSM / Wifi technology (see UMAC) 

UMA Unified Memory Architecture (see SMBA, UML) 

UMA United Media Agencies (see ACC, CCB) 

UMAC UMA Consortium: to promote the UMA technology (mobility) 

U-Matic videocassette format whose tape is spooled around the player spinning video drum in a way resembling the U letter 

UMB Upper Memory Block 

UMD Universal Media Disc : 1,8 Gigabyte (Sony). "Flash" memories are now much faster. 

UML Unified Modeling Language: refines components in a workflow sequence (see BPML, BPMN) 

a common language for unifying the concern about definition, deployment, control … 

UMLS Unified Medical Language System (www.nem.nih.gov/mesh/) 

UMM Unified Maturity Model (see CMM, CMMI, PSAUMM) 

UMP Ultra Mobile Projector 

UMPC Ultra Mobile PC: ultra-compact PC with a sensitive screen (see MID, Origami ) 

UMS Unified Messaging Service (Universal Internet Box containing voice, fax and mail) 

UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (mobile phone) (see EDGE, (E)GPRS, UWB) 

UN United Nations (see 3P, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNM, UNWTO) 

UNC Universal Naming Connection 

UNCITRAL UN Commission on International Trade Law 


UNCTAD UN Commission / Conference on Trade and Development 

Undernet see Deep Web , Hidden Net , Invisible Net , Surface Web 

UNDP UN Development Program 

UNE Unbundled Network Element 

UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (www.unece.org/) 

UN/EDIFACT UN Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, Transport 

UNEP UN Environment Program (see IPCC) 

UNESCAP UN Economic & Social Commission for Asia & Pacific 

UNESCO UN Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (www.unesco.org) 

UNFCCC UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (see WMO) 

UNHCR UN High Commissioner for Refugees 

UNHDR UN Human Development Report 

UNI User Network Interface 

UNICEF UN Children's Fund, 1946 (www.unicef.org) 

Unicode Unicode Worldwide Character Standard (see EBCDIC) 

UNICORE UNIform Interface to COmputing Resources 

UNIMATE UNIversal MATE, the first manipulating robot (Engelberger, 1961. Patent F.C. Devol, 1954) 

UNISDR United Nations International Strategy Disaster Reduction (see DR, RM) 

UNIVAC UNIVersal Automatic Computer (1951: first marketed computer) (see ENIAC) 

Universe it can be created out of nothing: gravity shapes space and time (Hawking and Mlodinow) 

UNIX Uniplexed Information & Computer Service is a multi-tasks/multi-users typed command based 

OS (non GUI system) developed in 1969. Updated many times (see Linux) 

unkn unknown 

UNM UN Member 

UNM Unit Noise Media, Taylor Nielsen Sofres, Aug 5th, 2003 (see UBM) 

Unnovation innovation without any significant value (Harvard) 

UNP Unified Network Platform: open computing architecture platform 

unsp unspecified 

UNU United Nations University 

UNWTO UN World Tourism Organization 

UOCD User Oriented Collaborative Design (see CoPs, CoUs) 

UOSCP Ubiquitous Open Source Cloud Computing Platform (http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/category/728) 

UPC Universal Product Code 

UPC Usage Parameter Control 

UPI Universal Portable Interface (SAP) 

UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply 

Upsell suggest a costlier related products/services to someone entering a purchase process (see cross sell ) 

UPT Universal Personal Telecommunication 

UQ (Fr) Unité de Quantité 

ur your (see cu , IL) 

Urban legend often hoaxed stories that are somewhat difficult to verify 

URI Uniform Resource Identifier (see URL, URN) 

URI Universal Resource Identifier 

URL Uniform Resource Locator (see URI, URN) 

URL Cloaking a technique that masks the URL destination 

UrLe Urban Legend 

URN Uniform Resource Name (see URI, URL) 

US Unified Security : new trend in the domain (see UAC) 

US United States (see EC, USA) 

US Unified Storage (see NUS) 

USA United States of America (www.usa.gov/) 

USAF United States Air Force (www.airforce.com/) 

USAID United States Agency for International Development (www.usaid.gov/) 

USAT Ultra Small Aperture Terminals (see TETRA, VSAT). 

USB Universal Serial Bus (see WUSB): an access to data cards. 

USB2 USB 2nd generation 

USBL Ultra-Short BaseLine 

US-CERT United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (http://www.us-cert.gov/) 

USD Unpopular Software Detection 

Useful life expected usefulness of an asset lifecycle: costs are assigned to that anticipated profitable period. 


Usenet USEr NETwork: created in 1979 by 5 US students for exchanging information (www.usenet-fr.net) 

uSFF unique Small Form Factor (Digital Engine) 

USI Universal Subscriber Identity 

USIA United States Information Agency: created in August, 1953 and terminated in October 1, 1999. 

USITC United States International Trade Commission (see ITC, WTO) 

USMTF United States MTF 

USN (journal) Update Sequence Number (Journal) or Windows Change Journal 

USOC Uniform Service Ordering Code 

USP Unique Selling Proposition (it's related to the market positioning strategy) 

USPS United States Postal Service (see also DPC and CR&DPC) 

USPTO United States Patent & Trade Mark Office (www.uspto.gov/) 

USSGL/SGL United States Standard General Ledger (http://fms.treas.gov/ussgl/index.html) 

USSR Union of Soviet Social Republic (see CCCP) 

US TDA US Trade & Development Agency 

USTR United States Trade Representative (see GSP) 

UT Universal Time (see UTC) 

UTC Coordinated Universal Time: standard based on International Atomic Time (see CUT, EDT, TAI, GMT) 

UTF Unicode Transmission Format 

Utility Internet Internet is more and more like what gas and electricity are for their users (see commodity ) 

UTM Unified Threat Management (technologies) 

UTM Universal Threat Management 

utma to utmz Google analytics cookies 

UTMA Unified Threat Management Appliances (see UTM) 

UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair 

UTRA Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (see E-UTRA) 

UTRAN UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (see E-UTRA, UTRA) 

UUCW Unadjusted Use Case Weight (see ECF, PF, TCF, UAW, UCP, UUCP) 

UUP Unified User Profile (see CRM) 

UV Ultra-Violet (radiation) 

UWB Ultra Wide Band (low energy consumption system for the broadcasting of ultra short pulses. It 

is supposed to easily pass the UMTS performances) 

UX User eXperience (see FUI) 

UXO Unexploded Ordnance 

V Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

V 5 (Five) in the Roman numeral system 

V3D Virtual 3D 

VAC Variance At Completion (see EV, ACWP, BAC, BCWP, BCWS, EAC) 

VAE (Fr) Valorisation des Acquis Expérientiels (France) (see ROE, ROK, ROP) 

*.vag PS2 / PSP sound format (sound file format) 

VAI Video-Assisted Instruction 

VAL Virtual Assembly Line (see serious game , V3D, VWP) 

Valuation plan (Asset accting) is added to FI as a set of specific data of asset accounting 

Value is obtained as from knol -inside processes enabling the lowest consumption of raw (including the HR time). 

Value Chain activities creating value & CA (see SCM, c-SCM) 

VAM Virtual Application Mart (see LAM, PAM) 

VAN Value Added Network (see VAR, VAS) 

VAP Value Added Process 

VaR Value-At-Risk (see US) 

VAR Value Added Reseller (see VAN, VAS) 

Varbinary Bit Varying (SQL) 

Variant group of selection criteria field entries which have been saved for a later use. They can be set for open posting 

periods. Every CyCd has its own variant BUT identical variants may be used in several CyCd. 

VAS Value Added Service (see VAN, VAR) 

VAS Value Added Solution(s) (see VAR) 

VAT Value Added Tax(es). Fr : TVA. Dutch : BTW 

VAW Violence Against Women (civil and professional sociology, criminality) 

VBA Visual Basic for Application 

VBD Virtual Business Dating (see VSD) 

VBDTC Visual Basic Data Transfer Code 

VBE Visual Basic Editor 


VBI Vertical Blanking Interval 

VBM Value Based Management (see VCM) 

VBP Visual Basic Project 

VBR Variable Bit Rate (see ABR, CBR) 

VBR Vouch By Reference (see DKIM) 

VC Value Chain : value is made in the supply chain (see c-SCM, SCEM, SCM, VCI and KVC) 

VC Venture Capital (see seed money ) 

VC Virtual Camera 

VC Virtual Circuit 

VC Virtual Community (see VO) 

VC Volunteer Computing (see Grid Computing ) 

vCard or Versitcard, electronic biz card file format. Sometimes called virtual Card (see hCard, Versit) 

VCC Virtual Customer Card 

VCC Voice Call Continuity: IMS 3GPP for mobility 

VCE Versatile Calendar Extension 

*.vce Versatile Calendar Extension (file) 

VCI Value Chain Innovation (WEB/WEB2.0 is changing SCM, SCEM and c-SCM) 

VCI Venture Capital Investment (see VC) 

VCI Virtual Channel Identifier 

VCL Visual Library Component 

VCM Value Chain Management (see KVC, ROV, SCM, VCI, VCS, VBM) 

VCS Value Chain System (see ROV, SCEM, SCM, VCM) 

VD Virtual Desktop 

VDC Virtual Desktop Computing (see VDI) 

VDE Virtual Desktop Environment 

VDD Virtual Disk Drive (see DD) 

VDEX Vocabulary Definition Exchange. Exchange grammar for lists of terms, values to understand their meaning & applicability 

VDI Virtual Device Interface (see EDV) 

VDM Virtual Device Metafile 

VDP Voluntary Disclosure Program: a WB program to fight fraud and corruption in Bank operations 

VDSL Very high bit-rate DSL 

VDSL2 Speed up to 100 Mb/s (full-duplex), distance up to 3500 m in between the user and the DSLAM 

VDT Video Display Terminal 

VDT Visual Display Terminal 

VDU Visual Display Unit 

*.vdx Visio XML files (see *.vsd) 

VE Virtual(ized) Environment (see HDE, VR) 

VE Virtual Extension 

vector phenomenon having 2 independent properties: magnitude and direction 

Veep VIP (US familiar way of saying) 

veiled Web designates sophisticated attacks exploiting files vulnerabilities to incorporate hidden contents 

vendor lock-in depending on only one vendor 

VEP Virtual European Parliament 

VER VERsion (DOS command) 

VERA Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (http://sunsite.ualberta.ca) 

Versit multivendor consortium (Apple Computer, AT&T, IBM, Siemens in 1990s) for PDI technology (see vCard) 

VESA Video Electronics Standards Association 

VESDA Very Early Smoke Detection Alarm (security) 

VET Vocational Education and Training 

vexillology the study of flags (see FOTW) 

VF Virtual Field 

V(F)D Virtual (Field) Device (see EDV) 

*.vfd virtual floppy disk (file) 

*.vhd virtual hard disk (file) 

VFM Value For the Money 

VGA Video Graphics Array (screen specs) 

VHDL VHSIC Hardware Description Language 

VHDs Virtual Hard Disks 

VHF Very High Frequency (see VLF) 

VHMI Vocal Human Machine Interface (see HMI, UI, GUI, ...) 


VHMI Vocal Human Machine Inter (see HMI, UI, GUI, …) 

VHSI Very High Scale Integration 

VHSIC Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuit (see VHDL) 

VI Virtual Intelligence (see AI, SETI) 

VI Virtual Interactivity (see P2V, VL) 

VI Vocal Interface (see VIMMD) 

VI Vulnerability Identifier (see CVE, VM) 

VIA Virtual Interface Architecture 

VIBE Virtual Interactive Business Environment (realistically simulated business contexts) 

VID Value In Design 

VIETNAM 

TRADE ASSOCIATIONS 

Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) http://www.vcci.com.vn 

Vietnam Trade Promotion Agency (Viettrade) http://www.vietrade.gov.vn 

Vietnam Textiles and Apparel Association (vitas) http://www.vietnamtextile.org.vn 

Vietnam Leather and Footwear Association (Lefaso) http://www.lefaso.org.vn 

Vietnam Assn of Seafood Exporters & Producers (VASEP) http://www.vasep.com.vn 

Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association (VICOFA) http://www.vicofa.org.vn 

Vietnam Saigon Plastic Association http://www.vnplas.com 

Vietnam Union of Science &Technology Assns (VUSTA) http://www.vusta.org.vn 

Vietnam Seaports Association (VPA) http://www.vpa.org.vn 

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 

World Bank Vietnam http://www.worldbank.org.vn 

Asian Development Bank's Vietnam Office http://www.adb.org.vrm 

United Nation Development Program (UNDP) http://www.undp.org.vn 

MASS MEDIA 

Vietnam News (VNS) http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn 

Vietnam Investment Review http://www.vir.com.vn 

Vietnam Economic Times http://www.vneconomy.com.vn 

Vietnam Development Gateway http://www.vietnamgateway.org 

Vietnam Economic Portal http://www.vnep.org.vn 

OTHER 

EU for the Shenghen Visa http://www.schengenvisa.cc/ 

Biotechnology center of Hochiminh city http://www.hcmbiotech.com.vn/ 

The Motherland – website of Cultural & Information Ministry http://www.toquoc.gov.vn/ 

Vietnam law database http://www.vietlaw.gov.vn/LAWNET/index.html 

VIKI Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence 

VIM Vendor Invoice Management 

VIMMD Vocal Interface for a Man-Machine Dialog (see HMI, UI, VI) 

VIN Vehicle Identification Number (see PIN) 

Vint Cerf Vinton G. Cerf. He is considered as the Internet "father" (see CIE) 

VIO Virtual Image Officer: virtual welcome desk. 

VIP Very Important Page (a recurrent FBC>s title for important communication) 

VIP Very Important Person (first concept)(see Veep ) Link them : a person identifies 

VIP Very Important Product (new marketing concept) himself in his consuming behavior ! 

viral marketing advertising / commercial processes copying the ways virus are replicating themselves (see tribal marketing ) 

Virtual observe the definition evolution over the last century (a very minimum) 

Virtual organization network of independent companies to realize specific / recurrent goals (see VO, VR) 

Virtual PC virtualization: technology allowing one physical PC / server to act like many separate computers 

Virus code / program replicating itself by being copied to other programs (troubles could follow)(see crimeware ) 

Vishing Voice scam (on the telephone, VoIP) 

Vista (highly criticized) MS Windows 6 (2006/2007/2008/2009) (see Windows 7) 

VIS Visum Information System: EC DB that is integrating all data related to the visa deliveries and related aspects 

VITA VMEbus International Trade Association 

VITAL Virtually Integrated Technical Architecture Lifecycle (see CLC, ELC, PLC, SLC, VLC) 

VITALAS Video & Image Indexing & reTrival At Large Scale: search engine Eur initiative (see IGV, CHORUS) 

VIV (*.viv) VivoActive (file) 

VKMC Virtuous KM Circle 

VL Virtual Life (see AI, a-Life , RL, VE, VW, Second Life ) 

VLA Vented (Flooded) Lead Acid (battery technology for data center) (see VRLA) 


VLAN Virtual LAN (see BAN, LAN, PAN, WAN, WLAN) 

VLB VESA Local Bus 

VLC Vendor Life Cycle (see CLC, ELC, PLC, SLC) 

VLC Virtual Learning Context (see CM, CMS, e-Learning , QTI, VLE) 

VLC Virtual Logic Controller 

VLDB Very Large DB 

VLE Virtual Learning Environment (see CMS, e-Learning , QTI, VLC) 

VLG Very Large Grid 

VLF Very Low Frequency (see VHF) 

VLIW Very Long Instruction Word 

VLM Vector Markup Language 

Vlog videoblog (Blog link to a video) 

VLR Visitor Location Register (see HLR) 

VLSI Very Large Scale Integration (IC) 

VLT Very Large Telescope 

VM Virtual Machine (see P2V) 

VM Virtual Memory 

VM Vulnerability Management (see CVE, RM, VI) 

VMCP VM Control Program (IBM) 

VME VersaModular Eurocard (circuit board that uses a 96-pin plug) 

VME Virtual Mode Extension (processor) (see P2V) 

VMEbus bus (computer data path) added for use in traffic control systems 

VMI Vendor-Managed Inventory (a possible service extension as from the CRM, see also SCM) 

VML Virtual Memory Linking 

VML Vector Markup Language (MS, HP) 

VMM Virtual Machine Monitor 

VMM Virtual Memory Manager (WIN) 

VMS Virtual Machine System 

VMS Virtual Memory System 

VMS Virtual Modelling System 

VMS Visual Memory System (see VMU) 

VMU Visual Memory Unit (see VMS) 

VMware Virtual Machine software. WMware Inc. is a subsidiary of EMC Corp. 

VN Virtual Network (see ANN) 

VNA Virtual Network Architecture 

VNO Virtual Network Operators (see MVNO) 

VNS Virtual Network Service 

VO Virtual Organization (FBWPA : www.fbc-e.com)(see AI, RL, VC, VR, VL, Second Life ) 

VO Virtual Office (+ 10 million home workers in USA) (see SOHO) 

VO Voice Over (voice added to the picture, the movie, the IP) (see MVOIP, VOIP) 

VOB (*.vob) Video OBject: DVD movies are stored in *.vob files 

vocab vocabulary 

vocabulary control contribution to a common semantic, content management, knowledge exchange and management 

VoD Video On Demand (see NVoD) 

Vodcasting "video Podcasting " 

VoFi Voice over WiFi: merging VoIP and WiFi (see VoW, VoWiFi) 

VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol (see ToIP, VoW, VoWiFi) 

Volume Hard Disk storage area 

VOMS Virtual Organization Membership Service 

Vorbis open source project for audio compression (http://www.xiph.org/) 

Vortal Vertical Portal (specialized Portal ) 

VoSSL Voice over Subtitling Sign Language (see VoIP, VoWiFi, VoWLAN) 

VoW Voice over Wireless: merge of VoIP and Wi-Fi (see VoFi) 

VoWiFi Voice over WiFi : designates a Wi-Fi-supported VoIP service (see VoFi, VoSSL) 

VoWLAN Voice over WLAN 

Voxel volumetric pixel or 3D pixel 

VP Vice President (see EVP, Veep ) 

VPD Vital Product Data 

VPDE Videotex Presentation Data Element (see BTX) 

VPF Virtual Print Free (AAM) 


VPI Virtual Path Identifier (see P2V) 

VPI Visual Programming Interface 

VPLS Virtual Private LAN Service 

VPN Virtual Private Net(work) (see DVCP, CoS, PVC, QoS): something confidential crooks are searching for! 

VPP Virtual Presence Post 

VPP Volume Purchase Program: B2B AppStore 

VPS Video Programming System 

VQB Visual Query Builder (Borland IntraBuilder) 

V2R or VTOR Virtual To Reality 

VR Virtual Reality (FBWPA: www.fbc-e.com)(see AI, HUVR, MOO, MUD, mudding , RL, VL, VO, Second Life ) 

VR features extended opportunities. It offers HDE to train individuals searching for singularity (see convergence sciences ) 

VR Voice Recognition 

VRAM Video RAM 

VRB Visual Report Builder (Borland IntraBuilder) 

VRDs Virtual Retinal Displays (see HMD, HUD) 

VRES Virtual Reality Educational System (see VRTS) 

VRDB Virus Recovery Database (built in an Anti-Virus SW) 

VRLA Valve Regulated Lead Acid (battery technology for data center) (see VLA) 

VRML VR Markup Language (3D) 

VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language (see BPML, UML) 

VROOM Virtual Run-Time Object-Oriented Memory Manager (Borland) 

VRS Virtual Reality System 

VRT Virtual Reality Technology 

VRT Virtual Reality Tool 

VRT Virtual Round Table (http://www.virtual-round-table.com/) 

VRTS Virtual Reality Training System (see VRES) 

VRUs Voice Recognition Units 

VS Virtual Storage (see VTL) 

VS Virtual Subnet 

VSAFE Virus Safe 

VSAM Virtual Sequential Access Method 

VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal (net satellite)(see TETRA, USAT) 

VSC Very Smart Card : smart card new generation (see VSM) 

VSC Volume-Source Control 

*.vsd Visio documents (see *.vdx) 

VSD Vendor Specific Driver 

VSD Virtual Speed Dating (see VBD) 

VSE Very Small Enterprise (see SMB, SME, SMI, VSI) 

VSE Virtual Storage Extended (IBM) 

VSH Very Severe Hole 

VSI Very Small Industry (see SMB, SME, SMI, VSE) 

VSM Vector Space Model (see GA) 

VSM Very Smart Mobile (see VSC) 

VSO Voluntary Service Overseas 

VSS Volume Shadow Copy Service (Microsoft) 

VSYNC Vertical Synchronization Signal (see HSYNC) 

VST Vector Segment Technology (bio-key from Bio-Key International, Minnesota: www.bio-key.com) 

VSTU Virtual STU 

VStZ (Fr) Version de statut de zone 

VTAM Virtual Telecommunication Access Method 

VTC Virtual Training Center (see CBT, WBT) 

VTE Virtual Training Environment 

VTOR or V2R Virtual To Reality 

VTL Virtual Tape Library (see VS) 

VTP Video Tape Player 

VTR Video Tape Recorder 

Vtrain Vocabulary Trainer (www.vtrain.net) 

VU (meter) Volume Unit (meter) 

VV&T Verification, Validation and Test: procedure utilized in a project management 

VXD Virtual Device Driver (see VS, VTL) 


VW Virtual World (see AI, VL, VO, VR, Second Life ) 

VWP Virtual Work Place 

VWC Variable Warehouse Costs 

VWS Video Wall System 

Vyatta Open-Source Networking: open-source router , firewall , VPN solution 

W Note: FBWPA = Free Business White Page Available 

w indication of continuous up and down moves 

2-WC Two-Way Communication 

W3A World Wide Web Applets 

W3C WWW Consortium (www.w3.org)(see WWW) 

W4 WWW Worms (typical NET bugs) 

WA Weighted-Average (process-costing)(see WACC) 

WAAS Wide Area Application Services 

WAAS Wide Area Augmentation System: accuracy addition to standard GPS system 

*.wab Windows Addresses Book (file format). Sometimes called Web Addresses Book (see PAB) 

Wabbit self-replicating malware form 

WAC Wholesale Applications Community: smartphone apps (see GSMA) 

WACC Weighted Average Cost of Capital (Stern Stewart)(see WA) 

WADS Wide Area Data Services 

WAE Wireless Application Environnement (see WDN, WDP, WSP, WTLS, WTP) 

WAF WEB Application Firewall 

WAF Woman Acceptance Factor (related to the acceptable occupancy volume of a new electronic device)(see HAM) 

WAFS Wide-Area File Services: storage technology giving access to a remote data center as though it were local. 

WAIK Windows Automated Installation Kit 

WAIS Wide Area Information Server (NET tool) 

WAL Write Ahead Log 

WAM WEB Access Management (see IAM) 

WAN Wide Area Networks (see BAN, LAN, PAN, SAN, VLAN, WAN, WLAN, WPAN) 

Wang hun online role-play marriage in China (see avatar , second life , …) 

WAP Wireless Application Protocol (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola : GSM connected to the NET) 

WAR Weekly Activity Report (see DAR) 

War chalking Chalked wall indication designating unprotected wireless accesses (security matter) 

War driving Roving around enterprises with a wireless modem PC equipped for picking infos or free lines 

WARIA Workflow And Reengineering International Association (www.waria.com) 

warp speed FTL speed in Star Trek (www.startrek.com) 

war room business (war) games organized for investigating the issues of significant moves/hazardous scenarios 

WAS WEB Application Server (SAP : Java and ABAP motors) 

WAS WEB Application Security (see WASC, WHID) 

WASC WEB Application Security Consortium (http://www.webappsec.org/projects/whid/) 

WASO WEB Application Security Optimization (www.cenzic.com/downloads/Cont_Assess_WP.pdf ) 

WaSP WEB Standard Project (see WSP at WaSP: http://webstandards.org/) 

Waste hierarchy see 3R, RRR, SMART also corporate governance , GeSI ... 

watt unit of electrical power 

*.wav (WAV) WAVe Sound (sound sample format) 

Warm Boot reset operation 

WB World Bank (www.worldbank.org)(see VDP) 

WBA Web-Based Assessment (see WBL, WBT) 

WBAN Wireless BAN (see LAN, WLAN and others) 

WBCSD World Business Council for Sustainable Development 

WBD2LP WhiteBoard Design into Live Production (see TTP and the TTx series) 

WBE Work Breakdown Element (see WBS) 

WBEM Web-Based Enterprise Management (initiative) 

WBI Web Browsing Intelligence (SW intermediary) 

WBI World Bank Institute 

WBL Web-Based Learning for JITT (see WBA, WBT) 

WBM World Bureau of Marketing, (www.fbc-e.com) 

WBMP WAP Bitmap 

WBO Workbench Organizer : create, administer, release, analyze change requests 

WBS Web-Based Storage (see SSP) 

WBS Work Breakdown Structure. Fr: OTP (Project Management/PM, PMI, PMBOK)(see PBS, WBE) 


WBSB WBS Board (see PBB, SPB) 

WBT Web-Based Training (see CAT, CBT, IBT, LCMS, LMS, WBA, WBT) 

WBT White-Box Testing (see BBT) 

W2COG World Wide COnsortium for the Grid 

WCA World Cargo Alliance 

WCAG Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 

WCC Wireless Communication Channel(s) 

W-CDMA Wide(band)-Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) : GSM's evolution demands more wide band 

WCF Windows Communication Foundation: NET3.0 component (see WCS, WF) 

WCF World Chambers Federation (http://www.iccwbo.org/wcf/) 

WCG World Community Grid , by IBM (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org)(see NAREGI, NGI) 

WCG World Cyber Game (competition) 

WCIT2008 World Congress in IT which has been hosted by Malaysia in 2008 

WCL World Confederation of Labour 

WCLXG W3C Content Label Incubator Group (www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/wcl/XGR-report/) 

WCM World Class Manufacturing (example : Kaizen )(see WCO) 

WCM WEB Content Management (see CM, ECM, TCM, UCM) 

WCMS WEB Content Management System (see CM, ECM, TCM) 

WCMC World Conservation Monitoring Centre 

WCO WEB Content Optimization (see WPO) 

WCO World Class Organization (see WCM) 

WCO World Custom Organization 

WCS Windows CardSpace; NET3.0 component (see WCF, WF) 

WCS Wireless Communication Standards 

WCSS Worldwide Chain StoreS (IBM link to SAP) 

WD WEB Developer(s) 

WDCOM Windows Distributed Component Object Model (see DCOM) 

WDE WEB Data Extractors 

WDF Windows Driver Framework 

WDIDS Wireless Distributed Intrusion Detection System (see IIDRS) 

WDL Wireless Data Link (see C2CWDL) 

WDM Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (see DWDM, OADM, ONE, SDH, SON, SONET, TDM) 

WDM Windows Driver Model (pilot) 

WDN Wireless Data Network (see WAE, WDP, WSP, WTLS, WTP) 

WDP Wireless Datagram Protocol (see WAE, WDN, WSP, WTLS, WTP) 

WDSL WEB service Description Language 

WEB World Wide Web aka "the Web / WEB" (see CWEB, WWW) 

WEB2.0 Advanced Internet technologies and applications (all conveniences for greater collaboration and interactivity) 

See: cloud computing , SaaS, social software , WEB3.0). Coined by O'reilly. FBM 

Web 2.0-ish having the WEB2.0 characteristics / properties 

WEB3.0 or 3D WEB2.0 suite also called DataWeb or Web3D: mobility, semantic, 3D (see Google 3D warehouse, DBpedia) 

WEB4.0 called the "Intelligent WEB": supporting the reasoning 

Webaholic WEB addicted 

Webaholism WEB addiction 

Webapp WEB application (see apps ) 

Web-Based TCO get the operating costs of the hard copy production at the site (HP Web-Based TCO Tool) 

Webby Awards International WEB excellence recognition (see IADAS) 

WebDAV Web-based DAV: interface for allowing the common LMS to operate with any repository (see DASL) 

WEBEDI EDI is made available on the WEB by a company for its partners 

Webinar seminar through the WEB 

WEBOK Wireless Engineering BOK (IEEE) 

Webomania 2.0 see the related article in FBC>s BizMag3 , page 19 

WebOS Web Operating System (WEB2.0 subsequent terminology) (see DOS, IOS, MOS, OS) 

WEBP, *.webp Weppy Format 

Webphone continuously "in" the Web (see nomadism ) 

Website associated Web pages available via a network that could be Internet 

Web surfing see browser , browsing the Web 

WEEE Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (EU) 

WEF World Economic Forum. Global Competitiveness Report available on their site: www.weforum.org 

WEFGGI World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index 


Weisure work and leisure (attributed to Dalton Conley in his book "Elsewhere", 2009) 

WEM WEB Experience Management (Adobe) 

WEM Windows Enhanced Mode 

WEMI Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item: FRBR's group of entities #1 

WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy (see 802.11b) 

WER Windows Error Reporting: 1 billion computers run it since Windows XP 

WESP World Executives Search & Profiling (http://www.xing.com/net/wesp) 

WET Wind Energy Technology 

Wetware the human "ware" (brain and nervous system)(see also AR, BAN) 

WEU Western European Union 

WF Windows Workflow Foundation: NET3.0 component (see WCF, WCS) 

WFA World Federation of Advertisers WESP 

WFB World Fact Book (CIA) World Executives Search & Profiling 

WFC Windows Foundation Class Talents profiling 

WFC World Food Council (see FAO, WFP) Talents search 

WFHO Work From Home Option (see SOHO, WESP) dan.c.renson(at)fbc-e.com 

WFM Workflow Management 

WfMC Workflow Management Coalition (1993) (www.wfmc.org/) 

WFP Wave Federation Protocol (the recently abandoned Google's Wave) 

WFP Windows File Protection 

WFP World Food Programme (see FAO, WFC) 

WFS Wave Field Synthesis 

WFS Web Feature Server 

WFS Wired For Sound 

WFSJ World Federation of Science Journalists (www.wfsj.org/) 

WFTA Wide Free Trade Area 

WFTO World Fair Trade Organization (www.wfto-pacific.com/) 

WFTO World Federation of Technology Organizations: launched in 95 and is no more active)(www.wfto.org/) 

WFTU World Federation of Trade Unions (www.wftucentral.org/) 

WG Working Group (see SIG) 

WGA Windows Genuine Advantage (antipiracy program that could detect the non-genuity of your Windows copy) 

WGS 84 World Geodetic System 1984 

W.H. White House (US Government Administration) 

WH5 Who, What, Where, When, Why method (see WH+H): could be conveniently related to BPML 

WHD Wage and Hour Division (USA) 

WHDI Wireless Home Digital Interface (see HDI, HDMI) 

WH+H WH5 + How method (FBC>s methodology) 

whaking wireless hacking 

WHID Web Hacking Incidents Database (http://www.webappsec.org/projects/whid/whid.shtml) 

WHO World Health Organization (see WTO) 

WHOQOL World Health Organization Quality of Life 

WHQL Windows HW Quality Lab (certification) 

whsle wholesale 

WIA Windows Image Acquisition 

Wibree Low-power wireless communication system with a lower data rate and less power than Bluetooth 

WIC Windows Imaging Codecs 

WiDEN Wideband integrated Dispatch Enhanced Network (see iDEN) 

Widget window + gadget. JavaScript runtime engine for Windows & Mac OS X running little files: alarm clocks, 

calculators, WiFi signal strength indication, local weather information: http://widgets.yahoo.com/ 

WiDi Wireless Distribution (Intel technology) 

WIDL WEB Interface Definition (meta)Language (service-based architecture implementation over the document-based resources of the 

WiFi / Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity (wireless Internet. See also 802.11, Hotspot, Li-Fi, LP WiFi, WEP, WPA) 

Wifi on steroids see WIMAX 

WiFi5 Based on the IEEE 802.11a WLAN (5GHz band) products (Wi-Fi Alliance) 

Wii Nintendo game released on November 19, 2006, 

WII Wireless Information Infrastructure 

Wiki server program allowing easy collaboration in the building of a Web site (www.wikipedia.org/) 

EN. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki, Fr. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki 

WikiBiz.biz biz (at) wikibiz.biz (www.fbc-e.com) 

Wikibiz.info info (at) wikibiz.info (www.fbc-e.com) 


Wikinomics "How mass collaboration changes everything" (Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams) 

Wikipedia Jan 2001, created by the users Web-based collaborative encyclopedia (see Intellipedia , Wiki , 

Wikibiz.biz , Wikinomics ) 

Wikitude world browser / navigator. It adds information on the points of interest pictures in your device 

Wiki Wiki rapid (Hawaïan language) 

WILD Wireless Internet Learning Device (see LMS and others) 

wildcard an unforeseenable factor : hummm, really unforeseenable ? (www.fbc-e.com) 

WIMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (also called Wifi on steroids ) 

WIMP Windows, Icons, Menus/Mice, Pointing 

WIN Windows (Microsoft / USA : Bill Gates) 

WIN98 SE WIN98 Second Edition 

WinCIM Computer Information Manager for WIN 

WinCE WIN95 cut down version (HPC & GSM) 

WinG Windows Graphics 

WinHEC Windows HW Engineering Conference 

Windows 7 new Windows. Anticipated year of issuance : 2010 (see MS, VISTA) 

Windows NT Windows New Technology 

WINS Windows Internet Naming Service 

WINTEL Windows + Intel 

WIP Work-In-Process / Progress (see FG, JIC, JIT) 

WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization (see EPO, GII, IP) 

WIR ex-Swiss Economic Circle, the WIR Bank offers an independent CCS in Switzerland for SME/I 

WIS Workflow Information System (to check where a work item is at any time) 

WIS2010 Workshop (on Global Collaboration) of Information Schools (http://sites.google.com/site/wischool2010/) 

WISDOM Wide In Silico Docking On Malaria (Grid project) 

WISE World Innovation Summit for Education 

WISER World Index of Social and Environmental Responsibility 

WISP Wireless ISP 

WIST Warehouse Inventory Search Tool (NASA) 

WITSA World Information Technology and Services Alliance (www.witsa.org/events/) 

*.wiz wizard (file) 

Wizard assisting functionalities 

Withholding tax Withheld part of an invoice reported to the tax authorities (i.e. VAT) 

wk week 

*.wk Lotus 1-2-3 file 

*.wks Microsoft Works file 

wl wavelength 

WLAN Wireless Local Area Network (see BAN, LAN, PAN, SAN, VLAN, VoWLAN, WAN) 

WLCG Worldwide LHC Computing Grid : a distributed computing network 

WLM Windows Live Messenger 

WLOG Without Loss Of Generality 

WM Warehouse Management (see BW, BWM, LES - WMS, MM-WM) 

*.wma Windows Media Audio (sound file format)(see *.wmv) 

WMC Weighted Methods per Class (one of the most popular metrics) 

WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction (does it include the energy grid , communication NW, 5th battle ground?) 

WMD World Movement for Democracy 

*.wmdb Windows Media DataBase (file) 

WMF Windows Media Format 

*.wmf Windows Metafile Format (graphic file) 

WMI Windows Management Instrumentation 

WML Wireless Mark-up Language 

WMM WEB Metrics Management (see metrics ) 

WMM Windows MarketPlace for Mobile 

WMO World Meteorological Organization (see UNFCCC) 

WMP Warehouse Management Process 

WMP Waste Management Planning 

WMP Windows Media Player (see *.wma, *.wmv) 

WMRM Write Many and Read Many 

WMS Warehouse Management System (see BW, BWM, WM) 

WMS WEB Map Server 


WMSRT Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool 

*.wmv Windows Media Video (file)(see *.wma, *.wmp) 

WNA World Nuclear Association 

WNA Wireless Network Adaptor 

WNA Wireless Network Administrator 

WNC Wireless Network Connection 

wnfv.exe Windows File Viewer (Supported operating systems: Windows 3.1 3.1) 

WNM Wireless Network Management (see MDM) 

WNT Wireless Networking Technology (see SNT) 

WNW Wireless NW (see ZB) 

WO Warrant Officer (see CWO) 

WOA Web-Oriented Architecture (see ROA, SOA : observers say that it will morph into WOA soon or later) 

WOAF Web-Oriented Architecture Framework 

Wobulation imaging technology that doubles image resolution (HP) 

WoD Web of Data 

WODE Write Once Debug Everywhere (see WORA) 

WOFE Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise (see FIE) 

WOL Wake-On-LAN (capability) 

wolfpack alias for the Microsoft Cluster Server (see MSCS). 

WOM Word-of-Mouth (see SWOMAP, WOMAP, WOMM, …) 

WOM Write Only Memory (see ROM) 

WOMAP Word-of-Mouth Action Plan (see SWOMAP, WOM, WOMM, …) 

Women day Copenhagen, 8 March 1910, the Women Meeting decision: the date of the International Women's Day 

Women-omics makes the case for Economic Power of Women 

WOMM Word of Mouth Marketing 

WORA Write Once Run Anywhere (see WODE) 

WORD Wide rows, Organic methods, Raised beds and Deep soil 

WORD sophisticated flexible text processor, an application being part of Microsoft Office 

Wordoid .com site containing a system visitors use to create new names for products, websites, domains, as from a typed word 

Word processing SAP supports the use of MS WORD as an external word processor : DOC and 

RTF are stored in the system but not activated. 

Workaholic work being considered as the top virtue creating overachievers. 

Workbench Tool for comparing and managing projects and strategies developments 

Workflow Sequence of steps processed by people or automatically by the system. Fr: Séquence d'étapes 

traitées par les opérateurs ou automatiquement par le système. Can use E-mail, EDI, ALE. 

Work package WBS lowest level deliverable. Fr : OTP 

World is flat "The World is Flat" : a Thomas Friedman book. It's about the globalization and continuous competition leveling 

worm standalone working program making clones of itself. Worms try to invade the Net. 

WORM Write Once and Read Many (kind of bug) 

WOS Web Operating System (WEB2.0 subsequent terminology) (see DOS, IOS, OS, WebOS) 

WOS Wireless Office Service (see WIC) 

WOSA Windows Open Source Architecture 

wot waste of time 

WOT Web Of Trust (see FOAF) 

WOTS see SWOT, COBRA 

WoW World of Warcraft, a pay-to-play MMORPG from Blizzard Entertainment (www.blizzard.com) 

WP Word Processor / Processing 

WP Work Package (project mgmt, AP, PM, PMI, PM BOK, PMO, PSO) 

WP Work Place (see SAS) 

WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access (part of 802.11i) to replace WEP 

WPA2 more security: prevents interlopers from intercepting your transmissions 

WPAN Wireless Personal Area Network (see BAN, LAN, LAWN, PAN, SAN, VLAN, WAN) 

WPC Wireless Personal Communications (see PCI) 

*.wpd Word Perfect Document (file), Word Perfect 6.0 & 6.1 (see *.wpf) 

*.wpf Word Perfect 4.2 & 5.1 (see *.wpd) 

*.wpg WordPerfect Graphics Metafile 

WPEL4WS XML-based language (similar to SOAP)(see BPEL, BPEL4WS) 

WPF/E Windows Presentation Foundation: solution for delivering rich, cross-platform, interactive experiences 

WPG (*.wpg) Word Perfect Graphic 

WPM Word Per Minute 


WPO Web Performance Optimization (see WCO) 

WPP Weekly Production Plan (see DPP, MPP, MPS, YPP) 

WPPO World Periodical Press Organization 

*.wps Works Word Processor (Microsoft Works file extension) 

WPS WorkPlace Shell (see CWE) 

WPS Windows Printing System 

*.wq1 Quattro Pro / DOS file 

WRAM Windows RAM (dual-ported memory) 

WRAN Wireless Regional Area Network (see 802.22, BAN, LAN, PAN, WAN, … TVWS) 

*.wri WordPad Document (texte file format) 

WRM Windows Right Management (see DRM, IRM) 

WROL Without Rule Of Law. 

WRP Workplace Rights Policy (see HR, HRM) 

WRT Web Runtime 

WRT Wireless Receiver/Transmitter 

WRT Wireless Ronin Technologies: company specialized in the digital signage 

WS Web Service 

WSBI World Savings Bank Institute 

WSC Web-Scale Computing 

WSDL Web Services Definition / Description Language (XML-based Web open standard) 

WSFL Web Services Flow Language 

WSH Windows Service Hardening: the 4-layer Vista security system 

WSH Windows Scripting Host (WIN98, NT5,0) 

WSI Web Service Inspection 

WSIS World Summit on the Information Society (Nov. 2005) 

WSML Web Services Markup Language 

WSN Wireless Sensor Networks (see ENSS) 

WSNA WSN and Applications (see REALWSN) 

WSP Web Standard Project (see WaSP : http://webstandards.org/) 

WSP Wireless Session Protocol (see WAE, WDN, WDP, WTLS, WTP) 

WSPP Workgroup Server Protocol Program 

WSRF Web Services Resource Framework : OGSI replacement 

WSRI Web Science Research Initiative (Massachusetts Institute of Technology & University of Southampton) 

http://www.w3.org/2007/05/egovpressrelease.html.fr 

WSRP Web Services for Remote Portals 

WSS Wavelength Selective Switch 

WSS Web Services Security 

WSS Web Services Substrate 

WSS Wide Screen Signalling 

WSS Windows SharePoint Services 

WSS Wireless Systems Security (see ICE) 

WST Western Standard Time (see EST) 

WSUS Windows System Update Services (generally server-based) 

wt warrant 

wt weight 

WTA World Transhumanism Association (see H+)(www.transhumanism.org/index.php/WTA/more/huxley) 

WTC World Trade Center 

WTG Way-To-Go (Project Management, PGC's slogan and global methodology designation) 

WTI Web Telephony Integration (weetee)(example : http://wti.dmoon.be/) 

WTI West Texas Intermediate: crude oil that has become the reference for pricing oil in USA (see Brent). 

WTLS Wireless Transport Layer Security (see WAE, WDN, WDP, WSP, WTP) 

WTO World Trade Organization. Fr : OMC = Organisation Mondiale du Commerce 

WTP Wireless Transaction Protocol (see WAE, WDN, WSP, WTLS, WTP) 

WTTC World Travel & Tourism Council 

WTX (*.wtx) Win Text (file) 

WTX Workstation Technology eXtended (format) 

WUPS Western Union Payment System 

WUSB Wireless USB 

WVAT Web Vulnerability Assessment Tools. 

WVTC World Virus Tracking Center 


w/w wall to wall 

WW World Wide 

WW Wild West: remembering the Far-West where no one was to be trusted (see the "red" WWW) 

WWI World War I (1914-18) 

WWII World War II (1940-45) 

WWIII World War III: a fiction evocated by novelists, historians, … besides the fact that it could have been the name of the Cold War 

WWAAC World-Wide Augmentative & Alternative Communication (project for Internet access by impaired persons) 

WWANs Wireless Wide Area Networks (see BAN, LAN, PAN, SAN, VLAN, WAN, WLAN, WPAN) 

WWDDG World Wide Distributed Data Grids (see Grid Computing ) 

WWDSSHEX Weather Working Days, Saturday, Sunday, Holidays Excepted 

WWF World Wide Fund (for Nature) 

WWG World Wide Grid (see Grid Computing ) 

WWM Wireless Warehouse Management 

WWRF Wireless World Research Forum (www.wireless-world-research.org/) 

WWSS World-Wide Satellite Systems 

WWTW World Wide Technology Watch 

WWW Watching Wicked Women : definition for the Web nude pages addicted surfers. 

WWW World Wide Wait … when that doesn't run quick enough ! (see Nyetscape ) 

WWW World Wide Web (see W3C) … the real definition! 

WWW Wild West Web: the Internet would be impossible to regulate when trespassing national borders (global medium) 

WWWI World War Web1: related to the shut down of MegaUpload (Jan19, 2012) 

WWWM WWW Marketing (see MoMo , Mobile Marketing , Mobblogging ) 

WYS/WYA What You See Is What You Ask 

WYS/WYG What You See Is What You Get 

X 

X 10 (ten) in the Roman numeral system (see C, M, …) 

X2 modem protocol (US Robotics) 

X.400 International message -handling standard for connecting email network to each other (UIT-T ptcl) 

X.500 International message-handling standard for directory service 

XA eXtended Architecture (CD-ROM XA) 

XaaS "more and more" as a Service (see MaaS, PaaS, SaaS, …) 

XACL XML Access Control Language 

XALS eXtended Application Layer Structure 

XAML eXtensible Application Markup Language for WPF (see xCBL, XFDL, XKMS, XML) 

XAPIA X.400 API Association 

Xapps Cross Applications (see apps ) 

XAU index of 16 precious metal mining companies traded on the Philadelphia exchange. 

XAU one troy ounce of gold (ISO 4217) 

XBM X-Windows Bitmap (see BMP) 

XBML eXtended Business Modelling Language 

XBRL eXtended Business Reporting Language 

XCBF XML Common Biometric Format 

XCBL XML Common Business Library (see also CBL) 

XCMD eXternal CoMmanD (Apple Hypercard lang.) 

XCMOS eXtended CMOS 

XCP eXtended Copy Protection : SW preventing the CD copy (see RID) 

xDAP XML-MTF Dissemination and Presentation 

XDK XML Development Kit 

XDR eXternal Data Representation 

xDSL Digital Subscriber Line (see ADSL, SDSL) 

XERP eXtended ERP 

XGMML eXtensible Graph Markup and Modeling Language 

XFCN eXternal FunCtioN (Apple Hypercard lang.) 

XFDL Extensible Forms Description Language (special use of XML) 

XFN XHTML Friends Network 

XFP 10-Gigabit Small Form-factor Pluggable (GBIC Module) 

XGA eXtended Graphic Array 

X Generation born in the 60ties and 70ties generation (see Y Generation ). Robert Capa, famous photographer wanted 

to designate a generation without a clear identity facing an uncertain future. 

XHR eXtra High image Resolution 


XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language (see HTML, XML) 

XI eXchange Infrastructure 

XIF (*.xif) Xerox Image Format (file) 

XIF XML Interchange Format 

XIFF eXtended Image File Format 

XIOS eXtended Input/Output System 

XKMS XML Key Management Specification: security concern (see PKI) 

XL eXtra Large 

*.xla Excel additional macros (file) 

*.xlb Excel tool bar (file) 

*.xlc Excel graphic file 

*.xlk Excel back-up file 

*.xll Excel additional macros (file) 

XLL eXtensible Linking Language 

*.xlm Excel macros (file) 

XLS eXtensible Style Sheet Language (data driver) 

*.xls Excel spreadsheet format (file) 

*.xlt Excel template models file 

*.xlw Excel 4.0 environment file 

*.xm FastTracker 2 modules (sound file format) 

XM eXperimental Model 

XMA eXtended Middleware Architecture 

XMI XML MetaData Interchange 

XML (*.xml) eXtensible Markup Language (not fixed like HTML, XHTML) 

XMLC eXtensible Markup Language Compiler: change HTML and XML docs into a JAVA class 

XMLP eXtensible Markup Language Protocol 

XML-QL eXtensible Markup Language-Query Language 

XMM eXtended Memory Manager 

XMM © eXtended Management Map (FBC>s ) (FBWPA : www.fbc-e.com)(see also "41") 

XMM-Newton X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission - Newton: orbiting X-ray observatory (December 1999) 

XMP eXtensible Metadata Platform (developed by Adobe) 

XMPP eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (http://www.xmpp.org/)(see XSF) 

XMS Extended Memory Specification 

XMSF eXtensible Modelling and Simulation Framework 

XNS Xerox Network Service 

XOM eXternal Output Management (see OMS, LOMS, ROMS) 

XOR (Fr) opérateur logique "ou exclusif" (voir OR et AND) 

XORP Extensible Open Router Platform 

XP eXperience Point: accumulation of points in a role-playing game 

*.xp eXternal Procedure (EasyCad) 

XP eXtreme Programming (www.xprogramming.com) 

XPATH XML PATH language (open standard) 

XPCOM Cross-Platform Component Object Model 

XPDK Cross Platform Developers Kit 

XPDL format for process design interchange: www.ebizq.net/hot_topics/bpm/features/7852.html 

XPM (*.xpm) X-Windows Pix Map 

XR eXtensively Resistant 

XSA eXtended Situational Analysis for more Situational Awareness (see SSA, STU) 

XSF XMPP Standards Foundation 

XSL eXtensible Style Language 

XSLT XML Stylesheet Language (transforming language open standard) 

XSRF Cross Site Request Forgery (see ICE, CSRF, WHID) 

XSS Cross-Site Scripting : attack method (see ICE, WHID) 

XT eXtended Technology (IBM PC type) 

XTMH eXtreme Technology Multiprocessor Hyperlanguage 

XTP eXternal Transaction Processor 

XTP eXtreme Transaction Processing 

XTP Xpress Transport Protocol: transport layer protocol for high-speed NW and developed to replace TCP 

XUL (*.xul) XML User Interface Language 

XWD X-Windows Dump 


XXL eXtended eXport of Lists 

Y 

Y Yotta (see Yottaoctet) 

Y2K Year 2000 (Millenium bug syndrom) (FBWPA : info@fbc-e.com) 

What's a doomsdate = calendar that causes errors 

domino effect = non-Y2K-compliant system that bugs a Y2K-compliant system 

Pay attention to something "worst than the domino effect" : the speed acceleration 

within the enterprises and society organization. Plus de propagation phenomenon. 

leap second = one more second to be added at the end of 1999 -before the Y2K !- 

and to be programmed in PCs managing military equipments, satellites, etc … 

orphan application = SW developped by a company that doesn't exist any more. 

It could be a problem during an EAI implementation. ERM fine-tuning is required. 

Time Bomb=Y2K book of Ed and Jennifer Yourdon (Prentice Hall Computer Books) 

Y2KBB = Y2K Bug Buster (system and/or SW) 

Web sites www.score.org = service of retired executives 

www.year2000.com = clearinghouse of Y2K information 

See also : CDC, COBRA, MRRS, MSY2KFAQ, NIST, SEC. 

YAAS Yet Another Acronym Server (see YABA and more) 

YABA Yet Another Bloody Acronym (see TLA, YAAS, YATLA) 

YAFLA Yet Another Five Letter Abbreviation (see abbreviation , acronym , TLA, YAAS, YABA, YATLA …) 

YAHOO Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle (see HT) 

YAM Yet Another MODEM 

YATLA Yet Another Three Letter Acronym (see YAAS, YABA, TLA) 

YAUN Yet Another Unix Nerd 

Yettie Young Entrepreneur of Technologies (smart e-Economy & innovative start-up jargon) 

Y generation born in the 80ties, it succeeds from the X generation and is often called "Why " or " Millennial Generation " 

(see Gen Yers , Z Generation ) 

YIM Yahoo! Instant Messenger (software)(see *.ypl, *.yps) 

YMD Year-Month-Date (ISO 8601) i.e. 2009-10-26 

YMODEM File transfer protocol 

YOYO You're On Your Own (Net jargon)(see IL) 

Yottaoctet 1024 x Zettaoctets (see Bit, Mega, Giga, Tera, Peta, Exa) 

*.ypl Yahoo Player Playlist (file extension)(see YIM) 

*.yps Yahoo Instant Messenger (file extension)(see YIM) 

YPP Yearly Production Plan (see DPP, MPP, MPS, WPP) 

YTD Year-To-Date 

YTM Yield to Maturity 

Yuan Official Chinese money (see Renminbi, RMB) 

Y-WAY Information Wide Area Year (GRID computing experimentation) (see FAFNER) 

Z 

Z Atomic number 

Z Zillion: very large unspecified number 

z 42-013 Afnor electronic archiving norm (CD-R, DVD-R, TrueWORM, Permanent WORM, UDO, Blu-Ray …) 

ZA Zen Attitude (see CSF) 

ZA Zero Administration (networking)(see ZAI, ZAC, ZAW) 

ZAB Zone Absolute Barrier 

ZAC Zero Administration Client (see ZAI, ZAW) 

ZAD Zero Administration Deployment (see AND, ZAC, ZAI, ZAW) 

ZAE Zone Of Absolute Exclusion 

ZAI Zero Administration Initiative (see ZAC, ZAW) 

ZAK Zero Administration Kit (Microsoft) 

ZAPP Zero Assignment Parallel Processor 

ZAW Zero Administration for Windows (Microsoft)(see ZAC, ZAI) 

ZB ZetaByte (see KB, MB, GB, TB, … Zetaoctet) 

ZB ZIGBEE : home wireless network 

ZBA Zero-Bracket Amount 

ZBB Zero-Based Budgeting (mgmt) 

ZBB Zero-Bug Bounce 

ZBBS Zilog Bulletin Board Service 


ZBR Zero Bug Release 

ZBT Zero Balance Transfer 

ZBTSI Zero Byte Time Slot Interchange 

ZCB Zero Coupon Bonds 

ZCC Zero Core Contribution 

ZCM ZENworks Configuration Management 

ZCMK Zone Control Master Key 

ZCOs Zero Cost Options 

ZCS Zero Code Suppression 

ZCS Zero Coupon Swap 

ZD Zero Defect (production concept)(see EFQM, QA, QC, QM, TQM …) 

ZD Ziff-Davis 

ZDD Zero Divergence Directive 

ZEG Zero Economic Growth 

ZEN Zero Effort Network (Novell) 

Zen Works Zero Effort Networks for users (NOVELL) 

Zero-based budgeting reconsideration of the budget every year as from the base "zero" (or from "scratch") 

ZERT Zero-day Emergency Response Team: security pros offering unofficial patches during malware attacks 

Z Generation people born from the early Nineties to the present and aka C or M Generation (see Y Generation ) 

Zetabyte see Zetaoctet 

Zetaoctet 1024 x Exaoctets (see Yottaoctet and Bit, Mega, Giga, Tera, Peta, Exa) 

ZI Zenographics Inquiry (program calling the SCSI card) 

ZIF Zero Insertion Force 

ZIGBEE Low cost, high level short range transmission protocol based on IEEE 802.15.4 (see Blue tooth) 

ZINK Zero Ink: the printer heats the made of dye crystals layers special "paper" to reveal the colors (yellow, magenta, cyan) 

ZIP (*.zip) Compression (file) (Nico MAK Computing) (see compress , archiving , RAR) 

ZIP Zigzag Inline Package (see VRAM) 

ZIP Zone Information Protocol (AppleTalk) 

ZIP Zone Improvement Plan. 

ZIP code Postal code for US postal efficiency 

ZIRP Zero Interest Rate Policy 

ZIS Zone Information Socket 

ZISC Zero Instruction Set Computer 

ZIT Zone Information Table 

ZLE (S) Zero Latency Enterprise (Solution) : quick / real-time view of the business 

ZMF (MS) Zero Mainframe Footprint 

ZMODEM File transfer protocol (FTP) 

ZOC Zone Operation Chief (see ZOM, ZOO) 

ZOM Zone Operation Management (see ZOC, ZOO) 

zombie attack Spybot variant propagating more effectively (see RBB) 

zombies NW malware invaded PC network forwarding large quantities of spam 

Zombie projec t an always resuscitating project 

ZOO Zone Operation Organisation (see ZOC, ZOM) 

ZPD Zone of Proximal Development (Cognitivism, Vygotsky) 

ZPM Zone Paging Microphone 

ZRE Zero Rate Error 

ZSL Zero Slot LAN 

ZUI Zooming User Interface (see FUI, GUI, UI) 

Zune Microsoft portable digital media player (November 2006) 

ZV Zoom Video (port) 

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FBC>s 

Future-Based Consultancy & Solutions (a div. of WBM sprl) 

International Organizational Change & Knowledge Management 

Brussels (BE), Denver (USA), Vichy (FR) 

a division of WBM sprl, BE 0887 177 044 

Daniel C. RENSON 

14 / 1403, Willems Street 

B-1210 Brussels, Belgium 

Phone 322 230 9590 

Mobile 32 (0) 476 521 060 

email fbc-s (at) fbc-e (dot) com (robots won't take it that way !) 

URL FBC>s http://www.fbc-e.com 

URL KMiB http://www.knowledgeboard.com/open_groups/km_in_belgium/ 

email dcrenson1 (at) km-community (dot) be 

blog http://bizz-exert.blogspot.com Strive in action (Fr) 

blog http://groups.google.be/group/knowledge2be Knowledge to be (En) 

blog http://web2bizclub.blogspot.com/ WEB2.0 discussion (En) 

blog http://futuring-km.blogspot.com/ KM is NOT "a" software

" Who controls the vocabulary , controls the knowledge " - FBC>s

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