Maximizing the Value of Cloud for Small-Medium Enterprises – Glossary
BI | Business Intelligence |
CaaS | Communication as a Service |
CAGR | Compound Annual Growth Rate |
CapEx | Capital Expenditures |
CBUC | Cloud Business Use-Cases (a project of The Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group) |
COTS | Commercial Off-The-Shelf |
CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
CSP | Communications Service Provider |
ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service |
ITSM | IT Service Management |
JIT | Just-In-Time |
LE | Large Enterprise |
OpEx | Operational Expenditures |
PaaS | Platform as a Service |
RPO | Recovery Point Objective |
RTO | Recovery Time Objective |
SaaS | Software as a Service |
SI | System Integrator |
SLA | Service-Level Agreement |
SLO | Service-Level Objective |
SMB | Small-Medium Business |
SME | Small-Medium Enterprise |
SOHO | Small Office Home Office |
StaaS | Storage as a Service |
UAT | User Acceptance Testing |
UC | Unified Communications |
VoiP | Voice over IP |