The Nexus of Forces in Action – Abbreviations
2D-code | 2-Dimensional barcode |
3G | 3rd Generation of mobile communications technology |
4G | 4th Generation of mobile communications technology |
5G | 5th Generation of mobile communications technology |
7z | A compressed archive file format |
AFCRI | Abrams Family Cancer Research Institute |
AI | Artificial Intelligence |
API | Application Programming Interface |
APPU | Average Profit Per User |
ARPU | Average Revenue Per Unit |
ASTM | A materials standards body (formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials) |
AWS | Amazon Web Services |
B2B | Business-to-Business |
BAM | Business Activity Monitoring |
BC | Business Continuity |
BLE | Bluetooth Low Energy |
BOL | Beginning Of Life |
BPM | Business Process Management |
BREEAM | Design and assessment method for sustainable buildings |
CCDA | Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture |
CCE | Coca-Cola Enterprises |
CDISC | Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium |
CDN | Content Delivery Network |
CeBIT | An IT trade exhibition |
CEM | Customer Experience Management |
CIMI | Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (DMTF standard) |
CIO | Chief Information Officer |
CMB | Contact Memory Button |
CMO | Chief Marketing Officer and CMO website |
CMS | Content Management System |
CPU | Central Processing Unit |
CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
CSR | Corporate Social Responsibility |
CSS | Cascading Style Sheet |
CX | Customer Experience |
DASH7 | Nickname for the ISO/IEC 18000-7 standard for wireless sensor networking |
DIAD | Delivery Information Acquisition Device |
DMA | Direct Market Access |
DMTF | Distributed Management Task Force |
DR | Disaster Recovery |
DRM | Digital Rights Management |
EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
EEA | European Economic Area |
EHIC | European Health Insurance Card |
EOL | End Of Life |
EPC | Electronic Product Code |
EPG | Electronic Program Guide |
ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
ESB | Enterprise Service Bus |
eTRIKS | European Translation Research and Knowledge Management Services |
ETSI | European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
EV | Electric Vehicle |
FDA | US Food and Drug Administration |
FeliCa | Sony's contactless IC card technology |
FIX | Financial Information eXchange (protocol) |
FMCG | Fast-Moving Consumer Goods |
GPS | Global Positioning System |
HL7 | Health Level Seven International |
HPC | High Performance Computing |
HTML | Hypertext Mark-Up Language |
HUD | Heads-Up Display |
HVAC | Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning |
IA-HEV | International Energy Agency’s Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Implementing Agreement |
IBOR | Investment Book of Records |
ICD | World Health Organization International Classification of Diseases |
IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
IFHIMA | International Federation of Health Information Management |
IoT | Internet of Things |
ISM | Industrial Scientific and Medical |
ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
ISP | Internet Service Provider |
IT | Information Technology |
JSON | Javascript Object Notation |
LAN | Local Area Network |
M&S | Marks and Spencer |
MDM | Master Data Management |
MLA | Mobile Location Analytics |
MOL | Middle Of Life |
MTBF | Mean Time Between Failures |
MTBPM | Mean Time Between Planned Maintenance |
NCI | US National Cancer Institute |
NFC | Near Field Communications |
NHS | UK National Health Service |
NSA | US National Security Agency |
NSH | Napa State Hospital |
NSP | Network Service Provider |
OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
ODCA | Open Data Center Alliance |
ONC | US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology |
ONF | Open Networking Foundation |
OpenID | Open digital Identity |
OSCP | Open Smart Charging Protocol |
OVF | Open Virtualization Format |
P2V | Physical to Virtual |
PAM | Personal Ambient Management |
PAN | Personal Area Network |
Portable Document Format | |
PLM | Product Lifecycle Management |
QLM | Quantum Lifecycle Management |
QoS | Quality of Service |
RDF | Resource Description Framework |
REST | Representational State Transfer |
RFID | Radio Frequency Identification |
ROI | Return On Investment |
RPO | Recovery Point Objective |
RTLS | Real-Time Location Systems |
RTO | Recovery Time Objective |
SaaS | Security as a Service |
SAE | Automotive industry standards body (formerly the Society of Automotive Engineers) |
SAML | Security Assertions Mark-up Language |
SDC | Software Defined Data Center |
SDN | Software Defined Network |
SDO | Standards Development Organization |
SDS | Software Defined Storage |
SKU | Stock Keeping Unit |
SLA | Service-Level Agreement |
SMS | Short Message Service (in mobile communications) |
SNOMED | A comprehensive, multi-lingual clinical healthcare terminology |
SOA | Service-Oriented Architecture |
SPOREs | Specialized Programs of Research Excellence |
SSO | Single Sign-On |
STB | Set-Top Box |
SWIFT | Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication |
TCO | Total Cost of Ownership |
TOSCA | Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications |
TRP | Translational Research Program |
U-BIOPRED | Unbiased BIOmarkers in PREDiction of respiratory disease outcomes |
UDEF | Universal Data Element Framework |
USB | Universal Serial Bus |
V2C | An elastic Vehicle-to-Cloud infrastructure that integrates Network as a Service into the automotive ecosystem |
VMI | Vendor-Managed Inventory |
VPC | Virtual Private Cloud |
VPD | Vancouver Police Department |
VPN | Virtual Private Network |
W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
Wi-Fi | A popular technology that allows an electronic device to exchange data or connect to the internet wirelessly using radio waves |