🔤Acronyms

    Here's a list of the acronyms I met over time. Most of them are related to databases and a few to (database) programming.

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Acronym	Meaning	Knowledge Area
1NF	1st Normal Form	DBMS
2FA	Two-Factor Authentication	Cloud Computing
2SLS	Two-Stage Least Squares	Machine Learning
2NF	2nd Normal Form	DBMS
3DES	Triple Digital Encryption Standard
3NF	3rd Normal Form	DBMS
4NF	4th Normal Form	DBMS
5NF	5th Normal Form	DBMS
2PC	Two-Phase Commit	DBMS
A/V	Attribute/Value
AAD	Azure Active Directory	Microsoft Azure
AADIP	Azure Active Directory Identity Protection	Microsoft Azure
AAS	Azure Analysis Services	Microsoft Azure
AATP	Azure Advanced Threat Analytics	Microsoft Azure
ABAC	Attribute-Based Access Control	Security Management
ABC	Activity-Based Costing	Project Management, ERP
ABM	Activity-Based Management	Project Management
AC	Actual Cost	Project Management
ACE	Access Control Entries
ACI	Azure Container Instance	Microsoft Azure
ACID	atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability	DBMS
ACL	Access Control List	Security Management
ACR	Azure Container Registry	Microsoft Azure
ACS	Azure Communication Services	Microsoft Azure
ACS	Access Control Service	Security Management
ACWP	Actual Cost of Work Performed	Project Management
AD	Active Directory	Microsoft Azure
ADC	Advanced Data Connector
ADF	Azure Data Factory	Microsoft Fabric
ADFS	Active Directory Federation Services	Microsoft Fabric
ADLS	Azure Data Lake Analytics	Microsoft Fabric
ADLS	Azure Data Lake Storage	Microsoft Fabric
ADOMD	ActiveX Data Objects Multi-Dimensional
ADOX	ActiveX Data Objects Extensions
ADM	Arrow Diagramming Method	Project Management
ADP	Access Database Project	DBMS
ADR	Alternative Dispute Resolution	Project Management
ADSL	Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AE	Apportioned Effort	Project Management
AGI	Artificial General Intelligence	AI
AI	Artificial Intelligence	AI
AI	Asset Identification	Security Management
AIF	Application Integration Framework
AIP	Azure Information Protection	Microsoft Azure
AKS	Azure Kubernetes Service	Microsoft Azure
ALS	Alternating Least Squares	Machine Learning
ALT	Azure Load Testing	Microsoft Azure
AMM	Azure Migration and Modernization	Microsoft Azure
AMO	Analysis Management Objects
ANI	Artificial Narrow Intelligence	Machine Learning
ANOVA	Analysis of Variance	Statistics, Machine Learning
ANN	Artificial Neural Networks	Machine Learning
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
AOA	Activity-On-Arrow	Project Management
AOD	Application Object Data	Microsoft Dynamiccs
AON	Activity-On-Node	Project Management
AOS	Application Object Server	Microsoft Dynamiccs
AOT	Application Object Tree	Microsoft Dynamiccs
AP	Accounts Payables	ERP
APO	Advanced Planning & Optimization	ERP
AQL	Acceptable Quality Level
AQL	Annotation Query Language
AR	Augment Reality	Machine Learning
AR	Accounts Receivables	ERP
ARA	Azure Readiness Assessment	Microsoft Azure
ARIMA	Autoregressive Integrated Moving Averages	Statistics, Machine Learning
ARM	Azure Resource Manager	Microsoft Azure
ARM	Azure Rights Management.	Microsoft Azure
ARMA	Autoregressive Moving Averages	Statistics, Machine Learning
ARR	Annual Recurring Revenue	ERP
ARR	Azure Rapid Response	Microsoft Azure
ASC	Accounting Standards Codification
ASC	Azure Security Center	Microsoft Azure
ASF	Azure Service Fabric	Microsoft Azure
ASG	Application security group	Security Management
ASM	Automatic Storage Management	DBMS, Oracle
ASN	Advance Shipment Notice	ERP
ASSL	Analysis Services Scripting Language
ATP	Available-To-Promise	ERP
ATP	Advanced Persistent Threat	Security
ATS	Applicant Tracking System	ERP
ATU	Account Team Unit
ATU	Account Team Unit
AUC		Machine Learning
AVD	Azure Virtual Desktop	Microsoft Azure
AWE	Address Windowing Extensions	Microsoft Windows
AX	Axapta	Microsoft Dynamics
AZ	Availability Zone	Cloud Computing
B2B	Business to Business	common
B2C	Business to Consumer	common
B2G	Business to Government	common
BA	Business Analysis	Business
BA	Business Analytics	Business
BAC	Budget At Completion	Project Management
BARF	Bought-into, Approved, Realistic, Formal	Project Management
BC	Business Central (Dynamics 365)	Microsoft Dynamics
BCL	Base Class Library	Software Architecture
BCM	Bulk Changed Map
BCP	Bulk copy program	SQL Server
BCP	Business Continuity Plan	Business Management
BCR	Benefit Cost Ratio	Project Management
BCWP	Budgeted Cost of Work Performed	Project Management
BCWS	Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled	Project Management
BCS	Business Connectivity Services	Business Management
BDT	Boosted Decision Tree	Machine Learning
BG	Business Group	common
BI	Business Intelligence	Business, Data Analytics
BIA	Business Impact Analysis	Business
BIC	Bank Identifier Code	ERP
BICC	Business Intelligence Competency Centre	Data Analytics
BIDS	Business Intelligence Development Studio	Data Analytics
BIOS	Basic Input Output System	Computing
BLOB	Binary Large Object	Software Architecture
BN	Bayesian Network	Machine Learning
BNN	Bayesian Neural Network	Machine Learning
BoE	Basis-of-Estimate	common
BoK	Book of Knowledge	common
BOL	Books Online	SQL Server
BOW	Bag of Words
BP	Business Process
BP	BackPropagation	Machine Learning
BP	Buffer Pool	DB
BPA	Best Practices Analyzer
BPF	Best Process Flow
BPM	Business Process Modeling	Process Management
BPMN	Business Process Modeling & Notation	Process Management
BPO	Business Planning Organization	Process Management
BPO	Business Process Outsourcing	Process Management
BPR	Business Process Review	Process Management
BPTT	BackPropagation Through Time	Machine Learning
BQML	Big Query Machine Learning	Data Science
BRNN	Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network	Machine Learning
BRR	Bayesian Ridge Regression	Machine Learning
BSC	Balanced Scorecard	Business
BSP	Bulk-Synchronous Parallel
BT	Balanced Tree	SQL Server
BVA	Business Value Assessment	Process Management
BYOD	Bring-Your-Own-Device	Cloud Computing
BYODb	Bring-Your-Own-Database	Cloud Computing
BYOK	Bring-Your-Own-Key	Cloud Computing
BYOIP	Bring-Your-Own-IP (Address)	Cloud Computing
BYOL	Bring-Your-Own-License	License Management, Cloud Computing
BYOPC	Bring-Your-Own-PC	Cloud Computing
CA	Cellular Automata	Systems Engineering
CA	Conditional Access	Security Management
CA	Control Account	Project Management
CAD	Computer-Aided Design	Security Management
CAE	Contractive AutoEncoder	Machine Learning
CAL	Client Access License	License Management
CART	Classification And Regression Tree	Machine Learning
CAS
CAV	Concept Activation Vectors	Machine Learning
CBA	Cost Benefit Analysis	Project Management
CBI	Counterfactual Bias Insertion	Machine Learning
CBOW	Continuous Bag of Words
CBR	Cost Benefit Ratio	Project Management
CBT	Computer-Based Training	Computing
CCB	Change Control Board	Project Management
CCS	Change Control System	Project Management
CDBN	Convolutional Deep Belief Networks	Machine Learning
CE	Cross-Entropy	Machine Learning
CE	Customer Engagement (Dynamics 365)	Microsoft Dynamics
CEC	Constant Error Carousel	Machine Learning
CES	Customer Effort Score	CRM
CCM	Concurrency Control Mechanism	SQL Server
CCPA	California Consumer Privacy Act	Data Protection
CD	Column Descriptor
CD	Continuous Delivery [/Deployment]	Software Engineering
CDCO	Cyber Defense Operations Center
CDC	Change Data Capture	SQL Server
CDF	Change Data Feed	Microsoft Fabric
CDH	Customer Data Hub	Data Warehousing
CDM	Common Data Model	Power Platform
CDN	Content Delivery Network	Networks
CDONTS	Collaboration Data Objects for Windows NT Server	Microsoft Windows
CDP	Continuous Data Protection	Information Security
CDP	Customer Data Platform
CDS	Common Data Service	Power Platform
CDX	Customer Digital Experiences
CERT	Computer Emergency Readiness Team
CETAS	Create External Table as Select	Azure Synapse
CLNN	ConditionaL Neural Networks	Machine Learning
CF	Common Feature	Machine Learning
CFO	Chief Financial Officer	Business
CFP		SQL Server
CH	Contact Hours	Project Management
CI	Competitive Intelligence	Data Analytics
CI	Continuous Integration	Software Engineering
CI/CD	Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery [/Deployment]	Software Engineering
CIF	Corporate Information Factory
CIM	Common Information Model
CIO	Chief Information Officer	Information Security
CISD	Critical Incident Stress Debriefing	Project Management
CISO	Chief Information Security Officer	Information Security
CLM	Customer Lifecycle Management
CLOB	Character Large Object	Software Architecture
CLR	Common Language Runtime	Software Architecture
CLS	Common Language Specification	Software Architecture
CLSID	COM Class Identifier	Software Architecture
CLTV	Customer Lifetime Value
CLV	Customer Lifetime Value
CM	Change Management	ITIL
CM	Configuration Management	Project Management
CM	Content Management
CMAC	Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller	Machine Learning
CMF	Customer Master File	ERP
CMM	Capability Maturity Model	Project Management
CMMI	Capability Maturity Model Integrated	Project Management
CNAP	Cybersecurity National Action Plan
CNN	Convolution Neural Network	Statistics, Machine Learning
CoA	Certificate of Analysis	ERP
CoA	Certificate of Authenticity	Information Security
CoA	Chart of Accounts	ERP
COBIT	Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology
COC	Cost of Conformance	Project Management
CoE	Centre of Excellence	Business Management
COGS	Cost of Goods Sold	Finance
COM+	Component Object Model Hosting Services	Software Architecture
COM	Component Object Model	Software Architecture
CONC	Cost of Non-Conformance	Project Management
COPQ	Cost of Poor Quality	Six Sigma
COQ	Cost of Quality	Project Management
CPI	Cost Performance Index	Project Management
CPM	Critical Path Methodology	Project Management
CPQ	Configure, Price, Quote
CPS	Cyber-Physical System	Information Security
CPU	Cost per Unit	Accounting
CQL	Cassandra Query Language	Data Science
CQRS	Command Query Responsibility Segregation	Microsoft Azure
CR	Change Request	Project Management
CRBM	Conditional Restricted Boltzmann Machine	Machine Learning
CRF	Conditional Random Field	Machine Learning
CRM	Customer Relationship Management	ERP
CRNN	Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network	Machine Learning
CRUD	Create/Read/Update/Delete	DBMS
CSA	Cloud Solution Architect	Cloud Computing
CSF	Critical Success Factor	Business Management
CSF	Cybersecurity Framework	Security Management
CSG	Cybersecurity Solutions Group	Security Management
CSIA	Cost/Schedule Impact Analysis	Project Management
CSIRT	Computer Security Incident Response Team	Security Management
CRISP-DM	Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining	Machine Learning
CSN	Common Sequence Number
CSP	Cloud Solution Provider	Cloud Computing
CSS	Cascading Style Sheets
CSS	Customer Service & Support
CSU	Customer Success Unit/Commerce Scale Unit	Microsoft Dynamics
CSV	Comma Separated Values
CTE	Common Table Expression	SQL Server
CTF	Capture, Transform, Flow
CTfP	Cost Threshold for Parallelism	SQL Server
CTID	Customer Tenant ID	Cloud Computing
CTO	Chief Technology Officer
CTOR	Click-To-Open Rate	CRM
CTP	Capable-To-Promise
CTP	Community Technology Preview
CTQ	Critical to Quality	Six Sigma
CTR	Click-Through Rate	CRM
CTR	Collaborative Topic Regression	Machine Learning
CTS	Critical to Success	Six Sigma
CTS	Common Type System	Software Architecture
CU	Capacity Units	Cloud Computing
CU	Cumulative Update	Software Engineering
CUI	Controlled Unclassified Information	Information Security
CV	Coefficient of Variation	Machine Learning
CV	Computer Vision	Machine Learning
CV	Cost Variance	Project Management
CV	Curriculim Vitae	common
CVaR	Conditional Value at Risk
CWA	Custom Workflow Activity
CWBS	Contract Work Breakdown Structure	Project Management
CXP	Customer Success Experience
D365	Dynamics 365	Microsoft Dynamics
DaaS	Data-as-a-Service	Cloud Computing
DaaS	Database-as-a-Service	Cloud Computing
DAC	Dedicated Administrator Connection	SQL Server
DAF		SQL Server
DAG	Directed Acyclic Graph
DAO	Data Access Objects
DAP	Data Access Page
DAP	Delegated Admin Privileges	Security Management
DaRT	Detection & Response Team	Security Management
DAX	Data Analysis eXpressions	Power BI, Microsoft Fabric
DB	Database	DBMS
DBA	Database Administrator	DBMS
DBaaS	Database-as-a-Service	Cloud Computing
DBCC	Database Consistency Check	SQL Server, Tools
DBCLOB	Double-Byte Character Large Object	Software Architecture
DBF	Database File	DBMS
DBM	Deep Boltzmann Machine	Machine Learning
DBN	Deep Belief Network	Machine Learning
DBO	Database Owner	DBMS
DC	Data Collector
DC	Domain Controller	Networks
DCD	Database Connector Descriptor	DBMS
DCL	Data Control Language.	DBMS
DCM	Differential Change Map
DCO	Data Center Optimization
DCOM	Distributed Component Object Model	Software Architecture
DCR	Design Change Request	Software Engineering
DCS	Data Collector Set
DD	Data Definition	DBMS
DD	Data Dictionary	DBMS
DDD	Domain Driven Design	Software Engineering
DDMRP	Demand-Driven Materials Requirement Planning	ERP
DOE	Design of Experiments	Project Management
DDE	Dynamic Data Exchange
DDL	Data Definition Language	DBMS
DE	Differential Evolution	Machine Learning
DEK	Data Encryption Key	Security Management
DEK	Database Encryption Key	DBMS
DevOps	Development & Operations	Software Engineering
DFD	Data Flow Diagram	Project Management
DFS	Distributed File System	Software Architecture
DFSS	Design for Six Sigma	Six Sigma
DG	Data Governance	Data Management
DGO	Data Governance Organization/Officer	Data Management
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol	Networks
DHSL	Distributed Hadoop Storage Layer	Cloud Computing
DIU	Data Integration Unit	Azure Synapse
DIKW	Data Information Knowledge Wisdom	KM
DLA	Data Lake Analysis	Microsoft Fabric
DLP	Data Loss Prevention	Security Management
DLS	Data Lake Store	Microsoft Fabric
DLT	Delta Live Tables	Databricks
DM	Data Management	Data Management
DM	Data Management	Data Management
DM	Data Mart	Data Analytics
DM	Data Mining	AI, Machine Learning
DMADV	Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, Validate/Verify	Six Sigma
DMAIC	Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control	Six Sigma
DMF	Dynamic Management Function(s)	SQL Server
DMF	Data Management Function(s)	SQL Server
DMF	Declarative Management Framework
DML	Data Manipulation Language	DBMS
DMO	Distributed Management Object
DMO	Dynamic Management Object	SQL Server
DMP	Distribution Managed Partner
DMR	Dimensionally Modeled Relational Database	DBMS
DMS	Database Migration Service
DMU	Data Movement Unit
DMV	Dynamic Management View	SQL Server
DMX	Data Mining Extensions	SQL Server
DNN	Deep Neural Network	Machine Learning
DOM	Distributed Order Management
DOM	Document Object Model
DOP	Degree of Parallelism	SQL Server
DoS	Denial of Service	Security Management
DPIA	Data Protection Impact Assessment	Security Management
DPMO	Defects per Million Opportunities	Six Sigma
DPU	Defects per Unit	Six Sigma
DPV	Distributed Partitioned View	DBMS
DQ	Data Quality	Data Management
DQA	Data Quality Assessment	Data Management
DQF	Data Quality Framework	Data Management
DQL	Data Query Language	DBMS
DQM	Data Quality Management	Data Management
DQN	Deep Q-Network	Machine Learning
DQS	Data Quality Services	SQL Server, Data Management
DR	Detection Rate	Machine Learning
DQP	Distributed Query Processor	Computing
DR	Disaster Recovery	Security Management
DRDA	Distributed Relational Database Architecture	DBMS
DRI	Declarative Relational Integrity	DBMS
DRP	Disaster Recovery Plan
DS	Data Science	Data Sience
DSA	Data Science and Analytics	Data Sience
DSL	Device Subscription License	License Management
DSL	Domain-Specific Language
DSN	Database Source Name	DBMS
DSO	Data Source Object	DBMS
DSO	Decision Support Objects
DSS	Decision Support System	Data Analytics
DSV	Data Source Views	DBMS
DSVM	Data Science VM	Microsoft
DTA	Database Tuning Advisor	SQL Server
DTC	Distributed Transaction Coordinator	Software Architecture
DTD	Document Type Definition	Software Engineering
DTS	Data Transformation Services	SQL Server
DUNS	Data Universal Number System	ERP
DX	Developer eXperience	Software Engineering
DQ	Data Quality	Data Management
DQM	Data Quality Management	Data Management
DQS	Data Quality Services	Data Management, SQL Server
DSN	Deep Stacking Network	Machine Learning
DT	Decision Tree	Machine Learning
DTD	Deep Taylor Decomposition	Machine Learning
DW	Data Warehouse	Data Warehousing
DWA	Data Warehouse Automation	Data Warehousing
DWaaS	Data-Warehouse-as-a-Service	Cloud Computing, Data Warehousing
DWBI	Data warehousing/Business Intelligence	Data Warehousing
DWC	Data Warehouse Catalog	Data Warehousing
DWH	Data Warehouse	Data Warehousing
DWT	Discrete Wavelet Transform	Machine Learning
E2E	End-to-End	common
EA	Enterprise Agreement	Contract Management
EAI	Enterprise Application Integration	Software Engineering
EAN	European Article Number	ERP
EAP	Early Adopter Program	Microsoft
EAS	Enterprise Agreement Subscription	Contract Management
ECC	Error Correcting Code
EDA	Event Driven Architecture	Software Engineering
EDA	Exploratory Data Analysis	Statistics, Machine Learning
EDB	Embedded Database	DBMS
EDH	Enterprise Data Hub
EDI	Electronic Data Interchange
EDR	Endpoint Detection and Remediation	Security Management
EDR	Endpoint Detection and Response	Security Management
EDT	Extended Data Type
EDW	Enterprise Data Warehouse	Data Warehousing
EEF	Enterprise Environmental Factors	Project Management
EF	Early Finish	Project Management
EFS	Encrypting File System	Security Management
EFT	Electronic Funds Transfer
EII	Enterprise Information Integration	Software Engineering
EIM	Enterprise Information Management	Software Engineering
EIS	Executive Information System	Software Engineering
EKM	Extensible Key Management	Security Management
ELM	Extreme Learning Machine	Machine Learning
ELMO	Embeddings from Language Models	Data Science
ELT	Extract, Load, Transform	Data Warehousing
ELU	Exponential Linear Unit	Machine Learning
EM	Expectation maximization	Machine Learning
EMD	Entropy Minimization Discretization	Machine Learning
EMEA	Europe Middle East and Africa	common
EMS	Enterprise Mobility & Security	Security Management
EMU	Enhancement, Maintenance, Upgrade	Project Management
EMV	Expected Monetary Value	Project Management
EOD	End of Day	common
EOM	End of Month	common
EOQ	End of Quarter	common
EOS	End of Service	common
EOY	End of Year	common
EOU	Enterprise Operating Unit	ERP
EPE	Every Product Every	ERP
EPV	Expected Present Value	Project Management
EQD	English Query Domain
ER	Entity Relation	DBMS
ERD	Entity-Relationship Diagram	DBMS
ERM	Entity-Relationship Model	DBMS
ERM	Enterprise Rights Management	Security Management
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning	ERP
ES	Enterprise Services
ESA	Enterprise Subscription Agreement	License Management
ESE	Extensible Storage Engine
ESG	Environmental, Social and Governance
ETC	Estimate to Complete	Project Management
ETL	Extract, Transform, Load	Data Warehousing
ETML	Extract, Transfer, Move, Load	Data Warehousing
ETR	Estimated Time to Resolution	Security Management
EULA	End User License Agreement	License Management
EV	Earned Value	Project Management
EVA	Earned Value Analysis/Economic Value Add	Project Management
EVM	Earned Value Management	Project Management
EVT	Earned Value Technique	Project Management
EXT	Extremely Randomized Trees	Machine Learning
F&O	[Dynamics 365] Finance & Operations	Microsoft Dynamics
FA	Fixed Assets	ERP
FaaS	Functions-as-a-Service	Cloud Computing
FALA	Finite Action-set Learning Automata	Machine Learning
FAQ	Frequently Asked Question	common
FAT	File Allocation Table	Software Architecture
FC	Fully-Connected	Machine Learning
FC-CNN	Fully Convolutional Convolutional Neural Network	Machine Learning
FC-LSTM	Fully Connected Long Short-Term Memory	Machine Learning
FCL	Framework Class Library	Software Architecture
FCM	Fuzzy C-Means	Machine Learning
FCN	Fully Convolutional Network	Machine Learning
FCP	Fibre Channel Protocol	Networks
FCoE	Fibre Channel over Ethernet	Networks
FC-NVMe	Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fibre Channel	Networks
FCI	Failover Cluster Instance	SQL Server
FCM	Fuzzy Cognitive Map	DBMS
FDBMS	Federated Database Management System	DBMS
FDE	Full Disk Encryption	Software Architecture
FFP	Firm Fixed Price	Project Management
FFT	Fast Fourier transform	Machine Learning
FIDO	Fast Identity Online
FIFO	First-In-First-Out	Computing
FIM	Federated Identity Management	Security Management
FIML	Full-Information Maximum Likelihood	common
FK	Foreign Key	DBMS
FLOP	Floating Point Operations	Machine Learning
FLOPS	Floating Point Operations Per Second	Machine Learning
FMEA	Failure Modes & Effects Analysis
FMLA	Family and Medical Leave Act
FNN	Feedforward Neural Network	Machine Learning
FNR	False Negative Rate	Machine Learning
FOB	Free on Board	ERP
FOMO	fear of missing out	common
FOSH	Finance, Operations, Sales and Human Resources	common
FPN	Feature Pyramid Network	Machine Learning
FPR	False Positive Rate	Machine Learning
FPR	False Positive Rate	Machine Learning
FPY	First Pass Yield	Six Sigma
FR	Functional Requirements	Software Engineering
FST	Finite state transducer	Machine Learning
FTE	Full Time Employee	ERP
FTE	Full Time Equivalent	ERP
FTP	File Transfer Protocol	Networks
FTS	Full Text Search	SQL Server
FYI	for your information	common
FWIW	for what it’s worth	common
FY	Fiscal Year	common
FYE	Fiscal Year End	common
GA	Genetic Algorithm	AI, Machine Learning
GA	General Availability
GAAP	Generally Accepted Accounting Principles	Accounting
GAB	Global Address Book	Microsoft Dynamics
GAC	Global Assembly Cache	Software Architecture
GAL	Global Address List	Software Architecture
GALE	Global Aggregations of Local Explanations	Machine Learning
GAM	Generalized Additive Model	Machine Learning
GAM	Global Allocation Map	Software Architecture
GAM	Global Attribution Mapping	Machine Learning
GAN	Generative Adversarial Network	Machine Learning
GAO	Government Accountability Office
GAP	Global Average Pooling	Machine Learning
GAPP	Generally Accepted Privacy Principles	Accounting
GBB	Global Black Belt	Six Sigma
GBM	Gradient Boosting Machine	Statistics, Machine Learning
GBRCN	Gradient-Boosting Random Convolutional Network	Machine Learning
GC	Garbage Collection/Collector	Software Architecture
GCC	Giant Connected Component
GCC	Government Community Cloud	Cloud Computing
GD	Gradient Descent	Machine Learning
GDPR	Global Data Protection Regulation	Data Protection
GD&T	geometric dimensioning and tolerancing	Data Visualization
GEBI	Global Explanation for Bias Identification	Machine Learning
GERT	Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique	Project Management
GFNN	Gradient Frequency Neural Networks	Machine Learning
GIGO	Garbage In Garbage Out	common
GIS	Geographic Information System
GL	General Ledger	ERP
GLM	Generalized Linear Model	Statistics, Machine Learning
GLS	Generalized Least Squares	Statistics, Machine Learning
GMM	Gaussian mixture model	Machine Learning
GMM	Generalized Method of Moments	Statistics, Machine Learning
GMT	Greenwich Mean Time	common
GP	Gross Profit	Accounting
GPO	Group Policy Object	Security Management
GPR	Gaussian Process Regression	Machine Learning
GPU	Graphics Processing Unit
GPS	Global Partner Solutions
GPT	Generative Pre-trained Transformer
GRR	Gage Repeatability & Reproducibility	Six Sigma
GRU	Gated Recurrent Unit	Statistics, Machine Learning
GSI	Global System Integrator
GST	Goods and Services Tax	ERP
GST	General System Theory	Systems Engineering
GUID	Global Unique Identifier	DBMS
GW	Gateway	Software Architecture
GZRS	Geo-Zone-Redundant-Storage	Cloud Computing
H2M	Human to Machine	Software Engineering
HA	High Availability	Availability Management
HAaaS	High-Availability-as-a-Service	Availability Management
HADR	High Availability Disaster Recovery
HAN	Hierarchical Attention Network	Machine Learning
HAR	Hadoop Archive	Cloud Computing
HBA	Host Bus Adapter
HCA	Hierarchical Clustering Analysis	Machine Learning
HD	High Definition
HDP	Hierarchical Dirichlet process	Machine Learning
HPC	High-Performance Computing	Computing
HSTS	HTTP Strict Transport Security	Networks
HBA	Host Bus Adapter	Networks
HCI	Human-Computer Interaction	Software Engineering
HDFS	[Apache] Hadoop Distributed File System	Software Architecture
HIPAA	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HLA	High-Level Architecture	Software Development
HMM	Hidden Marcov Model	Machine Learning
HNN	Hopfield Neural Network	Machine Learning
HoBT	Heap or B-tree	SQL Server
HOLAP	Hybrid OLAP	DBMS
HPCC	High Performance Computing Cluster	Cloud Computing
HPIL	Hadoop Physical Infrastruture Layer	Cloud Computing
HR	Human Resource	Project Management, ERP
HSM	Hardware Security Modules
HST	Harmonised Sales Tax	ERP
HTM	Hierarchical Triangular Mesh
I/O	Input/Output	Computing
IaaS	Infrastructure-as-a-Service	Cloud Computing
IaC	Infrastructure-as-Code	Cloud Computing
IAG	Intelligence Application Gateway	Software Architecture
IAM	Index Allocation Map	SQL Server
ICA	Independent Component Analysis	Statistics, Machine Learning
ICP	Ideal Customer Profile
ICYMI	in case you missed it	common
ID	Identifier	DBMS
IDaaS	Identity-as-a-Service	Cloud Computing
IDBMS	Integrated Database Management System	DBMS
IDC	Internet Database Connector	DBMS
IDL	Interface Definition Language	Software Architecture
IDNA	Identity & Network Access	Security Management
IDP	Intelligent Document Processing
IDR	Input dependence rate	Machine Learning
IE	Inversion Entry
IFB	Invitation for Bid	Project Management
IFRS	International Financial Reporting Standards
IG	Information Governance	Data Management
IHV	Independent Hardware Vendor
IIoT	Industrial Internet of Things	Cloud Computing
IIR	Input independence rate	Machine Learning
IIS	Internet Information Services	Software Architecture, Microsoft Windows
IKE	Internet Key Exchange
IM	Information Management
IMDB	In-Memory Database	DBMS
IMF	Item Master File	ERP
IMP	Integrated Master Plan	Project Management
IMS	Integrated Master Schedule	Project Management
IO	Inputs and Outputs	Project Management
IOC	Incremental Order Commitment	ERP
iODBC	Independent ODBC	DBMS
IOPS	Input Output Per Second
IoT	Internet of Things	Cloud Computing
IP	(Microsoft) Information Protection
IP	Internet Protocol	Networks
IPsec	Internet Protocol security	Networks
IQP	Intelligent Query Processing	SQL Server
IR	Integration Runtime	Software Architecture
IR	Incident Response (Security)
IRR	Internal Rate of Run	Project Management
IRT	Incident Response Team
IS	Information Security	Information Security
IS	Information System	IT
ISA	Industry Standard Architecture	IT
ISAO	Information Sharing and Analysis Organization
iSCSI	Internet Small Computer System Interface
ISMS	Information Security Management System	Information Security
ISO	International Organization for Standardization
ISOC	Information Security Operations Center	IT
IT	Information Technology	IT
ITA	Information Technology Architect	IT
ITAP	Information Technology Architecture & Planning	IT
ITIL	Information Technology Information Library	IT
ITL	Information Technology Laboratory	IT
ITG	Information Technology Governance	IT
ITTO	Inputs, Tools, Techniques, and Outputs	Project Management
ITV	Inline Table-Valued function	SQL Server
IU	Infrastructure Update
IV	Instrumental Variable
J2EE	Java Enterprise Edition
JAD	Joint Application Design	Project Management
JAD	Joint Application Development	Project Management
JDBC	Java Database Connectivity
JET	Joint Engine Technology
JIT	Just In Time	Project Management
JRO	Jet and Replication Objects
JWT	JSON Web Token
KA	Knowledge Area	Project Management
kb	Knowledge Base	common
KDC	Key Distribution Center
KDD	Knowledge Discovery in Databases	AI
KDE	Kernel Density Estimation	Machine Learning
KM	Knowledge Management	Knowledge Management
KMS	Key Management Server
KNN	k-nearest neighbors	Statistics, Machine Learning
KRI	Key Recovery Information
KPI	Key Performance Indicator	Data Analytics
KPIV	Key Process Input Variable	Six Sigma
KPOV	Key Process Output Variable	Six Sigma
KRR	Kernel Ridge Regression	Machine Learning
KQL	Kusto Query Language	Microsoft Fabric
KRA	Key Result Area	Data Analytics
KRI	Key Result Indicator	Data Analytics
LAMP	Linux OS + Apache web server + MySQL DB + PHP/Perl/Python	Software Engineering
LB	Load Balancer	Software Architecture
LC	Lifecycle	common
LCAP	Low-Code Application Platform	Software Engineering
LCD	Low-Code Development	Software Engineering
LCDP	Low-Code Development Platform	Software Engineering
LCL	Lower Control Limit	Six Sigma
LCM	Lifecycle Management	Software Engineering
LCNC	Low-Code, No-Code	Software Engineering
LCR	Logical Change Record	DBMS
LCS	Lifecycle Services
LDA	Latent Dirichlet Allocation	Machine Learning
LDA	Linear Discriminant Analysis	Machine Learning
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDF	Log Data File	SQL Server
LFU	Least Frequently Used	common
LIFO	Last In First Out	common
LIME	Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations	Machine Learning
LINQ	Language Integrated Query	Software Architecture
LLE	Locally Linear Embedding	Data Science
LLM	Large Language Model
LOB	Large Object	Software Architecture
LOB	Line of Business	ERP
LOE	Level of Effort	Project Management
LPE	Language Processing and Execution	SQL Server
LPL	Logical Page List
LRP	Layer-wise Relevance Propagation	Machine Learning
LRSN	Log Record Sequence Number	SQL Server
LRU	Least Recently Used	common
LRS	Locally Redundant Storage	Cloud Computing
LSA	Latent Semantic Analysis	Machine Learning
LSA	Local Security Authority
LSI	Latent Semantic Indexing	Machine Learning
LSL	Lower Spec Limit	Six Sigma
LSN	Log Sequence Number	SQL Server
LSP	Licensing Solution Provider	License Management
LSS	Lean Six Sigma	Six Sigma
LST	Log-Structured Table	Microsoft Fabric
LSTM	Long Short Term Memory	Data Science
LTM	Last Twelve Months	common
LTM	Lightweight Transaction Manager	SQL Server
LTR	Learning To Rank	Machine Learning
LUN	Logical Unit Number	SQL Server
LVM	Logical Volume Manager	DBMS, Oracle
LVQ	Learning Vector Quantization	Machine Learning
M&O	Marketing & Operations	Business
M365	Microsoft 365	Microsoft Azure
MA	Moving Average	Machine Learning
MADE	Masked Autoencoder for Distribution Estimation	Machine Learning
MAE	Mean Absolute Error	Machine Learning
MAF	Masked Autoregressive Flows	Machine Learning
MAG	Microsoft Azure Government	Microsoft Azure
MAM	Mobile Application Management
MAP	Mean Average Precision	Machine Learning
MAP	Minimum Acceptable Product	Project Management
MAPE	Mean Absolute Percentage Error	Statistics, Machine Learning
MAPE	Mean Absolute Prediction Error	Machine Learning
MARS	Multiple Active Result Sets	SQL Server
MARS	Multivariate Adaptive Regression Spline	Machine Learning
MART	Multiple Additive Regression Tree	Machine Learning
MAXDOP	Maximum Degree of Parallelism	SQL Server
MBE	Model-Based Engineering	Systems Engineering
MBD	Model-Based Design	Systems Engineering
MBS	Microsoft Business Solutions
MBSE	Model-Based Systems Engineering	Systems Engineering
MCA	Microsoft Certified Architect	Microsoft Certifications
MCA	Microsoft Customer Agreement
MCLNN	Masked ConditionaL Neural Networks	Machine Learning
MCMC	Markov Chain Monte Carlo	Machine Learning
MCPP	Microsoft Cloud Partner Program
MCS	Model contrast score	Machine Learning
MCT	Microsoft Certified Trainer
MDA	Model-Driven Architecture	Systems Engineering
MDAC	Microsoft Data Access Components
MDATP	Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection
MDBMS	Multidimensional Database Management System
MDD	Model-Driven Development	Systems Engineering
MDE	Model-Driven Engineering	Systems Engineering
MDF	Master Data File	Data Management
MDM	Master Data Management	Data Management
MDM	Mobile Device Management
MDN	Mixture Density Network	Machine Learning
MDP	Markov Decision Process
MDR	Managed Detection & Response
MDRNN	Multidimensional recurrent neural network	Machine Learning
MDS	Master Data Services	SQL Server
MDS	Meta Data Services	Data Management
MDS	Multi-Dimensional Scaling	Statistics, Machine Learning
MDTI	Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence
MDW	Management Data Warehouse	Data Warehousing
MDW	Modern Data Warehouse	Data Warehousing
MDX	Multi-Dimensional eXpressions	SQL Server
MEIA	Microsoft Entra Internet Access	Microsoft Azure
MELT	Metrics + Errors + Traces + Logs
MEPA	Microsoft Entra Private Access	Microsoft Azure
MES	Manufacturing Execution System
MF	Microsoft Fabric	Cloud Computing, Data Analytics
MFA	Multi-Factor Authentication	Cloud Computing
MFC	Microsoft Foundation Classes	Software Architecture
MFT	Microsoft FastTrack	Microsoft
MIAC	Microsoft Intune Admin Center	Microsoft Azure
MIME	Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIS	Management Information System
ML	Machine Learning	Data Science
MLA	Multiple License Agreement	License Management
MLE	Machine Learning Engineer	Machine Learning
MLE	Maximum Likelihood Estimation	Machine Learning
MLP	Multi-Layer Perceptron	Machine Learning
MLS	Machine Learning Services	Machine Learning
PMF	Probability Mass Function	Machine Learning
MOLAP	Multidimensional OLAP	DBMS
MMM	Management Maturity Model	KM
MPIO	Microsoft Multipath IO
MQL	Marketing-Qualified Lead
MPP	Massive Parallel Processing	Computing
MRR	Mean Reciprocal Rank	Machine Learning
MRP	Materials Requirement Planning	ERP
MRS	Music Recommender System	Machine Learning
MSA	Measurement System Analysis	Six Sigma
MSCS	Microsoft Cluster Services
MSD	Microsoft Script Debugger
MSDE	Microsoft SQL Server Data Engine	SQL Server
MSDN	Microsoft Developer Network	Microsoft
MSDTC	Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator	SQL Server
MSE	Mean Squared Error	Statistics, Machine Learning
MSFT	Microsoft
MSI	Microsoft Software Installer
MSIL	Microsoft Intermediate Language	Software Architecture
MSMQ	Microsoft Message Queuing	Software Architecture
MSP	Managed Services Provider
MSR	Music Style Recognition	Machine Learning
MSSMS	Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio	SQL Server, Tools
MSTVF	multi-statement table-valued function	SQL Server
MSXML	Microsoft XML Core Services
MTD	Month-to-Date	common
MTA	Mail Transfer Agent
MTBF	Mean-Time-Between-Failures
MTTA	Mean-Time-To-Acknowledge
MTS	Microsoft Transaction Server	Software Architecture
MTTD	Mean-Time-To-Detect
MTTI	Mean-Total-Time-of-Impact (to operations)
MTTR	Mean-Time-to-Remediate
MVCC	Model-View-Controller	Software Engineering
MVCC	Multivalue Concurrency Control
MVP	Minimum Viable Product	Software Engineering
MVP	Most Valuable Professional	Microsoft
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NAS	Neural Architecture Search	Machine Learning
NAT	Network Address Translation
NAV	Navision	Microsoft Dynamics
NB	Naıve Bayes	Machine Learning
NBKE	Naıve Bayes with Kernel Estimation	Machine Learning
NCI	Non-Clustered Index	DBMS
NCQ	Physical Address Extensions
NDRR	Net Dollar Retention Rate	Finance
NDV	Number of Distinct Values	DBMS
NER	Named Entity Recognition	Machine Learning
NF	Normalizing Flow	Machine Learning
NFL	No Free Lunch	Machine Learning
NI	Net Income	Accounting
NLT	Neural Machine Translation	Machine Learning
NMS	Non-Maximum Suppression	Machine Learning
NFP	Not for Profit
NFR	Nonfunctional Requirements	Software Engineering
NIC	Network Interface	Software Architecture
NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLB	Network Load Balancer	Software Architecture
NLDR	Non-Linear Dimensionality Reduction	Statistics, Machine Learning
NLG	Natural Language Generation	Machine Learning
NLP	Natural Language Processing	Machine Learning
NLQ	Natural Language Query	Machine Learning
NMF	Non-Negative Matrix Factorization	Machine Learning
NN	Neural Network	AI, Machine Learning
NoSQL	Not only SQL	DBMS
NPE	Neural Physical Engine	Machine Learning
NPS	Net Promoter Score	Marketing
NPV	Net Present Value	Project Management, Accounting
NSG	Network Security Group
NST	Neural Style Transfer	Machine Learning
NTFS	NT File System	Microsoft Windowas
NTLK	Natural Language Toolkit	Machine Learning
NTLM	NT LAN Manager Protocol	Software Architecture
NTM	Neural Turing Machine	Machine Learning
NTP	Network Time Protocol	DBMS, Oracle
NUMA	Non-uniform Memory Access	SQL Server
NVA	Network Virtual Appliance	Software Architecture
NVA	Non-Value Added	Six Sigma
O2C	Order to Cash	ERP
O365	Office 365	Microsoft Office
OBJCP	Object Plans cache store	SQL Server
OBS	Organizational Breakdown Structure	Project Management
OCI	Oracle Call Interface	Oracle
OCC	Optimistic Concurrency Control	Software Engineering
OCP	Oracle Certified Professional	Oracle
OCR	Optical Character Recognition
OCR	Oracle Cluster Registry	DBMS, Oracle
OData	Open Data Protocol
ODB	Operational Database	DBMS
ODBC	Open Database Connectivity	DBMS
ODCS	Open Data Contract Standard	Data Management, Software Engineering
ODF	Onset Detection Function	Machine Learning
ODI	Open Data Initiative
ODS	Operational Data Store	Data Warehousing
OEM	Original Equipment Manufacturer
OLA	Open License Agreement	License Management
OLA	Operational Level Agreement
OLAP	Online Analytic Processing	DBMS
OLEDB	Object Linking and Embedding Database	DBMS
OLM	Object Link Manager	DBMS, Oracle
OLS	Ordinary Least Squares	Statistics, Machine Learning
OLTP	OnLine Transaction Processing	DBMS
OM	Order Management	ERP
ONS	Oracle Notification Services	DBMS, Oracle
OO4O	Oracle Objects for OLE	DBMS, Oracle
OODB	Object-Oriented Database	DBMS
OOF	Out of Fold	Machine Learning
OOM	Out of Memory	Computing
OOP	Object-Oriented Programming	Software Engineering
ORDBMS	Object Relational Database Management System	DBMS
OPA	Organizational Process Assets	Project Management
OPDG	On-premises data gateway	Cloud Computing
OPEX	Operating Expenditures	Finance
OPI	Oracle Program Interface	DBMS, Oracle
OPM3	Organizational Project Management Maturity Model	Project Management
ORC	Optimized Row Columnar	Microsoft Fabricm, file formats
OSP	OLEDB Simple Provider	DBMS
OT	Operational Technology
OTP	One-Time Password	Cloud Computing
OU	Operating Unit	ERP
OWA	Outlook Web Access	Microsoft Office
OWASP	Open Web Application Security Project
P&L	Profit & Loss	Finance
p2p	peer-2-peer	Computing
P2P	Partner-to-Partner
PA	Project Accounting	Project Management, Finance
PaaS	Platform-as-a-Service	Cloud Computing
PAE	Physical Address Extensions	Microsoft Windows
PAL	Platform Abstraction Layer	SQL Server
PAL	Publication Access List
PAM	Privileged Access Management
PASS	Professional Association for SQL Server	SQL Server
PAT	Personal Access Token	Microsoft Azure
PAYG	Pay-As-You-Go	Cloud Computing
PBI	Power BI	Power Platform, Tools
PBS	Product Breakdown Structure	Project Management
PCA	Principal Component Analysis	Statistics, Machine Learning
PCDATA	Parsed Character DATA	XML
PCI DSS	Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
PCM	Project Cost Management	Project Management
PDC	Primary Domain Controller
PDCA	Plan-Do-Check-Act
PDM	Precedence Diagramming Model	Project Management
PDS	Partitioned DataSet
PDF	Portable Document Format	file format
PDS	Physical Design Structure
PDW	Parallel Data Warehouse	Data Warehousing
PDW	Performance Data Warehouse	Data Warehousing
PERT	Program Evolution and Review Technique	Project Management
PFE	Partner Field Engineer
PFE	Premier Field Engineer	Microsoft
PFMEA	Process Failure Mode & Effects Analysis	Six Sigma
PFS	Page Free Space	Microsoft Windows
PGA	Program Global Area	DBMS, Oracle
PHDR	Bound Trees cache store	SQL Server
PHI	Protected Health Information
PIER	Post Implementation Evaluation Report	Project Management
PII	Personally Identifiable Information	Data Protection
PI	Performance Indicator	Data Analytics
PIM	Privileged Identity Management
PIMS	Privacy Information Management System
PK	Primary Key	DBMS
PIM	Product Information Management
PKC	Public Key Cryptography	Security
PLSI	Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing	Machine Learning
PM	Performance Management	Business
PM	Project Management	Project Management
PM	Project Manager	Project Management
PMB	Performance Measurement Baseline	Project Management
PMBOK	Project Management Body of Knowledge	Project Management
PMI	Project Management Institute	Project Management
PMIS	Project Management Information System	Project Management
PMO	Project Management Office	Project Management
PMP	Project Management Professional	Project Management
PMML	Predictive Model Markup Language	Machine Learning
PO	Purchase Order	ERP
PoA	Proof of Authority
PoC	Proof of Concept
PoD	Proof of Design	Software Engineering
PoE	Proof of Execution
PoH	Proof of History
PoI	Proof of Identity
PoO	Proof of Owership
PoP	Proof of Purchase
PoS	Point of Sales
PoS	Proof of Sales
PoV	Proof of Validation
PoW	Proof of Work	Project Management
PPAC	Power Platform Admin Center	Power Platform
PPAF	Power Platform Adoption Framework
PPM	Parts per Million	Six Sigma
PPM	Project Portfolio Management	Project Management
PQO	Power Query Online	Microsoft Fabric
PQT	Power Query Template	Microsoft Fabric
PR	Precision-Recall	Machine Learning
PR	Purchase Requisition	ERP
PR	Peer Review	Accounting
PRB	Peer Review Board	Accounting
PSA	Project Service Automation	Dynamics 365, ERP
PSE	Persistent Storage Engine
PSfP	Premier Support for Partners
PTA	Point of Total Assumption	Project Management
PU	Positive Unlabaled	Machine Learning
PU	Platform Update
PV	Planned Value	Project Management
PV	Present Value	Project Management
PVA	Power Virtual Agents	Power Platform
QA	Quality Assurance
QBR	Quarterly Business Review	Business
QC	Quality Control
QCD	Quality, Cost, Delivery	Project Management
QDIP	Quality, Delivery, Inventory, and Productivity	Six Sigma
QE	Query Executor	SQL Server
QFD	Quality Function Deployment	Software Engineering
QI	Query Insights	Microsoft Fabric
QM	Quality Management	Quality Management
QO	Query Optimizer	SQL Server
QoS	Quality of Service	ITIL
QP	Quality Planning	Project Management
QP	Query Processor	SQL Server
QP	Query Plan	SQL Server
QR	Quick Response
R&D	Research & Development	Business
RAC	Real Application Clusters	DBMS, Oracle
RACI	Responsible, Accountable, Consult, Inform	Project Management
RAD	Rapid Application Development	Software Engineering
RAG	Retrieval Augmented Generation	Machine Learning
RAID	Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks	Software Architecture
RAID	Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies	Project Management
RAM	Recurrent Attention Model	Maachine Learning
RAM	Responsibility Assignment Matrix	Project Management
RBAC	Role Based Access Control
RBF	Radial Basis Function	Machine Learning
RBFNN	Radial Basis Function Neural Network	Machine Learning
RBM	Restricted Boltzmann Machine	Machine Learning
RBN	Random Boolean Network	Machine Learning
RBS	Resource Breakdown Structure	Project Management
RBS	Risk Breakdown Structure	Project Management
RC	Release Candidate
RCA	Root Cause Analysis	Six Sigma
RCFile	Record Columnar File	Microsoft Fabric, file formats
RCSI	Read Committed Snapshot Isolation	DBMS
RDB	Relational Database	DBMS
RDBM	Relational Database Management System	DBMS
RDF	Resource Description Framework	Cloud Computing
RDD	Resilient Distributed Dataset	Microsoft Fabric
RDMA	Remote Direct Memory Access
RDN	Relative Distinguished Name	DBMS, Oracle
RDO	Remote Data Objects
RDP	Remote Desktop Protocol
RDS	Remote Desktop Services
RDL	Report Definition Language	SQL Server
ReLU	Rectified Linear Unit
REPL	read-eval-print loop
REPTree	Reduced Error Pruning Tree	Machine Learning
REST	Representational State Transfer
RF	random forest	Machine Learning
RFE	Recursive Feature Elimination	Statistics, Machine Learning
RFI	Request for Information
RFID	Radio Frequency Identification	ERP
RFP	Request for Proposal
RFQ	Request for Quotation	Project Management
RGB	Red Green Blue (color model)	Data Visualization
RI	Referential Integrity	DBMS
RICNN	Rotation Invariant Convolutional Neural Network	Machine Learning
RIM	Recurrent Interence Machines	Machine Learning
RIPPER	Repeated Incremental Pruning to Produce Error Reduction	Machine Learning
RL	Reinforcement Learning	Machine Learning
RLE	Run-Length Encoding	RLE
RLFM	Regression based latent factors	Machine Learning
RLS	Row-Level Security	DBMS
RMA	Return Merchandize Authorization
RMAN	Recovery Manager	DBMS, Oracle
RML	Replay Markup Language
RMS	Retail Management & Services
RMS	Rights Management Services
RMSE	Root MSE	Machine Learning
RMSLE	Root Mean Squared Logarithmic Error	Statistics, Machine Learning
RNN	Recurrent Neural Network	Machine Learning
RNNLM	Recurrent Neural Network Language Model	Machine Learning
ROC	Receiver Operating Characteristic	Statistics, Machine Learning
ROCE	Return on Capital Employed	Finance
ROI	Region Of Interest	Machine Learning
ROI	Return on Investment	Project Management
ROLAP	Relational OLAP	DBMS
ROM	Rough Order of Magnitude	Project Management
RPC	Remote Procedure Call
RPA	Robotic Process Automation
RPO	Recovery Point Objective
RR	Ridge Regression	Machine Learning
RSS	Really Simple Syndication
RT	Recompilation threshold
RTM	Real-time marketing
RTM	Release to Manufacturing
RTM	Requirements Traceability Matrix
RTO	Recovery Time Objective
RTRL	Real-Time Recurrent Learning	Machine Learning
RTU	Remote Terminal Unit
RUMBA	Reasonable, Understandable, Measurable, Believable and Achievable	Six Sigma
RUP	Rational Unified Process	Software Engineering
SA	Solution Architect
SaaS	Software-as-a-Service	Cloud Computing
SAF-T	Standard Audit File for Tax	ERP
SAHN	sequential divisive hierarchical nonoverlapping	Machine Learning
SAM	Security Access Manager
SAM	Support Account Manager
SAN	Storage Area Network	Software Architecture
SAS	Shared Access Signature
SBM	Stochastic Block Model	Machine Learning
SBO	Structured Bayesian Optimization	Machine Learning
SBSE	Search-based software engineering	Machine Learning
SCD	Slowly Changing Data	Microsoft Fabric, Delta Lake
SCD	Slow-Changing Dimension	Data Warehousing
SCM	Supply Change Management	ERP
SDD	System Description Document	Software Engineering
SDE	Software Design Engineer	Software Engineering
SDE	Spatial Database Engine	DBMS
SDLC	Software Development Lifecycle	Software Engineering
SDLC	System Development Lifecycle	Software Engineering
SDM	Semantic Data Management	Data Management
SE	Software Engineer	Software Engineering
SE	Software Engineering	Software Engineering
SE	Storage Engineer	Software Engineering
SE	System Engineer	Software Engineering
SEO	Search Engine Optimization	Software Engineering
SecOps	Security Operations	Software Engineering
SEPA	Single Euro Payments Area	ERP
SFTP	Secure File Transfer Protocol
SGAM	Shared Global Allocation Map	SQL Server
SGD	Stochastic Gradient Descent	Data Science
SGVB	Stochastic Gradient Variational Bayes	Machine Learning
SGML	Standard Generalized Markup Language)
SHA	Secure Hash Algorithm	DBMS
SHLLE	Supervised Hessian Locally Linear Embedding	Machine Learning
SI	System Integrator
SIEM	Security information and event management
SIPOC	suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, customers	ERP
SKU	Stock Keeping Unit	ERP
SLA	Service Level Agreement	Contract Management
SLM	Software License Management	License Management
SLP	Single Layer Perceptron
SMB	Server Message Block	Software Architecture
SMB	Small-Midsized Business
SMBO	Sequential Model-Based Optimization	Machine Learning
SME	Subject Matter Expert	common
SMF	Semantic Modelling Format
SMO	SQL Server Management Objects	SQL Server
SMOTE	Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique	Machine Learning
SMP	Symmetric Multiprocessing	Computing
SOA	Service-Oriented Architecture	Software Architecture
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol	Software Architecture
SOAR	Security Orchestration Automated Response	Software Architecture
SOC	Security Operation Center
SoE	System of Entry
SOM	Self-Organizing Map	Machine Learning
SoP	Statement of Position
SoR	System of Record
SOW	Statement of Work	Project Management
SOX	Sarbanes-Oxley Act
SP	Stored Procedure	DBMS
SPA	Single-Page Application
SPC	Statistical Process Control	Six Sigma
SQPDW	SQL Parallel Data Warehouse	SQL Server
SPI	Schedule Performance Index	Project Management
SPID	Server Process ID	SQL Server
SPLA	Service Provider Licensing Agreement
SPN	Service Principal Name	Microsoft Azure
SPO	SharePoint Online	Tools
SPOF	Single point of failure	Systems Engineering
SQA	Software Quality Assurance	Software Engineering
SQDC	Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost	Six Sigma
SQL	Structured Query Language	DBMS
SQL BE	SQL Backend	SQL Server, Microsoft Fabric
SQL FE	SQL Frontend	SQL Server, Microsoft Fabric
SQLCP	SQL Plans cache store	SQL Server
SQLDMO	SQL Server Distributed Management Objects	SQL Server
SQLMI	SQL Managed Instance	SQL Server
SQLMGR	SQL Manager	SQL Server
SQLOS	SQL (Server) Operating System	SQL Server
SQL	SQL Server	SQL Server
SSAS	SQL Server Analysis Services	SQL Server
SSB	SQL Server Service Broker	SQL Server
SSD	Single-Shot Detector	Machine Learning
SSD	Solid-state disks
SSD	Solid-state drives
SSE	Sum of Squared Errors	Machine Learning
SSDT	SQL Server Data Tools	SQL Server
SSH	Secure Shell
SSIS	SQL Server Integration Services	SQL Server
SSL	Secure Socket Layer
SSL	Self-Supervised Learning	Machine Learning
SSL	Services Subscription License	License Management
SSMA	SQL Server Migration Assistant	SQL Server
SSMS	SQL Server Management Studio	SQL Server
SSO	Single Sign-On	Cloud Computing
SSoT	Single Source of Truth	Data Warehousing
SSP	Shared Software Provider
SSRS	SQL Server Reporting Services	SQL Server
SSS	Secure Store Services	SQL Server
SSSO	Seamless Single Sign-on	Cloud Computing
SSVM	Smooth Support Vector Machine	Machine Learning
STL	Selt-Taught Learning	Machine Learning
STS	SQL tuning set	DBMS, Oracle
SV	Schedule Variance	Project Management
SVC	Support Vector Classification	Machine Learning
SVM	Support Vector Machine	Machine Learning
SVoT	Single Version of Truth	Data Warehousing
SVR	Support Vector Regression	Machine Learning
SVD	Singular Value Decomposition	Data Science
SVM	Support Vector Machine	Machine Learning
SVR	Support Vector Regression	Machine Learning
SWIFT	Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications	ERP
SWOT	Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats	Six Sigma
T&E	Travel and Expense	Project Management
T&M	Time & Materials	Project Management
T-SQL	Transact SQL	SQL Server
TCL	Transactional Control Language	DBMS
TCP	Transfer Control Protocol	Networks
TCP/IP	Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol	Networks
TCPI	To-Complete Performance Index	Project Management
TD	Temporal Difference	Machine Learning
TDA	Targeted Data Augmentation	Machine Learning
TDD	Test-Driven Development	Software Engineering
TDE	Transparent Data Encryption	SQL Server
TDS	Tabular DataStream	SQL Server
TFS	Team Foundation Server
TGAN	Temporal Generative Adversarial Network	Machine Learning
TLB	Type Library	Software Architecture
TLFN	Time-Lagged Feedforward Neural Network	Machine Learning
TMDL	Tabular Model Definition Language	Microsoft Fabric, Power BI
TNS	Transparent Network Substrate	DBMS, Oracle
TOC	Theory of Constraints	Six Sigma
TPC	Transaction Processing Council
TPS	Toyota Production System	Six Sigma
TPY	Throughput Yield	Six Sigma
TQM	Total Quality Management	Six Sigma
TRPO	Trust Region Policy Optimization	Machine Learning
TSSW	Thinking the Six Sigma Way	Six Sigma
TTL	Time to Live
TVF	Tabled-Valued Function	SQL Server
TVM	Threat & Vulnerability Management
TSS	Total Sum of Squared errors	Machine Learning
UAC	User Access Control
UAG	Unified Access Gateway
UAT	User Acceptance Testing	Software Engineering
UCD	User-Centric Design
UCL	Upper Control Limit	Six Sigma
UDA	Universal Data Access
UDA	User-Defined Aggregate
UDE	Unified Developer Experience	Dznamics 365
UDBC	Universal Database Connectivity
UDF	User Defined Function	DBMS
UDM	Unified Dimension Model
UDO	User-Defined Object
UDR	User Defined Route
UI	User Interface	Software Engineering
UIX	User Interface Extensibility Framework	Software Engineering
UMS	User Mode Scheduler	SQL Server
UoD	Universe of Discourse
UNC	Universal Naming Convention
UPC	Universal Product Code
URI	Universal Resource Identifier
URL	Uniform Resource Locator
URS	Universal Resource Scheduling
USB	Universal Serial Bus
USL	Upper Spec Limit	Six Sigma
USL	User Subscription License	License Management
UTC	Coordinated Universal Time
UUID	Universal Unique Identifier
UX	User eXperience	Software Engineering
TCPI	To-Complete Performance Index	Project Management
VAD	Voice Activity Detection	Machine Learning
VAE	Variational AutoEncoder	Machine Learning
VaR
VAS	Value-Added Service	ERP
VAS	Virtual Address Space	Microsoft Windows
VAT	Value-Added Tax	ERP
VB	Visual Basic	file format
VBA	Visual Basic for Applications
VDA	Virtual Desktop Access
VDAG	Virtual Desktop Application Group
VDB	Virtual Database	DBMS
VDI	Virtual Backup Device Interface
VDI	Virtual Desktop Infrastructure	Cloud Computing
VDWS	Virtual Desktop Workspace	Cloud Computing
VFP	Visual FoxPro
VHD	Virtual Hard Disk	Cloud Computing
VIA	Visual Interface Adapter
VID	Visual Interdev
VLDB	Very Large Databases	DBMS
VLF	Virtual Log Files	SQL Server
VM	Virtual Machine	IT
VoB	Voice of the Business	Six Sigma
VoC	Voice of the Customer
VoE	Voice of the Employees	Six Sigma
VoM	Voice of the Market	Six Sigma
VoP	Voice of the Process	Six Sigma
VPD	Virtual Private Database	DBMS, Oracle
VPN	Virtual Private Network	Networks
VPNN	Vector Product Neural Network	Machine Learning
VS	Visual Studio	Tools
VSM	Value Stream Map	Tools
VSOE	Vendor-Specific Objective Evidence	Accounting
VSS	Volume Shadow Copy Service
VSTA	Visual Studio Tools for Applications
VSTF	Visual Studio Team Foundation
VSTS	Visual Studio Team Services
WAF	Web Application Firewall
WAL	Write-Ahead Log	DBMS, SQL Server
WAS	Work Authorization System	Project Management
WASB	Windows Azure Storage Blob
WPI	Work Performance Indicator	Project Management
WBS	Work Breakdown Structure	Project Management
WCF	Windows Communication Framework	Software Architecture
WCM	Web Content Management
WCSS	Within cluster Sum of Squared errors	Data Science
WDS	Windows Deployment Services	Microsoft Windows
WER	Word Error Rate	Machine Learning
WFST	Weighted Finite-State Transducer	Machine Learning
WLM	Workload Management	Microsoft Fabric
WMA	Weighted Majority Algorithm	Machine Learning
WMI	Windows Management Instrumentation
WMS	Warehouse Management System	ERP
WMS	Web Mapping Service
WOW64	Windows on Windows 64	Microsoft Windows
WPE	Weighted Prediction Error	Machine Learning
WPF	Windows Presentation Framework	Software Architecture
WQL	WMI Query Language
WSE	Web Services Enhancements
WSH	Windows Script Host
WSS	Web Storage System
WSS
WYSIWYG	What You See Is What You Get	common
XaaS	Everything-as-a-Service	Cloud Computing
XAI	eXplainable Artificial Intelligence	Machine Learning
XBRL	eXtensible Business Reporting Language	Machine Learning
XDR	eXtended Detection and Response
XDS	eXtensible Data Security
XE	eXtended Events	SQL Server
XMI	XML Metadata Interchange	XML
XML	eXtensible Markup Language	XML, file format
XMLA	XML for Analysis
XP	eXtended (Stored) Procedure	SQL Server
XP	eXtreme Programming	Software Engineering
XPO	eXpress Persistent Object
XPROC	Extended Stored Procedures Cache Store	SQL Server
XRM	Extended-Relationship-Management
XSD	XML Schema Definition	XML
XSLT	Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations	XML, file format
ZBR	Zoned-Bit Recording	Cloud Computing
ZRS	Zone-Redundant Storage	Cloud Computing
ZTNA	Zero Trust Network Access	Security
YARN	Yet another resource negotiator	Software Architecture