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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 | |
| 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 Data Function | Microsoft Fabric |
| 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 |
