Abbreviations and Acronyms

ADF	Automated Document Feeder
APD	Advanced Planning Document
API	Application Program Interface
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BI	Business Intelligence
CICS	Customer Information Control System
CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CRM	Customer Relationship Management
DCOM	Distributed Component Object Model
DNS	Domain Name Server
EAI	Enterprise Application Integration
EBCDIC	Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EFS	Enterprise Foundation Software
EoS	Estimate of the Situation
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
ESP	Evolutionary Spiral Process
ETI	Emerging Technology Integration
FTP	File Transfer Protocol
GIS	Geographic Information Systems
GPRS	General Packet Radio Service
HTTP	HyperText Transfer Protocol
J2EE	Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition
LAN	Local Area Network
NHSITRC	National Human Services Information Technology Resource Center
NPV	Net Present Value
N-tier	An architecture where logic and processing is distributed among logical and physical "tiers".
OASIS	Organization for Structured Information Standards
OCR	Optical Character Recognition
PAPD	Preliminary Advanced Planning Document
PKI	Public Key Infrastructure
R/3	SAP's Architecture
RAID	Redundant Array Independent Disks
RMP	Risk Management Plan
ROI	Return on Investment
RPC	Remote Procedure Call
RSP	Response
SFA	Sales Force Automation
S-HTTP	Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
SLA	Service Level Agreement
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer
TCO	Total Cost of Ownership
TCP/IP	Transport Control Protocol /Internet Protocol
UDDI	Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
WAN	Wide Area Network
WAP	Wireless Access Protocol
WI-FI	Wireless Fidelity
WORM	Write Once Read Many (WORM)
WSDL	Web Services Description Language
WS-I	Web Services Interoperability Organization
XMIT	Transmit
XML	eXtensible Markup Language