| ABC | Activity-based costing |
| AES | Advanced encryption standard |
| AI | Artificial intelligence |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASP | Application service provider |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
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| Basic | Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| BBS | Bulletin board system |
| B2B | Business to business |
| B2C | Business to consumer |
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| CA | Certificate authority |
| CAD | Computer-aided design |
| CAM | Computer-aided manufacturing |
| CASE | Computer-aided software engineering |
| CEO | Chief executive officer |
| CIM | Computer-integrated manufacturing |
| CIO | Chief information officer |
| CIS | Computer information system |
| COBOL | Common Business-Oriented Language |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| COTS | Commercial off-the-shelf software |
| CSMA | CD Carrier-Sense, Multiple-Access/Collision
Detection |
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| DBA | Database administrator |
| DBMS | Database management system |
| DES | Data encryption standard |
| DFD | Data flow diagram |
| DoS | Denial of Service |
| DRM | Digital rights management |
| DSL | Digital subscriber line |
| DSS | Decision support system |
| DTP | Desktop Publishing |
| DVD | Digital video/versatile disk |
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| EDI | Electronic data interchange |
| EIS | Executive information system |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| ES | Expert system |
| ETT | Extraction, transformation, and transportation |
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| Fax | Facsimile |
| FLOPS | Floating point operations per second |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
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| GDSS | Group decision support system |
| GIS | Geographic information system |
| GPS | Global positioning system |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
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| HDTV | High-Definition Television |
| HTML | Hypertext markup language |
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| IDS | Intrusion detection system |
| IPO | Initial public offering |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISP | Internet service provider |
| IW | Information warfare |
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| JAD | Joint application design |
| JIT | Just-in-time (JIT) inventory |
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| KM | Knowledge Management |
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| LAN | Local area network |
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| MICR | Magnetic ink character recognition |
| MIDI | Musical Instrument Data Interchange |
| MIPS | Million instructions per second |
| MIS | Management information system |
| MRP | Materials requirements planning |
| MRP II | Manufacturing Resource Planning |
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| NIC | Network interface card |
| NOS | Network operating system |
| NSP | Network service provider |
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| OCR | Optical character recognition |
| OLAP | Online analytical processing |
| OLE | Object Linking and Embedding |
| OLTP | Online transaction processing |
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| PDA | Personal digital assistant |
| PDF | Portable document format |
| PGP | Pretty good privacy |
| POS | Point of sale (POS) system |
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| QBE | Query by example |
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| RAD | Rapid application development |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks |
| RAM | Random access memory |
| RISC | Reduced instruction set computer |
| RFP | Request for proposal |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| RSA | Rivest-Shamir-Adelman |
| RSI | Repetitive stress injury |
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| SCM | Supply chain management |
| SDLC | Systems development life cycle |
| SOAP | Simple object access protocal |
| SQC | Statistical quality control |
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| TBDF | Transborder data flow |
| TCO | Total cost of ownership |
| TQM | Total quality management |
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| UDDI | Universal description, discovery, and integration |
| UPS | Uninterruptable power supply |
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| VOIP | Voice over Internet protocol |
| VPN | Virtual private network |
| VR | Virtual reality |
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| WAN | Wide area network |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| WYSIWYG | What you see is what you get |
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| XML | Extensible markup language |
| XP | Extreme programming |
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