Acronyms Demystified
A
- ACE
- Access Connectivity Engine
- ACID
- Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
- ACR
- Automation Cloud Robot
- ADO
- ActiveX Data Objects
- AGI
- Artificial General Intelligence
- AHT
- Average Handling Time
- AI
- Artificial Intelligence
- ALM
- Application Lifecycle Management
- ANA
- Anatomy
- ANN
- Artificial Neural Network
- AOT
- Ahead-Of-Time
- API
- Application Programming Interface
- AR
- Augmented Reality
- ARM
- Advanced RISC Machine
- ASP
- Active Server Pages
- AWS
- Amazon Web Services
B
- BA
- Business Analyst
- BCL
- Base Class Library
- BDD
- Behavior Driven Development
- BPM
- Business Process Management
- BPMN
- Business Process Model and Notation
- BRD
- Business Requirements Document
- BRE
- Business Rule Exception
C
- CAT
- Computer Aided Transcription
- CE
- Community Edition
- CI/CD
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
- CIL
- Common Intermediate Language
- CLI
- Command Line Interface
- CLR
- Common Language Runtime
- CMS
- Content Management System
- CNCF
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- COE
- Center Of Excellence
- COQ
- Cost Of Quality
- CPU
- Central Processing Unit
- CRM
- Customer Relation Management
- CSAT
- Customer Satisfaction
- CSV
- Comma Separated Values
- CV
- Computer Vision
- CX
- Customer Experience
D
- DBMS
- Database Management System
- DBP
- Design Best Practices
- DevOps
- Development and Operations
- DLL
- Dynamic Link Library
- DMS
- Document Management Software
- DOM
- Document Object Model
- DRY
- Don’t Repeat Yourself
- DSN
- Data Source Name
- DU
- Document Understanding
E
- ECMA
- European Computer Manufacturers Association
- EF
- Entity Framework
- EOL
- End Of Life
- ERP
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- EXE
- Executable
F
- FDD
- Framework-Dependent Deployment
- FDE
- Framework-Dependent Executable
- FRD
- Functional Requirements Document
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol
G
- GA
- General Availability
- GAC
- Global Assembly Cache
- GCP
- Google Cloud Platform
- GDI
- Graphics Design Interface
- GDPR
- General Data Protection Regulation
- GPT
- Generative Pre-Trained Transformers
- GPU
- Graphics Processing Unit
- gRPC
- google Remote Procedure Call
- GUI
- Graphical User Interface
- GUID
- Global Unique Identifier
H
- HA
- High Availability
- HITL
- Human In The Loop
- HTTP(s)
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Secured)
I
- ICT
- Information and Communication Technology
- IDE
- Integrated Development Environment
- IDP
- Intelligent Document Processing
- IdP
- Identity Provider
- IEEE
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IL
- Intermediate Language
- IMAP
- Internet Message Access Protocol
- IoT
- Internet of Things
- ISO
- International Organization for Standardization
- IT
- Information Technology
- ITSM
- IT Service Management
J
- JIT
- Just In Time
- JSON
- Javascript Object Notation
K
- KPI
- Key Performance Indicator
- KYC
- Know Your Customer
L
- LINQ
- Language Integrated Query
- LLM
- Large Language Model
- LTS
- Long-Term Support
M
- MI
- Management Information
- ML
- Machine Learning
- MRD
- Maintainability and Readability
- MS
- Microsoft
- MVC
- Model-View-Controller
N
- NET
- Network Enabled Technologies
- NLP
- Natural Language Processing
- NMG
- Naming
O
- OCR
- Optical Character Recognition
- OIDC
- OpenID Connect
- OLE
- Object Linking and Embedding
- OOB
- Out-of-the-box
- OOP
- Object-Oriented Programming
- OS
- Operating System
- OST
- Offline Storage Table
- OWASP
- Open Web Application Security Project
P
- PCI
- Payment Card Industry
- PDD
- Process Definition Document
- Portable Document Format
- PIP
- Picture-in-Picture
- PKCE
- Proof Key for Code Exchange
- POC
- Proof Of Concept
- POCO
- Plain Old CLR Object
- POP3
- Post Office Protocol 3
- POV
- Point Of View
- PST
- Personal Storage Table
Q
- QA
- Quality Assurance
- QoS
- Quality of Service
R
- RACI
- Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed
- RAG
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- RBAC
- Role Based Access Control
- RC
- Release Candidate
- RCA
- Root Cause Analysis
- RDBMS
- Relational Database Management System
- RE
- Robotic Enterprise
- REPL
- Read-Edit-Print Loop
- REST
- Representational State Transfer
- RID
- Runtime Identifier
- RISC
- Reduced Instruction Set Computer
- ROI
- Return On Investment
- RPA
- Robotic Process Automation
- RPC
- Remote Procedure Call
S
- SAAS
- Software As A Service
- SAML
- Security Assertion Markup Language
- SAP
- Systems, Application & Products in Data Processing
- SBPA
- SAP Build Process Automation
- SDD
- Solution Design Document
- SDK
- Software Development Kit
- SDLC
- Software Development Lifecycle
- SE
- System Exception
- SLA
- Service Level Agreement
- SME
- Subject Matter Expert
- SMTP
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- SOAP
- Simple Object Access Protocol
- SOP
- Standard Operating Procedures
- SOW
- Statement Of Work
- SP
- Service Provider
- SQL
- Structured Query Language
- SSO
- Single Sign-On
- ST
- Studio
- STP
- Straight Through Processing
- STS
- Standard-Term Support
- SVN
- Subversion
T
- TA
- Test Automation
- TCO
- Total Cost of Ownership
- TDD
- Test Driven Development OR Technical Design Document
- TFS
- Team Foundation Server
- TLS
- Transport Layer Security
- TTP
- Technical Testing Plan
U
- UAT
- User Acceptance Testing
- UI
- User Interface
- UiARD
- UiPath Advanced RPA Developer
- UML
- Unified Modeling Language
- UNIX
- Uniplexed Information Computing System
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator
- UTF
- Unicode Transfer Format
- UX
- User Experience
V
- VCS
- Version Control System
- VM
- Virtual Machine
- VR
- Virtual Reality
W
- WAS
Web Accessibility Standards
- WCF
- Windows Communication Foundation
- WFA
- Work From Anywhere
- WPF
- Windows Presentation Foundation
- WWW
- World Wide Web
X
- XA
- Extended Architecture
- XAML
- Extensible Application Markup Language
- XML
- Extensible Markup Language
- XPS
- XML Paper Specification