Appendix A. Abbreviations and Acronyms

  • ABAP: Advanced Business Application Programming

  • ACC: Adaptive Computing Controller

  • ADM: Architecture Development Method

  • AON: Application Oriented Networking

  • AS: SAP NetWeaver Application Server (AS-Java and AS-ABAP are two usage types in SAP NetWeaver to represent the Java and ABAP stacks, respectively)

  • B2MML: Business to Manufacturing Markup Language

  • BAM: Business Activity Monitoring

  • BAPI: Business Application Programming Interface

  • BI: business intelligence

  • BPE: business process engine

  • BPEL: Business Process Execution Language

  • BPM: business process management

  • BPML: Business Process Modeling Language

  • BPMN: Business Process Modeling Notation

  • BPMS: Business Process Management Systems

  • BPO: business process outsourcer

  • BPP: Business Process Platform

  • BPR: Business Process Re-engineering

  • BPX: Business Process Expert

  • BSPs: Business Server Pages

  • BW: Business Information Warehouse

  • CAF: Composite Application Framework

  • CAF-GP: CAF Guided Procedures

  • CEL: Customer Engagement Lifecycle

  • CIDX: Chemical Industry Data Exchange

  • CRM: customer relationship management

  • CSR: customer service representative

  • CSS: cascading style sheet

  • DC: Development Component

  • DDL: Data Definition Language

  • DTD: Data Type Delimiter

  • EA: enterprise architecture

  • EAI: enterprise application integration

  • ECC: ERP Central Component

  • EDA: event-driven architecture

  • EDI: Electronic Data Interchange

  • EI: enterprise inventory

  • EP: Enterprise Portal

  • ERP: enterprise resource planning

  • ESA: Enterprise SOA / Enterprise Service Architecture

  • ES: ...

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