ABB

Architectural Building Blocks

ACL

Access Control List

ADM

Architecture Development Method

AOA

Aspect Oriented Architecture

AOD

Architecture Overview Diagram

AOP

Aspect Oriented Programming

API

Application Programming Interface

AWS

Advanced Wireless Services

B2B

Business to Business

BPM

Business Process Management

BSS

Business Support Systems

CCMP

Common Cloud Management Platform

CCRA

Cloud Computing Reference Architecture

CECM

Computer Enhanced Curriculum Motivators

CMS

Content Management Server

CNC

Cloud Non Compatible

COTS

Commercial off the Shelf

CPU

Central Processing Unit

CRM

Customer Relationship Management

CSRA

Cloud Security Reference Architecture

DAO

Data Access Objects

DB

Databases

EA

Enterprise Architecture

ECM

Enterprise Content Management

ELEG

Efficiency, Lightweightness, Economies of Scale, Genericity

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning

FAX

Facsimile Automatic Xerox

FIFA

Federation of International Football Association

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

GB

Giga Byte

Ghz

GigaHertz

HP

Hewlett Packard

HRM

Human Resource Management

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol

HTTPS

HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure

I/O

Input/Output

IaaS

Infrastructure as a Service

IAM

Identity and Access Management

IBM

International Business Machines

ID

Identification

IIS

Internet Information Services

IM

Instant Messaging

ISO

International Standards Organization

IT

Information Technology

LAN

Local Area Network

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

MB

MegaBytes

MP3

MPEG Layer-3 Sound File

MP4

MPEG-4 Part 14

NGOSS

New Generation Operations Systems and Software

NLB

Network Load Balancers

O/S

Operating System

OLE DB

Object Linking and Embedding Data Base

OOP

Object Oriented Programming

OSP

Open Source Product

OSS

Operation Support Services

PaaS

Platform as a Service

PCB

Printed Circuit Board

PDF

Portable Document Format

QoS

Quality of Service

RA

Reference Architecture

RDBMS

Relational database management system

REST

Representational State Transfer

ROI

Return On Information

RSS

Really Simple Syndication

SaaS

Software as a Service

SAN

Storage Area Network

SBBs

Solution Building Blocks

SDLC

Software Development Life Cycle

SEO

Search Engine Optimized

SME

Small or Medium Enterprises

SMS

Short Message Service

SOA

Service Oriented Architecture

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol

SQL

Structured Query Language

TELCO

Telecom

TOGAF

The Open Group Architecture Framework

UI

User Interface

UML

Unified Modeling Language

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

VoIP

Voice over Internet Protocol

VPN

Virtual Private Network

WAN

Wide Area Network

WURFL

Wireless Universal Resource FiLe

XML

Extensible Markup Language