A

Acronym	Meaning	Context
ACID	Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
AES	Advanced Encryption Standard
AI	Artificial Intelligence
AOP	Aspect-Oriented Programming
APE	Arbortext Publishing Engine
APP	Arboxtext Print Publisher
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC	Application-Specific Integrated Circuit

B

Acronym	Meaning	Context
BASE	Basic Availability, Soft state, Eventual Consistency (as opposed to ACID)
BBS	Be Back Soon	Chat
BDD	Behaviour-Driven Development
BI	Business Intelligence
Big data
BPM	Business Process Management (gestion des processus métier)
BPMN	Business Process Management Notation
BTW	By The Way

C

Acronym	Meaning	Context
CCM	Customer Communications Management
CDN	Content Delivery Network
CDO	Chief Data Officer
CEO	Chief Executive Officer
CIFS	Common Internet File System
CIO	Chief Information Officer
CMIS	Content Management Interoperability Services
CMO	Chief Marketing Officer
CCMS	Component-Content Management System
CMS	Content Management System (fr) SGC
COO	Chief Operating (or Operations) Officer
COTS	Commercial Off-The-Shelf
CRM	Customer Relationship Management. (fr) GRC
CRUD	Create / Read / Update / Delete
CTO	Chief Technical Officer (= directeur technique)

D

Acronym	Meaning	Context
DAO	Data Access Object
DDD	Domain-Driven Design
DDL	Data Definition Language
DES	Data Encryption Standard
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol	Networks
DITA	Darwin(ian) Information Typing Architecture http://dita.xml.org/standard
DML	Data Manipulation Language
DNS	Domain Name System (sometimes Service)
DOM	Document Object Model
DSA	Digital Signature Algorithm	Security Cryptography
DSL	Domain Specific Language
DTO	Data Transfer Object
DTP	DeskTop Publication (fr) PAO

E

Acronym	Meaning	Context
ebXML	Electronic Business using XML (http://www.ebxml.org/ ; http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/EbXML
ECM	Enterprise Content Management (fr) GDC
EDI	Electronic Data Interchange (fr) Echange de Données Informatisé
EDIFACT	Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport
EDM	Electronic Document Management (fr) GED
EIM	Enterprise Information Management
EIP	Enterprise Integration Patterns
ELK	ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning (fr) PGI
ESB	Enterprise Service Bus
ETL	Extract, Transform and Load
EXI	(w3c) Efficient XML Interchange http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PER-exi-20131022 http://www.w3.org/TR/exi/	XML
EXIF	Exchangeable Image File Format

F

Acronym	Meaning	Context
FIRST	Fast / Independent / Repeatable / Self-validating / Timely	Management jargon
FPGA	Field-Programmable Gate Array (Circuit Logique Programmable)	Hardware
FPI	Formal Public Identifier. Standard ISO-8879
FWIW	For What It's Worth	Chat
FYI	For Your Information	Chat

G

Acronym	Meaning	Context
GDC	Gestion de Contenu (d'entreprise) (en) ECM
GDR	Gestion des Données de Référence(en) MDM
GED	Gestion Electronique de Documents(en) EDM
GIS	Geographic Information System(fr) SIG
GRC	Gestion de la Relation Client(en) CRM
GWT	Google Web Toolkit

H

Acronym	Meaning	Context
Hadoop	Framework for distributed applications. http://hadoop.apache.org/	Big data
HDFS	Hadoop Distributed File System
HTTP	HyperText Transfer Protocol

I

Acronym	Meaning	Context
i18n	Internationalization
IANA	Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
ICANN	Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers
ICC	International Colour Consortium
ICU	International Components for Unicode
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force https://www.ietf.org/
IIOP	Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
IMHO	In My Humble Opinion	Chat
IMO	In My Opinion	Chat
IMS	Instructional Management Systems (www.imsglobal.org)
INVEST	Independant, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, Testable
IoT	Internet of the Things
IP	Internet Protocol
IRL	In Real Life	Chat
ISNI	International Standard Name Identifier

J

Acronym	Meaning	Context
JAAS	Java Authentication and Authorization Service	Java, security
JATS	Journal Article Tag Suite	XML
JAX-RPC	Java API for XML-based RPC	Java
JAX-RS	Java API for RESTful Web Services https://jax-rs-spec.java.net/
JAX-WS	Java API for XML Web Services https://jax-ws.java.net/
JAXB	Java Architecture for XML Binding	Java XML
JAXP	Java API for XML Processing (or Parsing) (formerly TrAX)	Java XML
JCA	Java Cryptography Architecture https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/crypto/CryptoSpec.html
JCE	Java Cryptography Extension	Java, security
JCP	Java Community Process https://jcp.org/en/introduction/overview
JEE	Java Enterprise Edition
JMS	Java Message Service
JNDI	Java Naming and Directory Inteface
JSON	JavaScript Object Notation
JSR	Java Specification Request
JTA	Java Transaction API

K

Acronym	Meaning	Context
KPI	Key Performance Indicators http://peopleprocessandprofit.com/2010/10/11/kpis-myths-exposed/

L

Acronym	Meaning	Context
l10n	Localization
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LOM	Learning Object Model
LMS	Learning Management System
LRMI	Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (http://www.lrmi.net/)
LSP	Language Services Provider

M

Acronym	Meaning	Context
MAC	Message Authentication Code
MDM	Master Data Management
MITM	Man-In-The-Middle
ML	Machine Learning
MOOC	Massive Open Online Courses
MoSCoW	Must / Should / Could / Won't (or Would)
MVC	Model-View-Controller
MVVM	Model-View-ViewModel
MVW	Model-View-Whatever

N

Acronym	Meaning	Context
NAS	Network Attached Storage https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serveur_de_stockage_en_r%C3%A9seau
NLP	Natural Language Processing
NoSQL	Not-only SQL

O

Acronym	Meaning	Context
OASIS	Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (https://www.oasis-open.org)
OEM	Original Equipment Manufacturer
OLAP	Online Analytical Processing
OMG	Object Management Group (http://www.omg.org/)
"	Oh My God	Chat
OOTB	Out-Of-The-Box
ORPC	Object Remote Procedure Call
OSI	Open Systems Interconnection	Networks
OSGi	Open Services Gateway initiative (http://www.osgi.org)

P

Acronym	Meaning	Context
PAO	Publication Assistée par Ordinateur (en) DTP
PDM	Product Data Management (fr) SGDT
PGI	Progiciel de Gestion Intégré (en) ERP
PIF	Process Interchange Format
PIM	Product Information Management
POC	Proof of Concept
POJO	Plain Old Java Object	Java

Q

Acronym	Meaning	Context
QTI	Question and Test Interoperability (http://www.imsglobal.org/question/)

R

Acronym	Meaning	Context
RACI	Responsible/Accountable/Consulted/Information	Management jargon
RDBMS	Relational DataBase Management System (fr) SGBDR
RDF	Resource Description Framework	XML
RDP	Remote Desktop Protocol
REST	REpresentational State Transfer
RMI	Remote Method Invocation
RPC	Remote Procedure Call
RSS	Rich Site Summary

S

Acronym	Meaning	Context
SAAJ	SOAP with Attachments API for Java
SaaS	Software as a Service
SAML	Security Assertion Markup ****L**anguage	Security XML
SAX	Simple API for XML http://www.saxproject.org/
SCM	Source Control Management
SCORM	Sharable Content Object Reference Model
SEO	Search Engine Optimization
SGBD(R)	Système de Gestion de Base de Données (Relationnelle) (en) RDBMS
SGC	Système de Gestion de Contenu (en) CMS
SGDT	Système de Gestion de Données Techniques (en) PDM
SGML	Standard Generalized Markup Language
SIG	Système d'Information Géographique (en) GIS
SLA	Service Level Agreements
SMART	Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-boxed	Management jargon
SME	Subject Matter Expert (fr) Expert Métier
SMIL	Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol (sometimes : Service Oriented Architecture Protocol)
SOW	Statement Of Work
SPA	Single Page Application	Web
SQL	Structured Query Language	Databases
SSO	Single Sign-On	Security
StAX	Streaming API for XML	XML
StratML	Strategy Markup Language (http://xml.fido.gov/stratml/index.htm)
SWOT	Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats	Management jargon
SysML	System Modeling Language (derived from UML)

T

Acronym	Meaning	Context
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
TDD	Test-Driven Development
TEI	Text Encoding Initiative http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml
TL;DR	Too Long, Didn't Read
TrAX	Transformation API for XML (see also JAXP)

U

Acronym	Meaning	Context
UBL	Universal Business Language (http://ubl.xml.org/)
UCS	Universal Character System - it's ISO-10646, 32-bits based encoded (4 bytes)
UDP	User Datagram Protocol
UI	User Interface (fr) IHM
UML	Unified Modeling Language
URI	Uniform Resource Identifier
URL	Uniform (sometimes Universal) Resource Locator
URN	Uniform Resource Name
USP	Unique Service Provider
UX	User eXperience

V

Acronym	Meaning	Context
VCS	Version Control System (see also SCM)

W

Acronym	Meaning	Context
WAMP	Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP
WCM	Web Content Management
WML	WordML = Word Modelling Language
WMS	Warehouse Management System
WOFF	Web Open Font Format
WSDL	Web Service Definition Language
WSIT	Web Services Interoperability Technologies
WTF	What The F***	Chat

X

Acronym	Meaning	Context
XLIFF	XML Localisation Interchange File Format
XMI	XML Metadata Interchange - stantard for metadata exchange, based on XML http://www.omg.org/spec/XMI/
XML	eXtensible Markup Language http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/
XMP	Adobe XML Metadata Platform
XMPP	eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
XSL	eXtensible Stylesheet Language - http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt - http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20

Y

Acronym	Meaning	Context
YAML	YAML Ain't a Markup Language (recursive acronym) http://www.yaml.org

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