| Kürzel | Bedeutung | Anmerkung |
| 3-tier |
3 Ebenen (Modell) |
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| ADO |
Active Data Objects |
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| ADT |
Abstrakter Datentyp |
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| API |
Application Programming Interface |
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| ATM |
Asynchroner Transfermodus |
25Mbit/s bis zu 2,4 Gbit/s |
| BNS |
Backbone Network Service |
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| BPR |
Business Process Reengineering |
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| CAD |
Computer Aided Design |
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| CASE |
Computer Aided Software Engineering |
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| CEO |
Chief Executive Officer |
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| CGI |
Common Gateway Interface |
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| CICS |
Customer Information Control System |
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| CIO |
Chief Informative Officer |
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| CLI |
Call Level Interface |
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| CMM |
Capability Maturity Modell |
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| COM |
Component Object Model |
MS |
| CORBA |
Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
OMG |
| CPEX |
Customer Profile Exchange |
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| CRC |
Class-Responsibility-Collaboration |
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| CRM |
Customer Relationship Model / Management |
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| C/S |
Client/Server |
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| CSS |
Cascading Style Sheets |
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| DAO |
Data Access Objects |
MFC |
| DBMS |
Database Management System |
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| DCE |
Distributed Computing Environment |
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| DCOM |
Distributed Component Object Model |
COM |
| DFS |
Distributed File System |
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| DIN |
Deutsche Industrienorm |
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| DNS |
Domain Name System |
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| DSS |
Decision Support Systeme |
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| DSSSL |
Document Style and Semantic Specification Language |
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| DTD |
Document Type Definitions |
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| EAI |
Enterprise Application Integration |
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| EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange |
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| EN |
Europäische Norm |
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| ERP |
Enterprise Resource Planing |
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| ESPRIT |
European Strategic Program for Research in Information Technology |
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| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
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| GCA |
Graphic Communications Assotiation |
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| GML |
Generalized Markup Language |
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| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
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| HTML |
Hypertext Markup Language |
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| HTTP |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
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| IDL |
Interface Definition Language |
CORBA |
| IDL |
Interactive Data Language |
DBMS |
| II&P |
Incremental, Iterative and Parallel |
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| IIOP |
Internet Inter ORB Protocol |
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| IRC |
Inter Relay Chat |
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| ISO/OSI |
International Standardization Organization / Open System Interconnection |
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| IT |
Informations Technologie |
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| JavaOS |
Java Operating System |
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| JDBC |
Java Database Connection |
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| JIT |
Just In Time |
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| JOLT |
Java Online Transaction |
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| JTS |
Java Transaction Services |
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| LAN |
Local Area Network |
Intranet |
| MAPI |
Message Application Program Interface |
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| MDBMS |
Mehrdimensionale DBMS |
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| MFC |
Microsoft Foundation Classes |
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| MOLAP |
Multidimensional OLAP |
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| MOSES |
Methodology for Object-Oriented Software Engeneering of System |
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| MQI |
Message Queue Interface |
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| MS |
Microsoft |
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| MS-ISAPI |
Microsoft Internet Information Server API |
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| MTA |
Message Transfer Agents |
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| NFS |
Network File System |
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| OASIS |
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
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| OCX |
OLE Custom Controls |
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| ODBC |
Open Database Connectivity |
Industriestandard von MS |
| OID |
Object Identifier |
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| OLE |
Object Linking and Embedding |
von MS. Neu: OLE2/COM |
| OLAP |
Online Analytical Processing |
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| OLTP |
Online Transcation Processing |
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| OMA |
Object Management Architecture |
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| OMG |
Object Management Group |
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| OMT |
Object Modeling Technique |
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| OO |
Object Oriented |
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| OODBMS |
Object Oriented DBMS |
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| OOP |
Objektorientiertes Programmieren |
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| OOSE |
Object Oriented Software Engineering |
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| ORB |
Object Request Broker |
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| ORDBMS |
Object-Relational DBMS |
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| OSF |
Open Software Foundation |
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| OQL |
Object Query Language |
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| POP |
Post Office Protocol |
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| PPP |
Point-to-Point Protocol |
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| QM |
Qualitätsmanagement |
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| QMS |
Qualitätsmanagementsystem |
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| QS |
Qualitätssicherung |
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| RAD |
Rapid Application Development |
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| RDBMS |
Relational DBMS |
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| RMI |
Remote Method Invocation |
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| RPC |
Remote Procedure Call |
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| ROI |
Return On Investment |
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| ROLAP |
Relational OLAP |
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| SA/SD |
Structured Analysis/Structured Design |
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| SAX |
Simple API for XML |
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| SCO |
Supply Chain Optimization |
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| SDK |
Software Development Kit |
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| SE-Prozeß |
Software-Entwicklungsprozeß |
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| SEI |
Software Engineering Institute |
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| SLIP |
Serial Line Internet Protocol |
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| SFA |
Sales Force Automation |
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| SGML |
Standard Generalized Markup Language |
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| SMS |
System Management Service |
von MS |
| SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
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| SOMA |
Semantic Object Modeling Approach |
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| SOAP |
Simple Object Access Protocol |
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| Spice |
Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination |
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| SQL |
Structured Query Language |
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| STL |
Standard Template Library |
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| STP |
Straight-Through Processing |
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| TCP/IP |
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol |
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| TQM |
Total Quality Management |
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| UDP |
User Datagram Protocol |
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| UML |
Unified Modeling Language |
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| URL |
Universe Resource Locator |
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| UUCP |
Unix to Unix Copy Program |
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| VLDB |
Very large Database |
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| VM |
Virtual Machine |
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| VRML |
Virtual Reality Modeling Language |
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| WAN |
Wide Area Network |
Internet |
| WfMC |
Workflow Management Coalition |
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| WWW |
World Wide Web |
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| W3C |
World Wide Web Consortium |
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| XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
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| XSL |
Extensible Style Sheet Language |
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