Abbreviation Bank

1. 4GL - 4th Generation Language

2. ACD - Packet Acknowledged Packet

3. ACK - Packet Acknowledgement Packet

4. AIS - Accounting Information System

5. AMC - Annual Maintenance Contract

6. AST - Abstract Syntax Tree

7. BIOS - Basic Input Output System (related to OS)

8. BPR - Business Process Reengineering

9. CASE - Computer Aided Software Engineering

10. CBIS - Computer Based Information System

11. CIS - Continuous Intermittent System (related to ISA)

12. DBA - Data Base Administrator

13. DBMS - Data Base Management System

14. DFD - Data Flow Diagram

15. DOS - Attack Denial of Service Attack

16. DRP - Disaster Recovery Plan

17. DSS - Decision Support System

18. EDP - Electronic Data Processing

19. EFT - Electronic Find Transfer

20. EIS - Executive Information System

21. ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning

22. ES - Expert System

23. ESS - Executive Support System

24. FAT - File Allocation Table (related to Hard Disk)

25. GDIS - General Data Employment System

26. GUI - Graphical User Interface

27. HRM - Human Resource Management

28. IEM - Integrated Enterprise Management

29. IS - Information System

30. ITF - Integrated Test Facility (related to ISA)

31. LAN - Local Area Network

32. MIS - Management Information System

33. MRP - Material Resource Planning, also abbreviated as MRP I

34. MRP II - Manufacturing Resource Planning

35. MRP III - Money Resource Planning

36. OLRT - On Line Real Time

37. OOP - Objects Oriented Programming

38. OOUI - Object Oriented User Interface

39. OS - Operating System

40. PC - Personal Computer

41. PDLC - Program Development Life Cycle

42. PDM - Product Data Management

43. PLC - Program Life Cycle

44. RFP - Request For Proposal

45. SCARF - System Control Audit Technique (related to ISA)

46. SDLC 1 - System Development Life Cycle

47. SDLC 2 - Software Development Life Cycle

48. SPL - Source Program Library

49. SQL - Structured Query Language

50. SYN - Packet Synchronisation

51. TPS - Transaction Processing System

52. VDU - Visual Display Unit

53. VPN - Virtual Private Network