C. Abbreviations

ABB

Architecture Building Block

ACMM

Architecture Capability Maturity Model

ADM

Architecture Development Method

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

API

Application Platform Interface

ARTS

Association for Retail Technology Standards

BMM

Business Motivation Model

BPM

Business Process Management

BPMN

Business Process Modeling Notation

BTEP

The Canadian Government Business Transformation Enablement Program

CMM

Capability Maturity Models

CMMI

Capability Maturity Model Integration

COBIT

Control OBjectives for Information and related Technology

COTS

Commercial Off-The-Shelf applications

CRM

Customer Relationship Management

CRUD

Create/Read/Update/Delete

CSF

Critical Success Factor

DBA

Database Administrator

DBMS

Database Management System

DoC

US Department of Commerce

DoD

US Department of Defense

DoDAF

Department of Defense Architecture Framework

EAI

Enterprise Application Integration

EDIFACT

(United Nations) Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce, and Transport

ERP

Enterprise Resource Planning

ETL

Extract, Transform, Load

FICO

Fair Isaac Corporation

FTE

Full-Time Equivalent

GOTS

Government Off-The-Shelf applications

HIPAA

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

ICAM

Integrated Computer Aided Manufacturing

ICOM

Inputs, Controls, Outputs, and Mechanisms/Resources

IDEF

Integrated Computer Aided Manufacturing (ICAM) DEFinition

IEC

International Electrotechnical Commission

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

III-RM

Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model

IoT

Internet of Things

ISACA

Information Systems Audit and Control Association

ISACF

Information Systems Audit and Control Foundation

ISO

International Standards Organization

IT

Information Technology

ITGI

IT Governance Institute

ITIL

Information Technology Infrastructure Library

ITPMF

IT Portfolio Management Facility

J2EE

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition

KPI

Key Performance Indicator

LAN

Local Area Network

MDA

Model-Driven Architecture

MSA

Microservices Architecture

MSP

Managing Successful Programs

MVA

Minimum Viable Architecture

NAF

NATO Architecture Framework

NASCIO

National Association of State Chief Information Officers

OECD

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

OGC

UK Office of Government Commerce

OLA

Operational-Level Agreement

OMB

Office of Management and Budget

OMG

Object Management Group

ORB

Object Request Broker

OSI

Open Systems Interconnection

OSOA

Open Service-Oriented Architecture

PDF

Portable Document Format

PMBOK

Project Management Body of Knowledge

PRINCE

PRojects in Controlled Environments

QoS

Quality of Service

RAS

Remote Access Services

RFC

Request For Change

RFI

Request for Information

RFP

Request for Proposal

RM

Reference Model

SBB

Solution Building Block

SCA

Service Component Architecture

SDO

Service Data Objects

SEI

Software Engineering Institute

SGML

Standard Generalized Markup Language

SLA

Service-Level Agreement

SMART

Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, and Timebound

SOA

Service-Oriented Architecture

SPEM

Software Processing Engineering Metamodel

SysML

Systems Modeling Language

TAFIM

Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management

TRM

Technical Reference Model

UML

Unified Modeling Language

WAN

Wide Area Network

XML

Extensible Markup Language

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