| Acronym | Meaning |
| CERN | Conseil Europeen Pour Le Recherche Nucleaire |
| ADO | ActiveX Data Objects |
| AAC | Advanced Audio Coding |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
| CWM | Common Warehouse Metadata |
| MPI | Message Passing Interface |
| CTP | Community Technical Preview |
| OIM | Open Information Model |
| FDHD | Floppy Drive, High Density |
| BAPI | Business Application Programming Interface |