Technology Acronyms APM AUP B2B C2C C2M

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1 This list defines common acronyms used by practitioners in technology law. It was originally published in A Practical Guide to Software Licensing for Licensees and Licensors. Technology Acronyms AAA ACV ADM ADR AES AFFECT AICPA ALI AO API API APM ARC ARS ASP AUP B2B BPaaS BPO BSA BSI BXA C2B C2C C2M CAD/CAM CCL CFAA American Arbitration Association Annualized Contract Value Application Development and Maintenance Alternative Dispute Resolution Advanced Encryption Standard Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions American Institute of Certified Public Accountants American Law Institute Application Outsourcing Application Programming Interface Application Protocol Interface Application Performance Management Additional Resource Charge Approval Rating System Application Service Provider or Alternative Service Provider Acceptable Use Policy Business to Business Business Process as a Service Business Process Outsourcing Business Software Alliance Bureau of Industry and Security Bureau of Export Control Consumer to Business Consumer to Consumer Consumer to Merchant Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacturing Commerce Control List Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

2 CGI CISG CMMI CMS CO COE COLA COPA COTS CPI CPU CRM CSP Db DBA DBMS DFAR DMCA DMS DSD DSL E2E EA EAR ECCN ECI EDI ELA EMEA ERP ESB ETL EULA FAR FCPA FFP Common Gateway Interface United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods Capability Maturity Model Integration Content Management System Central Office Consistent or Common Operating Environment Cost of Living Adjustment Child Online Protection Act Commercial off the Shelf (as it relates to software) Consumer Price Index Central Processing Unit Customer Relationship Management (software) Cloud Service Provider Database Database Administrator Database Management System Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Digital Millennium Copyright Act Desktop Managed Services Digital Solution Design Digital Subscriber Line End to End Enterprise Architecture Export Administration Regulations Export Control Classification Number Employment Cost Index Electronic Data Interchange Enterprise License Agreement Europe, Middle East and Africa Enterprise Resource Planning (software or systems) Enterprise Service Bus Extraction, Transformation and Loading End User License Agreement Federal Acquisition Regulations Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Firm Fixed Price

3 FME FTC FTE FTP 4GL GAAP Gb GLB GUI HIPAA HITECH HTML HTTP IaaS IMEI ISO ISP ISV IT ITO IP ISDN LAN LOI LAWN LPAR Mb MDE MDM MDP MEAP MHS MIP MOE MSA MSP Force Majeure Event Federal Trade Commission Full Time Equivalent File Transfer Protocol Fourth Generation (computer) Language Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Gigabyte Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Graphical User Interface Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act Hyper Text Markup Language Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Infrastructure as a Service International Mobile Equipment Identifier Independent Sales Organizations or Independent Service Organizations Internet Service Provider Independent Service Vendor Information Technology Information Technology Outsourcing Intellectual Property Integrated Services Digital Network Local Area Network Letter of Intent Local Area Wireless Network Logical Partition (virtual computing platform) Megabyte Managed Desktop Environment Mobile Device Management Mobile Device Protection Mobile Enterprise Application Platform Managed Hosting Services Million Instructions per Second Managed Operating Environment, Master Services Agreement Managed Service Provider

4 MTTR NIST NLR NTE OEM OCR OEM OS OS OSA OSI PaaS QOS RAS RFI RFP RRC RPO RTO RTU SaaS SCM SDE SDLC SIIA SL SLA SLB SLC SOE SOP SOW SOX SQL 3GL T&M TCV Mean Time to Report National Institute of Standards No License Required Not to Exceed Original Equipment Manufacturer Optical Character Recognition Original Equipment Manufacturer Open Source Operating System Outsourcing Agreement Open Source Initiative Platform as a Service Quality of Service Route Access System Request for Information Request for Proposal Reduced Resource Credit/Charge Recovery Point Objectives Recovery Time Objectives Right to Use Software-as-a-Service Supply Chain Management Standard Desktop Environment Systems Development Life Cycle Software and Information Industry Association Service Level Service Level Agreement Service Level Bonus Service Level Credit Server Operating Environment or Standard Operating Environment Statement of Position Statement of Work Sarbanes-Oxley Act Structured Query Language Third Generation (computer) Language Time and Materials Total Contract Value

5 TSR TSS TSSG TSU UCC UCITA UETA UTSA VAR VLAN VPN WAN WSDL XML XSD Technology and Software under Restriction Technical Support Services Technical Support Guidelines Technology and Software Unrestricted Uniform Commercial Code Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act Uniform Electronic Transactions Act Uniform Trade Secret Act Value Added Reseller Virtual Local Area Network Virtual Private Network Wide Area Network Web Services Description Language extensible Markup Language XML Schema Definition