Thursday, October 27, 2005

TLA

API – Application Programming Interface
BPM – Business Process Management
CAF – Composite Application Framework
CEM – Customer Engagement Manager
CRM – Customer Relationship Management
EAI – Enterprise Application Integration
EDI – Electronic Data Interchange
ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning
ESA – Enterprise Services Architecture
ESS – Employee Self-Service
HCM – Human Capital Management
IDE – Integrated Development Environment
ISV – Independent Software Vendor
JDI – Java Development Infrastructure
JSP – Java Server Pages
JVM – Java Virtual Machine
KPI – Key Performance Indicators
MDM – Master Data Management
MSS – Manager Self Service
PDK – Portal Development Kit
PIP – Partner Implementation Package
PLM – Product Lifecycle Management
RFC – Remote Function Call
ROI – Return On Investment
SCM – Supply Chain management
SRM – Supplier Relationship Management
TCO – Total Cost of Ownership
TLA – Three Letter Acronyms
UML – Unified Modeling Language
WAS – Web Application Server
WML – Wireless Markup Language
XML – extensible Markup Language

That is correct - I have seen the term "TLA" used in an SAP publication as an acronym for "Three Letter Acronyms". Obviously there are more three letter acronyms but this list contains the most common ones found in the SAP world. The two and four letter acronyms have also been omitted.

2 Comments:

Blogger Mon67 said...

Hi John, This is Srini.Ch. Your blogs on TechEd2005 are informative and useful. Just curious whether the knowledge is useful in day to day programming life.

12:55 PM  
Blogger John Hill said...

Srini - Most of the knowledge is not useful currently. I have tried to change my thinking about every program I write or change. The goal is to make it easier - via function calls or BAPIs so that in theory the programs could be called from a Portal rather than just being executed within SAP. I am also trying to use SAP's standard for handling error messages. Over the next few weeks I plan on posting ABAP code on this site for people to review.

4:48 PM  

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