List of Acronyms
Last update: 03/23/2007 • Compiled and edited by the SAP Design Guild Team
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Here, you find what is behind some often used acronyms in the user interface and graphic design field. We also added some SAP-related acronyms, including SAP.
Note that this list is not a glossary. We do not explain what is behind an acronym. Please, consult the glossaries in the Resources section for this purpose.
ACM
Association for Computing Machinery (www.acm.org)
ASUG
Americas' SAP Users' Group (www.asug.com)
CHI
Computer-human interaction; also name of an annual conference on usability (or human-computer interaction) held by the ACM SIGCHI
CRM
Customer relationship management
DIN
Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (German institute for standardization) (www2.din.de)
DSAG
Deutschsprachige SAP Anwendergruppe (German-speaking SAP user group) (www.dsag.de)
EP
Enterprise portal
ERP
Enterprise resource planning
HCI
Human-computer interaction (see also CHI)
HCM
Human capital management
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
ISO
International Organization for Standardization (www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage)
R/3
Name of SAP's ERP software, no longer used
SAP
Stands for Systems, Applications, Products (German: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte) – name of the company that offers this Website (www.sap.com)
SIGCHI (ACM SIGCHI)
Special Interest Group of the ACM for computer-human interaction (www.sigchi.org)
UI
User interface
UID
User interface designer
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3c.org)
WWW
World wide web
XHTML
Extended HTML; HTML standard based on XML
XML
Extended Markup Language
