List of Abbreviations:
A
APIs
Application Programming Interfaces
B
BI
Business Intelligence
C
CASE
Computer Aided Software-Engineering
CDIF
Case Data Interchange Format
CLI
Call Level Interface
CWM
Common Warehouse Metamodel
CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Archtiecture
D
DB
Database
DBMS
Database Management System
DB2 UDB
DB2 Universal Database
DC
Direct Costs
DDL
Data Definition Language
DOM
Document Object Model
DTD
Document Type Definition
DWH
Data Warehouse
E
ECMA
European Computer Manufacture’s Association
EIA
Electronic Industries Associations
ERM
Entity-Relationship Model
ETL
Extraction Transformation Loading
ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning
G
GIF
Graphics Interchange Format
I
IDL
Interface Definition Language
IRDS
Information Resource Dictionary System
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
M
MDC
Meta Data Coalition
MDIS
Metadata Interchange Specification
MDL
Model Definition Language
MOF
Meta Object Facility
mUML
Multidimensional UML
MS
Microsoft
O
OC
Overhead Costs
OCL
Object Constraint Language
ODBC
Open Database Connectivity
ODBMS
Object-Orientated Database Management System
OLAP
Online Analytical Processing
OMS
Object Management System
OOD
Object-Oriented Design
OMG
Object Management Group
P
PCTE
Portable Common Tool Enviroment
PNG
Portable Network Graphics
RPCs
Remote Prcedure Calls
S
SQL
Structured Query Language
SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics
U
UML
Unified Modeling Language
UDFs
User Defined Functions
W
WWW
World Wide Web
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
X
XMI
XML Meta Data Intechange
XML
Extensible Markup Language
XSBP
XML Store Benchmark Project
