| ACD
| Automatic Call Distribution
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| AM
| Availability Management
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| AMIS
| Availability Management Information System
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| ASP
| Application Service provider
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| BCM
| Business Capacity Management
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| BCM
| Business Continuity Management
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| BCP
| Business Continuity Plan
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| BIA
| Business Impact Analysis
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| BRM
| Business Relationship Manager
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| BSI
| British Standards Institution
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| BSM
| Business Service Management
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| CAB
| Change Advisory Board
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| CAB/EC
| Change Advisory Board/Emergency Committee
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| CAPEX
| Capital Expenditure
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| CCM
| Component Capacity Management
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| CFIA
| Component Failure Impact Analysis
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| CI
| Configuration Item
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| CMDB
| Configuration Management Database
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| CMIS
| Capacity Management Information System
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| CMM
| Capability Maturity Model
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| CMMI
| Capability Maturity Model Integration
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| CMS
| Configuration Management System
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| COTS
| Commercial off the Shelf
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| CSF
| Critical Success Factor
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| CSI
| Continual Service Improvement
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| CSIP
| Continual Service Improvement Plan
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| CSP
| Core Service Package
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| CTI
| Computer Telephony Integration
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| DIKW
| Data–to–Information–to–Knowledge–to–Wisdom
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| ELS
| Early Life Support
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| eSCM–CL
| eSourcing Capability Model for Client Organizations
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| eSCM–SP
| eSourcing Capability Model for Service providers
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| FMEA
| Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
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| FTA
| Fault Tree Analysis
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| IRR
| Internal Rate of Return
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| ISG
| IT Steering Group
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| ISM
| Information Security Management
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| ISMS
| Information Security Management System
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| ISO
| International Organization for Standardization
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| ISP
| Internet Service provider
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| IT
| Information Technology
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| ITSCM
| IT Service Continuity Management
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| ITSM
| IT Service Management
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| itSMF
| IT Service Management Forum
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| IVR
| Interactive Voice Response
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| KEDB
| Known Error Database
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| KPI
| Key Performance Indicator
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| LOS
| Line of Service
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| M_o_R
| Management of Risk
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| MTBF
| Mean Time Between Failures
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| MTBSI
| Mean Time Between Service Incidents
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| MTRS
| Mean Time to Restore Service
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| MTTR
| Mean Time To Repair
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| NPV
| Net Present Value
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| OGC
| Office of Government Commerce
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| OLA
| Operational Level Agreement
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| OPEX
| Operational Expenditure
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| OPSI
| Office of Public Sector Information
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| PBA
| Pattern of Business Activity
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| PIR
| Post-Implementation Review
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| PFS
| Prerequisite for Success
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| PSO
| Projected Service Outage
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| QA
| Quality Assurance
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| QMS
| Quality Management System
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| RCA
| Root cause Analysis
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| RFC
| Request for Change
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| ROI
| Return on Investment
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| RPO
| Recovery Point Objective
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| RTO
| Recovery Time Objective
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| SoC
| Separation of concerns
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| SAC
| Service Acceptance Criteria
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| SACM
| Service asset and Configuration Management
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| SCD
| Supplier and contract database
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| SCM
| Service Capacity Management
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| SDP
| Service Design Package
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| SFA
| Service Failure Analysis
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| SIP
| Service Improvement Plan
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| SKMS
| Service Knowledge Management System
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| SLA
| Service Level Agreement
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| SLM
| Service Level Management
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| SLP
| Service level package
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| SLR
| Service Level Requirement
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| SMO
| Service Maintenance Objective
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| SOP
| Standard Operating Procedures
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| SOR
| Statement of requirements
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| SPI
| Service provider Interface
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| SPM
| Service Portfolio Management
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| SPO
| Service Provisioning Optimization
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| SPoF
| Single Point of Failure
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| TO
| Technical Observation
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| TOR
| Terms of reference
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| TCO
| Total Cost of Ownership
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| TCU
| Total Cost of Utilization
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| TQM
| Total Quality Management
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| UC
| Underpinning Contract
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| UP
| User Profile
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| VBF
| Vital Business Function
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| VOI
| Value on Investment
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| WIP
| Work in Progress
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