Standards Overview 
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| There are 39 entries in the glossary. | |
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| Akronym | Description |
| AIIM |
Association for Information and Image Management, since 1943
International authority on Enterprise Content Management (ECM), the tools and technologies that capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content in support of business processes. |
| ASAP |
Asynchronous Service Access Protocol a simple extension of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) that enables generic asynchronous webservices or long-running webservices. Extension of AWSP by OASIS.
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| AWSP |
Asynchronous Web Services Protocol a simple extension of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) that enables asynchronous webservices. By Jeffrey Ricker and Keith Swenson.
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| BPDM | Business Process Definition Metamodel, by OMG |
| BPEL / BPEL4WS | Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, BEA,… XML-based language for standardizing business processes in a distributed or grid computing environment that enables separate businesses to interconnect their applications and share data. Designed as a combination of IBM’s WebServices Flow Language and Microsoft’s XLANG |
| BPM | Business Process Management |
| BPMI |
Business Process Management Initiation, founded 1999. Merged with OMG in Juni 2005.
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| BPML | Business Process Management Language, defined by BPMI, 2001 |
| BPMN | Business Process Management Notation a graphical notation for expressing business processes. Defined by OMG/BPMI, might be included into the UML standard extending the activity diagram in future releases. |
| BPMS | Business Process Management System |
| BPSS | Business Process Specification Schema, by OASIS, based on ebXML. |
| ebXML | Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language, is a modular suite of specifications that enables enterprises of any size and in any geographical location to conduct business over the Internet. Hosted by OASIS. |
| ECM | Enterprise Content Management (see AIIM) |
| ESB | Enterprise Service Bus |
| MDA | Model Driven Architecture, by OMG. A layered modelling approach to separate business process, application and technical aspects. The different layers are CIM (Computation Independent Model), PIM (Platform Independent Model), PSM (Platform Specific Model). |
| OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, since 1993 is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards (in the area of Web Services). U.a. SGML, XML, UDDI, WSS … |
| OMG | Object Management Group, founded 1997 not-for-profit consortium that produces and maintains computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications. U.a. MDA, UML, OMA, CORBA, … |
| OWL | Web Ontoloty Language, defined by W3C |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework, defined by W3C |
| SOA | Service Oriented Architecture, In an SOA, resources are made available to other participants in the network as independent services that are accessed in a standardized way. This provides for more flexible loose coupling of resources than in traditional systems architectures. |
| SOAP | SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol or Service Oriented Architecture Protocol but with the latest publications there is no official translation for the acronym any more, defined by XML Protocol WG of W3C: XML-Based lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment. |
| UBL | Universal Business Language, defining a generic XML interchange format for business documents to support a typical order-to-invoice procurement cycle. Defined by OASIS. |
| UBL SBS | Universal Business Language Small Business Subset, defining a minimal needed subset of UBL to perform business. Can be used as a ligth version for applications to be supported. Defined by OASIS. |
| UDDI | Universal Description Discovery and Integration, defined by OASIS |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium, founded in October 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web. |
| Wf-XML | A protocol on top of ASAP known as Wf-XML (currently in version 2.0) which extends the basic generic service to include some workflow functionality.
Defined by WfMC.
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| WfMC | Workflow Management Coalition, founded
1993
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| WMS | Workflow Management System |
| WPDL | Workflow Process Definition Language out-of-date see XPDL as its successor |
| WS-BPEL | Web Services Business Process Execution Language, defined by OASIS. Is planed to replace BPEL4WS in future. |
| WS-CPL | Web Services Conversation Preference Language |
| WSCI | Web Services Choreographiy Interface, XML-based language used to describe the flow of messages exchanged by a Web Service in the context of a process. WSCI describes how WSDL operations are choreographed and which properties these choreographies expose, such as transaction and correlation. |
| WSDL | Web Services Description Language, defined by W3C:is a general purpose XML language for describing theinterface, protocol bindings and the deployment details ofnetwork services. WSDL complements the UDDI standard byproviding a uniform way of describing the abstract interfaceand protocol bindings of arbitrary network services. |
| WSFL | Web Services Flow Language, IBM: is an XML language for the description of Web Services compositions as part of a business process definition. It was designed by IBM to be part of the Web Service technology framework and relies and complements existing specifications like SOAP, WSDL, XMLP and UDDI, out-of-date see BPEL as its successor. |
| WSS | Web Service Security, by OASIS. |
| XLANG | XML-based language for standardizing business processes designed by Microsoft, out-of-date see BPEL as its successor. |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language, defined by W3C |
| XPDL | XML Process Definition Language - is intended to be used as a file format for BPMN. Defined by WfMC. |
| YAWL | Yet another Workflow Language, an open source workflow language/management system. |
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