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Absorption Chillers

Access Management

Access Method

Access Point (AP)

Accountable Care Organization (ACO)

Accredited Standards Committee (ASC)

Active Data Dictionary

Active Directory

Active Matrix Organic Light-emitting Diodes (AMOLED)

ActiveX

Activity Stream

Activity-based Costing (ABC)

Activity-based Management (ABM)

Ad Ops

Ad Tech

Adapters

Adaptive AI

Adaptive Learning

Additive Manufacturing

Addressable TV Advertising

Adsorption Chillers

Advanced Analytics

Advanced Clinical Research Information Systems (ACRIS)

Advanced Distribution Management Systems (ADMS)

Advanced Distribution Protection And Restoration Devices

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)

Advanced Fraud Detection And Analysis Technologies

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)

Advanced Planning And Scheduling (APS)

Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)

Advanced Server Energy Monitoring Tools

Advanced Shipment Notice (ASN)

Advanced Technology

Advanced Technology Group (ATG)

Advanced Threat Detection (ATD) Appliances

Advanced Web Services

Advertisement Action

Advocacy Marketing

Aerial And Digital Imagery

Affective Computing

Agent Collaboration Tools

Agent Portal Solutions

Agile

Agile Marketing Project Management

Agile NeoRAD

AI Engineering

AI Simulation

AI TRISM

AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)

AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations)

AIOps Platform

Algorithmic Business

All-in-One (AIO) PCs

Alliance And Relationship Management

Alternative Card Networks

Alternative Delivery Models

Ambient And Glanceable Displays

AMD (Architected, Model-driven Development)

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

American Standard Code For Information Interchange (ASCII)

AMG (Access Media Gateways)

AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association)

AMIS (Audio Messaging Interchange Specification)

AMO (Application Management Outsourcing)

AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service)

AMR (Adaptive Multirate)

Analytic Applications

Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Analytics

Analytics and Business Intelligence (ABI)

Answer Marketplace

Api Management

Applet

Appliances

Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

Application Architecture

Application Control

Application Data Management (ADM)

Application Delivery Controller (ADC)

Application Development (AD)

Application Infrastructure

Application Infrastructure Suite (AIS)

Application Integration

Application Life Cycle Management Platform as a Service (ALM PaaS)

Application Management

Application Modernization Services

Application Obfuscation

Application Outsourcing

Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS)

Application Program

Application Programming Interface (API)

Application Release Automation (ARA)

Application Server

Application Service Provider (ASP)

Application Sharing

Application Software Services

Application, Channel, Technology And Industry (ACT I)

Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)

Application-Specific Standard Product (ASSP)

Applications Portfolio Analysis (APA)

Architected Rapid Application Development (ARAD)

Architecture

Artificial general intelligence (AGI)

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Assemble To Order

Asset Performance Management (APM)

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)

Asynchronous Transmission

Attenuation

Audio Mining/speech Analytics

Augmented Analytics

Augmented Intelligence

Augmented Reality (AR)

Authentication Service

Authentication Technologies

Authorization

Automated Backup

Automated Business Process Discovery (ABPD)

Automated Document Factory (ADF)

Automated Payment Tracking And Reconciliation Services

Automated System Operations (ASO)

Automated Teller Machine (ATM)

Automated Testing

Automated Vehicle Locating (AVL)

Automatic Content Recognition (ACR)

Automatic Restart

Automatic Storage Tiering (Auto-Tiering)

Autonomic Systems

Autonomous System (AS)

Autonomous System Number (ASN)

Autonomous Vehicles

Availability

Avatar

Average Inventory

Average Selling Price (ASP)

Average Speed of Answer (ASA)

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