Abbreviations, initialisms¶
The following list combines industry-standard abbreviations and initialisms with others that are specific to Amperity.
2FA  | 
Two-factor Authentication  | 
AAID  | 
Google Advertising ID  | 
ACS  | 
Assertion Consumer Service  | 
ACV  | 
Actual Cash Value  | 
AD  | 
Active Directory  | 
ADLS  | 
Azure Data Lake Storage  | 
ADW  | 
Amperity Data Warehouse  | 
ANSI  | 
American National Standards Institute  | 
API  | 
Application Programming Interface  | 
APP  | 
Australian Privacy Principles  | 
ARM  | 
Azure Resource Manager  | 
ARN  | 
Amazon Resource Name  | 
ASCII  | 
American Standard Code for Information Interchange  | 
AUR  | 
Average Unit Retail  | 
AWS  | 
Amazon Web Services  | 
BAU  | 
Business as Usual  | 
B2B  | 
Business to Business  | 
B2C  | 
Business to Consumer  | 
BI  | 
Business Intelligence  | 
BLOB  | 
Binary Large Object  | 
BOGO  | 
Buy One, Get One  | 
BOM  | 
Byte Order Mark  | 
CAC  | 
Customer Acquisition Cost  | 
CASS  | 
Coding Accuracy Support System  | 
CBOR  | 
Concise Binary Object Representation  | 
CCPA  | 
California Consumer Privacy Act  | 
CDC  | 
Customer Data Cloud  | 
CDP  | 
Customer Data Platform  | 
CE  | 
Customer Experience  | 
CGP  | 
Customer Growth Platform  | 
CLV  | 
Customer Lifetime Value  | 
CMP  | 
Commerce Media Platform  | 
COGS  | 
Cost of Goods Sold  | 
CORS  | 
Cross-origin Resource Sharing  | 
CPA  | 
Cost Per Acquisition  | 
CPM  | 
Cost Per Thousand  | 
CPC  | 
Cost Per Click  | 
CPG  | 
Consumer Packaged Goods  | 
CRM  | 
Customer Relationship Management  | 
CSE  | 
Customer Success Engineering  | 
CTE  | 
Common Table Expressions  | 
CSV  | 
Comma-Separated Values  | 
CTA  | 
Click-through Attribution  | 
CTV  | 
Connected TV  | 
CVR  | 
Conversion Rate  | 
DAG  | 
Directed Acyclic Graph  | 
DII  | 
Directly Identifying Information  | 
DMP  | 
Data Management Platform  | 
DOB  | 
Date of Birth  | 
DMA  | 
Digital Markets Act  | 
DSAR  | 
Data Subject Access Request  | 
DSP  | 
Demand-side Platform  | 
DTC  | 
Direct-to-Consumer  | 
DW, DWH  | 
Data Warehouse  | 
EC2  | 
Elastic Compute Cloud  | 
EDN  | 
Extensible Data Notation  | 
EDW  | 
Enterprise Data Warehouse  | 
EEA  | 
European Economic Area  | 
EMR  | 
Elastic Map Reduce  | 
EP/NBD  | 
Extended Pareto / NBD Model  | 
ERR  | 
Early Repeat Rate  | 
ESP  | 
Email Service Provider  | 
ETL  | 
Extract, Transform and Load  | 
EUID  | 
European Unified ID  | 
FAQ  | 
Frequently Asked Question  | 
FTP  | 
File Transfer Protocol  | 
GAID  | 
Google Advertising ID  | 
GCP  | 
Google Cloud Platform  | 
GDPR  | 
General Data Protection Regulation  | 
GMT  | 
Greenwich Mean Time  | 
HDFS  | 
Hadoop Distributed File System  | 
HEM  | 
Hashed Email Address  | 
IAM  | 
Identity Access Management  | 
IDFA  | 
Identifier for Advertising  | 
IdP, IDP  | 
Identity Provider  | 
IID  | 
Independent and Identically Distributed  | 
ISO  | 
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)  | 
IVR  | 
Interactive Voice Response  | 
JDBC  | 
Java Database Connectivity  | 
JSON  | 
JavaScript Object Notation  | 
JWT  | 
JSON Web Token  | 
KB  | 
Knowledge Base  | 
KPI  | 
Key Performance Indicator  | 
LAL  | 
Lookalike Audience  | 
LTV  | 
Lifetime Value  | 
MAE  | 
Mean Absolute Error  | 
MAID  | 
Mobile Advertising ID  | 
MBR  | 
Monthly Business Review  | 
MDM  | 
Master Data Management  | 
MDN  | 
Mobile Directory Number  | 
MFA  | 
Multi-factor Authentication  | 
MMM  | 
Marketing Mix Modeling  | 
MMS  | 
Multimedia Messaging Service  | 
MSRP  | 
Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price  | 
MTA  | 
Multi-touch Attribution  | 
MVP  | 
Minimal Viable Product  | 
NBD  | 
Negative Binominal Distribution  | 
NCOA  | 
National Change of Address  | 
NDJSON  | 
Newline-delimited JSON  | 
NRF  | 
National Retail Foundation  | 
NPS  | 
Net Promoter System  | 
ODBC  | 
Open Database Connectivity  | 
OIDC  | 
OpenID Connect  | 
ORC  | 
Optimized Row Columnar (ORC)  | 
OTT  | 
“Over-the-top” (TV-related)  | 
pCLV  | 
Predicted Customer Lifetime Value  | 
Portable Document Format  | 
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PGP  | 
Pretty Good Privacy  | 
PHI  | 
Protected Health Information  | 
PIE  | 
Post-interaction Email  | 
PII  | 
Personally Identifiable Information  | 
PIPEDA  | 
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act  | 
PLCC  | 
Private Label Credit Card  | 
POS  | 
Point of Sale  | 
PPID  | 
Publisher Provided Identifier  | 
PSV  | 
Pipe-Separated Values  | 
QBR  | 
Quarterly Business Review  | 
QSR  | 
Quick Service Restaurant  | 
RCFile  | 
Record Columnar File  | 
REDS  | 
Raw Event Data Stream  | 
REST API  | 
Representational State Transfer API  | 
RFM  | 
Recency, Frequency, Monetary  | 
RMN  | 
Retail Media Network  | 
RMSE  | 
Root Mean Square Error  | 
ROAS  | 
Return on Ad Spend  | 
RSA Key  | 
Rivest–Shamir–Adleman Key  | 
S3  | 
Simple Storage Service  | 
SAM  | 
Serviceable Addressible Market  | 
SAML  | 
Security Assertion Markup Language  | 
SAS  | 
Shared Access Signature  | 
SaaS  | 
Software-as-a-Service  | 
SFTP  | 
Secure File Transfer Protocol  | 
SHA  | 
Secure Hash Algorithm  | 
SKU  | 
Stock Keeping Unit  | 
SMS  | 
Short Message Service (text-based marketing)  | 
SOC  | 
Service Organization Control  | 
SP  | 
Service Provider  | 
SQL  | 
Structured Query Language  | 
SSN  | 
Social Security Number  | 
SSO  | 
Single Sign-On  | 
SSP  | 
Supply side Platform  | 
TAA  | 
Trade Area Append  | 
TAM  | 
Total Addressible Market  | 
TAR  | 
Tape Archive  | 
TLD  | 
Top-Level Domain  | 
TSV  | 
Tab-Separated Values  | 
UI  | 
User Interface  | 
UID2  | 
Unified ID 2.0  | 
UPC  | 
Universal Product Code  | 
UPT  | 
Units per Transaction  | 
USPS  | 
United States Postal Service  | 
UTC  | 
Coordinated Universal Time  | 
UUID  | 
Universally Unique Identifier  | 
VTA  | 
View-through Attribution  | 
XML  | 
eXtensible Markup Language  | 
YAML  | 
YAML Ain’t Markup Language  | 
YARN  | 
Yet Another Resource Manager  | 
YCSB  | 
Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark  |