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 |
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 |
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 |
MMS |
Multimedia Messaging Service |
MSRP |
Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price |
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 |
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 |
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 |
UID |
Unified ID |
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 |