" Who controls the vocabulary , controls the knowledge " - FBC>s

Baby Boom post-WWII demographic birth acceleration (see Papy Boomerang )
BAC Basic Access Authentication (see Authentication )
BAC Budget At Completion (see EV, ACWP, BCWP, BCWP, EAC, VAC)
BACC Belgian-American Chamber of Commerce (New-York)
Backbone high speed data link connecting the main NW and carrying the heaviest traffic
BackDoor.Flashback Trojan for Apple "Mac" PC and others
Backronym acronym refering to itself in the expression for which it stands (see recursive acronym , retronym ,
anacronym ). Backronym example : VISA International Service Association (1976)
BAD Business Application Domain (see BAA)
Bada Samsung mobile high-performance native apps and services (see LiMO, MeeGo, …)
BaffleText more sophisticated CAPTCHA filter made by PARC
BAFTA British Academy of Film and Television Arts
*.bak back-up file format
BAL Business Analysis Library
BALUN BALanced / UNbalanced
BAM Business Activity Management (see SAM)
BAM Business Activity Monitoring (could be related to BI, TCO for IT managers)
BAM Business Administration Management
BAM Bidirectional Associative Memory
BAN Body Area NW: IEEE 802.15.6 wireless mini-emitter/receiver to be installed around, on/in the human body (MEB, WPAN)
Bandwidth firstly an expression of the analog capacity (Hz), secondly of the digital transfer capacity.
Bank ID 5-digit alphanumeric key / abbreviation (i.e. DEUBA = Deutsche Bank)
Banking see SAP Banking
Bankster Bank and Gangster for evidencing Bank management bad practices
BAO Business Advantages Optimization (see BI and others, BPO, CAO, …)
BAPCO Belgian Assn of Professional Conference Organizers
BAPI Business Application Programming Interface (see API) : w/i SAP, that transaction retrieves
a list of all Business Objects and their BAPIs from the BOR. Mailing list: http://www.sap.com/
products/techno/bapis/feedback/mailing/mailing.htm)
Barg unit of gauge pressure
BASDA Business Aplication SW Developers Assn (UK)
BASE Building, Antenna, Span, Earth: the four types of objects one may use for jumping (base jumping)
Base 2 system binary number system
Base 10 system decimal number system
Basel II or 2 banking standards set for regulating finance and banking in the EC (see Solvency II )
Basel III or 3 more elaborated rules for Banks
BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (programming language)
BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Systemic Individual Construction (FBC>s concept)
Bastion Host hardened system to resist attack and used as a firewall component
*.bat see Batch file
BAT Best Available Techniques (see BREF)
BATCH simple program file / stored commands series
Batch file DOS commands in a *.bat file
BATNA Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement (see MOU)
Baud measurement unit of digital data transmission speed
B2B Business To Business (see B2C, C2C)
Bb Blackboard
BB Big Board (annual administration meeting board)
BBA Bachelor of Business Administration (see BS, MBA, MEM, MIS, Ph.D., …)
BBDE Browser-Based Desktop Environment (see DE)
BBI Bloomberg Billionaires Index
BBK Library Bibliographic
b-Blog Blog for mainly sharing business insights instead of personal concerns
BBM BlackBerry Messenger
BBM BroadBand Mechanic (www.broadbandmechanics.com/)
BBMC Brussels Business Mediation Center (http://www.bbmcmediation.be/)
BBMMORPGs Browser-Based MMORPGs (see Gaming , MMOBBG, MMORTS, …)
BBP Best Business Practice (see BIP, BMP, IBP)
BBP Business-to-Business Procurement (SAP)
BBRT Beyond Budgeting Round Table (Intl Research Consortium sponsored by 70 large enterprises)
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