Abbreviations Used in this Manual 

The following is a list of the abbreviations used in this manual. Where needed, a short explanation is also provided.

API                Application Programming Interface

BAPI              Business API

BI                  Business Intelligence

BW                Business Information Warehouse

EPCM            Enterprise Portal Client Manager
An object defined by the portal Client Framework to handle functions such as client eventing

GML              Generic Modeling Language

IDES              SAPInternet Demo and Evaluation System

IGS                Internet Graphics Service
Used to display results of BI queries in Heatmap format

J2EE             Java 2 Enterprise Edition
The portal operates on top of the J2EE engine

JDBC             Java database connectivity

MDX              Multidimensional Expression language
Used for manipulating multidimensional data

OLAP            Online Analytical Processing
A means of processing and presenting multidimensional data for analysis and management

PAR              Portal Archive file
Contains all resources of a portal application

PCD              Portal Content Directory

RFC               Remote Function Call

SQL               Structured Query Language
A standardized language for retrieving data from and updating a database

SVG              Scalable Vector Graphics
A language used to describe two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML

UI                  User Interface

URL               Uniform Resource Locator
The address of a site on the Internet

URN              Uniform Resource Name
A persistent identifier for information resources

XMLA                  XML for Analysis
A set of XML message interfaces used to define data access interaction between a client and an analytical data provider working over the Internet