| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| AMI | Advanced Metering Initiative |
| AMR | Automated Meter Reading |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| BAM | Business Activity Monitoring |
| BI | Business Intelligence |
| BPA | Business Process Analysis |
| BPEL | Business Process Execution Language, same as BPEL4WS |
| BPEL4WS | Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, a formal subset of BPML |
| BPM | Business Process Management |
| BPML | Business Process Markup Language |
| BRE | Business Rule Engine |
| CIM | Common Information Model |
| CIS | Customer Information System |
| CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
| DR | Demand Response |
| DRX | Demand Response Exchange |
| EAI | Enterprise Application Integration |
| EDA | Event Driven Architecture |
| EMS | Energy Management System |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| ESB | Enterprise Service Bus |
| ETL | Extraction, transformation and loading |
| IA | Intelligent Agent, a software component used to make local decisions |
| IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission, a standards organization |
| JMS | Java Messaging System, a Java-based API used for messaging interfaces |
| MDA | Model Driven Architecture |
| MultiSpeak | An integration standard sponsored by NRECA |
| Ontology | An explicit formal specification of how to represent the objects, concepts, and other entities that are assumed to exist in some area of interest and the relationships that hold among them. |
| OWL | Web Ontology Language |
| RDF | XML Resource Descriptor Format |
| RSOA | Real-Time SOA, where an SOA is extended with support for reliable, high performance publish subscribe and events |
| RTE | Real-Time Enterprise |
| SOA | Service Oriented Architecture |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium, a standards organization |
| WF | Workflow |
| Workflow | An IT technology which uses electronic systems to manage and monitor business processes |
| WS | Web Services, used as a prefix for many W3C recommendations |
| WSDL | Web Services Definition Language, an XML dialect used to define web service interfaces |
| XMI | XML Metadata Interchange |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| XSD | XML Schema |