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IT Abbreviations & Acronyms: Comprehensive Glossary

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There are currently 82 acronyms in this directory beginning with the letter B.
B
B2B
Business-To-Business
B2C
Business-To-Consumer
B2E
Business-To-Employee
B2G
Business-To-Government
BA
Business Analytics
BAL
Basic Assembler Language or Branch-and-Link
BAPI
Business Application Programming Interface
bash
Bourne Again Shell
BBCs
Buffer Credits or Buffer-To-Buffer Credits
BC Set
Business Configuration Set
BCBS
Basel Committee On Banking Supervision
BCC
Blind Carbon Copy or Blind Courtesy Copy
BCDR
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
BCI
Brain-Computer Interface
BCM
Business Continuity Management
BCMA
Bar Coded Medication Administration
BCP
Business Continuity Plan
BDaaS
Big Data-as-a-Service
BEDO DRAM
Burst Extended Data Output Dram
BER
Bit Error Rate
BES
Blackberry Enterprise Server
BEST
Business / Enterprise State Transfer
BEx
Business Explorer
BGAN
Broadband Global Area Network
BGP
Border Gateway Protocol
BHIE
Bidirectional Health Information Exchange
BI
Business Intelligence
BIA
Business Impact Analysis
BIC
Business Information Center or Bank Identifier Code
BICC
Business Intelligence Competency Center or Bearer Independent Call Control
BIOS
Basic Input Output System
BISDN
Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
BIST
Built In Self Test
bit
Binary Digit
BLOB
Binary Large Object
BMP
Best Manufacturing Practices
BMS
Battery Management System
BNC
Bayonet Neil-Concelman or British Naval Connector
BOH
Balance On Hand
BOL
Beginning Of Life
BOM
Bill Of Materials
BOOTP
Bootstrap Protocol
BP&F
Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting
BPA
Business Process Automation
BPaaS
Business Process-as-a-Service
BPCS
Business Planning and Control System
BPEL
Business Process Execution Language
BPI
Business Process Improvement
BPL
Broadband Over Power Line
BPM
Business Process Management
BPMI
Business Process Management Initiative
BPML
Business Process Modeling Language
BPMN
Business Process Modeling Notation
BPMS
Business Process Management Suite
BPO
Business Process Outsourcing
BPR
Business Process Reengineering
BPS
Bulk Power System
bps or bit/sec
Bits Per Second
BRE
Business Rules Engine
BREW
Binary Runtime Environment For Wireless
BRI
Basic Rate Interface
BRM
Business Relationship Management
BSA
Bank Secrecy Act or Business Software Alliance
BSD
Berkeley Software Distribution
BSOD
Blue Screen Of Death
BSP
Business Service Provider
BT
Business Technology
BTF
Build To Forecast
BTM
Business Technology Management
BTO
Build To order
BTP
Business Transaction Protocol
BTS
Build To Stock
Btu
British Thermal Unit
BU
Backup Utility
BYOA
Bring Your Own Apps
BYOD
Bring Your Own Device
BYOD Workplace
Bring Your Own Device Workplace
BYOE
Bring Your Own Encryption
BYOI
Bring Your Own Identity
BYON
Bring Your Own Network
BYOT
Bring Your Own Technology
BYOx
Bring Your Own Everything

A quick reference guide for Information Technology (IT) related acronyms and abbreviations.

As a service to IT personnel everywhere (and also for ourselves) we’ve compiled a comprehensive list of IT-related acronyms and abbreviations.

Acronyms can be pronounced as words, like NASA and UNESCO; as individual letters, like FBI, TNT, and ATM; or as both letters and words, like JPEG (pronounced JAY-peg).

Abbreviations formed from a string of initials and usually pronounced as individual letters are more specifically called initialisms or alphabetisms.

No matter how you refer to these IT-related terms, please use our quick reference guide or search TechTerms.com to help decode the world of IT abbreviations and acronyms.

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