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ATO Assembly to Order is a manufacturing process whereby components are assembled according to specific orders, as opposed to assembling to fill a stock level. Also called Build to Order, Make to Order. Oracle
ATP

Advanced Threat Protection

Security
ATP

Available to Promise (ATP) is a business function that provides a response to customer order inquiries, based on resource availability. It generates available quantities of the requested product and delivery due dates. Therefore, ATP supports order promising and fulfillment, aiming to manage demand and match it to production plans.

See also ATP

Oracle
ATSC Advanced Television Systems Committee Technology
AU Actual Units Oracle
Avianca Holdings

Global Eagle has been selected by Avianca Holdings to provide the in-flight entertainment service onboard its subsidiary airlines.

See also: Avianca

Global Eagle
Aviation Interiors Exhibition (AIX)

Aircraft Interiors Expo is the world’s leading event for airlines and the supply chain to source the latest innovations, technologies, and products for the cabin interiors, in-flight entertainment, and passenger comfort industries.

See also: AIX

Aviation
AVOD Audio Video-On-Demand Technology
AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud-computing platform provided by Amazon. It provides a mix of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings. See also: AWS Technology
B2B

Business to Business

General
B2C

Business to Consumer

General
BCM

Business Continuity Management

General
BI

Business Intelligence (BI) comprises the strategies and technologies used by enterprises for the data analysis of business information. BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations.

See also: BI

General
Big Data

Is data sets that are so voluminous and complex that traditional data processing application software is inadequate to deal with them. Big data challenges include capturing data, data storage, data analysis, search, sharing, transfer, visualization, querying, and updating and information privacy. There are three dimensions to big data known as Volume, Variety, and Velocity.

See also: Big Data

Technology
Bit Rate a) The rate at which the compressed bit stream is delivered from the storage medium to the input of a decoder. The digital equivalent of analog bandwidth. b) The speed at which bits are transmitted, usually expressed in bit/s (sometimes abbreviated "bps"). c) The amount of data transported in a given amount of time, usually defined in Mbit/s. Bitrate is one means used to define the amount of compression used on a video signal. Technology
Blade A server architecture that houses multiple server modules ("blades") in a single chassis. It is widely used in datacenters to save space and improve system management. Either self-standing or rack mounted, the chassis provides the power supply, and each blade has its own CPU, RAM and storage. Technology
BO Back Order Oracle
BOM

Bill of Materials: A bill of materials or product structure (sometimes bill of material, BOM or associated list) is a list of the raw materials, sub-assemblies, intermediate assemblies, sub-components, parts, and the quantities of each needed to manufacture an end product.

See also: BOM

Oracle
BPS Bits per Second Technology
Break Glass Procedure In computing “Break Glass” is the act of checking out a system account password to bypass normal access controls procedures for a critical emergency. This provides the user immediate access to an account that they may not normally be authorized to access. (which draws its name from breaking the glass to pull a fire alarm). Technology