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WHAT IT REALLY MEANS

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4D Data Dashboard Definitions Development  
AACRAO American Association of Collegiate Registrar and Admission Officers  
ACE American Council on Education  
ACUPA Association of College and University Policy Administrators  
AIMS Authoritative Identity Management System  
AMP Academic Mapping and Planner  
ASB Administrative Systems Budget Collection of all the Servers, security, HR, Finance, Student, etc. things that the UM IT covers
ASP Application-Service-Providers  
BIA Business Impact Analysis This Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is developed as part of the contingency planning process for PeopleSoft Student Administration.
BPM Business Policy Manual  
CBORD   World's leading provider of campus and cashless card systems, food and nutrition service management software, integrated security solutions, nationwide student discount and commerce programs, and housing and judicial process management software
CIO Chief Information Officer Campus CIO
CM Content Management  
CRM Customer Relationship Management  
CRR Collected Rules and Regulations  
CSM Campus Solutions Manager Registrar or Director on each campus responsible for PeopleSoft (student)
CRI Comprehensive Retention Initiative Subcommittee of ASAOC responsible for student retention solutions
DAMS Digital Asset Management System  
DATS Database Administrative and Technical Services Team EAS DBA team responsible for server, database and security maintenance
DoIT Division of Information Technology The overarching umbrella for EAS support
DR Disaster Recovery Responsible for back of systems.
DRP Disaster Recovery Plan Back of production systems
DSS Division of Student Success  
EAS Enterprise Application Services Office that oversees all UM-System ERP systems
EDW Enterprise Data Warehouse  
EMSAS Enhanced Missouri Student Achievement Study  
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning  
FERPA Family Education Rights and Privacy Act  
FIM Forefront Identity Manager  
Gos General Officers Chancellors, Provosts
HSCP High School College Program  
HRM Human Resource Management  
IAP International Academic Programs  
IPEDS Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System  
IR Institutional Research Per the Association for Institutional Research, Institutional Research duties and functions include (but are not limited to) the following: identifying information needs; collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting data and information; planning and evaluating; serving as stewards of data and information; and educating information producers, users, and consumers.
IRB Institutional Review Board  
IRP Incident Response Plan  
ISIR Institutional Student Information Records  
ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library It is a practical, no-nonsense approach to the identification, planning, delivery and support of IT services to the business.
ITSM IT service management Implementation and management of quality IT services
ITSRQ IT Security & Requirements Questionnaire  
MDHEWD Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development  
MIL Missing Information Letter Financial aid business process
MIS Management Information Systems  
MLC Missouri Learning Commons  
MOOC Massive Online Open Course  
MRTI Missouri Reverse Transcript Initiative  
MTD Maximum Tolerable Downtime Amount of time a ERP system can be down
NACADA National Academic Advising Association  
NACUBO National Association of College and University Business Officers  
NCAT National Center for Academic Transformation  
NCES National Center for Education Statistics  
OEI Operational Excellence Initiative Committee that oversees project work and priorities between all ERP systems/divisions
PEC Program Evaluation Committee  
POC Point of Contact Person responsible for projects, ERP or offices
RPO Recovery Point Objective  
RTO Recovery Time Objective  
SaaS Software as a service  
SAEM Student Affairs Division of Student Affairs
SAP Satisfactory Academic Progress Process for financial aid to ensure student eligibility for aid based on degree progress
SLA Source Licensing Agreement  
SPMO Strategic Project Management Office Office responsible for management of UM System projects
SSO Single Sign On User ID for authentication
SSN Social Security Number  
UAC University Assessment Committee  
UBC University Budget Committee  
UCC Undergraduate Curriculum Committee  
UMAO University of Missouri Academic Officers Provost's representatives