The following are specific acronyms frequently used in HRMS and commonly used in state government.
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| Acronym | Term |
| AAD | Azure Active Directory |
| ABAP | Advanced Business Application Programming |
| ACH | Automated Clearing House |
| ACT Code | Action Code |
| AD | Active Directory |
| ADA | American With Disabilities Act |
| ADA | Americans with Disabilities Act |
| ADEA | Agency Financial Reporting System |
| ADO | Azure DevOps |
| AFRS | Agency Financial Reporting System |
| AGY | Agency |
| AKS | Azure Kubernetes Services |
| ALAS | Automated Liability Apportionment Solution |
| ALV | ABAP List Viewer |
| AMT/Rate | Amount Rate |
| APPT ST | Appointment Status |
| ASD | Administrative Services Division |
| ASPX | Active Server Page Extended |
| ASV | Apparent Successful Vendor |
| ATG | Attorney General |
| B | Top |
| BA | Business Area |
| BAA | Business Associates Agreement |
| BI | Business Intelligence |
| BSI | Business Software, Inc. - Provider of payroll regulatory & compliance solutions for HRMS |
| BVFF | Board for Volunteer Firefighters |
| C | Top |
| CAFT | Cross Agency Functional Team |
| CAPEX | Capital Expenditures |
| CATS | Cross-Application Timesheet |
| CBAs | Collective Bargaining Agreements |
| CBO | Community-based Organization |
| CCB | Change Control Board |
| CEAP | Consolidated Emergency Assistance Program |
| CFD | Combined Fund Drive |
| CFR | Code of Federal Regulations |
| CMS | Content Management System |
| COBOL | Common Business-Oriented Language |
| COLA | Cost-of-Living Adjustment |
| CoP | Community of Practice |
| COTS | Commercial off-the-Shelf |
| CR | Change Request |
| CSM | Certified Scrum Master |
| CSP | Cloud Service Provider |
| CSR | Civil Service Reform |
| CTR | Commute Trip Reduction Program |
| CX | Customer Experience |
| D | Top |
| DAG | Database Architecture Group |
| DBaaS | Database as a Service |
| DCAP | Dependent Care Assistance Program |
| DCP | Deferred Compensation Plan |
| DDI | Design, Development, and Implementation |
| DEV | Development system - generic designation for system usage |
| DevOps | Development and Operations |
| DEX | Digital Experience |
| DIS | Washington State Department of Information Services |
| DMS | Data Management System |
| DMS | Document Management System |
| DNS | Domain Name Server |
| DOP | Washington State Department of Personnel (abolished in 2011) |
| DP | Decision Package |
| DR | Disaster Recovery |
| DRS | Washington State Department of Retirement Systems |
| DSA | Data Sharing Agreement |
| E | Top |
| EAC | Enterprise Architecture Committee |
| EAP | Employee Assistance Program |
| ECC | Enterprise Central Component - SAP's updated version of the R/3 application suite |
| EDP | Enterprise Data Platform |
| EDW | Enterprise Data Warehouse |
| EEOC | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| EFFDT | Effective Date |
| EFT | Electronic Funds Transfer |
| EFTPS | Electronic Funds Payment Transfer System |
| EHR | Electronic Health Records |
| EIC | Earned Income Credit |
| EIN | Employer Identification Number |
| ELN | Washington State eLearning Network |
| EMS | Exempt Management Service |
| EP | SAP Enterprise Portal application abbreviated name |
| EPA | Equal Pay Act |
| EPMO | Enterprise Project Management Office |
| EVA | Excess Vacation Accrual |
| F | Top |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Question |
| FFS | Fee-for-Service |
| FLSA | Fair Labor Standards Act |
| FMLA | Family and Medical Leave Act |
| FREQ | Frequency |
| FSA | Flexible Spending Account |
| FTE | Full Time Employee |
| FTE | Full-Time Employee |
| FY | Fiscal Year |
| G | Top |
| GAAPCom | Governor's Affirmative Action Policy Committee |
| GAP | Inbound and Outbound Interfaces. Not intended for interfaces only. It can refer to a report - or to another component. In information technology, gap analysis is the study of the differences between two different information systems or applications often for the purpose of determining how to get from one state to a new state. |
| GET | Guaranteed Education Tuition Program |
| GG | General Government |
| GGTP | General Government Transition Pool |
| GL | General Ledger |
| GMAP | Government Management Accountability & Performance |
| H | Top |
| HCD | Human-Centered Design |
| HCM | Human Capital Management |
| HE | Higher Education |
| HR | Human Resource |
| HRD | Human Resource Development environment |
| HRMS | Human Resource Management System |
| HRT | Human Resource Training environment |
| HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language |
| HTTP | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
| I | Top |
| IAA | Inter-Agency Agreement |
| IP | Investment Plan |
| IPL | Initial program load |
| IPMA | International Project Management Association |
| IR | Incident Response |
| IRP | Incident Response Plan |
| IRS | Internal Revenue Service |
| ISB | Information Services Board |
| ISD | Department of Personnel, Information Services Division |
| IT | Info Type |
| IT | Information Technology |
| ITIB | Information Technology Investment Board |
| ITPM | Information Technology Portfolio Management |
| ITPS | Information Technology Professional Services |
| ITS | Information Technology Solutions |
| J | Top |
| JEV | Justified Excess Vacation |
| Job CLS | Job Class |
| JVAC | Job Value Assessment Chart - points used to identify the value of Washington Management Service positions |
| K | Top |
| KPI | Key Performance Indicator |
| L | Top |
| LBM | Liberty Mutual Insurance |
| LC17 | Local 17 Union |
| LEOFF | Law Enforcement Officers' and Fire Fighters' Retirement System |
| LRO | Labor Relations Office |
| LWOP | Leave Without Pay |
| M | Top |
| M&O | Maintenance and Operations |
| MA | Master Agreement |
| MDR | Mandatory Deduction Report |
| MFT | Managed File Transfer |
| MPI | Master Person Index |
| MVP | Minimum Viable Product |
| O | Top |
| OASI | Old Age Survivor Insurance |
| OCM | Organizational Change Management |
| OEDS | Organizational and Employee Development Services |
| OFM | Office of Financial Management |
| OKR | Objectives & Key Results |
| OLQR | On-Line Quick Reference |
| OOO | Out of Office |
| OPA | Online Payment Agreement |
| OPEX | Operating Expenses |
| ORR | Operational Readiness Review |
| OST | Office of State Treasurer |
| P | Top |
| PaaS | Platform as a Service |
| PAR | Procurement Acquisition Request |
| PD | Position Description |
| Portable Document File | |
| Position Description Form | |
| PDP | Position Description Form |
| PEBB | Public Employees Benefits Board |
| PERS | Public Employees' Retirement System |
| PH | Personal Holiday |
| PID | Periodic Increment Date |
| PMC | Performance Management Confirmation |
| PMO | Program Management Office |
| PMO | Project Management Office |
| PMP | Project Management Partners |
| PMP | Project Management Plan |
| PMP | Project Management Professional |
| POS NO | Position Number |
| PPA | Personnel/Payroll Association |
| PRB | Personnel Resources Board |
| PRNR | Personnel Number - 8 digit numeric Unique identifier assigned to an employee within HRMS |
| PROD | Production system - generic designation for system usage |
| PSD | Personnel Services Division |
| PSERS | Public Safety Employees' Retirement System |
| Q | Top |
| QA | Quality Assurance |
| QA | Quality Assurance system - generic designation for system usage |
| R | Top |
| RACI | Responsible, Accountable, Contributor, and Informed |
| RAID | Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions |
| RCW | Revised Code of Washington |
| RET VET | Retired Veteran |
| RFP | Request for Proposal |
| RIF | Reduction-in-Force |
| RPA | Robotic Process Automation |
| S | Top |
| SAAM | State Administrative and Accounting Manual |
| SAFe | Scaled Agile Framework |
| SAL Unit | Salary Unit |
| SANS | SysAdmin, Audit, Network, and Security |
| SAO | State Auditor's Office |
| SAP | Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing |
| SAPGUI | SAP Government Uniform Invoice |
| SAPUP | SAP Upgrade transaction-modifies tables and structures to the newer version |
| SDLC | Software Development Life Cycle |
| SDR | Security Design Review |
| SFY | State Fiscal Year |
| SGEN | SAP utility program that compiles programs after an upgrade or pack/stack application |
| SGN | State Government Network |
| SIEC | State Interoperability Executive Committee |
| SIEM | Security Information and Event Management |
| SME | Subject Matter Expert |
| SNRTY DT | Seniority Date |
| SOW | State Of Washington |
| SOW | Statement of Work |
| SPS | Abbreviation for SAP Support Stack |
| SSA | Social Security Administration |
| SSDP | Same Sex Domestic Partner |
| SSN | Social Security Number |
| SSO | Single Sign On |
| T | Top |
| TAM | Tivoli Access Manager - IBM product - reverse proxy - disguises server identity when connected to the Internet |
| TBM | Technology Business Management |
| Tidal | DOP-owned scheduling application for batch jobs |
| TIP | Teamwork Incentive Program |
| TLLD | Time, Leave, and Labor Distribution |
| TMC | Technology Management Council |
| TRS | Washington Teachers' Retirement System |
| U | Top |
| UAT | User Acceptance Testing |
| UI | User Interface |
| UNBRKN DT | Unbroken Date |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| USSLP | Uniformed Services Shared Leave Program |
| V | Top |
| VEBA | Voluntary Employees' Beneficiary Association |
| VET SVC | Veteran Service |
| VFF | Volunteer Fire Fighters |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| W | Top |
| WAC | Washington Administrative Code |
| WBS | Work Breakdown Structure |
| WEBS | Washington Electronic Business Solutions |
| WFSE | Washington Federation of State Employees |
| WMS | Washington Management System |
| WPD | Work Period Designation |
| WPEA | Washington Public Employee Association |
| Writ | In law, a writ is a formal written order issued by a body with administrative or judicial jurisdiction. |
| WSF | Washington State Ferries |
| WSP | Washington State Patrol |
| WSPRS | Washington State Patrol Retirement System |
| WT | Wage Type |
| WTT | Web Task Track |
| Y | Top |
| YTD | Year to Date |