The DW-DM-BI acronym and terminology guide

The BI field is full of acronyms - many are common to the industry itself, while others are specific to the Microsoft solution (incidentally, Microsoft used to be famous for their TLAs - Three Letter Acronyms - but lately we are seeing some increased usage of four letter acronyms).

Terminology	Description
AMO	Analysis Management Objects
BI	Business Intelligence
BIDS	Business Intelligence Development Studio
Cube	A logical object that stores dimensions and facts and provides a multidimensional view of the data (often used interchangeably with UDM)
DM	Data Mining; also used for Data Mart
DMX	Data Mining Extensions (language)
DTS	Data Transformation Services (generally refers to legacy SQL Server 2000 packages)
DW	Data Warehousing, or a Data Warehouse
ETL	Extract, Transform, Load
HOLAP	Hybrid OLAP
KPI	Key Performance Indicator
MDX	Multidimensional Expressions (language)
MOLAP	Multidimensional OLAP
OLAP	Online Analytical Processing (also see HOLAP, MOLAP, ROLAP)
OLTP	Online Transaction Processing
ROLAP	Relational OLAP
SSAS	SQL Server Analysis Services
SSIS	SQL Server Integration Services
SSRS	SQL Server Reporting Services
UDM	Unified Dimensional Model (often used interchangeably with cube)
XMLA	XML for Analysis