Business Performance Management; also known as CPM and EPM The combination of planning, budgeting, financial consolidation, reporting and scorecarding tools Many vendors using the term do not offer the full set of components
Abbreviation for beats per minute The abbreviation bpm usually refers to an intrinsic heart rate, while pulses per minute (ppm) usually refers to the paced rate See also ppm
An active superset of DSS/BI (business intelligence) It helps users evaluate specific product offerings by understanding business needs before evaluating technology solutions A four-dimensional BPM evaluation framework includes an information supply chain dimension, the business model, the technology framework, and an assembly spectrum
Beam position monitors are stripline detectors for measuring the transverse location of the beam within the beam pipe More info on BPMs is available at http: //iguana rhic bnl gov/Systems/BPM/BPM html and http: //degen rhic bnl gov/bpms/dsp html
Acronym for Beam Position Monitor This device determines the position of the beam A Processing module connected to it (BPMP) converts the analog voltages to digital values which can be read by the micro
Beats per minute One way of measuring tempo For an example of a drum pattern in varying beats per minute