| Subject | German | English |
| commun., engl. | Application Service Provider | Application Service Provider |
| comp., MS | Application Service Provider | application service provider (An organization that delivers a contractual service to deploy, host, manage, and provide access to an application from a facility other than the customer's site) |
| environ. | Internet-Provider | internet service provider |
| environ. | Internet-Provider | internet service provider A business or organization that supplies connections to a part of the Internet, often through telephone lines |
| econ. | Internet-Provider | Internet access provider |
| comp., MS | Metadaten-Provider | metadata service provider (A Web service that facilitates publishing of metadata into the metadata database and updating of the same later on) |
| el. | Network-Provider | facilities-based carrier |
| comp., MS | Report Data Provider-basierter Bericht | Report Data Provider-based report (A report where the data source is defined in a Report Data Provider (RDP) class) |
| comp., MS | Security Support Provider | security support provider (A dynamic-link library (DLL) that implements the Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) by making one or more security packages available to applications. Each security package provides mappings between an application' SSPI function calls and an actual security model' functions. Security packages support security protocols such as Kerberos and NTLM) |
| comp., MS | Security Support Provider-Schnittstelle | Security Support Provider Interface (A common interface between transport-level applications, such as Microsoft Remote Procedure Call (RPC), and security support providers (SSPs), such as Windows Distributed Security. SSPI allows a transport application to call one of the SSPs to obtain an authenticated connection. These calls do not require extensive knowledge of the security protocol's details) |