"What do these cryptic prefixes stand for ?"

In my last training, I was asked, what the prefixes on the ServiceNow tables mean. Since I thought that this was a good question from a newbie, I started compiling a "glossary".

If you spot errors or know what to put instead of the ?, please let me know and I will amend the article

alm Asset Lifecycle Management

ar Archive table

asmt Assessment

ast Asset (Software Asset?)

atf Automated Testing Framework

aws Amazon Web Services

bsm Business Service Map (Schema Map)

bom Financial Services Operations (formerly Banking Operations Management)

cab Change Advisory Board

cert (CMDB Audit ?)

chg Change Request

clm Contract Lifecycle Management

cmn Common Tables (Master Data Tables)

cmdb Configuration Management Datbase

csm Customer Service Management

cxs Contextual Search (?)

dl Data Lookup

dmn Demand

dscy Discovery

ecc External Communication Channel

expert Wizard functionality

fm Financial Management

fx Foreign Exchange (Rate)

gsw Guided Setup

ha (High Availibility?)

_ih_ / _ihub_ Integration Hub

imp Import Set Table

jrobin some round robin tables

jwt (JSON Web Token?)

kb Knowledge Base

live Live Feed and Connect

m2m Many to many relationship tables

mtg Meeting

ngbsm Next Generation Business Service Map

planned_task

pa Performance Analytics

pc Product Catalog

pm Project Management

pwd Password

rm Release Management

sa Service Analytics

sam Software Asset Management

sc Service Catalog

sla Service Level Agreement

sn_bm ServiceNow Benchmark functionality

sn_bom Financial Services Operations (see also "bom")

sn_bom_credit_card Financial Services Card Operations

sn_bom_loan Financial Services Loan Operations

sn_bom_payment Financial Service Payment Operations

sn_ind_tmt_orm Order Management for Telecom

sn_ins Insurance (part of Financial Services Operations)

sn_nowebonding eBonding for Telecommunications

sn_rpa_fdn Robotic Process Automation

sp Service Portal

svc Service

sysauto Scheduled Job

sys_amb Asynchonous Message Bus

sys_atf Automated Test Frame

sys_aw Agent Workspace (?)

sys_db Database Objects

sys_playbook playbook Experience

sys_push Push Messages

sys_sg Mobile Development (SkyGiraffe)

sys_soap SOAP Web Services

sys_ux User Experience

sys_ws REST Web Services

tm Test Management

ts Text Search

ua Usage Analytics (?)

vtb Visual Task Board

v Database View

wf Workflow