Short for: Windows Presentation Foundation. A unified presentation system for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications, allowing vector graphics, 3D, and animations.

The ability to push data changes back into source systems. BOARD supports simultaneous, multi-user data write-back, which spreads changes to all levels of detail and to data source systems, thus guaranteeing data consistency.

A budgeting process in which, rather than creating a new budget using the previous year’s figures as a baseline, all figures are set to zero by default. Managers are required to justify why they should receive budget for each type of activity in the new period, rather than automatically being allocated a sum.