IDS

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IDS may stand for:

• Institute of Development Studies, a British organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development
• Iain Duncan Smith, a British politician
• Information disclosure statement, a disclosure of relevant background art to the United States Patent and Trademark Office by an applicant for a patent (pertaining to the field of patent prosecution)
• Integrated Deepwater System Program, a program to upgrade ships and other systems of the United States Coast Guard
• International and Diplomat Sales
• Internet Distribution System
• Intrusion-detection system, a software system that detects unwanted manipulations to systems
• Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, a division of the Boeing Company
• Interdictor/Strike, used to describe a fighter aircraft role
• IDS Center, the tallest building in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Investors Diversified Services, now Ameriprise Financial, Inc., the original occupiers of the Minneapolis building
• Informix Dynamic Server, a relational database management system (RDBMS) sold by IBM
• Integrated Data Store, one of the first database management systems (DBMS) from the 1960s
• Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology or Inventory of Depressive Symptoms, a rating scale for clinical depressions
• Istrian Democratic Assembly (Istarski demokratski savez), a political party in Croatia

• Inventory Days Supply , is the number of days it would take to exhaust the current inventory balance, assuming an average cost of goods sold (variable + fixed COGS) based on the preceding three months experience. Fewer days is usually better; however, if inventories are so low that sales opportunities are lost, then higher inventories may result and negatively impact SVA.
• Insurance Deduction System, a piece of software by AMS Services.