IDS may refer to:

Computing

  • IBM Informix Dynamic Server, a relational database management system
  • Ideographic Description Sequence, describing a Unihan character as a combination of other characters
  • Integrated Data Store, one of the first database management systems from the 1960s
  • Internet distribution system, a travel industry sales and marketing channel
  • Intrusion detection system, detecting unwanted network access
  • Iterative deepening search, a graph search algorithm performing depth-first search repeatedly with increasing depth limits

Organizations

  • Incomes Data Services, a British employment research organisation
  • Industrial Dwellings Society, a British housing association
  • Institute of Development Studies, a British international development organisation
  • International Distribution Services, a legal name of Royal Mail since 3 October 2022
  • Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, former name of a Boeing Defense, Space & Security
  • Inspekteur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD, Inspectors of the Security Police (Sipo} and the security service (SD), regional commanders, of Nazi Germany
  • Integrated Defence Staff, an Indian military organisation
  • Investors Diversified Services, former name of Ameriprise Financial
  • Istrian Democratic Assembly, a Croatian political party
  • Indiana Daily Student, a newspaper
  • Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems
  • International Dermoscopy Society, an international medical academic society
  • Initiative for Democratic Socialism
  • Institute for the German Language

Science, technology and engineering

  • Iduronate-2-sulfatase, a sulfatase enzyme associated with Hunter syndrome
  • Index Catalogue of Visual Double Stars
  • Integrated Deepwater System Program, a program to upgrade equipment of the US Coast Guard
  • Tornado IDS (Interdictor/strike), a version of the Panavia Tornado combat aircraft
  • IDS experiment (ISOLDE Decay Station), at the ISOLDE facility, CERN

Other uses

  • Iain Duncan Smith (born 1954), British politician, widely referred to by his initials
  • IDS Center, building in Minneapolis, tallest in Minnesota, US
  • Infant-directed speech or baby talk
  • Information disclosure statement, to the US Patent and Trademark Office
  • Integrated delivery system, a generic term for a health care network that provides a variety of care
  • Income declaration scheme
  • Intercontinental Dictionary Series, an online linguistic database
  • International Dental Show, an annual trade fair in Cologne, Germany
  • International District/Chinatown station, a light rail station in Seattle, Washington, US
  • Île-des-Soeurs station, a light metro station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

See also

  • International Docking System Standard (IDSS), an international standard for spacecraft docking