OBS

OBS or obs. may refer to:

Organizations

• OBS Logistics, an ERP/Logistics Software Development Company located in the United Kingdom
• Office of Boating Safety, the division of Transport Canada responsible for boating safety
• Optus Broadband Satellite, a satellite broadband service offered by the Australian ISP Optus.
• Orange Belt Stages, a bus company based in California
• Orange Business Services, a worldwide business communications company
• Organization for Black Struggle, a St. Louis, Missouri activist organization
• Coop Obs!, a chain of hypermarkets in Norway, formerly known as Obs
• Outward Bound School
• Outward Bound Singapore, part of the network of Outward Bound centres
• Océ Business Services, the outsourcing business of Océ
• Oporto British School, a school in northern Portugal

Science, technology, medicine

• Organic Brain Syndrome, a medical condition resulting from brain injury
• Omnidirectional Bearing Selector, an aircraft navigation instrument, see VHF omnidirectional range
• "Obs/Gyn" is a common abbreviation for Obstetrics and gynaecology
• Ocean Bottom Seismometer, a seismic tool to record earthquakes

Computers

• Open Broadcaster Software, an open source streaming and recording program
• Open Build Service, a software that lets the user create a package once, and then obtain a number of different packages, each one targeted to a different distro
• Optical burst switching, a switching technology representing an intermediate solution between circuit and packet switching in optical networks

Broadcasters

• OBS (South Korean broadcaster), a broadcast television station based in Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
• Oita Broadcasting System, a broadcasting station in Ōita Prefecture, Japan
• Olympic Broadcasting Services, an organization responsible for the broadcast of the Olympic Games since 2010 Vancouver Winter Games

Television, film, literature, and music

• On Basilisk Station, the first novel in David Weber's Honor Harrington series
• One Buck Short, a punk-rock band from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Orange Blossom Special (song), bluegrass song written by Ervin T. Rouse

Business

• Off-balance-sheet, financing activity not on the company's balance sheet
• Organisation breakdown structure, a global hierarchy that represents the different levels of responsibility within a project or enterprise

Other uses

• Operation Blue Star
• Original British Standard, a bullhead rail profile