More and more organizations are seeking to integrate the core functions of their business with technological advances. Enterprise systems facilitate this integration process through a single software architecture that links all aspects of business to function as one unit.
Enterprise systems also commonly known as ES are comprehensive, large scale application-software packages, which use powers of present day information technology (IT) for supporting processes, reporting, data analysis and information flows. These IT powers include data storage, computational, and data transmission and are done between and within complex organizations.
Enterprise systems can be briefly called as packaged enterprise application software (PEAS) systems and is a perfect combination of adjectives, like “enterprise”, “packaged”, and “application”.
Enterprise system is a broad term and includes Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Enterprise systems are usually built on, software platforms like Oracle’s Fusion and SAP Net Weaver and is typically, a relational database. There are many benefits of employing an enterprise system in an organization. The two benefits of using ES systems are;
Operational Benefits
Organizations implement enterprise systems with the purpose of synchronizing the functions of different departments. An integrated system reduces the time used in processing documents, such as payrolls and other external documents. Information visibility and transparency within an organization is a benefit that facilitates the different operations carried out by the various departments. Operation Benefits arise when the use of an ES strengthens an organization in terms of Focus, cohesion, learning and execution of its chosen strategies. observations of 43 successful US corporations suggest that IT