ENTERPRISE SYSTEM
Traditional “Silo” View of Information Systems
• Within the business:
There are functions, each having its uses of information systems
• Outside the organization’s boundaries:
There are customers and vendors
Functions tend to work in isolation.
Traditional View of Systems: Systems for Enterprise-Wide Process Integration:
Enterprise applications:
• Designed to support organization-wide process coordination and integration.
• Consist of :
• Enterprise systems
• Supply chain management systems
• Customer relationship management systems
• Knowledge management systems
• All these enterprise applications integrate a related set of functions and business processes to enhance the performance of the organization as a whole.
INTEGRATING FUNCTIONS AND BUSINESS PROCESSES:
Introduction to Enterprise Applications: Enterprise Application Architecture
• Enterprise systems, also known as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, provide a single information system for organization-wide coordination and integration of key business processes.
• Information that was previously fragmented in different systems can seamlessly flow throughout the firm so that it can be shared by business processes in manufacturing, accounting, human resources, and other areas.
Enterprise Systems
What Are Enterprise Systems?
Enterprise Systems:
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
• Interdependent software modules with a common central database that support basic internal business processes for finance and accounting, human resources, manufacturing and production, and sales and marketing Gives a company an integrated real-time view of its core business processes
• ERP software suites typically consist of integrated modules of…
• Manufacturing
• Distribution
• Sales
• Accounting
• Human Resource Management
• Enables data to be used by multiple functions and business