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Chapter 7
Enterprise Business
Systems
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Enterprise
1. An undertaking, especially one of some
scope, complication, and risk.
2. A business organization.3. Industrious, systematic activity,
especially
when directed toward profit: Private enterprise
is basic to capitalism.4. Willingness to undertake new
ventures;
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Perspective
Enterprise Systems are ones that have a largescope involve or
integrate all parts of an organization.
Remember that weve already studiedEnterprise Collaboration
Systems For an ECS, like Outlook, both the grunts and the
President use it...
Its not specific to the functional areas.
Its not specific to the operations level, tactical level,
orstrategic level
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Perspective
In the software world, Enterprise is abuzz word, which usually
implies that the
system is very expensive, but can do a lot In the e-commerce
era, an Enterprise is
often more than one company and theboundaries are
unclear...virtual
companies, etc. Sometimes Enterprise implies that more than
one company is involved.
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Supply Chain Value Chain
Enterprise Systems come from a need to
streamline the value chain in a company.
Functional areas, from Manufacturing toMarketing, need to be
connected.
1. Multiple functional business systems are being
replaced by one Enterprise Systems
2. Or, Enterprise System are built on top of
several functional systems.
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Enterprise System
Enterprise System
Accounting System Manufacturing
System
Inventory
Control
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Enterprise System
Enterprise System
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EAI: Enterprise Application
Integration
How does a business interconnect itsinformation systems.
Connects Front Office Systems with BackOffice Systems
Example: When an order is complete,have the order application
tell theaccounting system to send a bill and alertshipping to send
out the product.
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EAI: Enterprise Application
Integration
EAI provides middleware (Middle Software) that
performs Data conversion between different
systems coordinates Communication and Message
passing between systems
The idea is to use the existing systems, but to
have a super-system for connecting related
systems.
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Summary
There are six types of information systems
6 categories: ECS, TSP, PCS, MIS, DSS, EIS
There are 5 functional areas of business Some system are
designed for a specific
functional area: Accounting
An ECS can touch all the functionalbusiness areas
A TPS might touch 3-4 areas
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Summary
ECS and TPS are cross-functional.
Some large functional systems, picture a
huge accounting system, can fit into morethan 1 category, i.e.,
both an MIS and TPS.
Enterprise Systems by their nature are both
cross-functional and fit into severalcategories.
