Enterprise Software Systems - Definition and Examples

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Enterprise Systems
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Executive Summary
The objective of the report is to understand about enterprise systems with relevant details.
This type of system is extremely effective and efficient for replacing several distinctive
information systems with one integrated system, which could easily provide support different
business activities for the diversified business functionalities. Information could easily flow
across the entire organization and the various business processes from logistics, human
resources, production, manufacturing and sales could be easily integrated into the
organization wide business procedures. The enterprise system can be eventually driven by the
respective software suites of ERP, which are a common centralized database and a collection
of different integrated software module. This report has clearly outlines about advantages of
enterprise systems with different architectures of ERP, after analysing strengths and
weaknesses.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................3
2. Discussion..............................................................................................................................3
2.1 Discussion of the Principal Advantages from Enterprise Systems..................................3
2.2 Description of the Role of ERP Systems in System Integration......................................6
2.3 Contrasting and Comparing Three Types of ERP Architectures and Analysis of the
Strengths and Weaknesses.....................................................................................................8
3. Conclusion............................................................................................................................12
References................................................................................................................................14

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1. Introduction
An enterprise system can be referred to as a cross functional information system,
which is responsible for providing organization wide coordination as well as integration of
the major business procedures for ensuring that planning of the organizational resources is
being done effectively (Leon 2014). These software modules can provide support to the
business procedures under various functional areas and the respective database would store
data from and then feeds the data to several applications, so that they can support the internal
business activities. The most significant examples of business processes that are being
supported by the enterprise system involve accounts payable, cash management, forecasting,
time management, product pricing, general ledger, inventory management, payroll and billing
(Tarhini et al. 2015). This essay outlines a brief description on enterprise system, by
describing the main benefits, role of ERP in system integration and finally comparing three
types of ERP architectures with their strengths and weaknesses.
2. Discussion
2.1 Discussion of the Principal Advantages from Enterprise Systems
Enterprise software is referred to as the computer software that is needed for fulfilling
the requirements of a company and not only the individual users (Seethamraju 2015). These
companies involve businesses, governments, clubs, schools and many more. It is the integral
part of an information system and the collection of these software, together are termed as an
enterprise system. The major services demonstrated by the ES are usually business oriented
tool and technologies such as online shopping, cooperating product catalogues, automatic
billing system, online payment processing, business process management, IT service
management, business intelligence, enterprise forms automation and many more (Chofreh et
al. 2014).