Essentials of MIS (13th Edition)
Essentials of MIS (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134802756
Author: Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane Laudon
Publisher: PEARSON
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Enterprise Resource Planning:

  • It is nothing but a planning that joins various departments and its functions all over an organization into a single information system.
  • This planning helps the employees to make their decisions on viewing the wide enterprise information about various business operations.
  • The main motive is to provide common database that supports various functions used by different business departments.
  • Example: Consider the departments named sales and accounting that depend on the same data for their own needs.

Enterprise system:

Enterprise processes provide the organization to sustain longer and also it supports the activities performed in various departments...

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Enterprise system provides value for business:

With the help of Enterprise system the business...

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