Enterprise Computing

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Enterprise Computing (ERP Systems)

Table of Contents

Enterprise Resource Planning – An Overview . . . 3

ERP Vendor Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

ERP Providers and Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Pros and Cons of ERP Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Companies With ERP Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Works Cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18


Enterprise Resource Planning – An Overview
Enterprise Resource Planning systems are a new type of business management computing systems that integrate all the facets of a business including planning, marketing, sales, and manufacturing. ERP systems were originally used to serve the information need of manufacturing companies. Over time they have grown to serve many other industries such as health care, financial services, and the consumer goods sector. The first ERP systems ran on mainframe computers. They then migrated to the more popular client/server systems and today they are moving towards a web based network system that includes numerous applications. These web-based ERP systems help automate a company’s business process by employing an integrated user interface, and integrated data set, and an integrated code set.
Today, ERP systems software lies at the heart of any large enterprise’s computing activity. ERP software integrates all the information used by an organization’s many different departments and other cross functional groups into a unified computing system. This software enables everyone within the company to access information from the same database. Information such as employee records, customer data, purchase orders, and inventory can all be stored and accessed within the same network.
ERP systems are being positioned as the foundation of enterprise wide information systems. Such systems will link together all of a company’s operations as well as c...