Usefulness Of An Enterprise Application

ABSTRACT

Enterprise software describes a collection of computer programs with common business applications, tools for modeling how the entire organization works, and development tools for building applications unique to the organization. The software is intended to solve an enterprise-wide problem (rather than a departmental problem) and often written using an Enterprise Software Architecture. Enterprise level software aims to improve the enterprise's productivity and efficiency by providing business logic support functionality.

Capterra broadly defines enterprise software in the following manner: 

"Enterprise applications are about the display, manipulation, and storage of large amounts of often complex data and the support or automation of business processes with that data." Martin Fowler in PoEAA 

Targets any type of organization — corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorships, nonprofits, government agencies — but does not directly target consumers.

Targets any industry.

Targets both large and small organizations — from Fortune 500 to "mom and pop" businesses.

Includes function-specific (Accounting, HR, Supply Chain, etc.) and industry-specific (Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, etc.) solutions.

Due to the cost of building or buying what is often non-free proprietary software, only large enterprises attempt to implement such enterprise software that models the entire business enterprise and is the core IT system of governing the enterprise and the core of communication within the enterprise.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

CERTIFICATION PAGE

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE

1.0INTRODUCTION

1.1STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

1.2PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

1.3IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY

1.4DEFINITION OF TERMS

1.5 ASSUMPTION OF THE STUDY

CHAPTER TWO

2.0LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1TYPES OF ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE

Developers

Criticism

Overview

Purpose

2.2PATTERNS

Integration patterns

Access patterns

Lifetime patterns

2.3TOPOLOGIES

2.4TECHNOLOGIES

2.5DATA FORMAT AND TRANSFORMATION

2.6COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURES

2.7IMPLEMENTATION PITFALL

2.8ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

CHAPTER THREE

3.0CONCLUSION

3.1 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

3.2 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH

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