Business Driven Technology
Business Driven Technology
7th Edition
ISBN: 9781259567322
Author: Paige Baltzan Instructor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 12, Problem 1OC
Program Plan Intro

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.

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Measuring the success of a connected car similar to measuring the success of ERP system:

  • Connected car run from the producer to the customer while the ERP runs end to end all through the organization.
  • If the garage door is open and a stray raccoon begins pulling the parts off a car is not the fault of the car. The connections in the system couldn’t monitor all the areas like that it is hard for an ERP system to monitors the complete business.

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