Chapter 07 - e-Business Systems
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8. E-Business ():
E-business is the use of the Internet and other networks and information technologies to support electronic
commerce, enterprise communications and collaboration, and web-enabled business processes both within an
internetworked enterprise and with its customers and business partners.
9. Enterprise Application Architecture ():
With an enterprise application architecture, businesses use the Internet and other networks for e-commerce,
collaboration, and business process to establish interrelationships with each other and with customers,
employees, business partners, and other stakeholders of an internetworked e-business enterprise.
10. Enterprise Application Integration ():
Companies use enterprise application integration to connect their major e-business applications. EAI software
enables users to model the business processes involved in the interactions that should occur between business
applications. EAI also provides middleware that performs data conversion and coordination, application
communication and messaging services, and access to the application interfaces involved
11. Enterprise Collaboration Systems ():
Enterprise collaboration systems help people work together more efficiently and effectively as members of
project teams and workgroups. Collaboration technologies share information, synchronize work, and enable
cooperation on joint assignments.
12. Financial Management Systems ():
Information systems that support financial managers in the financing of a business and the allocation and
control of financial resources. This includes cash and securities management, capital budgeting, financial
forecasting, and financial planning.
13. Functional Business Systems ():
Any one of a variety of types of information systems (transaction processing, management information,
decision support, and so on) that support the business functions of accounting, finance, marketing, operations
management, and human resource management.
14. General ledger ():
A type of transaction processing based accounting system serving as the primary record for all of an
organization's transactions.
15. Human Resource Information Systems ():
HR information systems support human resource management activities such as recruitment, selection and
hiring, job placement, performance appraisals, training, and development.
16. Interactive Marketing ():
Interactive marketing is a customer-focused marketing process that is based on using the Internet, intranets, and
extranets to establish two-way transactions between a business and its customers or potential customers.
17. Inventory control ():
A type of transaction processing based accounting system responsible for managing an organization's inventory
as products are ordered, received (or produced) and sold.
18. Machine Control ():
The technology of controlling machine tools by computers.
19. Manufacturing Execution Systems ():
MES are performance monitoring information systems for factory floor operations. They monitor, track, and
control the five essential components involved in a production process: materials, equipment, personnel,
instructions and specifications, and production facilities.