• Enterprise Information
–Sales:
• For customer, product, and purchase information.
–Accounting:
• For payments, receipts, account balances, assets and other accounting information.
–Human resources:
• For information about employees, salaries, payroll taxes, and benefits, and for generation of paychecks.
–Manufacturing:
• For management of the supply chain and for tracking production of items in factories, inventories of items in warehouses and stores, and orders for items.
–Online retailers:
• For sales data noted above plus online order tracking, generation of recommendation lists, and maintenance of online product evaluations.