Enterprise Applications/Systems
Many company have moved from mainframe legacy systems, which focus on traditional business functions or internal business processes, to integrated cross-functional enterprise applications, which emphasis accomplishing fundamental business processes in concert with customers, suppliers, partners, and employees.
Integrated systems, such as enterprise resource planning system, knowledge management systems, supply chain management systems, and customer relationship management systems, allow the same data to be used for multiple applications; information output from one function can easily become data input to another function.