• 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.