BUS 237 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Enterprise Application Integration, Management Information System, Business Process

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Zorana Svedic

Document Summary

The goal of such systems was to facilitate the work of a single department or function. Over time, in each functional area, companies added features and functions to encompass more activities and to provide more value and assistance. An organizational area (such as marketing or finance) that operates without considering other organizational areas. In this type, systems are designed not to facilitate the work of a single department or function, but, rather, to integrate the activities of a complete business. Is processing of routine transactions between two or more organizations. The creation of new, usually cross-departmental business practices during is development. With process design, organizations do not create new is to automate existing business practices. Rather, they use technology to enable new, more efficient business processes. An approach to combining functional systems, which uses layers of software as a bridge to connect different functional systems together main design principle is that it leaves the functional systems basically intact.