MIS 180 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Enterprise Application Integration, Enterprise Resource Planning, Supplier Relationship Management

• School: SDSU
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 180
• Professor: R.Briggs

Document Summary

Integrations - allow separate systems to communicate directly with each other, eliminating the need for manual entry into multiple systems. Eintegration - use of internet to provide customers with the ability to gain personalized information by querying corporate databases and their information sources. Application integration - integration of a company"s existing management information systems. Data integration - integration of data from multiple sources, which provides a unified view of all data. Forward integration - takes information entered into a given system and sends it automatically to all downstream systems and processes. Backward integration - takes information entered into a given system and sends it automatically to all upstream systems and processes. Enterprise systems - provide enterprisewide support and data access for a firm s operations and business processes. Enterprise application integration (eai) - connects the plans, methods, and tolls aimed at integrating separate enterprise systems.