Ebusiness at middleage – WA today- Topic: E-Business

It was the commonly used term in the 1990s for the high-end integrated software systems used by most large organisations to manage their financial, manufacturing, supply chain and customer relationship applications. Similarly, payroll evolved into human resources, and disparate financial systems were rolled together into more integrated financial management information systems (FMISs). And the complexity of many systems with many data sources meant that some organisations were forced to introduce executive information systems (EIS) to present a consistent user interface and make it all easy to comprehend. And manufacturing, financial and human resources applications began to be combined into ERP, a term popularised by industry analyst Gartner. Much debate centred around whether it was better to use one big monolithic system that did it all, an approach best illustrated by SAP’s massive R/3 software suite, or whether it was best to use “best of breed” software from different vendors – often tied together with yet another class of software that came to be known as EAI (enterprise application integration). read more

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