Enterprise software , also known as enterprise application software ( EAS ), is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than its individual users. Enterprise software is an integral part of a computer-based information system , handling a number of business operations, for example to enhance business and management reporting tasks, or support production operations and back office functions. Enterprise systems must process information at a relatively high speed.
13-578: Sybase, Inc. was an enterprise software and services company. The company produced software relating to relational databases , with facilities located in California and Massachusetts . Sybase was acquired by SAP in 2010; SAP ceased using the Sybase name in 2014. Enterprise software Services provided by enterprise software are typically business-oriented tools. As companies and other organizations have similar departments and systems, enterprise software
26-469: A predictive analytics platform (SPSS) and can obtain records from its database packages (Infosphere, DB2). Certain industry-standard product categories have emerged, and these are shown below: Other types of software which do not fit into well-known standard categories, including backup software , billing management, and accounting software . Enterprise contract management software is used to bring all of an organisation's contractual commitments into
39-474: A plug-in for access to exclusive, in use, and locked files. Backup solutions generally support differential backups and incremental backups in addition to full backups, so only material that is newer or changed compared to the backed up data is actually backed up. The effect of these is to increase significantly the speed of the backup process over slow networks while decreasing space requirements. Backup schedules are usually supported to reduce maintenance of
52-563: A range of business processes, information flows, reporting, and data analytics in complex organizations. While ES are generally packaged enterprise application software (PEAS) systems, they can also be bespoke, custom-developed systems created to support a specific organization's needs. Types of enterprise system include: Although data warehousing or business intelligence systems are enterprise-wide packaged application software often sold by ES vendors, since they do not directly support execution of business processes, they are often excluded from
65-410: A single monolithic system [has] failed for many companies". Enterprise software can be categorized by business function. Each type of enterprise application can be considered a "system" due to the integration with a firm's business processes. Categories of enterprise software may overlap due to this systemic interpretation. For example, IBM 's Business Intelligence platform ( Cognos ), integrates with
78-572: A single system for holistic management and to avoid the variability and inefficiency inherent in manual contracting processes. Backup software Backup software are computer programs used to perform a backup ; they create supplementary exact copies of files, databases or entire computers. These programs may later use the supplementary copies to restore the original contents in the event of data loss ; hence, they are very useful to users. There are several features of backup software that make it more effective in backing up data. Voluming allows
91-468: Is often available as a suite of customizable programs. Function-specific enterprise software uses include database management, customer relationship management, supply chain management and business process management. The term enterprise software is used in industry, and business research publications, but is not common in computer science . The term was widely popularized in the early 1990s by major software vendors in conjunction with licensing deals with
104-430: The ability to compress and split backup data into separate parts for storage on smaller, removable media such as CDs . It was often used because CDs were easy to transport off-site and inexpensive compared to hard drives or servers . However, the recent increase in hard drive capacity and decrease in drive cost has made voluming a far less popular solution. The introduction of small, portable, durable USB drives, and
117-420: The backup tool and increase the reliability of the backups. To prevent data theft , some backup software offers cryptography features to protect the backup. To prevent loss of previously backed up data during a backup, some backup software (e.g., Areca Backup , Argentum Backup ) offer Transaction mechanism (with commit/rollback management) for all critical processes (such as backups or merges) to guarantee
130-424: The increase in broadbhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=5831113001306206967https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/podcast-destination-on-youtube-music/at and capacity has provided easier and more secure methods of transporting backup data off-site. Since hard drive space has cost, compressing the data will reduce the size allowing for less drive space to be used to save money. Many backup solutions offer
143-670: The industry may speak of middleware . Software that is primarily sold to consumers , is not called enterprise software. According to Martin Fowler , "Enterprise applications are about the display, manipulation, and storage of large amounts of often complex data and the support or automation of business processes with that data." Enterprise application software performs business functions such as order processing, procurement, production scheduling, customer information management, energy management, and accounting. Enterprise systems (ES) are large-scale enterprise software packages which support
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#1732855709404156-608: The show Star Trek In academic literature no coherent definition can be found. The computer historian Martin Campbell-Kelly contemplated in 2003 that the growth of the corporate software industry is not well understood. Enterprise application software (EAS) is recognized among academics as enterprise software components and modules which support only a particular business function. These EAS software components and modules can interoperate, so that cross-functional or inter-organizational enterprise systems can be built up. In this context
169-713: The term. Enterprise systems are built on software platforms, such as SAP's NetWeaver and Oracle's Fusion , and databases. From a hardware perspective, enterprise systems are the servers, storage and associated software that large businesses use as the foundation for their IT infrastructure . These systems are designed to manage large volumes of critical data and thus are typically designed to provide high levels of transaction performance and data security. The "seemingly boundless complexity" of enterprise systems has been criticised, and arguments maintained for deploying discrete systems for specific business tasks. Cynthia Rettig, an American businesswoman, has argued that "the concept of
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