ERP Overview (MISY 5340)- CH 2
Application layer - answer What the application allows you to do (create formulas or
charts, compose and essay)
Application platforms - answer allowing the various systems to communicate seamlessly
with one another as well as with systems outside the company
application suite - answer the collection of inter-company systems and the underlying
intra-companyERP system
architecture - answer technical structure of the software, the ways users interact with
the software, and the way the software is physically managed on computer hardware
business intelligence - answer general term that refers to the overall capabilities a
company uses to collect and analyze data from the variety of sources o better
understand it's operations and make better managerial decisions
characteristics - answerobjects for which data is collected
client - answerhighest organizational level in SAP ERP
company code - answerrepresents each separate legal entity in an organization,
company code - answerthe central organizational element of financial accounting
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - answerconnects a company's ERP to
those of it's customers
Data layer - answerwhere the application stores it's work
enterprise resource planning (ERP) - answerworld largest and most complex enterprise
system
enterprise resource planning (ERP) - answerfocused primarily on intra-company
processes
Financial accounting (FI) documents - answerdocuments that record financial impact of
process steps
finished goods - answergoods created by production process from other materials, such
as raw materials or semifinished goods
Application layer - answer What the application allows you to do (create formulas or
charts, compose and essay)
Application platforms - answer allowing the various systems to communicate seamlessly
with one another as well as with systems outside the company
application suite - answer the collection of inter-company systems and the underlying
intra-companyERP system
architecture - answer technical structure of the software, the ways users interact with
the software, and the way the software is physically managed on computer hardware
business intelligence - answer general term that refers to the overall capabilities a
company uses to collect and analyze data from the variety of sources o better
understand it's operations and make better managerial decisions
characteristics - answerobjects for which data is collected
client - answerhighest organizational level in SAP ERP
company code - answerrepresents each separate legal entity in an organization,
company code - answerthe central organizational element of financial accounting
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - answerconnects a company's ERP to
those of it's customers
Data layer - answerwhere the application stores it's work
enterprise resource planning (ERP) - answerworld largest and most complex enterprise
system
enterprise resource planning (ERP) - answerfocused primarily on intra-company
processes
Financial accounting (FI) documents - answerdocuments that record financial impact of
process steps
finished goods - answergoods created by production process from other materials, such
as raw materials or semifinished goods
