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The day-to-day company procedures are managed using enterprise systems. Inbound and outbound logistics are managed via supply chain management (SCM). Customer relationship management (CRM) oversees customer communications and marketing campaigns. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, which regulate corporate activities from accounts payable/receivable to product flow on the factory floor, are the granddaddy of them all. All of the systems should ideally be well-coordinated so that management can make data-driven decisions.
As needed, all of these corporate systems communicate and share data. They also keep track of everything they do in databases. These databases are duplicated into a central data warehouse at regular periods. Extract, transform, and load are the three steps in the copying process (ETL). Data is retrieved from various databases, translated into a standardized format, and then loaded into the data warehouse.
The data warehouse therefore becomes a treasure mine of business information. The data warehouse’s appeal is that it may be queried offline without disrupting business activities. The data warehouse, on the other hand, is only as helpful as the systems that query it for data. Business intelligence (BI) systems are what they’re called. Advanced reporting or data mining is one of the most well-known uses of BI systems. BI systems look for patterns in data and then communicate them to the appropriate management level. Years ago, BI systems noticed that diapers and alcohol were frequently purchased at the same time in the grocery. Dad, who was sent out to buy diapers, was also picking up a six pack on his way out of the store, according to clever marketing sleuths. This allows for better product positioning by bringing the beer closer to the diapers.
Members of the organization use knowledge management and collaboration platforms to capture and institutionalize organizational knowledge. Internal company websites, as well as blogs and wikis, are the most common forms of systems. Leading businesses, on the other hand, will demand that reports be filed in a methodical manner to allow for quick retrieval in the event that the company has a similar business challenge in the future.
I mentioned in above example about how diapers and beers are relevant for ‘dad’ shoppers’ profile which gave organization opportunity of beer placement in store. I will give real world example of companies who identified opportunity such as above.
Example of fortune 1000 – home improvement store using enterprise information systems to improve sales and consumer experience
There is a strong competition among home improvement stores across US. As most large scale home improvement retail chains such as The home depot, Lowes, Menards have capitalized in each metropolitan area of country, it has become essential to stay in the consumers’ favorite store.
With so many tools and AR technology, it has become easier to buy home improvement goods online and have it delivered or picked up. While user is shopping for one product for example, night table, when on product web page, under primary product, user always sees carousal of recommended products, back end infrastructure is designed to display relevant products. Logic behind that is to match product with currently viewing primary product and encourage consumer to buy more conveniently and give idea & visualization of their lifestyle. So if user have night table open in window, recommendation carousal would display other products such as, night lamp, cord extension, phone charger, oil diffuser, earphones, bed sheets, pillows, etc. They usually run multiple recommendation APIs, such as google, third party marketing company’s tool and in-house developed data mining tool to compare which one is most favorable to consumers.
Operating systems have two primary functions: they run (and schedule) applications and they give users access to resources. When a program starts, the operating system must allocate memory to a “process” in which it will operate. It must hand up control of the CPU to the process, and it does so in one of two ways. The first is when the program crashes or exits. The second method is to use a multi-tasking system to schedule tasks.
Most, but not all, operating systems are multitasking, but this is a very new phenomenon. There are multiple processes in an MT OS that are all “running” at the same time. Only one of these, though, has the CPU really running its code. When a timer runs out, the operating system records everything the running process did before handing the CPU over to another process. It strives to do so in a way that is equitable to all “running” processes, such that everyone advances.
When dealing with modern systems with two, four, or even eight cores, the task becomes even more difficult. Now the scheduler must cope with scheduling each of those CPUs, while also taking into account the fact that moving a process from one to the other may result in a performance hit due to cache behavior.
Another thing an OS does is provide you access to things like hard disks, optical drives, USB devices, graphics cards, monitors, and even things like turning on the fans. Programs are usually constructed in such a way that the programmer doesn’t have to worry about where a file is read or written from. All of this is managed by the operating system, which provides a common interface for many types, models, and brands of hard drives, as well as various types of mice, keyboards, microphones, speakers, and headsets. Because the OS provides a standard mechanism to interact with them, programs (and hence programmers) don’t have to worry about it.
Samsung and Frost & Sullivan recently conducted a survey of 500 managers and executives from enterprises and government organizations in the United States to learn more about how they use mobile devices and applications in the workplace. The results are astounding: Respondents report gaining nearly an hour (58 minutes) of work time per day and nearly an hour (58 minutes) of leisure time per day as a result of utilizing cellphones to get work done, resulting in a 34 percent improvement in productivity. The minutes gained are slightly higher for very large businesses, but the efficiency gains are greatest for mid-sized businesses. In any case, that’s a lot of quantifiable worth.
Application Software is one of the types of software which runs or executes as per user request. Proprietary software and off-the-shelf software are two important types of application software. High level languages such as java, c, c++ etc are used to develop the application software. Application software is a specific purpose software which is intended to perform some tasks grouped together. Without an operating system application software cannot be installed. Examples are Opera, VLC media player, Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox etc. The primary function of application software is to apply the power of a computer system to enable people, workgroups, and entire enterprises to solve problems and perform specific tasks. Millions of software applications have been created to perform a variety of functions on a wide range of operating systems and device types (Stair &Reynold, 2017). An operating system is a computer program, works as interface between user and hardware and provides common services for computer programs. The entire process or functionality of computer system depends on the operating system. It is developed by using c ++, c, assembly languages. An operating system performs some variety of tasks like, it manages files and directory creation and deletion, process creation, deletion, synchronization, memory allocation and deallocation. An operating system also prevents the computer system from unauthorized access and secures the resources, information, and data. Examples are Microsoft Windows, Linux, Unix, DOS. Overall, we can say that without an operating system a computer system is nothing.
Mobile technology involves a combination of wireless devices that have networking capabilities and web-based collaboration applications and tools. With the most recent developments in portable tech, different new versatile applications and administrations have risen to address each employee and employer needs. Accordingly, portable innovation has blasted, and insights currently show that it altogether improves profitability in the working environment. Mobile technology provides employees the benefit of working on the go. This increases productivity considerably since employees can stay always connected, thus increasing worker availability and generation of work and it allows instant access to client and employee data at a distant location. Hackers and cybercriminals can intercept cellular and Wi-Fi communication, which is a specific concern when users communicate over unsecured Wi-Fi networks.
Open source is the better choice to go for when choosing what to utilize. When scaling the business, in spite of the fact that you probably won’t need the highlights that open source offer now, later on as your business develops you may require them. It’s in every case better to anticipate the eventual fate of the business. It’s far- fetched WordPress will go anyplace. It is a developing, supportable stage. Which is route ahead in the battleground. Alongside it being a practical and persistently changing stage you have loads of designers accessible to deal with the site, as opposed to a little group, which means you can get help day in and day out from engineers who have inordinate information on what they are doing.
While SaaS and cloud computing offer many benefits, these software delivery models also involve some risks. For example, sensitive information could be compromised by unauthorized access by employees or computer hackers. In addition, the company providing the hosting services might not keep its computers and network up and running as consistently as necessary, or a disaster could disable the host’s data center, temporarily putting an organization out of business. Some companies also find it is difficult to integrate the SaaS approach with some of its existing software. The new trend that attracts me is the new smart laptops which are used for multiple office work which helps in organization productivity.
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The mobile workforce: how mobile devices impact productivity. Motus.
https://www.motus.com/the-mobile-workforce-how-mobile-devices-impact-productivity/
Stair, Ralph, and George Reynolds. Principles of Information Systems. Available from: Textbook Butler, (13th Edition). Cengage Learning US, 2017.
Arduin, P.-E., Grundstein, M., & Rosenthal-Sabroux, C. (2015). The Enterprise’s information and knowledge system (EIKS). Information and Knowledge System, 45–63.
An information system is a set of interrelated components that collect, process, store, and disseminate data and information; an information system provides a feedback mechanism to monitor and control its operation to make sure it continues to meet its goals and objectives. An enterprise information system is an enormous scope innovative stage that permits a business to combine and systemize its cycles as a whole. The reason for using information system is to permit everybody in an association to gain business information that assists them with performing their remarkable jobs (Christiansen, 2021). An enterprise system joins different applications, methods, and designs to smooth out sales exercises, bookkeeping, stock administration, and other business capacities. Many organizations supplant free information bases and frameworks with an EIS due to its reconciliation capacities and capacity to give a unified way to everybody to get to similar information. Implementating information system, a business can expand proficiency and laborer usefulness while limiting duplicate endeavors and temperamental data.
I’m currently working as a manager in an online delivery company. It is fully reliant on e-commerce, enterprise system and automation which fully supports routine business processes, maintain records about those processes, and provide extensive reporting and data analysis capabilities. Enterprise systems give a worldwide perspective on functional and arranging information, empowering companies to distinguish issues and open doors and to address them proactively, lower the expense of carrying on with work through the disposal of repetitive cycles and frameworks, guarantee consistence with different monetary and assembling norms, automate center business activities and improve client assistance by giving one source to billing and relationship tracking.
Information system can be improved by improving tailored information, customized formats, improving real time data and flexibility. Information systems are adaptable and can easily be reprogrammed to adjust to new business requirements. Since data frameworks smooth out business exercises and increase access to data, associations can streamline decision making and work on functional administration (Christiansen, 2021).
References:
Christiansen, L. (2021). Gaining Insight into Enterprise Information Systems. Hubworks.
https://altametrics.com/en/information-systems/enterprise-information-system.html