In seminars in IT for Businesses - Summary 4, students will be able to understand: Process and exchange information; technologies used to handle information's in organizations; technological and Societal factors that affect Information processing goals. | Seminars in IT for Businesses Summary 1 By Dr Sadaf Sajjad Internet & e-commerce Ecommerce Strategies Brick-and-mortar Traditional, physical companies Click-only (“virtual”) companies Online only Click-and-mortar (or “Brick & Click”) Both physical and virtual Challenge: increased IS complexity VIDEO 1 Internet, Intranet, Extranet Decision-Making Levels of an Organization Executive level Long-term decisions (Strategies) Unstructured decisions Managerial level Decisions covering weeks and months (Tactics) Semi-structured decisions Operational level Day-to-day decisions (Operations) Structured decisions ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING ERP systems collect data from across an organization and correlates the data generating an enterprisewide view The true benefit of an ERP system is its ability take the many different forms of data from across the different organizational systems and correlate, aggregate, and provide an enterprisewide view of organizational information The two previous spreadsheets display examples of differences in data that can be fixed by using an ERP system Ask your students why it is important to have an enterprisewide view of data? Without understanding how all of the different divisions, products, departments, etc. are operating you cannot run the business Why do organizations need integrations, if an ERP system contains one database that connects all applications together? Most organizations operate functional “silos”, and each department typically has its own systems A company might purchase an ERP and then all of the functional silos would be on one system, however, this doesn’t happen very often in the real world Most organizations require anywhere from 10 to 100 to 1,000 different systems to run their business Finding one system that could meet all the needs of an entire organization from billing to sales is almost impossible, “sort of a utopia” An organization can purchase an ERP and still have other applications running parts of its business | Seminars in IT for Businesses Summary 1 By Dr Sadaf Sajjad Internet & e-commerce Ecommerce Strategies Brick-and-mortar Traditional, physical companies Click-only (“virtual”) companies Online only Click-and-mortar (or “Brick & Click”) Both physical and virtual Challenge: increased IS complexity VIDEO 1 Internet, Intranet, Extranet Decision-Making Levels of an Organization Executive level Long-term decisions (Strategies) Unstructured decisions Managerial level Decisions covering weeks and months (Tactics) Semi-structured decisions Operational level Day-to-day decisions (Operations) Structured decisions ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING ERP systems collect data from across an organization and correlates the data generating an enterprisewide view The true benefit of an ERP system is its ability take the many different forms of data from across the different organizational systems and correlate, aggregate, and provide an enterprisewide view of organizational information The two previous .
