Enterprise Systems

• a.k.a. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems

• commercialized information systems

• integrate and automate business processes across a firm’s value chain

• located within and across organizations

• typically use relational data model 

• primary and foreign keys link the hundreds of tables that form the basis for the enterprise system 

Ex: SAP/ERP, Oracle ERP, Microsoft Dynamics

Did You Know?

In fact, for a popular ERP product (SAP/ERP) installation, there are 10,000 tables that are all linked to each other!