The Importance of IS Management

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nThree enterprise-wide IT projects:

nFinancial Transaction System: SAP - covers all core business transactions, including finance, order processing, inventory management, product planning, and manufacturing resource planning.

nKnowledge Management Architecture: Data warehouses that can be sliced and diced with drill-down capability; compare and leverage information.

nEnterprise Reference Data: SAP repository of master table information in the company. Includes vendors, customers, suppliers, etc. with different views for purchasing, accounting, etc. Enables integration.