MSYS-200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Financial Officer
20 Apr 2016
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Functional silos: systems designed to work independently of one another. Purchasing influences inventory, which influences production, which influences satisfaction, which influences future sales. Decisions that are appropriate for only single business function may be inefficient for an entire business process. Data duplication results from each application having own database (potential lack of data integrity) Business processes disjointed across functions (produces lack of integrated enterprise information. Transition from functional systems to integrated cross-departmental (cross- functional or integrated) systems is difficult. Integrated processing needs many departments to coordinate activities. Interorganizational systems are cross-functional systems used by two or more related companies. Most organizations today have a mixture of functional and integrated systems. One central database is combined with a set of standard processes built on top of the database to ensure integration between functional area. Support all the primary business processes as well as the human resource and accounting support processes.
