MIS 2101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fitbit, Waterfall Model, Swim Lane

• School: Temple University
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 2101
• Professor: Kapish K.Vanvaria

Document Summary

Unit 3 - 3. 1. 1 running the business: enterprise systems (erp) Improves financial compliance with regulatory standards and reduces risk: automates core business operations such as lead-to-cash, order-to-fulfillment, and procure-to-pay processes. This means the software reflects the vendor"s interpretation of the most effective way to perform each business process. 2: the cost of the customization is not only writing and testing the code for initial implementation, but providing long-term support of the custom code and treating any customizations as exceptions every time you upgrade your software. Information from one system needs to get transferred to the other system for business processes to occur. 3: one integrated database, one copy of all the data, lowers cost. Erp challenges and benefits (video: erp challenges, adoption-people hate change, configuration is extremely complex, vanilla-make change within the erp system, but don"t touch any of the actual code, customized-change the code that defines the erp system.