BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Enterprise
- a venture characterized by innovation, creativity, dynamism, and risk. An enterprise can consist of one project, or may refer to an entire organization. It usually requires several of the following attributes: flexibility, initiative, problem solving ability, independence, and imagination. Enterprises flourish in the environment of delayered, nonhierarchical organizations but can be stifled by bureaucracy. Enterprises are often created by entrepreneurs.
- a business or company
Wiktionary Definition for: Enterprise
- a daring and courageous undertaking
- a willingness to do a difficult task
- a company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor
Additional Resources
- " ERP a Savior or Slayer of Enterprise Competitiveness"
- This paper will define the concept of the Extended Enterprise and explain its relevance to IT services firms. The report will concentrate on one of the hottest segments in the extended enterprise, Enterprise Resource Planning ERP, to demonstrate how the functionality of corporate IT systems is being extended beyond the...
- White papers 2005-03-05
- Video: Enterprise search vs. navigation
- What's the best way to search when you don't know what you're looking for? Simple: Enterprise navigation. Brian Babineau of Enterprise Strategy Group lays out the pros and cons of enterprise navigation and how it compares to enterprise search. Host: Brian Babineau, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group ...
- Blog posts 2006-07-13
- The Convergence of Strategy, Performance and Enterprise Architecture in the US Federal Government
- In the new millennium, enterprise architecture is playing an increasingly important role in plans to improve management in the US Federal government. The advancement of enterprise architecture has been remarkably rapid, despite the fact that this concept is highly complex and multidimensional. The article explains all about enterprise architecture, recent...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Process Innovations: Modelling in Moderation
- The idea of enterprise modeling seems to be semi-respectable if not for data modeling, at least for process modeling. Enterprise architects built enterprise data and process models that were supposed to yield common data, integrated systems, and efficient cross-functional processes across the enterprise. This article provides a brief history of...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Enterprise Architecture Modernization Using the Adaptive Enterprise Framework
- This white paper assumes the reader is generally knowledgeable about enterprise architecture and is familiar with the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework. Additionally, the white paper assumes some familiarity with business process engineering, and business and IT strategy techniques. It outlines how companies approach enterprise architecture improvement that includes consideration of...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Business Focused Technology Enhancements in Enterprise
- Today's business requires increasingly flexible means of interacting with customers, partners, and employees. Enterprise portals address these needs and have become extremely important to access personalized content, documents, data, and applications through an easy to use browser interface. This white paper provides an overview of enterprise portals, their technology and...
- White papers 2003-08-18
- EPM: Maximizing Project ROI Across the Enterprise
- Enterprise Project Management EPM is the strategic management of business and IT priorities, investments, and projects across the enterprise. The objective of EPM is to take full advantage of the synergies across the enterprise architecture, portfolio management, and project management office disciplines to get maximum strategic value and return on...
- White papers
- Enterprise Systems and Ongoing Process Change
- Enterprise systems packages have long been associated with process change. A survey of 163 organizations and detailed interviews with 28 more suggests that enterprise systems were still being implemented even among early adopters of the technology, and that process change was being undertaken on an ongoing basis. After the prerequisites...
- White papers 2005-01-31
- Gain Competitive Advantage With Enterprise Services Architecture
- Companies are increasingly recognizing the value of the Enterprise Services Architecture blueprint, a service-oriented architecture that finally bridges the gap between business needs and IT delivery. By defining all functionality in terms of independent Web services with enterprise-level business value, Enterprise Services Architecture elevates the concept of Web services design,...
- White papers 2005-03-11
- SAP R/3 Enterprise
- SAP R/3 Enterprise will be available as a part of the standard SAP R/3 maintenance agreement with every SAP R/3 customer. Available in the second half of 2002, SAP R/3 Enterprise contains new functional enhancements to enterprise-centric business processes and technologies and smoothes the transition to the mySAP.com e-business platform....
- White papers 2001-02-03
- Enterprise Resource Planning In This Era
- Enterprise applications have been talked of for quite some time now, but still remain an enigma for many. The term Enterprise Resource Planning ERP is back in the reckoning and is fast descending on to Indian medium and small organizations ERP is a software solution that takes the process view...
- White papers 2007-02-04
- Delivering on the Enterprise Business Intelligence Solution Mandate
- Success with enterprise business intelligence does to rely on the product functionality alone, rather it is something that is achieved as an organization, by being able to easily ask and answer the most difficult questions. It depends as much on corporate innovation as on the vendor, whose technology and services,...
- White papers
- DoD Enterprise Performance Management (DoD-EPM): Optimizing IT Investment Results Across the Enterprise
- DoD Enterprise Performance Management (DoD-EPM) is the strategic management of business and IT priorities, investments, and projects across a Federal enterprise. The objective of DoD-EPM is to take full advantage of the synergies across enterprise architecture, portfolio management, and program management office PMO disciplines to get maximum strategic value and...
- White papers 2004-10-20
- Outsourcing The Enterprise
- The main focus of this article is how one can outsource an enterprise. Today, enterprise outsourcing is the fastest growing type of BPO. Companies in a surprisingly wide spectrum of industries are arriving at the same conclusion: enterprise outsourcing is the best way to survive and thrive in today's brave...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- Enterprise Risk Management: Theory And Practice
- In this paper, we explain how enterprise risk management creates value for shareholders. In contrast to the existing finance literature, we emphasize the organizational benefits of risk management. We show how a firm should choose its risk appetite and measure risk when implementing enterprise risk management. We also provide an...
- White papers 2006-07-01
- The Competitive Advantage of the Globally Integrated Enterprise
- At the dawn of the 21st century, a new form of multinational company began to emerge -- the globally integrated enterprise. As companies realized that to compete and succeed, they must consolidate processes enterprise-wide and operate as a single, global business. Download this white paper to...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Governance Analysis Using Enterprise Architecture
- This White Paper describes a practical approach for rapid enterprise compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley driven IT and business governance requirements. It shows how internal controls can be established by senior management using a Governance Analysis Framework GAF. This is used to document the relationships within an enterprise that support financial and...
- White papers
- Best Practices in Enterprise Planning and Forecasting: Seven Essential Steps to Superior Enterprise Planning and Performance
- Today's best practices in enterprise planning and forecasting represent an entirely new paradigm. Forget the traditional annual plan, and the monthly scrutiny of actual results against what in most cases turns out to be an outdated document the instant it's finished. Today, the successful enterprise needs to be constantly planning...
- White papers 2004-02-18
- Enterprise Engineering
- Changes to the technical and organizational infrastructure in support of or to enable new process designs invariably affects the entire enterprise The article presents a model “Enterprise Engineering” which is always a cross-functional endeavor Success requires the active participation of functional staff, technical staff, and human resource and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Enterprise Resource Planning From IBM and SAP
- Companies have looked to IBM and SAP to help them with virtually all their enterprise resource planning needs. IBM can help to transform an organization by implementing a solution that integrates the core business processes into a streamlined, enterprise-wide system. Utilizing award-winning IBM hardware and middleware, along with leading mySAP...
- White papers
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