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
- Building an Enterprise Portal
- As your business grows and the number of employees increases, you may want to think about establishing an enterprise portal. Put very simply, this is a Web site that assembles a wide range of content and services useful to a targeted group of people.Typically, some of an enterprise portal's content...
- Articles 2007-05-30
- Xobni Enterprise Launches as Salve for Corporate Microsoft Outlook
- Xobni Nov. 2 took the plunge into the business market, releasing a version of its e-mail search plug-in to let IT administrators give their employees an easy way to sift through content in their Microsoft Outlook inboxes. Xobni Enterprise is shipping with prebuilt extensions for Salesforce CRM and Microsoft SharePoint,...
- News items 2009-11-02
- Assessing Enterprise Value
- Enterprise value is an indication of what a company is worth, in the eyes of the financial markets. Essentially, it's market capitalization plus debt – hence some people's interpretation of enterprise value as its theoretical takeover price. However, it's calculated on a logical, not a theoretical, basis.Enterprise value enables individual...
- Articles 2007-05-31
- Eric Schmidt: Enterprise Systems Will Be a $1 Billion Business For Google
- At the Gartner Symposium conference this afternoon, Google CEO Eric Schmidt talked about enterprise applications, but also about where the technology is moving, making a big push for both Google Apps for the Enterprise and Chrome OS. For Google, Schmidt said, "The enterprise is the next big billion dollar business...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Apple Snow Leopard Is Not the Mac's Ticket to the Enterprise
- Apple's new operating system, Snow Leopard, possesses features such as built-in support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 seemingly designed to give it greater appeal for enterprise and SMB (small- to medium-sized business) users. But analysts suggest that, if Apple wants to truly gain more business market-share, it will need to...
- News items 2009-08-28
- Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration
- Your company is continuously creating new generations of products, services, and business processes. These innovations require seamless collaboration across your firm's different parts. But in most large corporations, innovation and integration are unnatural acts. Resistance stifles...
- Articles 2008-12-10
- VBrick Plays for Video Content Management in the Enterprise
- The big plays being made for video in the enterprise are leading to all sorts of issues of how to scale with distribution, archiving, and optimization - without creating a huge burden on the overall network. So, it is interesting to hear VBrick Systems ' announcement...
- News items 2009-10-05
- Cisco Inbox to Integrate E-Mail, Enterprise Social Networking Tools
- Cisco told eWEEK it is working on Cisco Inbox, a combination of Cisco WebEx Mail and the company's social networking tools for businesses, including Enterprise Collaboration Platform, Show and Share video and Pulse tagging. Combined with the company's new Intercompany Media Engine, Cisco will have a server-software combo Google, Microsoft...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Getting connected Side-by-Side with enterprise search
- People use search to find what they need, and the same holds true in the business world. We want searching your company intranet to be comparable to searching on Google.com, and the Google Search Appliance GSA to have the most relevant, high quality results possible. That's why today we're announcing...
- News items 2009-08-19
- Sybase Mobilizes Enterprise Cloud Computing
- The wheel of fortune is spinning in the right direction for Sybase these days, making CEO John Chen's decision to move the company into the mobile platform business seem positively prescient as enterprises move towards adoption of mobility and cloud computing. Sybase's results also demonstrate the growing...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Ray Ozzie's New Social Lab: What It Means For Enterprise 2.0
- Now that Ray Ozzie has stepped into the ring with the news that Microsoft is launching a full on social lab, it's clear that the Enterprise 2.0 movement is moving into a new phase. Now comes the question of what effect Microsoft will have on the...
- News items 2009-10-09
- Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise Offered in a 90-Day Trial Edition
- Microsoft is offering IT administrators and other professionals the chance to test Windows 7 Enterprise for 90 days. The fully-featured trial edition is available in both 32- and 64-bit editions, although Microsoft has also instituted certain restrictions on downloading and running the operating system. Microsoft needs Windows 7 to be...
- News items 2009-09-02
- Enterprise GP Holdings Makes Capital Contribution to Enterprise Products Partners
- HOUSTON -- Enterprise GP Holdings L.P., ("Enterprise GP Holdings")(NYSE:EPE) announced today that it made a capital contribution of approximately $8.6 million to Enterprise Products Partners L.P. ("Enterprise")(NYSE:EPD) to maintain its 2% general partner equity ownership interest in Enterprise following Enterprise's issuance of 18.4 million new common units that priced on...
- Research articles 2006-03-08
- New Yankee Group report cites Enterprise Spend Management as next critical solution for enterprise automation; Ariba Spend Management Suite ideal solution to help companies take charge of enterprise value.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-3 April 2002-ARIBA: New Yankee Group report cites Enterprise Spend Management as next critical solution for enterprise automation; Ariba Spend Management Suite ideal solution to help companies take charge of enterprise value C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03042002 ...
- Research articles 2002-04-03
- Scottish Enterprise's response to the Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey Enterprise boundary change.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-14 December 2000-SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE: Scottish Enterprise's response to the Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey Enterprise boundary change C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14122000 Commenting on the announcement Scottish Enterprise's Chief Executive Robert Crawford said: "We believe the Moray, Badenoch...
- Research articles 2000-12-14
- Open Group forms Cloud Work Group to spur enterprise cloud adoption and security via open standards
- This guest blog comes courtesy of Dave Lounsbury, vice president of government programs and managing director of research and technology at The Open Group, where he leads activities related to government research, adaptive and real-time system software, and cloud computing. He can be reached here. Take the BriefingsDirect middleware/ESB survey...
- News items 2009-08-17
- Apple's Snow Leopard Unlikely to Threaten Windows 7 In Enterprise
- Microsoft's Windows 7 and Apple?s Snow Leopard have begun drawing comparisons as both operating systems approach their respective release dates. Despite a few business-centric improvements to Snow Leopard, however, study data suggests that it may make limited inroads in the enterprise and SMB (small- to medium-sized-business) realm. Windows 7 also...
- News items 2009-08-25
- 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
- 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
- Strategy For Successful Enterprise-Wide Modeling And Simulation With COTS Software
- This paper discusses a strategy enabling successful and productive enterprise-wide modeling and simulation using Commercial Off-The-Shelf COTS software packages. This paper will focus on the definition of enterprise-wide modeling, a summary of enterprise-wide modeling challenges, the enterprise-wide deployment of COTS block diagram software package based modeling, and the efficient simulation...
- White papers 2004-08-16
