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Enterprise systems (ES) are large-scale, integrated application-software packages that use the computational, data storage, and data transmission power of modern information technology to support business processes, information flows, reporting, and data analytics within and between complex organizations. In short, ES are packaged enterprise application software (PEAS) systems.
Many have equated the terms "enterprise system" and "Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system," but the term "ERP" now has a reasonably clear meaning so it is convenient to use the term "enterprise system" to refer to the larger set of all large organization-wide packaged applications with a process orientation. Enterprise systems are built on, though do not include, software platforms such as SAP’s NetWeaver and Oracle's Fusion and, usually, a relational database. Although data warehousing or business intelligence systems are enterprise-wide packaged application software often sold by ES vendors, since they do not directly support execution of business processes, it is often convenient to exclude