What is the most important benefit of an enterprise application?
A) Enabling speed of communicating
B) Enabling business functions and departments to share information
C) Enabling a company to work collaboratively with customers and suppliers
D) Enabling cost-effective, e-business processes
E) Enabling managers to make better decisions
Q. 2Plant Away is an Oregon-based retailer and distributor of trees and shrubs. They have hundreds of smaller nurseries based around the country that grow the plant stock.
The majority of their business is conducted online: Consumers purchase typically small quantities of products online and Plant Away coordinates the shipping from the most appropriate nursery. What unique problems might you anticipate they have in their supply chain? What might remedy these problems?
Q. 3A separate data warehouse causes more contention for resources in an organization.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 4A procedure is run by calling it by its name.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 5In co-location, a firm:
A) purchases and owns its web server but locates the server in the physical facility of a hosting service.
B) contracts with an external vendor to run its computer center and networks.
C) off-loads peak demand for computing power to remote, large-scale data centers.
D) utilizes an external, distributed computing grid.
E) uses only open source software to operate its computer systems.
Q. 6A(n) ________ collects data from various key business processes and stores the data in a single comprehensive data repository, usable by many parts of the business.
A) TPS
B) DSS
C) automatic reporting system
D) MIS
E) enterprise system
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