Question

E-Business is the use of the Internet and other networks and information technologies to support electronic commerce, enterprise communications and collaboration, and Web-enabled business processes, both within a     networked enterprise, and with its customers and business partners. Particularly, Enterprise e-Business Systems outlines the goals and components of customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and supply chain management. The current trend is toward implementation of cross-functional integrated enterprise systems such as ERP, CRM and SCM in business. Compare and contrast functional information systems and enterprise information systems.

Answer 1

Functional information system and enterprise information system

Similarities

Both systems have systematic records

In both, data preparation is large and important effort

Both systems have routine actions and updating

They both handle detailed data bases

Differences

Functional information system are designed in such a way that they can cross departmental boundaries while enterprise systems are large scale application packages that support business processes and flows.

Functional systems mainly requires large auxiliary storage while enterprise system only needs an average storage.

Functional information system has different branches in an organization but enterprise system is only one system used by a single organization.