REVIEW QUESTIONS (2 points each)
1. What is an enterprise resource planning system?
2. What is the difference between core and extended ERP?
3. What is at the heart of an ERP system?
4. What are the three different ERP implementation choices?
Making Business Decisions (2 points each)
INFORMATION SYSTEMS: Software as a Service
It is not uncommon to open a magazine and find a number of X as a Service acronyms:
Platform as a Service, Data as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service to name a few.
Research the Internet to find examples of businesses using different applications and
data services to help grow and transform their operations.
Questions
5. What is SaaS, and why are businesses excited about Saas ERP systems?
6. Why is SaaS such a hot trend in the business world?
7. What other kinds of services did you find, and how would a business benefit
from using them?
