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| Enterprise software, (also known as enterprise application software (EAS)) is software that is sold to an enterprise. An enterprise here refers to an organization, such as a business or government organization. The enterprise software is a collection of computer programs with common business applications, tools for modeling how the entire organization works, and development tools for building applications unique to the organization. The software is intended to solve an enterprise problem (rather than a departmental problem) and often written using an Enterprise Software Architecture. |
| Capterra broadly defines enterprise software in the following manner: |
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Targets any type of organization -- corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorships, nonprofits, government agencies -- but not consumers. |
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Targets any industry. |
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Targets both large and small organizations -- Fortune 500 to Mom and Pop. |
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Includes function-specific (Accounting, HR, Supply Chain, etc.) and industry-specific (Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, etc.) solutions. |
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Due to the cost of building or buying what is often proprietary software, only large enterprises attempt to implement such enterprise software that models the entire business enterprise and is the core IT system of governing the enterprise and the core of communication within the enterprise.
As business enterprises have similar departments and systems in common, enterprise software is often available as a suite of programs that have attached enterprise development tools to customize the programs to the specific enterprise. Generally, these development tools are complex enterprise programming tools that require specialist capabilities. Thus, one often sees in job advertisements that a programmer is required to have specific knowledge of a particular set of enterprise tools, such as ". . . must be a SAP developer" etc. |
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