Business suite

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Business suite
Industry	business software
Services	core business and business tư vấn processes

A business suite is a mix of business software functions enabling the core business and business tư vấn processes inside and beyond the boundaries of an organization.

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Overview[edit]

The key characteristic of a business suite is the delivery of end-to-end business processes which span organizational boundaries such as business departments and locations. In the last years the focus of the business processes supported by business suites has expanded to tướng integrate business partners such as customers, suppliers and service providers.

Business Suites are generally rooted in the traditional ERP systems that are based on a common data model used to tướng store the data to tướng be shared between departments and their business processes. Most corporate ERP systems have been enhanced and complemented by additional applications over the years. As a result, the total cost of ownership (TCO) grows, process integrity across applications is at stake, and the flexibility to tướng consistently change and optimize business processes suffers. The vendors of business suites claim to tướng address these issues.

Topics[edit]

The issues with business process visibility, flexibility, efficiency, and integrity in heterogeneous business application environments have recently created 2 basic types of business suites:

The "cumulative" business suite consists of a mix of previously separate applications that are connected at the middleware or database level. The absence of a unified data and process model complicates the implementation of end-to-end processes with ensured process integrity for customers. System integrators are addressing this issue at the expense of a business suite owner.
The "organic" business suite delivers end-to-end business processes designed to tướng lập cập in one offering. Modern organic business suites provide additional openness to tướng integrate with other applications or extend processes to tướng business partners through SOA technologies.

Business Process Scope[edit]

A business suite usually encompasses all core business and business tư vấn processes of an organization, unlike business applications such as treasury management or CRM that have been designed to tướng serve a single line of business.

Since no vendor today offers applications covering all business process requirements of larger organizations, vendors complement their application portfolio through acquisitions or through cooperation with specialized partners.

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Two strategies[edit]

A "coverage through acquisition" strategy is confined to tướng the processes that are entirely under the control of a single organization, while the "coverage through cooperation" approach can also enable and tư vấn processes that span the boundaries of multiple organizations lượt thích suppliers, customers, banks.

Foundational processes[edit]

The foundational mix of business processes supported by a business suite includes business tư vấn processes to tướng manage financials, build, develop and administer the workforce, lập cập facilities, tư vấn the procurement of generic goods and services. Those foundational processes are required to tướng sustain a functional enterprise that complies with all regulatory requirements.

Value drivers[edit]

The next layer of business processes is sometimes grouped by the main value drivers or differentiators of a company:

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Development, production, sales, and distribution of products
Acquisition, operations, and compliance of production assets
Management of the production, logistics, and distribution network
Marketing, sales, production, and service for customers
Cost/performance-optimized procurement, production, and operations

Processes in tư vấn of value drivers[edit]

Key processes supporting those value drivers invariably span organizational boundaries and are relevant for multiple lines of business. A typical business process that connects organizational entities is "order to tướng cash" which can span sales, production, finance, logistics, billing and dispute management and influences important key performance indicators of the involved areas lượt thích "free cash-flow", "customer satisfaction", "customer profitability", "fulfillment cost".

Some business suites offer a layer of deep industry processes - either through industry extensions of the core business suite or through a network of frequently certified 3rd buổi tiệc nhỏ software providers which adopt compatible or identical process and data models.

Current status[edit]

Today, no commercial business suite can cover all business process requirements of a large organization. Modern business suites offer an environment in which an organization can develop or modify business processes reusing the supplied standard processes. Some advanced business suites allow the fast composition of new business processes from process fragments or process steps.