Business Information Systems 3.3 - Assignment: Module Review Questions and Exercise

Textbook for this course is Enterprise Systems for Management 2nd Edition. ISBN: 978-0132145763

Part 1: Answer the module review questions listed below. These questions were chosen to demonstrate your understanding and help you assess your progress.

1.    What is ERP system architecture? And what is necessary for the ERP implementation to be successful?
2.    List five of the major functional modules of ERP and explain why it is important to have good enterprise system architecture?
3.    Discuss the different types of ERP architectures and list some of their benefits and limitations.
4.    What is Service Oriented Architecture and how is it different from Web Services Architecture?

Part 2: Locate a company that you know or search the internet or any other resources pertaining to any organization and find out the following:

a.    What ERP or enterprise architecture do they have in their company
b.    How has the architecture helped them in the ERP implementation?
c.    Does their ERP implementation support Web integration and SOA?
Write a one-page summary and include a diagram of the architecture.