Kenneth C. Laudon,Jane P. Laudon Management Information System 12th Edition pdf

software package

is a prewritten commercially available set of

software programs that eliminates the need for a firm to write its own

software programs for certain functions, such as payroll processing or order

handling. 

Enterprise application software vendors such as SAP and Oracle-PeopleSoft

have developed powerful software packages that can support the primary

business processes of a firm worldwide from warehousing, customer relation-

ship management, supply chain management, and finance to human

resources. These large-scale enterprise software systems provide a single,

integrated, worldwide software system for firms at a cost much less than they

would pay if they developed it themselves. Chapter 9 discusses enterprise

systems in detail. 

FIGURE 5-10

HOW DOLLAR RENT A CAR USES WEB SERVICES

Dollar Rent A Car uses Web services to provide a standard intermediate layer of software to “talk” to

other companies’ information systems. Dollar Rent A Car can use this set of Web services to link to

other companies’ information systems without having to build a separate link to each firm’s systems.

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Part Two

Information Technology Infrastructure

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Software