Types of Enterprise Apps you need to know
Enterprise Apps power the needs of businesses. From Human resources to supply chain, these apps satisfy the needs of the business through digitalization. In this article, we will see various types of enterprise apps and how each category of application is vital for any organization.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
This type of applications focuses on providing insights and management of the day to day business activities of an organization — From Account / HR to Project management. They focuses on the core business are to optimize the business processes. ERP platforms are all-in-one platform where all aspects of the businesses — Accounting, HR, Projects, Manufacturing etc. can be combined into one.
Customer Relationships Management (CRM)
CRM Applications handle the backbone of any profit generating business — Customers. These applications focuses on handling customers and potential customers. By getting connected with customers or staying connected with customers, it is easy to track the journey of a customer with your organization or even win their business which brings in profit to your company.
Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI)
Enterprise Business Intelligence focuses on collecting data on the business and the business operation, storing and analyzing them for making data driven decisions. Data driven decision making enables organization take a correct approach to their business decisions depending on the data they have extracted from their organization itself. Enterprise Business Intelligence works at all aspects — HR and Accounting to Manufacturing, Sales and Project efforts.
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
SCM software focuses on tracking, planning and management of the entire supply chain. These software aims at supplier relations, associated business processes, logistics etc. SCM software enables organizations to optimize their supply chain process, enabling a smooth delivery of products to suppliers.
Human Resources Management (HRM)
Human Resources Management Application consists of systems and processes to store, manage and track human resources data — Employee data, payroll, recruitment, attendance and performance data. These data is used internally for various purposes — To check compliance, promotions, upskilling / cross skilling etc.
Marketing Automation
Marketing Automation applications uses automation to automate monotonous marketing tasks like email marketing, social media posting and ad campaigns. With the right data available, marketing automation can make use of this data to make the right choices and has a higher chance of making a deal.
Business Process Management & Automation
Business Process is a series of steps taken by the employees / company to achieve a business process. BPM Applications focus on tracking / automation of business processes to ensure the completeness, accuracy and stability of business processes and to automate the possible tasks for efficiency and to reduce errors. As business evolves and grows, the business processes becomes complex. Having an application to monitor and automate these processes becomes vital for the stability of a business.
Enterprise Learning Management System (LMS)
Companies most often requires to upskill or reskill employees for the betterment of employees or for their business purposes. For these, they often use a Learning Management System. Enterprise LMS is a “Coursera for the organization” which is built specially for the employees. Using this application, employees can track and manage their learning and skill profile.
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