Exam 2: The Development of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

R/3's design incorporates ____________________,which means that R/3 designers choose the best,most efficient ways in which business processes should be handled.

The capabilities of computer hardware doubling every 18 months is known as Gates' Law.

The complex software and hardware required for ERP systems was not available until the

Defining the dollar limits on transactions in the SAP R/3 system is known as limiting the tolerance groups.

The statistical and logical analysis of large sets of transaction data is called:

SAP's biggest competitor is ____________________.

Open architecture is defined as allowing third-party software vendors to write software to integrate with the main package,such as SAP's R/3.

The technology to hold data in an organized fashion,and to retrieve that data easily,is the ____________________.

Software ____ are individual programs that can be purchased,installed,and run separately,but extract data from the common database.

An ERP system for a large company will cost ____,including software,training,and implementation.

Bumpy rollouts of ERP systems are usually caused by:

Tolerance groups can be set in the SAP system as shown below.A tolerance setting is an example of one of the many _____________ settings in the SAP system.

____________________ states that the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles every 18 months.

Silos of information are also known as stovepipes.

Which of the following is a benefit to running an ERP system?

The statistical and logical analysis of large sets of transaction data is known as ____________________.

When third party software companies are able to write software to integrate with an ERP system,it is said to have:

Which R/3 module records sales orders?

Which of the following modules in SAP ERP maintains production information.

____ is the conducting of business over the Internet.