Chapter 7.8, Problem 7.4ARQ

Explanation of Solution

Business Process Reengineering:

Changing the whole system in order to support organization’s task and cut down costs. It basically starts with advanced assessment of the organization’s mission, its strategic objectives and consumer needs. Business process reengineering is also called as business transformation.

Business process reengineering is:

• A difficult process
• A slow process
• Very expensive

Developing Enterprise IS in-house is expensive:

Developing Enterprise Information systems in-house is expensive because:

• The applications are more complex in nature
• Spending high initial development costs
• Continuing the adaptation of those systems to altering requirements

Advantages of inherent processes:

Inherent processes:

They are pre-designed processes which are must for using software products. This saves the organization from expense delays and saves from risks of business process reengineering.

Advantages:

• ERP vendors calls the inherent processes a blueprint because, one can easily understand the flow of work.
• It also saves the organization from staggering and from cost of developing new processes.

CRM, ERP, and EAI:

CRM	ERP	EAI
It stands for Customer Relationship Management...