The trend to underlay more and more areas of responsibility in companies with software in order to use existing efficiency potentials has been noticeable for years. With the goal of cross-departmental order processing or planning and control of company resources without problems caused by media disruptions, multiple entries and inconsistent data management, software landscapes in companies are increasingly penetrating areas such as sales, marketing, document management, supply chain management or business intelligence.
Today, there are specialized software solutions for every task area, and even the large software suites (integrated ERP software, CRM software, ECM software, etc.) are mapping more and more company areas more or less completely.
Every company must answer the question of whether its own requirements can be better met by an integrated system or a best-of-breed approach individually for itself. The integrated systems usually do not offer such comprehensive functionalities; a best-of-breed approach requires more interfaces, which can certainly lead to considerable complexity in the operation and maintenance of the software landscape.
FA Accounting | Fixed Asset Accounting |
APS | Advanced Planning & Scheduling |
ODA | Operating data acquisition |
BI | Business Intelligence |
BIM | Building Information Modeling |
IMO | Inventory management & optimization |
CAD | Computer Aided Design |
CAFM | Computer Aided Facility Management |
CAP | Computer Aided Planning |
CAQ | Computer Aided Quality Management |
CEM | Customer Experience Management |
CLM | Contract Lifecycle Management |
CPQ | Configure Price Quote |
CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
CTI | Computer Telephony Integration |
DMS | Document Management System |
DW | Data Warehouse |
EAI | Enterprise Integrations-Software, Middleware |
EAM | Enterprise Asset Management |
ECM | Enterprise Content Management |
EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
ERP/Service | ERP System for Service Companies |
ERP/PPC | ERP System for Production Companies |
ERP/MRP | ERP-System for Trading Companies |
FA | Financial Accounting |
FSA | Field Service Automation |
HCM | Human Capital Management |
HRM | Human Resource Management |
IoT | Internet of Things-Plattform |
IPS | Maintenance Planning and Control |
ISMS | Information Security Management System |
LIMS | Laboratory Information Management System |
PA | Payroll Accounting |
WMs | Warehouse Management |
MAM | Media Asset Management |
MDA | Machine Data Acquisition |
MDM | Master Data Management |
MES | Manufacturing Execution System |
PDM | Product Data Management |
PEP | Personnel Deployment Planning |
PIM | Product Information Management |
PLM | Product Lifecycle Management |
PMS | Project Management System |
PPC | Production Planning and Control |
PZE | Staff time recording |
ReWe | Accounting |
SCM | Supply Chain Management |
SMS | Customer Service |
SRM | Supplier Relationship Management |
TMS | Transport Optimisation & Management |
VoIP | Voice over IP |
WCM | Web Content Management |
WFM | Workflow Management |
WWS | Merchandise management system |