enterprise business system

enterprise business system, noun

top level view of an enterprise as a system for conducting the business

Remark 1: This top level view may concentrate on how the business is structured, what it does and what it needs to do to meet its goals.

Remark 2: The issues of greatest importance for enterprise business systems are the following:

• the core end-to-end business processes (also known as value streams);
• the governance structures;
• the core business information (semantics);
• the communication with the core business partners.