An enterprise application is a business application, obviously. As most people use the term, it is a big business application. In today's corporate environment, enterprise applications are complex, scalable, distributed, component-based and mission critical. They may be deployed on a variety of platforms across corporate networks, intranets or the internet. They are data-centric, user friendly and must meet stringent requirements for security, administration and maintenance. In short, they are highly complex systems.

It includes the follwing sections:

• Application Management Services
• Business Intelligence (BI)
• Business Process Management (BPM)
• Content Management System (CMS)
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
• Financial Management
• Human Capital Management (HCM)
• Master Data Management (MDM)
• Supply Chain Management (SCM)