<Li> The last segment covers enterprise level software applications, such as those in the fields of enterprise resource planning, enterprise content management (ECM), business process management (BPM) and product lifecycle management . These applications are extensive in scope, and often come with modules that either add native functions, or incorporate the functionality of third - party computer programs . </Li> <P> Technologies that previously only existed in peer - to - peer software applications, like Kazaa and Napster, are starting to appear within business applications . </P> <Ul> <Li> Enterprise application software (EAS) </Li> <Li> Resource Management </Li> <Li> Digital dashboards, also known as business intelligence dashboards, enterprise dashboards, or executive dashboards . These are visually based summaries of business data that show at - a-glance understanding of conditions through metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). Dashboards are a very popular tools that have arisen in the last few years . </Li> <Li> Online analytical processing (OLAP), (which include HOLAP, ROLAP and MOLAP) - are a capability of some management, decision support, and executive information systems that support interactive examination of large amounts of data from many perspectives . </Li> <Li> Reporting software generates aggregated views of data to keep the management informed about the state of their business . </Li> <Li> Procurement software is business software that helps to automate the purchasing function of organizations . </Li> <Li> Data mining is the extraction of consumer information from a database by utilizing software that can isolate and identify previously unknown patterns or trends in large amounts of data . There is a variety of data mining techniques that reveal different types of patterns . Some of the techniques that belong here are statistical methods (particularly business statistics) and neural networks, as very advanced means of analyzing data . </Li> <Li> Business performance management (BPM) </Li> <Li> Document management software is made for organizing and managing multiple documents of various types . Some of them have storage functions for security and back - up of valuable business information . </Li> <Li> Employee scheduling software - used for creating and distributing employee schedules, as well as for tracking employee hours . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Enterprise application software (EAS) </Li>

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