On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:43:10AM +0530, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
Enterprise application is any software application that is designed to be used enterprise-wide. More accurately, it is a software that is using a centralised database and operated from different offices, different lans, wans, etc. These terms apply to large companies where there are multiple networks, multiple offices and the same application and data must be used and access from all locations or at least by a number of people.
An example would be the CRM systems and accounting system or an integrated ordering + inventroy + billing + accounting system (ERP ?)
They are also written by companies who refuse to let the "enterprise" application talk to any other software you may write -- no interoperability -- unless you pay them umpteen thousand dollars for an upgrade module.
If it's web-enabled, usually it's just an ActiveX control. IE-only.