Editing Business software (section)

== Types of business tools ==
* [[Enterprise_software|Enterprise software application (Esa)]]
* [[Resource Management]]
*[[Enterprise resource planning|Enterprise Resource Planning]] (ERP)
* [[Dashboard (business)|Digital dashboards]], also known as [[business intelligence]] dashboards, enterprise dashboards, or executive dashboards. These are visually based summaries of business data that show an at-a-glance understanding of conditions through metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). Dashboards are very popular tools that have arisen in the last few years.{{when|date=April 2012}}
* Online analytical processing ([[OLAP]]), (which includes [[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.<ref>James O'Brien and George Marakas, Management Information Systems, 7th ed. McGraw-Hill</ref>
* [[List of reporting software|Reporting software]] generates aggregated views of data to keep the management informed about the state of their business.
* [[Procurement software]] is business software that helps to automate the purchasing function of organizations.
* [[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.<ref>Dictionary of Marketing Terms, 3rd Edition</ref> Some of the techniques that belong here are [[Statistics|statistical methods]] (particularly [[business statistics]]) and [[Artificial neural network|neural network]]s, as very advanced means of analyzing data.
* [[Business performance management]] (BPM)
*[[Business process management|Business Process Management]] (BPM)
*[[Customer relationship management|Customer Relationship Management]] (CRM) such as [[Yesware]].
* [[Document management]] software is made for organizing and managing multiple documents of various types. Some of them<ref>recent document management software products</ref> have storage functions for security and backup of valuable business information.
* [[Employee scheduling software]]- used for creating and distributing employee schedules, as well as for tracking employee hours. 
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