In addition, there is a "back office" application that a supervisor outside of the burning building can use to get a full picture of the situation, including information about the location of every crew member.
Think of Employee Desktop as the Microsoft Office of back-office applications.
These enterprise back-office applications enable companies to optimize their talent supply chains.
It has to interoperate with back-office applications for things like contracts, bookings, website analytics, customer support and ticketing, lead routing, territories, CRM triggers, etc.
This segment also offers customer relationship management services; data warehousing and business intelligence tools; and software solutions for more optimal utilization of information between front and back-office applications.
They want to begin building applications aimed at back office management.
The results suggested that SAP is ahead of American rivals like Oracle, i2 Technologies and Siebel Systems, which compete to supply back-office computer applications enabling businesses to manage an array of operations from inventory control to accounting, increasingly over the Internet.
SAP built its reputation on back-office software applications.
While participants in electronic marketplaces still have to produce online catalogs and maintain links to back-office software applications, the virtual markets are expected to save them time and money in reaching new business customers.
After years of working with India's over $100 billion IT services industry for maintaining their software systems, application development and back office work, CIOs of Fortune 500 companies are now looking to tap into the country's software product ecosystem.
