Enterprises without integrated systems face inefficiency, which often presents itself as an organizational process. Departments exist separately from one another, and spreadsheets disappear between ...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a system of integrated software applications that manages day-to-day business processes and operations across finance, human resources, procurement, distribution, ...

As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...