Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems attempt to integrate several data sources and processes of an organization into a unified system. A typical ERP system will use multiple components of computer software and hardware to achieve the integration. A key ingredient of most ERP systems is the use of a unified database to store data for the various system modules.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_planning
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_planning