Enterprise application software is application software that performs business functions such as accounting, production scheduling, customer information tracking, bank account maintenance, and the like. It is almost always hosted on servers, and is used by multiple employees of the same organization. Major subcategories include enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and supply chain management. Other categories supply operations specific to the users' industry, for example banking, insurance, universities, hospital management, or civilian government. Application software is a loosely defined subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly to a task that the user wishes to perform. ... Enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs) are management information systems that integrate and automate many of the business practices associated with the operations or production aspects of a company. ... The generally accepted purpose of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is to enable organizations to better manage their customers through the introduction of reliable systems, processes and procedures for interacting with those customers. ... A supply chain, logistics network, or supply network, consists of all suppliers, manufacturing facilities, distribution centers, warehouses, and customers, as well as all raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods, and all related information and resources involved in satisfying an end-customers requirements. ... For other uses, see Bank (disambiguation). ... Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of potential financial loss. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ...

In an alternative definition, an enterprise application is any software application hosted on a server which simultaneously provides services to a large number of users, typically over a computer network. This definition contrasts the more common single-user software applications which run on the user's own local computer, and serve only one user at a time. Application software is a subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly to a task that the user wishes to perform. ... Application software is a subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly to a task that the user wishes to perform. ...

See also: Enterprise application server, Enterprise JavaBeans An enterprise application server is typically a server which hosts an enterprise application. ... The Enterprise JavaBeans specification is one of the several Java APIs in the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition. ...