1. What is meant by the concept of integrating information in business? Give an example of problems that can arise if business information is not integrated. 2. How do enterprise resource planning systems integrate data across the company? 3. What are the primary features and capabilities of an enterprise resource planning system? 4. What tools exist to support workgroup coordination and teamwork? 5. Why are subscriptions to changes important with shared directories of files? 6. How does a data warehouse support integration? Why are they needed in many organizations? 7. What problems are you likely to encounter when attempting to integrate data across the entire company? How might you solve these problems? 8. How does the Internet facilitate integrating systems? 9. Describe three features of group decision support systems.
10. How do databases help integrate data and share data with team members? | 
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