The term refers to employees working out of the office, and the use of mobile devices and cloud services to perform business tasks. Enterprise mobility can improve employee productivity, but it also creates security risks. 

A computer network built by a business to interconnect its various company sites in order to share computer resources.

The area of Business Intelligence (BI) involved with monitoring and managing an organization's performance, according to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as revenue, return on investment (ROI), overhead, and operational costs. 

A software that analyzes data it has about its customers to develop a better understanding of the customer and how the customer is using its products and services.  

A software that lets an enterprise manage user access to its network resources efficiently. It also describes a software that manages all of a company's assets and resources, including finance, manufacturing, inventory, and human resources.

An integrated computer-based system used to manage internal/external resources, including finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales/service, customer relationship management etc, to facilitate the flow of information between all business functions.

The process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the activities of an organization in order to minimize the effects of risk on an organization's capital and earnings. 

The organized retrieval of structured and unstructured data within an organization. Properly implemented, enterprise search creates an easily navigated interface for entering, categorizing and retrieving data securely.

A computer containing programs that collectively serve the needs of an enterprise rather than a single user, department, or specialized application. They may also include, mainframe-sized computers, UNIX-based servers, and Wintel computers.

A software architecture for middleware that provides fundamental services for more complex architectures. For example, an ESB incorporates the features required to implement a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). 

SAP's enhanced version of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). ESA facilitates deployment of Web services at business level. This streamlines the conception and development of application programs within the existing infrastructure of an enterprise.

Any software that is used in organizations instead of by individuals.

A centralized repository for business information that provides common data management and protection, as well as data sharing functions, through connections to numerous computer systems. 

A corporate network that connects geographically dispersed users areas that could be anywhere in the world. As is the case with most WANs (Wide Area Networks), an enterprise WAN links LANs in multiple locations. 

A form of Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) that provides integration between communications carriers and enterprise networks. There are three major aspects to EMI: database synchronization, enterprise messaging and Web services.

Entity Framework (EF) is an open source object-relational mapping (ORM) framework that allow .Net developers to work on relational data using domain-specific objects. It allows you to create a model by writing code or using boxes and lines in the EF Designer.