Enterprise resources include organization departments and information systems Enterprise resource management examines resources owned by an enterprise and develops competitive advantages for an enterprise. This research comes out with architecture-oriented enterprise resource management model, abbreviated as AOERMM, to describe all enterprise value chains occurring from the organization departments and information systems within an enterprise. In a value chain, there are ¡§primary activities¡¨ and ¡§supportive activities.¡¨ AOERMM is an integrated model which is able to present all business views. Most importantly, an enterprise¡¦s profit depends on its performing these activities efficiently. AOERMM must meet customer requirement and firm-strategy to build up all business activities. AOERMM uses six golden rules such as architecture hierarchy diagram, structure element diagram, structure element service diagram, structure element connection diagram, structure behavior coalescence diagram, and interaction flow diagram to build up the enterprise resource management architecture. With AOERMM, we can easily and quickly conquer any challenge forthcoming from the market. Therefore, process-oriented is out of date. Architecture-oriented is on the rise for tomorrow¡¦s enterprise resource management.

In the last fifty years, process improvements in service and product based organizations have greatly improvement quality, decreased development time and reduced scrap by improving process efficiency. Terms such as Lean Engineering, Just in Time, Total Quality Management and certifications such as ISO 9000 have become commonplace. In support of these process improvements, Engineering Data Management is a toolkit for achieving a truly integrated environment within a technical business by allowing teams to work more closely together, improving speed and efficiencies within the organization. This report was created to introduce the reader to basic principles of EDM and how it can improve an organization’s ability to compete. / text