Overview of Enterprise

An organization or sub-activity whose boundary is defined by commonly held goals, processes, and resources can be called as enterprise. This includes whole organizations in the public, private, or non-profit sectors, part(s) of an organization such as business units, programs, and systems, or part(s) of multiple organizations such as consortia and supply chains.

An Enterprise can be

–     An organization

–     A business, or a difficult and important plan

–     Plan that will earn money

–     More over its a commercial enterprise 

–     In practice, the term is applied much more often to larger organizations than smaller ones.

–     Enterprise acts as an entity