With the popularity of broadband Internet and the evolution of software and hardware technology, enterprises have adopted information systemswidely in business operation, management and transactions in order for those enterprises playing a significant role in the information systems. These enterprises purchase and build information systems for standardizing products, service and internal operations so as to reduce operation costs efficiently. To make use of network applications, the systems can serve as realtime transactions and operation platforms for expanding brand presence and market size. Considering the advantages as mentioned above, the enterprises have been increasing investments in information resources exponentially. With the growth of information resource investments and rapid technological changes, the plan and management of information resources is becoming more and more complex. As a result, we propose a systematic architecture for enterprise information resource management. The architecture provides the enterprises track information resource costs, relating to different tasks from initialization to deployment and horizontal analysis between different information resources. By using the architecture, enterprises are expected to utilize and manage their information resources with the prospect of avoided redundant and inefficient investments in order to improve the plan and establishment performance of enterprise information resources and service.
IT Inventory Capability Track Information Resource Costs Horizontal Analysis of Efficiencies