Enterprise

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Contents 1 Economics and business 2 Fictional ships 3 Ships and boats 4 Spacecraft (non-fictional) 5 Computing 6 Geographic locations 7 Other 8 See also

Enterprise (occasionally used with the archaic spelling Enterprize) can refer to the following:

[edit] Economics and business

• A business, company, or comparable organization
• Entrepreneurship, the practice of starting new organizations, particularly new businesses
• Enterprise for High School Students, a non-profit organization
• Enterprise Rent-A-Car, a car-rental agency
• Enterprise Asia, a regional NGO for the development of entrepreneurship, based in Kuala Lumpur
• Enterprize Canada, a Canadian student-run entrepreneurial business plan competition and conference
• Enterprise Plc, a civil engineering and maintenance company in the United Kingdom
• Farm enterprise, a component of a farm business; a farm may for example include an arable enterprise and a dairy enterprise
• Free enterprise, a type of economy; a loose synonym for implemented capitalism
• Enterprise, an informal name for STTGI (Stanford Technology Trading Group International), a U.S. weapons-dealing company involved in the Iran-Contra Affair
• Subud Enterprise Services, any entrepreneurial activity undertaken by a member of the spiritual organization Subud

[edit] Fictional ships

• Starship Enterprise, any of several ships by that name in the Star Trek fictional universe
• Enterprise, an airship used by Cecil Harvey and his party in Final Fantasy IV
• Enterprise, a ship used by the party in Final Fantasy III

[edit] Ships and boats

• Enterprise (1814), a privately owned steamboat captained by Henry Miller Shreve
• Enterprise (1862), pioneer stern wheeler on the upper Fraser River
• Enterprise (balloon), a hot air balloon used by the Union Army during the American Civil War
• Enterprise (dinghy), a class of sailing dinghy
• Enterprise (yacht), J-class yacht and 1930 America's Cup defender
• Enterprise, an early Goodyear Blimp
• Enterprize (1829), Melbourne's tall ship
• HMS Enterprise, any of fourteen ships of the Royal Navy (of which four did not use the HMS prefix)
• USS Enterprise, any of eight ships in the United States Navy (of which two did not use the USS prefix)
• Enterprise, a sailing ship caught in a storm off St. Ives, Cornwall in 1903

[edit] Spacecraft (non-fictional)

• Space Shuttle Enterprise
• VSS Enterprise, the proposed inaugural vessel of the Virgin Galactic suborbital tourism fleet

[edit] Computing

• Enterprise architecture
• Enterprise software
• Enterprise 64, an 8-bit home computer from the UK; also known as Flan and Elan
• Enterprise storage, the storage, protection, and retrieval of data in large-scale environments
• An edition of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP), an Information Technology term referring to a hardware or software system that serves all departments within an enterprise

[edit] Geographic locations

United States

• Enterprise, Alabama
• Enterprise, Florida
• Enterprise, Kansas
• Enterprise, Mississippi
• Enterprise, Nevada
• Enterprise, Oregon
• Enterprise, Utah
• Enterprise Township, Michigan
• Enterprise Township, Minnesota

Canada

• Enterprise, Northwest Territories
• Enterprise, Ontario

Guyana

• Enterprise, Guyana

[edit] Other

• Enterprise (ride), an amusement ride
• Social enterprise
• Enterprise (train), a Belfast-Dublin railway service
• Enterprise Records, a record label
• Enterprise, title of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise during its first two seasons
• Free Enterprise (film), starring William Shatner

[edit] See also

• Master of Enterprise
• Manchester Science Enterprise Centre