Enterprise

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

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
• Enterprise Capital Fund a type of Venture capital in the UK
• Enterprise, an informal name for STTGI (Stanford Technology Trading Group International), a U.S. weapons-dealing company involved in the Iran-Contra Affair

Vessels

Watercraft

• HMS Enterprise, any of fifteen ships of the British Royal Navy (four others did not use the HMS prefix)
• USS Enterprise, any of six ships in the United States Navy (two others did not use the USS prefix)
• CSS Enterprise, the only ship named Enterprise in the Civil War. Never saw any action.
• Enterprise (1814), a privately owned steamboat captained by Henry Miller Shreve
• Enterprize (1829), Melbourne's tall ship
• Enterprise (1855)‎, a 19th C. steamer on the Columbia and Fraser Rivers
• Enterprise (1862), pioneer stern wheeler on the upper Fraser River
• Enterprise, a sailing ship caught in a storm off St. Ives, Cornwall in 1903
• SS Flying Enterprise (1947–1952), was built in 1944 and originally commissioned as the SS Cape Kumukaki (C1-B).
• Enterprise (dinghy), a class of sailing dinghy

Aircraft

• Enterprise (balloon), a hot air balloon used by the Union Army during the American Civil War
• Enterprise, an early Goodyear Blimp

Spacecraft

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

Fictional

• Starship Enterprise, any of several ships by that name in the Star Trek fictional universe and the series Star Trek: Enterprise.
• Enterprise, a ship used by the party in Final Fantasy III
• Enterprise, an airship used by Cecil Harvey and his party in Final Fantasy IV
• Enterprise, a starship built by the Sword World of Gram in H. Beam Piper's novel Space Viking.

Computing

• Enterprise architecture
• Enterprise software
• Enterprise 64 and 128, 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
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP), an Information Technology term referring to a hardware or software system that serves all departments within an enterprise

Geographic locations

United States

• Enterprise, Alabama
• Enterprise, California
  • Enterprise, Amador County, California
  • Enterprise, Butte County, California
  • Enterprise, Lake County, California
  • Enterprise, Shasta County, California
• 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

Other

• Enterprise (ride), an amusement ride at Alton Towers.
• Social enterprise
• Enterprise (train), an inter-city train service between Belfast and Dublin
• Enterprise Records, a record label
• Enterprise, title of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise during its first two seasons
• USS Enterprise (BLDG 7115), a U.S. Navy Recruit Barracks named in honor of the Navy's Enterprise ships.