FLEXIBLE DATA ACCESS IN ERP SYSTEMS

Vadym Borovskiy, Wolfgang Koch, Alexander Zeier

2010

Abstract

Flexible data access is a necessary prerequisite to satisfy a number of acute needs of ERP system users and application developers. However, currently available ERP systems do not provide the ability to access and manipulate ERP data at any granularity level. This paper contributes with the concept of query-like service invocation implemented in the form of a business object query language (BOQL). Essentially, BOQL provides on-the-fly orchestration of CRUD-operations of business objects in an ERP system and allows to achieve both the flexibility of SQL and encapsulation of SOA. To demonstrate the power of the suggested concept navigation, configuration and composite application development scenarios are presented in the paper. All suggestions have been prototyped with Microsoft .Net platform.

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Borovskiy V., Koch W. and Zeier A. (2010). FLEXIBLE DATA ACCESS IN ERP SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-04-1, pages 96-104. DOI: 10.5220/0002976700960104


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis10,
author={Vadym Borovskiy and Wolfgang Koch and Alexander Zeier},
title={FLEXIBLE DATA ACCESS IN ERP SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={96-104},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002976700960104},
isbn={978-989-8425-04-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - FLEXIBLE DATA ACCESS IN ERP SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8425-04-1
AU - Borovskiy V.
AU - Koch W.
AU - Zeier A.
PY - 2010
SP - 96
EP - 104
DO - 10.5220/0002976700960104