Authors:
Jorge Marx Gómez
and
Claus Rautenstrauch
Affiliation:
Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Germany
Keyword(s):
ERP, Web Service, SOAP, Business Component, Peer-to-Peer (P2P), CoBCoM, SOA
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Databases and Information Systems Integration
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Enterprise Resource Planning
;
Enterprise Software Technologies
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
;
Modeling of Distributed Systems
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Simulation Tools and Platforms
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
Although the requirements of small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) are very similar to those of big corporations, there is still a lack of solutions for SMEs, because the roll-out as well as the maintenance is very expensive. It has become clear that EDP branch solutions, application service providing and stripped-down software versions do not offer satisfying solutions. For solving these problems, we propose an architecture for a distributed ERP-system based on web-services and peer-to-peer-network technology whose roll-out and maintenance is better affordable for SMEs than traditional systems.