An ERP solution based on web services and peer-to-peer networks for small and medium enterprises. (1st December 2005)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Brehm, Nico; Marx Gomez, Jorge; Rautenstrauch, Claus
• Is Part Of: International journal of information systems and change management. Volume 1:Number 1(2006)
• Page Start: 99
• Page End: 111
• Publication Date: 2005-12-01
• Subjects: distributed ERP -- small to medium-sized enterprises -- SMEs -- enterprise resource planning -- web services -- SOAP -- business components -- peer-to-peer networking -- CoBCoM -- SOA -- change management; Information resources management -- Periodicals; Organizational change -- Management -- Periodicals; 658.4038011
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1479-3121

Abstract

Although the requirements of small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems 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 are better affordable for SMEs than traditional systems.