An ERP solution based on web services and peer-to-peer networks for small and medium enterprises

  • Authors:
  • Nico Brehm;Jorge Marx Gomez;Claus Rautenstrauch

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg, Universitatsplatz 2, Magdeburg 39106, Germany.;Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg, Universitatsplatz 2, Magdeburg 39106, Germany.;Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitat Magdeburg, Universitatsplatz 2, Magdeburg 39106, Germany

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management
  • Year:
  • 2006

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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.