Confederative ERP Systems for Small-to-Medium Enterprises

ŽEMLIČKA, Michal and Jaroslav KRÁL. Confederative ERP Systems for Small-to-Medium Enterprises. In Gervasi O. et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2016. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016, p. 350-362. ISBN 978-3-319-42091-2. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42092-9_27.

Basic information

• Original name: Confederative ERP Systems for Small-to-Medium Enterprises
• Authors: ŽEMLIČKA, Michal (203 Czech Republic) and Jaroslav KRÁL (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Cham, Switzerland, Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2016, p. 350-362, 13 pp. 2016.
• Publisher: Springer

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
• Country of publisher: Switzerland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 0.402 in 2005
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14330/16:00094090
• Organization unit: Faculty of Informatics
• ISBN: 978-3-319-42091-2
• ISSN: 0302-9743
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42092-9_27
• UT WoS: 000381936000027
• Keywords in English: Small-to-medium enterprises (SME); Supporting business processes in SME; Software adaptation; Document-oriented software architecture; Software confederations
• Tags: firank_B
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Small-to-medium enterprises (SME) are frequent. It holds for SME software users as well as for SME software developers. Both cannot exclusively use products and philosophies of large software vendors. SME users have not enough resources to apply or implement products and processes of large vendors. The processes can be based on philosophy not applicable in SME. It follows that SME must collaborate with SME software vendors and use their solutions. It can happen that even great users must use solutions of small software vendors solving special needs. We show that these challenges can be solved if we apply a variant of service-oriented architecture using document-oriented communication. The communication is supported by infrastructure services. Our experience shows (see examples) that it can have dramatic effects.