Corporations are transforming into flatter and more specialized enterprises, linking with suppliers and other businesses to form a larger, more open, value-creation entity – the business web.
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From ERP to Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture
Valentin Nicolescu (Technische Universität München, Germany), Holger Wittges (Technische Universität München, Germany), and Helmut Krcmar (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-859-8.ch023
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of past and present development in technical platforms of ERP systems and its use in enterprises. Taking into consideration the two layers of application and technology, we present the classical scenario of an ERP system as a monolithic application block. As the demands of modern enterprise software cannot be met by this concept, the shift to a more flexible architecture like the service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the current status quo of modern companies. Keeping in mind the administrative complexity of such structures, we will discuss the new idea of business Webs. The purpose of our chapter is, on the one hand, to show the historical development of ERP system landscapes and, on the other hand, to show the comparison of the presented concepts with respect to application and technology view.