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Distribution of ERP System Components and Security Considerations
Abstract
As enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems become more complex the financial expenditures that are connected to the application of such systems dramatically increase. ERP systems consist of many software components which provide specific functionality. However, these ERP systems are designed as an all-in-one solution, often implementing functionality not needed. Furthermore, such ERP systems depend on very large-scale infrastructures like servers and networking technology, which are very expensive to install and to maintain. The new idea is to develop a novel ERP system architecture which facilitates an overall reusability of individual business components (BC) through a shared and NON-monolithic architecture based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. In this paper we present an architecture approach which uses secure Web Services to wrap ERP components that are provided by a distributed system which appears as an ERP community. This system architecture opens up new vistas for small- and medium sized enterprises that commonly cannot afford the application of conventional ERP systems.
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