TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bender, Benedict
A1  - Bertheau, Clementine
A1  - Körppen, Tim
A1  - Lauppe, Hannah
A1  - Gronau, Norbert
T1  - A proposal for future data organization in enterprise systems
BT  - an analysis of established database approaches
JF  - Information systems and e-business management
N2  - The digital transformation sets new requirements to all classes of enterprise systems in companies. ERP systems in particular, which represent the dominant class of enterprise systems, are struggling to meet the new requirements at all levels of the architecture. Therefore, there is an urgent need to reconsider the overall architecture of the systems and address the root of the related issues. Given that many restrictions ERP pose on their adaptability are related to the standardization of data, the database layer of ERP systems is addressed. Since database serve as the foundation for data storage and retrieval, they limit the flexibility of enterprise systems and the chance to adapt to new requirements accordingly. So far, relational databases are widely used. Using a systematic literature approach, recent requirements for ERP systems were identified. Prominent database approaches were assessed against the 23 requirements identified. The results reveal the strengths and weaknesses of recent database approaches. To this end, the results highlight the demand to combine multiple database approaches to fulfill recent business requirements. From a conceptual point of view, this paper supports the idea of federated databases which are interoperable to fulfill future requirements and support business operation. This research forms the basis for renewal of the current generation of ERP systems and proposes to ERP vendors to use different database concepts in the future.
KW  - database
KW  - enterprise system
KW  - ERP system
KW  - requirements
KW  - problems
KW  - future
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10257-022-00555-6
SN  - 1617-9846
SN  - 1617-9854
VL  - 20
SP  - 441
EP  - 494
PB  - Springer
CY  - Heidelberg
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Haase, Jennifer
A1  - Thim, Christof
A1  - Bender, Benedict
ED  - Marrella, Andrea
ED  - Weber, Barbara
T1  - Expanding modeling notations
BT  - requirements for creative process modeling
T2  - Business process management workshops
N2  - Creativity is a common aspect of business processes and thus needs a proper representation through process modeling notations. However, creative processes constitute highly flexible process elements, as new and unforeseeable outcome is developed. This presents a challenge for modeling languages. Current methods representing creative-intensive work are rather less able to capture creative specifics which are relevant to successfully run and manage these processes. We outline the concept of creative-intensive processes and present an example from a game design process in order to derive critical process aspects relevant for its modeling. Six aspects are detected, with first and foremost: process flexibility, as well as temporal uncertainty, experience, types of creative problems, phases of the creative process and individual criteria. By first analyzing what aspects of creative work modeling notations already cover, we further discuss which modeling extensions need to be developed to better represent creativity within business processes. We argue that a proper representation of creative work would not just improve the management of those processes, but can further enable process actors to more efficiently run these creative processes and adjust them to better fit to the creative needs.
KW  - modeling
KW  - requirements
KW  - pockets of creativity
KW  - creative process
Y1  - 2022
SN  - 978-3-030-94342-4
SN  - 978-3-030-94344-8
SN  - 978-3-030-94343-1
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94343-1_15
VL  - 436
SP  - 197
EP  - 208
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  -