TY  - CHAP
A1  - Böhme, Lukas
A1  - Wuttke, Tobias
A1  - Bender, Benedict
A1  - Teusner, Ralf
A1  - Baltes, Sebastian
A1  - Matthies, Christoph
A1  - Perscheid, Michael
T1  - From full-fledged erp systems towards process-centric business process platforms
T2  - Twenty-ninth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Panama, 2023
N2  - Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are critical to the success of enterprises, facilitating business operations through standardized digital processes. However, existing ERP systems are unsuitable for startups and small and medium-sized enterprises that grow quickly and require adaptable solutions with low barriers to entry. Drawing upon 15 explorative interviews with industry experts, we examine the challenges of current ERP systems using the task technology fit theory across companies of varying sizes. We describe high entry barriers, high costs of implementing implicit processes, and insufficient interoperability of already employed tools. We present a vision of a future business process platform based on three enablers: Business processes as first-class entities, semantic data and processes, and cloud-native elasticity and high availability. We discuss how these enablers address current ERP systems' challenges and how they may be used for research on the next generation of business software for tomorrow's enterprises.
KW  - ERP system
KW  - enterprise system
KW  - business process platform
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.02995
PB  - arXiv.org, Cornell University
CY  - Ithaca, NY
ER  - 
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  -