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  -