Enterprise systems modeling: The ERP5 development process

• Autor(a) principal: Monnerat, Rafael Manhaes
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: De Carvalho, Rogerio Atem, De Campos, Renato [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1363686.1363933; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/70687
• topic: Enterprise informaton systems; ERP; GERAM; Abstracting; Programming theory; Abstraction layers; Abstraction levels; Development cultures; Development processes; Enterprise managements; Enterprise systems; ERP systems; Model driven developments; Modeling levels; Modeling methods; New approaches; Open Source communities; Open sources; Source codes; Workflows; Enterprise resource planning

The design and implementation of an ERP system involves capturing the information necessary for implementing the system's structure and behavior that support enterprise management. This process should start on the enterprise modeling level and finish at the coding level, going down through different abstraction layers. For the case of Free/Open Source ERP, the lack of proper modeling methods and tools jeopardizes the advantages of source code availability. Moreover, the distributed, decentralized decision-making, and source-code driven development culture of open source communities, generally doesn't rely on methods for modeling the higher abstraction levels necessary for an ERP solution. The aim of this paper is to present a model driven development process for the open source ERP ERP5. The proposed process covers the different abstraction levels involved, taking into account well established standards and common practices, as well as new approaches, by supplying Enterprise, Requirements, Analysis, Design, and Implementation workflows. Copyright 2008 ACM.