Service-based Architecture for ERP Systems

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Abstract

The ERP systems emerged in the nineties in large industries as IT infrastructure to support their business operations, and gained attention by their integration features, offering advantages over older independent monolithic systems, designed to support single department’s needs. Currently, companies face challenging scenarios in which there are many cross-platform systems that need to communicate to each other, enabling the generation of new business solutions faster than ever. SOA is a paradigm that aims to reach these requirements and offer a more manageable environment with reuse. The present paper introduces a service-based architecture for the building of an ERP software kernel with support to dynamic service binding, which become available to other modules as long as to external systems. The proposed architecture is presented in a descriptive form and by UML diagrams. A prototype has been developed as proof-of-concept to verify the advantages of this approach.

Keywords

SOA, Restfull, Web Services, Software Architecture, ERP

Subject

Service-Oriented Architecture

Conference

The IV IFIP Iinternational Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems, August 2010

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