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Confederative ERP Systems for Small-to-Medium Enterprises

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Small-to-medium enterprises (SME) are frequent. It holds for SME software users as well as for SME software developers. Both cannot exclusively use products and philosophies of large software vendors. SME users have not enough resources to apply or implement products and processes of large vendors. The processes can be based on philosophy not applicable in SME. It follows that SME must collaborate with SME software vendors and use their solutions. It can happen that even great users must use solutions of small software vendors solving special needs. We show that these challenges can be solved if we apply a variant of service-oriented architecture using document-oriented communication. The communication is supported by infrastructure services. Our experience shows (see examples) that it can have dramatic effects.

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Notes

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    The concept of software confederations can be implemented partly. There is still a chance that the resulting system retains some important properties.

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    When the Service is mentioned, it means the application providing the service/activity/agenda. The application can be a wrapped legacy system, a third-party product, or a newly written application. It is reasonable to preserve its direct interface and, if possible, its code.

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    Pre-paid card for Prague public transportation and for accessing other services.

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The paper has supported by the Institutional support for long-term strategic development of the research organization University of Finance and Administration.

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  1. The University of Finance and Administration, Estonská 500, 101 00, Praha 10, Czech Republic

    Michal Žemlička

  2. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Král

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  3. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

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Žemlička, M., Král, J. (2016). Confederative ERP Systems for Small-to-Medium Enterprises. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2016. ICCSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9790. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42092-9_27

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