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Towards Platform-Based Enterprise Systems – Conceptualization and Research Directions

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Software Business. From Physical Products to Software Services and Solutions (ICSOB 2013)

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Historically different approaches such as tailor-based functional systems, Enterprise Resource Planning or SOA-based systems have been implemented to provide IT-based support for business processes. They all share the tension between standardization and differentiation. Similar trade-offs have been discussed in product development literature proposing modularization and platform-based approaches as a potential solution. Applying these concepts to the context of enterprise systems (ES), this work provides a first conceptualization of platform-based ES (PBES) and suggests possible directions for future research.

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  1. Institute for Enterprise Systems, University of Mannheim, Germany

    Carl Simon Heckmann & Alexander Maedche

  2. Chair of Information Systems IV, Business School, University of Mannheim, 68131, Mannheim, Germany

    Alexander Maedche

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  1. University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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  2. University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Tiziana Margaria

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Heckmann, C.S., Maedche, A. (2013). Towards Platform-Based Enterprise Systems – Conceptualization and Research Directions. In: Herzwurm, G., Margaria, T. (eds) Software Business. From Physical Products to Software Services and Solutions. ICSOB 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 150. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39336-5_20

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