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Requirements engineering in Open Source ERP

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Author

  • Björn Johansson
  • Bo Andersson

Editor

  • Philip Powell
  • Miguel Baptista Nunes
  • Pedro Isaías

Summary, in English

There is a growing interest on Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (OS-ERP) systems among organizations today. When developing ERP systems a major problem is requirements management. Proponents of open source development often claim it has a high level of involvement from users in adopting organizations. However, comparing with proprietary ERP development it is not that clear if users are more or less involved in OS-ERP development. User involvement in ERP requirement management is problematic and it makes development a complex endeavour. One problematic area is about identifying and selecting requirements for future development. In this paper we explore how requirements engi-neering is done in the OS-ERP area. To do this, we use a theoretical base on requirements management in the ERP field from which we investigate how requirement engineering in development of four different OS-ERP systems is done. The basic question asked is: How are requirements engineering done in Open Source ERP development. From the investiga-tion we present a general picture of the requirements management process in the OS-ERP area. The main conclusion is that the requirement engineering in OS-ERP development does not differ a lot from proprietary ERP development, for example regarding end-users involvement it is found that they are not involved to the extent first expected and when comparing with proprietary ERP development a similarity regarding requirements engineering in both types of ERP development was discovered.

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

59-69

Publication/Series

IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2014

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

IADIS Press

Topic

  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Keywords

  • Requirements Engineering
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
  • ERP
  • Open Source
  • Standard systems
  • User involvement

Conference name

7th IADIS International Conference on Information Systems

Conference date

2014-02-28

Conference place

Madrid, Spain

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-989-8704-04-7