NEXT: Generating tailored ERP applications from ontological enterprise models

Henk Van Der Schuur; Erik Van De Ven; Rolf De Jong; Dennis Schunselaar; Hajo A. Reijers; Michiel Overeem; Machiel De Graaf; Slinger Jansen; Sjaak Brinkkemper

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70241-4_19

NEXT: Generating tailored ERP applications from ontological enterprise models

Henk Van Der Schuur^*, Erik Van De Ven, Rolf De Jong, Dennis Schunselaar, Hajo A. Reijers, Michiel Overeem, Machiel De Graaf, Slinger Jansen, Sjaak Brinkkemper

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Abstract

Tailoring Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to the needs of the enterprise still is a technical endeavor, often requiring the (de)activation of modules, modification of configuration files or even execution of database queries. Considering the large body of work on Enterprise Modeling and Model-Driven Software Engineering, this is remarkable: Ideally, one models one’s own enterprise and, at the press of a button, ERP software tailored to the needs of the modeled enterprise is generated. In this paper, we introduce NEXT, a novel model-driven software generation approach being developed with precisely this goal in mind. It uses the expressive power of ontological enterprise models (OEMs) to generate ERP cloud applications. An OEM only describes the real-world phenomena essential to the enterprise, using terms and customizations specific to the enterprise. We present our considerations during development of the OEM modeling language, which is designed to capture the specifics of enterprise phenomena in a way that technical details can be derived from it. We expect NEXT to drastically shorten the time-to-market of ERP software, from months–years to hours–days.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Practice of Enterprise Modeling
Subtitle of host publication	10th IFIP WG 8.1. Working Conference, PoEM 2017, Proceedings
Editors	Estefania Serral Asensio, Monique Snoeck, Geert Poels, Frederik Gailly
Publisher	Springer
Pages	283-298
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	9783319702407
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70241-4_19
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	10th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling, PoEM 2017 - Leuven, Belgium Duration: 22 Nov 2017 → 24 Nov 2017

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Name	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume	305
ISSN (Print)	1865-1348

Conference

Conference	10th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling, PoEM 2017
Country/Territory	Belgium
City	Leuven
Period	22/11/17 → 24/11/17

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Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. This paper was supported by the NWO AMUSE project (628. 006.001): a collaboration between Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Utrecht University, and AFAS Software in the Netherlands.

Funding Information:
This work is a result of the AMUSE project. See www.amuse-project.org. This paper was supported by the NWO AMUSE project (628. 006.001): a collaboration between Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Utrecht University, and AFAS Software in the Netherlands.

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© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2017.

Funding

Acknowledgements. This paper was supported by the NWO AMUSE project (628. 006.001): a collaboration between Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Utrecht University, and AFAS Software in the Netherlands. This work is a result of the AMUSE project. See www.amuse-project.org. This paper was supported by the NWO AMUSE project (628. 006.001): a collaboration between Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Utrecht University, and AFAS Software in the Netherlands.

Keywords

Enterprise resource planning
Model-driven software development
Ontological enterprise modeling
Software generation

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Van Der Schuur, H., Van De Ven, E., De Jong, R., Schunselaar, D., Reijers, H. A., Overeem, M., De Graaf, M., Jansen, S., & Brinkkemper, S. (2017). NEXT: Generating tailored ERP applications from ontological enterprise models. In E. Serral Asensio, M. Snoeck, G. Poels, & F. Gailly (Eds.), The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: 10th IFIP WG 8.1. Working Conference, PoEM 2017, Proceedings (pp. 283-298). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 305). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70241-4_19

Van Der Schuur, Henk ; Van De Ven, Erik ; De Jong, Rolf et al. / NEXT : Generating tailored ERP applications from ontological enterprise models. The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: 10th IFIP WG 8.1. Working Conference, PoEM 2017, Proceedings. editor / Estefania Serral Asensio ; Monique Snoeck ; Geert Poels ; Frederik Gailly. Springer, 2017. pp. 283-298 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing).

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NEXT: Generating tailored ERP applications from ontological enterprise models. / Van Der Schuur, Henk; Van De Ven, Erik; De Jong, Rolf et al.
The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: 10th IFIP WG 8.1. Working Conference, PoEM 2017, Proceedings. ed. / Estefania Serral Asensio; Monique Snoeck; Geert Poels; Frederik Gailly. Springer, 2017. p. 283-298 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 305).

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Van Der Schuur H, Van De Ven E, De Jong R, Schunselaar D, Reijers HA, Overeem M et al. NEXT: Generating tailored ERP applications from ontological enterprise models. In Serral Asensio E, Snoeck M, Poels G, Gailly F, editors, The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: 10th IFIP WG 8.1. Working Conference, PoEM 2017, Proceedings. Springer. 2017. p. 283-298. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-70241-4_19

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