A Requirements Elicitation Approach for Cloud Based Software Product Line ERPs
Mohamed I. Hassan Ali, Eman S. Nasr, Mervat H. Gheith · 2016
Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in business organizations aims to integrate all business units of an organization. Configuring and customizing ERP systems are the main challenges that face the implementation process. ERP systems contain many similar modules and units which can be implemented for most of the ERP systems. Software Product Lines (SPLs) as a trend in software engineering is very promising, as it can offer a lot of facilities and benefits for all types of stakeholders. Building SPLs for ERP systems will affect the implementation process of ERP systems and will increase the flexibility of configuration and customization. Moreover, moving ERPs to the cloud will facilitate the implementation process and will affect the Return On Investment (ROI) due to scalability plans in cloud services. This research introduces an SPLs requirements elicitation approach for cloud ERP systems. This approach combines the principles of SPLs with ERP systems in the cloud environment.