Evan Asfoura

The identifying and adapting of FERP mall form and roles for more trust by marketing of distributed FERP components

Abstract In the last few years’ business in internet become more and more significance. On other hand new development of internet technology is rapid and changed every day. Thus Business models have to be continually adapted to meet the requirements of new business idea. One of these new and important business ideas is: how to supply the needs of small and medium sized enterprises with business software (E.g. Enterprise resource planning System (ERP)) which is distributed in internet and uses web services technology. The overall functionality of this system is provided by an ensemble of allied network nodes that all together appear as a single ERP system to the user and different ERP system components can be developed by different vendors. This kind of new Business requires new design of a business model. Therefore; in this approach we will identify adapt the form and roles of an FERP Mall as appropriate intermediary which cover the lack of pre-defined communication channels and areas of responsibility and trust between the enterprises and customers from point of views, the determination and the direct contact of customers with multiple FERP service providers for adoption, customization and maintenance of such federated systems is very difficult and problematic.

A General Model for Measurement Improvement

The following paper describes our approach for characterizing software measurement in a holistic manner. Therefore software measurement was defined as a system including all aspects of software measurement, evaluation, estimation and exploration. First of all, we define these components of software measurement considering the different levels of each component in order to classify the different levels of the software measurement itself. First examples have shown the appropriateness of this approach for paradigm related measurement comparisons and improvements. In this paper, we extend our modelling approach and demonstrate the meaningfulness of comparing software measurement practices for different standards and process improvement approaches. These examples help for identifying essential key areas for measurement improvement as basics of quality assurance.

The Classification of Business Model for the Exchange of Distributed Components of Federated ERP Systems on the Basis of Web Services

In the last few years business in Internet become more and more significance. On other hand new development of Internet technology is rapid and changed every day. Thus business models have to be continually adapted to meet the requirements of newest Internet business technologies. Thereby many aspects have to be considered: (1)Technical and economical aspects; (2) The assistance and the transformation of the traditional business model; (3) The appearance of new business ideas based on Internet technology. One of these new and important ideas is: how to supply the needs of small and medium sized enterprises with business software (E.g. enterprise resource planning system (ERP)) which is distributed in Internet and uses Web services technology. This kind of new business requires new design of a business model. First step, we classify the new business on the basis of different substructures.

Process Improvement Based on Causal Networks

This paper includes a causal-based modelling of software measurement processes in order to clarify the empirical reasoning in software engineering field. A first overview about existing causal network approaches shows the problems and possible benefits using these formal techniques in the software engineering area. The definition and extension of the causal modelling using causal networks helps to understand the relationships between the different software process artefacts and their causalities. The causal network based process model (CNPM) concept is based on the causal network idea of Pearl. The description of first applications of the CNPM approach for CMMI demonstrates the empirical reasoning of the software improvement processes in an explicit manner.

Pricing-model for marketing of FERP workflow as product

FERP Mall is a proposed intermediary business model for marketing of distributed ERP component-based Web services. This FERP Mall aims to cover the needs of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to FERP functionality because the conventional ERP systems are expensive and only large companies can afford these systems. Beside the intermediation of FERP Web Services these mediators describes the appropriate FERP Workflow (Wf) for the end-user companies, which integrate the required FERP Web services. The relevant question in this case is: how to find the appropriate price of each FERP workflow description as marketable product? Therefore, this work describes a logical analysis of this product (Wf-definition) and finds out a suitable model, which can be considered for the determination of logical prices of these products.