inf653 - ERP Technologies (Complete module description)

No participant requirement

Learning objectives
Generation of understandings into the working approaches and tasks of ERP systems
Examing components of ERP systems
Generating knowledge about important aspects of the operation processes of ERP systems, such as data storage and processing, user management, and system maintenance.
Professional competence

• The students:
• describe ERP systems in compliance with functions and technologies
• identify state-of-the-art and future architectures of ERP systems
• discuss the usage of core technologies (also in practical case studies, for example with SAP NetWeaver)

Methodological competence

• The students:
• categorize fundamental technologies in combination with other enterprise-wide information systems
• apply the presented methods in practical contexts

Social Competence
The students:

• construct solutions to given problems in groups
• present solutions to computing science problems before groups

Self-competence
The students:

• recognize the limit of their capacity in implementing and customizing of business application systems

The module provides the following content:

• Overview of the components of ERP systems and their functionality and administration
• In-depth analysis of ERP system architecture under consideration of surface structures and user
• management in ERP systems, with focus on of data storage, particularly the used data models and database structures, backup and recovery strategies
• Deployment of ERP applications in form of application service providing, including the technical characteristics of this business model, especially Special Administration, delimitation and monitoring tasks for systems, which at the same time be provided several customers
• Lecture will be acccompanied by SAP case studies.

• Norbert Gronau (2014) Enterprise Resource Planning – Architektur, Funktionen und Management von ERP-Systemen, 3. Aufl., De Gruyter Oldenbourg, München.
• Alexandra Kees (2015) Open Source Enterprise Software – Grundlagen, Praxistauglichkeit und Marktübersicht quelloffener ERP-Systeme, Springer Vieweg, Berlin Heidelberg.
• Leiting, A. (2012). Unternehmensziel ERP-Einführung: IT muss Nutzen stiften. Springer-Verlag.
• Osterhage, W. (2014) ERP-Kompendium – Eine Evaluierung von Enterprise Ressource Planning Systemen, Springer Vieweg, Berlin Heidelberg.
• Rainer Weber (2012) Technologien von Unternehmenssoftware – Mit SAP-Beispielen, Springer Vieweg, Berlin Heidelberg.
• Schubert, P., Winkelmann, A. (2023) Betriebswirtschaftliche Anwendungssysteme: Enterprise Resource Planning. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
• Nico Brehm, Jorge Marx Gómez (2007) Web Service-Based Specification and Implementation of Functional Components in Federated ERP-Systems, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.
• Christian Schawel und Fabian Billing (2018): Morphologischer Kasten. In Top 100 Management Tools: Das wichtigste Buch eines Managers Von ABC-Analyse bis Zielvereinbarung (S. 219–221).
• Karsten Sontow, Peter Treutlein, Rainer Sontow (2016) ERP in der Praxis -Anwenderzufriedenheit, Nutzen & Perspektiven 2016/2017, Trovarit AG. 
• Paul Alpar, Rainer Alt, Frank Bensberg, Heinz L. Grob, Peter Weimann, Robert Winter (2016) Anwendungsorientierte Wirtschaftsinformatik – Strategische Planung, Entwicklung und Nutzung von Informationssystemen, 8. Aufl., Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden.

End of lecture period

Portfolio or practical exercises and written exam