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Enterprise Resource Planning Requirements Process: The Need for Semantic Verification

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Innovation and Future of Enterprise Information Systems

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This paper reviews the relevance of requirements determination in the commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) enterprise software era. State-of-the-art requirements determination methods must contain, facilities for allowing semantic verification. We will introduce a conceptual modelling approach that fulfills this requirement and that can be used in the process of ERP configuration and requirements determination in general. The fact-based conceptual modelling approach that we will use in this paper is CogNIAM.

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Bollen, P. (2013). Enterprise Resource Planning Requirements Process: The Need for Semantic Verification. In: Piazolo, F., Felderer, M. (eds) Innovation and Future of Enterprise Information Systems. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37021-2_6

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