Enterprise Resource Planning Requirements Process: The Need for Semantic Verification

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Abstract

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.

Keywords

ERP systems Requirements determination Requirements elicitation Semantic verification Fact-based modelling CogNIAM 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Maastricht UniversityMaastrichtNetherlands

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