Title :
Pricing-model for marketing of FERP workflow as product
Author :
Asfoura, Evan ; Jamous, Naoum ; Kassem, Gamal ; Dumke, Reiner
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Distrib. Sys, Otto-von-Guericke-Univ. Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
Web services; enterprise resource planning; marketing; pricing; small-to-medium enterprises; workflow management software; ERP system; FERP Mall; FERP Web service; FERP functionality; FERP workflow; distributed ERP component-based Web service; intermediary business model; marketing; pricing model; small and medium enterprise; Adaptation model; Business; Complexity theory; Computer numerical control; Electronic mail; Materials; Web services; ERP system; FERP Mall; FERP system; workflow pricing model;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Information Management (ICDIM), 2010 Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Thunder Bay, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7572-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICDIM.2010.5664726