Business Process Execution Language Based Software Implementation for Small Trading Firms With Service Oriented Architecture

Abstract

ABSTRACT BUSINESS PROCESS EXECUTION LANGUAGE BASED SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION FOR SMALL TRADING FIRMS WITH SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE by Pratik Chetan Mehta Master of Science in Computer Science California State University, Chico Spring 2011 ERP Systems are generally thought of as being huge, bulky software and hardware systems that hold the functioning of large enterprises together. This notion is mostly true, but the picture is changing rapidly. Over the past two decades, a major proportion of computer software development has been in the ERP domain. However, such software systems are affordable only by sufficiently large businesses. Small scale industries and startups have similar business needs, though at a smaller scale. For instance, small scale industries too want a good business analysis tool to make smart business decisions and compete in the market. They also face issues with managing the business and improving the core processes of the company. ERP systems, though not affordable, would be very beneficial to smaller businesses.