Business-Aware ERP Cloud Software Evolution

ERP cloud software and the related issues were focused in this paper. A business-aware framework was proposed in order to improve the flexibility of ERP implementation and evolution, in which users can change or update business processes as required. Such business changes can be captured by the process engine. And then the engine can call the analyzer to determine the complexity of these changes, which can be measured according to the property of forward compatibility defined to evaluate the scale and status of the coming evolution. After that, activity instance scheduler together with change locators can be called to cooperatively complete the process of ERP cloud service evolution by operating the caching sequence of cloud service instances. And practices showed that this mechanism was efficient.