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Adoption, selection, and deployment of a freely available ERP

Abstract

In the 1990s, ERP systems achieved widespread use, despite the lack of free ERP software. Interest in free software dates from the first developments in computing in the 1960s and 1970s until the present days. The problem of this research is determining how to adopt, select and deploy an ERP that is freely available. The contributions of this work begin with the proposition of a preliminary model of the ERP life cycle, considering no distinctions between a proprietary and a free ERP. This model was refined using the action research method in a field study focused on the adoption, selection and deployment of a free ERP in a Brazilian company. The main result of this paper is a final model with modifications to the adoption and selection process to use free and proprietary ERP’s; one deployment was found not to present process differences.

Keywords
ERP; Free software; Open source; Action research

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