The Development of Evolvable Open Source ERP Systems Based on Normalized Systems Theory

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have become the most important part of enterprises’ information systems. Moreover, evolvability is widely considered to be an important concern for the design and development of software architectures. Normalized Systems (NS) theory has been proposed with the purpose of incorporate evolvability of Information systems (IS). The purpose of this research is to explore the potential for improvement in evolvability based on Normalized Systems theory. More specifically, the research question is formulated as “How can the evolvability of open-source ERP systems be improved based on Normalized Systems theory?”. To answer the research question, the design science research approach is chosen as the methodology for the research.