An investigation of the proliferation of mobile ERP apps and their usability

Abstract

Mobile ERP is the current trend of ERP systems, and it has become the focus of the attention of the most ERP vendors. The proliferation of mobile devices, the advances in mobile computing, and the huge leaps of mobile HCI all together are considered the main factors that supported the realization of the mobile ERP concept. However, literature didn't pay enough attention to this subject in both the academic and practical level. Therefore, this paper tackle this issues associated with the adoption rates of mobile ERP and its proliferation in different business sectors and enterprise sizes, the reasons behind the adoption of mobile ERP, determining ERP's modules that are frequently being accessed via mobile devices, determining the level of difficulty, acceptability, and learnability for each typical ERP's module that has been accessed via mobile devices; and determining the predominant mobile OSes and devices that are used to operate mobile ERP apps.