Characterization of business model for federated ERP systems

In the last few years’ business in internet become more and more significance. On other hand new development of internet technology is rapid and changed every day. Thus Business models have to be continually adapted to meet the requirements of new business idea. One of these new and important business ideas is: how to supply the needs of small and medium sized enterprises (SME) with business software (E.g. Enterprise resource planning System (ERP)). This work aims to classify this business idea in order to apply it in an appropriate business model. The classification is done through the projection of the business idea into different characteristics and their attributes. By researching the literature on this topic, we have identified five relevant characteristics and their attributes that are suitable to lead us to the appropriate characterization of this business model.