Enterprise-Level Business Systems: Development Standards Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA)

As we can forthwith understand from its name, EIA is an alliance between companies operating in the electronics sector (more than 80% manufacturers from a $430 billion industry), formed with the declared goals of defending its members' interests in such areas as international trade and market access, the environment, broadband and Internet security. The initial association of electronics producers was changed in 1997 to an alliance comprising other industrial related areas such as telecommunications (TIA- The Telecommunications Industry Association) or GEIA

The Government Electronics and Information Technology Association). As such (and this is quite important), the alliance does not set any standards itself, but through the associations that form it.

Following the link to the Government Electronics & Information Technology Association page: (http://www.geia.org/),the information I found there on ERP, MRP and CRM development standard was more general: most of the standards were either ISO or IEEE standards and many of the documents were not available or available in then near future. From my point-of-view, as regards to standards (in general) and to development standards n the development of ERP, MRP or CRM applications, these two sites were of no help. There was no information on the enterprise-level business systems either.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

The categories I had a look into were software design development and software quality management. The former included the IEEE Standard for Software Quality Assurance Plans (the respective standard best applies to the development and management of critical software, but can also be used for non-critical programs as well). The IEEE standard for software verification and validation, as well as the IEEE standard for software unit testing were also found under this categories, each standard containing certain rules and regulations in that particular phase of the project.
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

ISO is a non-governmental organization formed from the national standard institutes of 148 countries. The role of the organization is to develop technical standards, but, as it is the case now, these standards tend to have more and more economical and social implications. Standardization means that products produced in different countries have a common legislation and a basic set of rules (set…