Enhancing Data Security in ERP Projects Using XML

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is integrated packaged software, which addresses most fundamental business processing functionality across different functional areas and business units, in a single software system, with single database and accessible through a unified interface and channel of communication. Meeting security requirements for privacy, confidentiality and integrity is essential in order to move business online ERP System requires an accurate, precise and Data security in business concepts of the enterprise. The authors introduce basic features and security of ERP System using Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) technology. Traditionally, XML security has developed along two distinct though related lines of research, corresponding to two facts of the XML security notion. The first fact defines XML security as a set of security techniques (encryption, digital signature) tightly coupled with XML to maintain the main features of the XML semi-structured data model while adding to it all necessary security capabilities. In this paper we will explore XML Signature specification from W3C and its implementation in. NET.