Michael Merz (computer scientist)

Michael Merz (born March 18, 1964 in Hamburg ) is a German computer scientist , entrepreneur and non-fiction author . His works have been used as standard literature in e-business seminars at several universities .

Life

Michael Merz grew up in Hamburg. After graduating from high school in Hummelsbüttel , he studied computer science and business administration at the University of Hamburg at the same time , and graduated in both subjects. He received his doctorate in 1996 at the chair of Winfried Lamersdorf (Distributed Systems, Department of Computer Science at the University of Hamburg) .

He has been dealing with the subject of e-business since 1993, and has published numerous articles in specialist journals, organized conferences and given scientific lectures. He is particularly interested in the topic of B2B integration , in particular the supply chain applications of XML , the protocol stack ebXML , and electronic signing . In 1998 he was chair and organizer of the first scientific conference on e-commerce in Europe, the TrEC'98 in Hamburg. Since 1999 he has worked as managing director of the e-business consulting firm Ponton Consulting , whose B2B division he separated in 2001 with Tilo Zimmermann by means of a management buy-out , and has been together since then. The Ponton Consulting GmbH was part of the C1 Group from 2002 to 2012 and has been a member of Cora Management GmbH since the resale of parts of the C1 Group to Cognizant . On December 1st, 2013 the company changed its name to PONTON GmbH . Michael Merz lives and works in Hamburg.

Publications (selection)

Blockchain in B2B use, MM Publishing, 2018, ISBN 978-3-9820560-1-2
Potential uses of blockchain in energy trading (chapter) in the book Blockchain Technology , de Gruyter, 2016, ed. V. Burgwinkel, Daniel, ISBN 978-3-11-048895-1 .
E-commerce and e-business . dpunkt.verlag, Heidelberg 2002. ISBN 3-89864-123-6 . (Second, greatly expanded edition of Electronic Commerce )
Electronic Commerce - Market Models, Applications and Technologies. dpunkt.verlag, Heidelberg 1998. ISBN 3-932588-31-2 .
Electronic Service Markets - Models and Mechanisms of Electronic Commerce. Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg 1999. ISBN 3-540-63518-1 . (Submitted as a dissertation.)
Michael Merz and Winfried Lamersdorf (as editors): Trends in distributed systems for electronic commerce - Proceedings of the International IFIP GI Working Conference TREC '98. Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg 1998. ISBN 3-540-64564-0 .
Electronic markets on the Internet . Thomson Publishers, Bonn and Albany NY 1996. ISBN 3-8266-0247-1 . (Appeared in Thomson's Recent Tutorials series )

Web links

E-commerce and e-business on the website of dpunkt.verlag

Individual evidence

↑ For example, e-commerce and e-business were used as standard literature in:
- HfT Stuttgart , course information logistics , lecture eCommerce and law by Ralf Kramer . Module handbook for the Bachelor's degree in Information Logistics, p. 26f. (Accessed July 28, 2008)
- Peter Fettke and Peter Loos , Chair of Information Systems at the University of Mainz : Reference models for e-business . 2003. Paper online (accessed on July 28, 2008; PDF; 130 kB)

↑ Former employees: Michael Merz Distributed Systems and Information Systems, University of Hamburg

↑ Michael Merz: A cost / benefit analysis of standardized B2B communication using the example of the papiNet project . In: Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, HMD No. 223: Electronic Markets from February 2002, pp. 76–87. dpunkt.verlag ISSN 1436-3011 preprint online (accessed on July 25, 2008; PDF; 154 kB)

↑ Michael Merz: Trading with format - B2B integration with ebXML . In: iX No. 02/2004. Pp. 90-93. ISSN 0935-9680 article online (accessed on July 25, 2008; PDF; 110 kB)

↑ Michael Merz, Michael Häusler, and Michel Wichers: Ready for signature - digital signing with XML . In: iX. Pp. 104-109. ISSN 0935-9680 article online (accessed on July 25, 2008; PDF; 482 kB)

↑ TrEC'98 - Trends in Electronic Commerce. Hamburg, June 3-5, 1998. Conference website (accessed July 28, 2008.)

↑ Cognizant takes over six companies of the C1 Group, a leading German consulting and IT services group . In: presseportal.de . ( presseportal.de [accessed on February 10, 2018]).

↑ Home - www.cora-management.de. Retrieved February 10, 2018 .

↑ Ponton Consulting changes its name to PONTON GmbH ( Memento from February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

↑ Blockchain B2B Book by Dr. Michael Merz (pontoon). In: website. MM Publishing, accessed January 16, 2019 .

↑ http://www.ponton.de/downloads/mm/Einsatzpotenziale-der-Blockchain-im-Energiehandel_Merz_2016.pdf. In: PONTON GmbH. 2016, accessed February 10, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Merz, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German computer scientist, entrepreneur and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg

[1] For example, e-commerce and e-business were used as standard literature in:

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , Institute of Book Studies, advanced seminar on electronic publishing and e-commerce in the book trade (winter semester 2003/04). Seminar description online ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

University of Karlsruhe , Faculty of Computer Science, Seminar Information Systems in Electronic Commerce (summer semester 2002). Seminar description online ( Memento from July 24, 2003 in the Internet Archive )

University of Lübeck , media informatics course, advanced seminar on internet economics with Michael Herczeg (summer semester 2004). Seminar description online (accessed on July 28, 2008)

HfT Stuttgart , course information logistics , lecture eCommerce and law by Ralf Kramer . Module handbook for the Bachelor's degree in Information Logistics, p. 26f. (Accessed July 28, 2008)

Peter Fettke and Peter Loos , Chair of Information Systems at the University of Mainz : Reference models for e-business . 2003. Paper online (accessed on July 28, 2008; PDF; 130 kB)

[2] University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , Institute of Book Studies, advanced seminar on electronic publishing and e-commerce in the book trade (winter semester 2003/04). Seminar description online ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

[3] University of Karlsruhe , Faculty of Computer Science, Seminar Information Systems in Electronic Commerce (summer semester 2002). Seminar description online ( Memento from July 24, 2003 in the Internet Archive )

[4] University of Lübeck , media informatics course, advanced seminar on internet economics with Michael Herczeg (summer semester 2004). Seminar description online (accessed on July 28, 2008)

[2] Former employees: Michael Merz Distributed Systems and Information Systems, University of Hamburg

[3] Michael Merz: A cost / benefit analysis of standardized B2B communication using the example of the papiNet project . In: Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, HMD No. 223: Electronic Markets from February 2002, pp. 76–87. dpunkt.verlag ISSN 1436-3011 preprint online (accessed on July 25, 2008; PDF; 154 kB)

[4] Michael Merz: Trading with format - B2B integration with ebXML . In: iX No. 02/2004. Pp. 90-93. ISSN 0935-9680 article online (accessed on July 25, 2008; PDF; 110 kB)

[5] Michael Merz, Michael Häusler, and Michel Wichers: Ready for signature - digital signing with XML . In: iX. Pp. 104-109. ISSN 0935-9680 article online (accessed on July 25, 2008; PDF; 482 kB)

[6] TrEC'98 - Trends in Electronic Commerce. Hamburg, June 3-5, 1998. Conference website (accessed July 28, 2008.)

[7] Cognizant takes over six companies of the C1 Group, a leading German consulting and IT services group . In: presseportal.de . ( presseportal.de [accessed on February 10, 2018]).

[8] Home - www.cora-management.de. Retrieved February 10, 2018 .

[9] Ponton Consulting changes its name to PONTON GmbH ( Memento from February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

[10] Blockchain B2B Book by Dr. Michael Merz (pontoon). In: website. MM Publishing, accessed January 16, 2019 .

[11] http://www.ponton.de/downloads/mm/Einsatzpotenziale-der-Blockchain-im-Energiehandel_Merz_2016.pdf. In: PONTON GmbH. 2016, accessed February 10, 2018 .