PRIMIUM
The research association PRIMIUM - process innovation with company software - aims at a sustainable improvement of internal and inter-company processes in the development and use of company software . Around 25 Baden-Württemberg university institutes, research institutions, software companies and industrial partners are involved in three consortia .
background
The importance of business software will continue to grow in the future, as relationships and dependencies increase both within and between companies. In order to design more efficient business processes in the future , the research association aims to systematically research software solutions in the field of business software and to make them usable in practice.
The targeted process innovations should primarily be based on changes in software technology, in particular through component technology and web-based cooperation platforms . New opportunities for internal and inter-company cooperation for the company software are expected from this.
The project "Research Association for Enterprise Software" was published by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts in October 2003 as part of a call for tenders. After the tender was over, the establishment of a total of three consortia was approved: AristaFlow, CollaBaWue and SIKOSA. The consortia started their research activities in summer 2004. The project term for PRIMIUM ends in December 2007.
In the research network, scientists, together with partners from industry, are investigating the possibilities of increasing the competitiveness of companies through the use and application of business software. The focus is on innovative technology concepts such as collaborative, semantics-based and component-oriented software development and topics such as process and quality management. In the three consortia, AristaFlow, CollaBaWue and SIKOSA, leading universities and research institutions from Baden-Württemberg - including the Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe (FZI), the universities of Ulm , Mannheim , Heidelberg , Karlsruhe , Freiburg and Hohenheim - also have 14 practice partners involved.
Consortia
AristaFlow
The AristaFlow consortium examines and develops adaptive process management technologies for the optimal design of business processes. The focus is on the merging of innovative technologies with the concept of component-oriented software development. Adaptable, process-oriented information systems that react to changes via “plug & play” should enable software manufacturers and users to save development costs and time without restricting the company's flexibility. The activities of the consortium include the further development of the process management system that has been in existence for several years and is currently one of the most powerful executable information systems.
CollaBaWue
The subject of the interdisciplinary research activities of the CollaBaWue consortium is the collaborative, component-oriented and semantics-based development of business software with the aim of creating domain-specific applications more productively. The core is the process for creating company software from components on the basis of a collaborative, component-based process model and suitable tools to support the inter-company creation of company software.
SIKOSA
SIKOSA stands for Si chere Ko llaborative S oftwareentwicklung and A pplication. The aim of the project is the investigation and development of procedures, methods and tools for quality management in the collaborative creation and use of business software. For this purpose, aspects of the cooperative development and application of component-based systems with the corresponding specific life cycle, version, variant and configuration-related problems are considered. In addition, the related business and organizational relationships are also taken into account. The outlined research interest derives from the particular difficulty of realizing high-quality business software, which generally exists for every type of business application system and is particularly relevant for the interface between communication systems and application software.
Individual evidence
- ↑ ADEPT1 - Flexible Workflow Management ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ADEPT1 project website of Ulm University
