Industry Cooperations
Within the scope of our research projects and practical teaching seminars we cooperate with the following enterprises:
D-LABS
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Description
D-LABS provides its expertise in Design Thinking to clients as a service. It is an innovative consulting firm with a clear focus on conceptualizing and designing software solutions, while taking technical feasibility, business and user goals into account.
D-LABS services cover the requirements engineering phase of a software project. Their services include conducting user research and producing prototypes, requirements documents and reusable software artifacts. We work together with D-LABS to maximize the value of their service. The goal is to integrate their existing artifacts and to extend their process oriented methodology.
Camunda
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Description
Camunda is a business process company. They provide expertise at the organisational as well as on the technical level. The portfolio spans consulting BPM projects and teaching BPM knowledge (such as process modeling). Moreover, they have deep technical knowledge and provide process-as-a-service solutions for small-medium enterprises.
We work together with camunda on BPM at various points. There is a joined
Blog on BPMN and Camunda is our industry partner for our current Bachelor project "Process Collaboration Platform".
AOK Brandenburg
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Description
Being one of the largest health insurance companies in Germany,
AOK manages a large number of detailed business process models. The goal of the AOK project was to develop automatic business process abstraction of large event-driven process chains (EPCs). The main results of the project are:
- a methodology for process model abstraction
- a software application for performing abstraction.
The developed methodology handles EPCs preserving the ordering constraints of the initial model and its nonfunctional properties. The methodology aims to reduce elements by aggregattion.
The designed methodology was implemented in
Atlas – the application enabling abstraction of EPCs.
Atlas is capable of parsing process models stored in AML files, abstracting these models, and serializing the result back to AML file.
Publications
- Artem Polyvyanyy, Sergey Smirnov, and Mathias Weske. Process Model Abstraction: A Slider Approach. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC), München, Germany, September 2008. IEEE Computer Society. pdf BibTeX
- Artem Polyvyanyy, Sergey Smirnov, and Mathias Weske. Reducing Complexity of Large EPCs. Proceedings of the 7th GI Workshop EPK 2008, Saarbrücken, Germany, November 2008. pdf BibTeX.
eBay
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Description
eBay is one of the biggest online market places, well known to everybody. Behind the scenes the company captures and manages their processes professionally with focus on customer support. To lift the standards, the BPT group coached eBay process modeling experts in using BPMN and applying best practises. The project was conducted with eBay Europe.
Software AG
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Description
Software AG is one of Germany's largest software vendors. Located in Darmstadt, its products include: Adabas, Tamino and crossvision. HPI is a member of the newly established
CentraSite Community. Additionally, joint research and teaching is conducted. This includes Bachelor projects and an integration of
Oryx and Centrasite.
SAP AG / SAP Research Centre Brisbane
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Description
Next Generation Business Process Management: In this project with
SAP AG in Walldorf and the
SAP Research Centre in Brisbane we investigate methods, techniques and tools for next generation business process management. SAP was the industry partner of our last year's Beachelor project "Ad-hoc Business Processes".
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Description
Adaptive Services Grid (ASG) is an Integrated Project in the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union. Its goal is to develop a proof-of-concept prototype of an open platform for adaptive services discovery, creation, composition, and enactment. ASG is an EU co-funded project consisting of 21 partners including industrial partners DaimlerChrysler AG Research and Technology (Germany), Telenor Communications II AS (Norway), Rodan Systems (Poland), Telekomunikacja Polska (Poland) as well as academic partners. Detailed project information is available
online.
T-Systems Multimedia Solutions
Persons Involved
Description
Among other things,
T-Systems MMS has gained varied experiences in projects in the business processes field. The goal of the project was to combine these practical experiences with current research results of the BPT group and apply them to a practical example. To support the design and implementation phases of the business process lifecycle, we developed a prototype combining different tools for each phase:
One focus was on the guidance of the engineer to help avoid mistakes in the configuration of the technical process model.
