International Research Forum 2008

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In May 2008, top researchers from around the world gathered near Potsdam, Germany for the International Research Forum sponsored by SAP Research. For two days, these thinkers from business, academia and government examined a topic that will increasingly become part of our vocabulary: the Internet of Services.

The discussion illuminated how the Internet of Services will change enterprise computing. It will help businesses leverage core strengths, find partners in new business networks, collaborate and tap new global markets. Software as a service, cloud computing and other trends are democratizing innovation as never before. The infrastructure barriers to doing business in the Internet of Services are falling away. Yet, as this book shows, this new world also poses challenges different from anything we have seen before.

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International Research Forum 2008 captures these insights and begins to answer the questions raised at the gathering. This book covers:

  • How the web-based service industry is revolutionizing how services are provided over the Internet and allowing customers to choose from a growing menu of offerings.
  • How the emergence of cloud computing allows companies to outsource basic computing needs and purchase information technology as a service and reduces significant barriers to entry and innovation.
  • How we can begin to understand the mystery of what makes a "killer application" and identify factors that increase the likelihood of successful innovation.
  • How semantic service discovery can help customers find the most appropriate services in a vast ocean of potential offerings.

These trends take us to the frontiers of business technology. International Research Forum 2008 explains how the technology, practice and pace of business are evolving rapidly.
In some cases, this book answers questions about the future. In others, we can only pose questions and offer partial answers because of the difficulty of predicting the future. In either case, the reader will come away better prepared to meet whatever challenges the future brings.

Table of Contents: 

Foreword
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 The Web-Based Service Industry
3 Infrastructure for Enterprise SOA 2.0
4 Potential Killer Applications
5 Semantic Service Discovery
6 Conclusion
Appendix: Participants

Author(s): 
Lutz Heuser, Claudia Alsdorf, and Dan Woods
Publication Date: 
April 2009
Publisher: 
Evolved Technologist Press
Pages: 
232
Language: 
English
ISBN: 
978-0-9789218-8-0
Cover Type: 
Softcover
About the Authors: 

Lutz Heuser

Professor Lutz Heuser, Vice President SAP Research and Chief Development Architect at SAP AG, is responsible for the overall research portfolio management and the corporate venturing organization. . Professor Heuser serves on the advisory boards of FhG-Fokus, Berlin, FhG-IPSI, Darmstadt, and is member of acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering. He currently serves as Chairman for ISTAG, the European Commission's Information Society Technologies Advisory Group. Professor Heuser is an Adjunct Professor of the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane and holds an Honorary PhD from the Technical University of Dresden.

Claudia Alsdorf

Claudia Alsdorf has 10 years' experience in the executive management, development, licensing, and commercialization of new consumer electronic products and services across the domains of the Internet, online commerce exchanges, virtual reality, and wireless. For more than five years, she has served as Founder and CEO of a global provider of 3D and online exchange products and services called echtzeit AG. In the beginning of 2002 she joined SAP and became Vice President of Communications Development within Global Communications and is responsible for communication strategy and long-term plan development including the alignment of communications strategy with non corporate communication units. In this position, she spent one year in SAP's New York office working with the Global Marketing team. In 2004 she became Vice President at SAP Research, responsible for the internal venturing and SAP Research Communications. She is also member of the Board of Directors of Artificial Life, an international mobile game provider.

Dan Woods

Dan Woods, CTO and Editor of Evolved Media, has a background in technology and journalism. Dan has written 19 books about technology-related topics, including Mesh Collaboration, Wikis for Dummies, Open Source for the Enterprise, and In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant. Evolved Media, which Dan founded in 2002, creates books, wikis, white papers, training courses, and documentation to explain the value and workings of technology.

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