The paper “Towards a Reference Model for Grassroots Enterprise Mashup Environments” written by Volker Hoyer (SAP) and Katarina Stanoveska won the best paper award at the 17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) - http://www.ecis2009.it/. The ECIS is the leading European conference in the area of Information Systems.

You can download the paper here: http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/auswerten/Publications/52071/L-en 

The paper “Generic Business Model Types for Enterprise Mashup Intermediary” written by Volker Hoyer (SAP) and Katarina Stanoveska is nominated for a best paper award at the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) - http://www.amcis2009.org/. The AMCIS is one of the leading international conferences in the area of Information Systems and Business Administration. In this sense, the concepts and vision of the innovative FAST project are introduced to the international scientific business world.

Please find below the abstract of the paper.

The huge demand for situational and ad-hoc applications desired by the mass of business end users led to a new kind of Web applications, well-known as Enterprise Mashups. Users with no or limited programming skills are empowered to leverage in a collaborative manner existing Mashup components by combining and reusing company internal and external resources within minutes to new value added applications. Thereby, Enterprise Mashup environments interact as intermediaries to match the supply of providers and demand of consumers. By following the design science approach, we propose an interaction phase model artefact based on market transaction phases to structure required intermediary features. By means of five case studies, we demonstrate the application of the designed model and identify three generic business model types for Enterprise Mashups intermediaries (directory, broker, and marketplace). So far, intermediaries following a real marketplace business model don’t exist in context of Enterprise Mashups and require further research for this emerging paradigm.