The design of applications has to be done by IT experts who are familiar with programming concepts. That’s not right!

Thanks to the new innovative FAST platform, developed in the course of an EU-funded research project, you are empowered to create your own application within minutes by following the enterprise mashup principle.

The FAST platform allows you:

• To design an enterprise-class application within minutes instead of hours or even days
• To create your own application by reusing existing building blocks in a similar way to the LEGO approach
• To compose seamless company internal and external resources with each other
• To publish the small applications on various environments such as iGoogle, Netvibes, Facebook, EzWeb, iPhone, etc.

You don’t believe it! Please join the FAST evaluation where you will learn more about the innovative enterprise mashup concept. You will create an application for a Business-to-Business (B2B) scenario combining information sources from SAP backend systems with information sources from the Internet.

What do I need? You don’t have to install a software application and no programming experiences are required. Please just start your Firefox browser and take a look at the instruction. In addition, you find videos demonstrating the capabilities of the FAST platform.

<< LET THE ENTERPRISE MASHUP GAME BEGIN >>
The FAST evaluation is now open. So please feel free to forward the link to interested people. http://sites.google.com/site/fastonlinecontest

Based on the fruitful collaboration between the SAP Research and University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), the paper “Generic Business Model Types for Enterprise Mashup Intermediaries” written by Volker Hoyer (SAP Research Center St. Gallen) and Prof. Dr. Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva (University of St. Gallen) won the best paper award at the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS); http://www.amcis2009.org. The AMCIS is one of the leading conference in the area of Information Systems. This year, more than 700 papers were presented in San Francisco, CA.http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/publications/Volker_Hoyer/53090

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.