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During the last 12 and 13 of November a new FAST Face2Face developers meeting took place in SAP headquarters in Zurich. Several hot topics were discused in three parallel sessions:
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.
Distinguished researchers presented their work in various related projects with a particular focus on their vision about the future challenges that lie ahead. The main topics discussed were:
The session culminated in a lively panel discussion with active participation from the audience. Some of the main topics discussed were: how to achieve integration of results and a real impact on standardization bodies, what the business ecosystem that will support the future service front-ends will be like, what is the trade-off between the complexity inherent in orchestration of processes and the simplicity that is required at the front-end level for end user to be able to perform it, how to capture long tail needs by empowering the end users and how to deal with mission critical data and processes in the context of a fully personalized, do-it-yourself front-end layer.
The 3rd FAST Plenary meeting, which took place last 4th-6th November, was hosted by DERI in Galway, Ireland.
The main objective of the meeting was to discuss the status of the different activities of the project and to talk about future actions. All partners presented their advances and there were several reports of the progress of the whole project and first project’s achievements. During the meeting, we had a very productive discussion about the FAST Tool architecture and design.
Like in previous meetings, we met with new members. The meeting outcomes were very positive and we are impatient to meet each other again during the next meeting probably in Kassel.
This event will take place in Lyon on 25-27 November 2008. FAST will be present there and a number of our representatives will take active part the sessions. FAST is also co-organizing the networking session “Next Generation Service Front-Ends in the future Internet of Services: Research Challenges and Opportunities”
