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SAP Research RoofTop Marketplace
Type
applied research project
Start Date
02 February 2008
End Date
02 February 2010
Status
ongoing
Keywords
Enterprise Mashups
SAP Research
Electronic Marketplace
End-User-Development
Service Front-End
Description
The process of development of Web-based business applications in companies follows usually the typical process of software development involving first assessment of user requirements followed by a long process of development and testing by IT experts. The functionality of the resulting application is actually a compromise of user requirements, as not all user requirements can be considered. As a result, there is a long tail - a term first coined and popularized by Chris Anderson - of many specific and heterogeneous user requirements or dynamically changing user requirements that are not covered by the IT department. A possible solution for this problem could be a new development paradigm which integrates the users from the business units characterized by no or limited programming skills in the software consumption and development process.
In this context, a new trend for software development and reuse paradigm known as Enterprise Mashups, has been gaining momentum. At the core of the Mashup paradigm are two aspects: first, empowerment of the end user to cover ad hoc and long tail needs by reuse and combination of existing software resources; and second, broad involvement of users and developers based on the peer-to-peer production concept. According to Yochai Benkler, who coined the term peer-to-peer production, "it refers to production systems that depend on individual action that is self-selected and decentralized rather than hierarchically assigned". Thereby, the creative energy of large number of people is used to react flexible on continuous dynamic changes of the business environment. Instead of long-winded software development processes, existing and new applications are enhanced with interfaces and provided as user friendly building blocks.
Driven by the consumer market, upcoming tools and forecasts of market research institutes like Gartner, Forrester, as well as leading management consulting firms like McKinsey show the practical relevance of the Enterprise Mashups paradigm. In particular, Forrester predicts that Enterprise Mashups will be coming to a $700 million market by 2013.
The SAP Research RoofTop Marketplace prototype is a Web-based application based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). It represents an inituitive environment to create Enterprise Mashups without any programming skills.
In this context, a new trend for software development and reuse paradigm known as Enterprise Mashups, has been gaining momentum. At the core of the Mashup paradigm are two aspects: first, empowerment of the end user to cover ad hoc and long tail needs by reuse and combination of existing software resources; and second, broad involvement of users and developers based on the peer-to-peer production concept. According to Yochai Benkler, who coined the term peer-to-peer production, "it refers to production systems that depend on individual action that is self-selected and decentralized rather than hierarchically assigned". Thereby, the creative energy of large number of people is used to react flexible on continuous dynamic changes of the business environment. Instead of long-winded software development processes, existing and new applications are enhanced with interfaces and provided as user friendly building blocks.
Driven by the consumer market, upcoming tools and forecasts of market research institutes like Gartner, Forrester, as well as leading management consulting firms like McKinsey show the practical relevance of the Enterprise Mashups paradigm. In particular, Forrester predicts that Enterprise Mashups will be coming to a $700 million market by 2013.
The SAP Research RoofTop Marketplace prototype is a Web-based application based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). It represents an inituitive environment to create Enterprise Mashups without any programming skills.
Leader contributor(s)
Hoyer, Volker
Partner(s)
SAP AG
Funder(s)
Topic(s)
Enterprise Mashups
SAP Research
Electronic Marketplace
End-User-Development
Service Front-End
Method(s)
Design Science
Enterprise Mashups
Service-Oriented Architecture
Notes
You find at YouTube.com a video demonstrating the underlying principles and features of the SAP Research RoofTop Marketplace prototype.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtc_ulwimYA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtc_ulwimYA
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Institute/School
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Institut/School
Division(s)
Eprints ID
51099
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PublicationType: newspaper articleJournal: Wirtschaftsinformatik & Management (WuM)Issue: 3
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PublicationBusiness Case for Enterprise Mashups(SAP AG, 2010)
;Kramer, Simone ;Hoyer, Volker ;Peukert, Hans ;Fuchsloch, AndreaKowalkiewicz, MarekDespite the importance of a business case for supporting an investment decision, no statistics are available which evaluate the real value of enterprise mashups. The present SAP Research White Paper closes this gap and calculates the costs and benefits of enterprise mashups by means of a real-world scenario.Type: work report -
PublicationSAP Research RoofTop Marketplace: Putting a Face on Service-Oriented Architectures( 2009-06-18)
;Hoyer, VolkerJanner, TillThe huge demand for situational and ad-hoc applications desired by the mass of business end users cannot be fully covered by traditional Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs). By putting a face on SOA, Enterprise Mashups empower these end users to combine and reuse Web-based resources within minutes to create value added applications. In our presentation, we introduce the SAP Research RoofTop Marketplace prototype that transfers established marketplace concepts to the Enterprise Mashup paradigm in order to leverage the power of peer production. The underlying concepts and the resulting architecture of the platform are presented. By means of a business scenario, the features of the grassroots Enterprise Mashup platform are demonstrated. The symposium on "Future Trends in Service-oriented Computing" (FutureSOC) 2009 is held for the fourth time at the Hasso Plattner Institute. FutureSOC highlights the recent work of some Research School members and outlines new trends in the area of Service-oriented Computing. http://kolleg.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/index.php?id=4062Type: presentation -
PublicationEnterprise Mashups - Umdenken im ProjektmanagementMashups ermöglichen es Endnutzern, individuelle Applikationen innerhalb von Minuten zu erstellen. Die IT-Abteilung spielt dabei eine neue Rolle als Vermittler zwischen Anwendern sowie internen und externen Diensteanbietern. Mit klassischem Projektmanagement kommt man hier nicht weiter. Agile Method eignen sie jedoch gut für die Aufgabe.Type: newspaper articleJournal: iX kompakt IT-ProjekteIssue: 03
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PublicationSAP Research RoofTop Marketplace( 2009-04-20)
;Hoyer, Volker ;Gilles, Florian ;Fleischmann, Kathrin ;Dreiling, AlexanderEnterprise Mashups have gained momentum in the last years. Business users with no or limited programming skills are empowered to leverage in a collaborative manner existing mashable components. By combining and reusing Web-based resources within minutes, business users are able to create new value added applications to solve an individual and ad-hoc business problem. In this demo, we show the SAP Research RoofTop Marketplace prototype that transfers established marketplace concepts and principles to the Enterprise Mashup paradigm in order to handle business and organizational challenges of the Mashup paradigm in enterprise environments.Type: conference paper -
PublicationBusiness Values of Automating Unstructured Decision Processes with Dynamic Enterprise Mashups( 2010-06-22)
;Peukert, Hans ;Hoyer, Volker ;Fuchsloch, Andrea ;Lincourt, DavidKowalkiewicz, MarekThe typical information worker in military organizations faces on a daily basis the need to make decisions. These processes are unstructured and most often non-repeatable meaning it is not possible to create relevant IT applications in advance by traditional software development approaches such as Service-Oriented Architectures. The information worker has to react on alerts and events in ad-hoc fashion following Boyd's OODA loop. A new development paradigm, known as enterprise mashups, has gained momentum in recent years. It enables information workers to create situational applications on their own. However, current discussions both in the scientific and industrial community are limited on technical aspects such as the development of relevant mashup platforms which allow composing dynamically applications to make a decision. We extend the previous research in facilitating the building and collaboration through social software. Thus, the question arises what are the actual business values of this new paradigm for military organizations? This present paper closes this gap by analyzing a real-world defense scenario which we have implemented by means of the mashup prototype SAP Research Rooftop Marketplace. A case study reports about the challenges of typical decision processes in military organizations and how dynamic enterprise mashups can improve the decision quality as well as the decision time. For each phase (observe, orient, decide and act) of the OODA loop, we analyze and quantify the business values.Type: conference paper -
PublicationEnterprise Mashups: Konzept, Anwendungsgebiete und Forschungsperspektiven(Lange Verlag, 2010-02-18)Hoyer, VolkerType: newspaper articleJournal: Das Wirschaftsstudium (WISU)Volume: 39Issue: 2
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PublicationSAP Research RoofTop Marketplace: Putting a Face on Service-Oriented Architectures(IEEE Computer Society Press, 2009-07-08)
;Hoyer, Volker ;Gilles, Florian ;Janner, TillThe huge demand for situational and ad-hoc applications desired by the mass of business end users cannot be fully covered by traditional Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs). By putting a face on SOA, Enterprise Mashups empower these end users to combine and reuse Web-based resources within minutes to create value added applications. In this paper, we present the SAP Research RoofTop Marketplace prototype that transfers established marketplace concepts to the Enterprise Mashup paradigm in order to leverage the power of peer production. The underlying concepts and the resulting architecture of the platform are presented. By means of a business scenario, the features of the grassroosts Enterprise Mashup platform are demonstrated. IEEE Service Cup 2009 awarded by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing http://iscc.servicescomputing.org/2009/Type: conference paperScopus© Citations 12