Future Trends for Business Applications

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What are the important technologies for business software in the next five years? Market trends like slowing IT spending, growing IT usage in BRIC countries and rapidly growing social networking set the stage for increased investments in disruptive markets and business models by the leading market makers in software, servers, networking, telecommunications, and semiconductors. To achieve exceptional growth the top innovators have to pick the right breakthrough innovations amidst current technology trends like high performance computing, pervasive connectivity, web services and SOA. Starting from the current challenges business software faces we will look at some of the future technologies that have the potential to be turned into breakthrough innovations. The presentation will include exemplary usage of innovative technologies by SAP Research.

Bio:Before joining SAP Research Paul worked for the SAP Corporate Venturing Group. Paul joined SAP 2001 as Director Global Strategic Supply Chain Management Initiative EMEA. Prior to joining SAP, he was Senior Plant Manager at BASF’s Global Catalysts Business Unit in Ludwigshafen, Germany.After joining BASF 1989 Paul headed the development of object-oriented production planning and scheduling software for BASF's plant; one of the first big object oriented software projects in German industry. Paul was Researcher and Assistant Professor at top German and US Universities, like Northwestern University in Evanston/Chicago, Illinois, USA and at Technical University in Munich, Germany. At Northwestern he did computer simulations to explain molecular beam reactions collaborating with Sir John Pople (Nobel Prize Laureate).Paul graduated with a Ph.D. in Physics from Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, a MS in Chemistry and a BS in Biotechnology from University of Vienna, Austria.

Gastgeber:
Dr. Alexander Zeier (Lehrstuhlvertreter Prof. Plattner)

Referent:
Dr. Paul Hofmann
Vice President Research, SAP Labs at Palo Alto

Sprache:   Deutsch
Ort:           HS 1
Datum:      Donnerstag, 20. November 2008
Zeit:          16:00