Research

Innovation Management and Lively Exchange with Research and Teaching

As an early spin off enterprise of the Institute AIFB (Informatics Institute of the Faculty of Economics and Business Engineering), today's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, elite university) PROMATIS maintains for now nearly two decades narrow contacts with research and teaching. From the first common research projects a lived cooperation has emerged, which today makes up the core of the PROMATIS innovation management. The cooperation encloses besides cooperative research projects also common lectures and the exchange of certified employees (doctoral candidate, students) within the scope of research projects and industrial projects.

Main Research: Business Processes 

The cooperation with the Institute AIFB at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Research Center of Informatics (FZI) lays the main focus on research projects regarding the subject Business Processes. Innovative methods and software tools for Business Process Management (BPM) should support the whole life cycle of a business process. By using the possibilities of Web 2.0 modeling tasks are more and more fulfilled by Business Communities. For the conversion of processes into real systems SOA technologies and service-oriented business applications are used. Polished monitoring technologies support the process management and allow an ongoing improvement of the business processes based on performance measurements.

Part of the cooperation is Horus Endeavor, an innovation partnership of the  Institute AIFB at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), FZI Karlsruhe and the University of Muenster with the software enterprise PROMATIS and Horus.

Current research projects with the Institute AIFB at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

 

• Collaboration within the means of Software Development based on service-oriented Architectures

  When realizing systems based on modern service-oriented architectures (SOA) team members with different knowledge and abilities are involved. They realize components on different levels of these architectures with the corresponding tools. Due to the size of the planned projects, the complexity of service-oriented architectures and the use of modern development concepts (Extreme Programming, Aspect-Orientation) a high degree of cooperation is needed. In line with this research project, concepts are to be developed to optimally support collaboration in this environment.
  
  Publication on the EMISA'2006
  Publication on the UNISCON'2008
  Publication ond the SIGSAND'2008

• OUTSHORE - study and methodology development to evaluate the success with assigning software projects to low wage countries

  Neither Outsourcing nor Offshoring are a universal remedy for the solution of problems with the development of complicated software systems. In this project a process is developed to evaluate offshoring software development projects in low wage countries. Based on the experience of completed and running software projects a special procedure model is developed as an extension of the V-model for Offshoring projects. With the help of simulation tools forecasts and decisive help can be created to avoid financial risks while planning offshore software development projects.
  
  OUTSHORE Project
  Publication on the ICGSE'2007

• Business Process Performance Management in Supply Chains

  In this cooperation project the function perimeters and the application potential of software tools that are to be implemented prototype-like are compiled, based on XML networks which support the process management in Supply chains. The functionalities of this tool include beside modeling, presentation and analysis functions also functions for the coordination and check of the relevant processes. By using a monitoring module based on XML networks the current values of relevant key indicators (e.g., processing time, processing costs) can be illustrated and collected.
  
  Publication in the DOAG News'2005