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Dr. Heidi Hohensohn

Open Source in Business Solutions. Dr. Heidi Hohensohn. Siemens Business Services and OSS.

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Dr. Heidi Hohensohn

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  1. Open Sourcein Business Solutions Dr. Heidi Hohensohn

  2. Siemens Business Services and OSS • Siemens Business Services is one of the world's leading IT service providers. We offer manufacturer-independent IT services from a single source – covering everything from consulting to system integration, operation and maintenance of IT infrastructures, right through to management of business processes. OSS is a part of business software solutions today • Already existing Service Offerings based on proprietary products of business partners and different manufacturers have been complemented by Open Source Software as an additional option. • Besides this additional Service Offerings based on Open Source Software have been developed. Siemens Business Services disposes of a comprehensive portfolio of Open Source Software services covering the whole IT service chain. • On the basis of qualified consulting the customer has the opportunity to choose between commercial and Open Source Software.

  3. Understanding of OSS • a software becomes OSS by choosing a OS-license • but the character of OSS is defined by • Developing process • Legal aspects established by a license • Handling of software/ transparency • Community agility Resulting in typical qualities/ attributes/ characteristics • OSS covers a continuum from business adequate to explorative software projects

  4. OSS in Business Solutions

  5. CMS Commerce eCatalog Community Database OSS for SME solutions Customer specific Solutions • CRM • Internet/Intranet • Shop • Collaboration • Knowledge Base • Enterprise Portal Branch specific Solutions Workflow Manager Webservices User Management Interfaces online/offline Adapter eZ-Core e.g. SAP

  6. OS and Commercial SoftwareComponents and Supported Platforms in EAI Components MVC-Architecture Format Logging XML/XSL Data Binding FOP / POI Struts Log4J Xerces/Xalan Hibernate JFreeChart JSTL SVG Castor Middleware and Operating Systems Operating System ApplicationServer Web Server /Servlet Engine LDAP-Server RDMS JBoss Tomcat Open LDAP Oracle Windows NT/XP Jetty Sun ONE IBM DB2 Linux BEA Weblogic IBM Directory MS SQL Server Sun Solaris IBM WebSphere Oracle OC4J Novell mySQL IBM AIX Max DB HP UX mySAP WAS Open Source Software Commercial Product Agenda:

  7. OSS in Special Application Areas - SCM SCM - complex, standardized software solutions for collaboration across different steps of the value chain Small size of community, often causes lack of quality and support in some specialized application areas

  8. OSS in Business Models

  9. OSS in Business Models OSS business models Product related business models Developer business models Service business models OSS operating system distributor OS service offerings OSS application- provider OSS appliance- manufacturer Development portals, -platforms Accessories, Books Consult Design Build Operate Maintain

  10. Upcoming Business Models • OSS may influence a modularization of tasks and services concerning software, e.g. formerly bundled in a software developing company • Project management • Providing a platform • Documentation • Quality assurance/ Testing • Support • … • OSS model of procedure enables participation of different partners in a distributed software development process • Driving forces may be: gaining common agreement, core competence focusing, efficiency

  11. OSS Fields of Action

  12. Open Source Fields of Action

  13. Conclusion Open Source Software • Enlarging and enriching the portfolio of available components • Improving customer's benefit following the idea of „best of both worlds“ • Establishing new business models Open Source Lessons Learned • Impulse for evolutionary and distributed software development

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