Global network of innovation Dr. Heidi Hohensohn Open Source in Business Solutions

Global network of innovation 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.

Global network of innovation 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

Global network of innovation 4 OSS in Business Solutions

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

Global network of innovation 6 OS and Commercial Software Components and Supported Platforms in EAI Components Struts MVC-ArchitectureFormatLoggingXML/XSL Middleware and Operating Systems BEA Weblogic TomcatOpen LDAPOracle Application Server LDAP-ServerRDMS Operating System IBM WebSphere mySAP WAS JBoss Sun ONE IBM Directory IBM DB2 MS SQL Server Windows NT/XP Linux Sun Solaris Open Source Software Commercial Product Agenda: FOP / POI JFreeChart Log4JXerces/XalanHibernate mySQLIBM AIX Data Binding Oracle OC4J Novell SVGCastor JSTL Jetty Web Server / Servlet Engine HP UXMax DB

Global network of innovation 7 OSS in Special Application Areas - SCM Small size of community, often causes lack of quality and support in some specialized application areas Name 9 of 14 analyzed Projects (status spring 2004) Developing Members Smart ERP+CRP45 EzyBiz2 OSSUITE7 OXERP3 Openlogistics9 MIS3 ConTuX8 phpMyERP3 Supply Chain Management3 SCM - complex, standardized software solutions for collaboration across different steps of the value chain

Global network of innovation 8 OSS in Business Models

Global network of innovation 9 OSS in Business Models MaintainOperateBuildDesignConsult OSS business models Product related business models Developer business models Service business models OSS operating system distributor OSS application- provider Accessories, Books OSS appliance- manufacturer Development portals, -platforms OS service offerings

Global network of innovation 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

Global network of innovation 11 OSS Fields of Action

Global network of innovation 12 Open Source Fields of Action

Global network of innovation 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