1. IWi – Institute for Information Systems at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

2. IWi – Facts & Figures
Establishment:
Chair of Business Administration, esp. for Information Systems at the Saarland University in 1975.
Foundation of the „Institute for Information Systems (IWi)“ in 1979.
Research Unit of DFKI since 2002.
Staff:
Approx. 80 Employees (incl. Researchers, PhD Students & Student Researchers).
Expertise:
IWi carried out over 200 Research Projects in its core- research fields „Lifelong learning“; „Business Process Management“ & „Business Integration“.
Outreach/Sustainability:
18 Spin-off/Start-Up Companies
Over 20 former IWi Researchers are Professors.
Das Finanzvolumen kommt zu Stande, da das IWi durchschnittlich 10 Drittelmittelprojekte gleichzeitig bearbeitet.

3. IWi – Research Fields eGovernment eLearning & Corporate University
eCommerce
Business Process Management
Business Process Modeling
Supply Chain Management & collaborative Business
Knowledge Management & Organizational Memory
Service Engineering

4. IWi – Business Mission & Core Competencies
Business Process
Management
Lifelong Learning
Business Integration
Educational Networks
Enterprise Modeling :
Architectures and Methods
BI Enterprise-Architectures
Electronic Learning
Collaborative Business
Methodolgies for IT (supported) Consulting Services
Integrated Business Process Management : Strategies and Tools
Electronic Business
Electronic Government
Organizational Memory
Modeling, development, realization and provision of innovative solutions for industry-, service- and public administration sectors