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Dr. Heidi Hohensohn

Open Sourcein Business Solutions

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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.

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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

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OSS in Business Solutions

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DatabaseDatabaseeZ-Core

User Management

Workflow Manager

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Branch specific Solutions

Customer specific Solutions

Adapter

Interfaces

Webservices

e.g. SAPe.g. SAP

online/offlineonline/offline

OSS for SME solutions

•CRM•Internet/Intranet•Shop •Collaboration•Knowledge Base•Enterprise Portal

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OS and Commercial SoftwareComponents and Supported Platforms in EAI

Components

Struts

MVC-Architecture Format Logging XML/XSL

Middleware and Operating Systems

BEA Weblogic

Tomcat Open LDAP Oracle

ApplicationServer LDAP-Server RDMS

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 ProductAgenda:

FOP / POI

JFreeChart

Log4J Xerces/Xalan Hibernate

mySQL IBM AIX

Data Binding

Oracle OC4J Novell

SVG CastorJSTL

Jetty

Web Server /Servlet Engine

HP UXMax DB

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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+CRP 45

EzyBiz 2

OSSUITE 7

OXERP 3

Openlogistics 9

MIS 3

ConTuX 8

phpMyERP 3

Supply Chain Management 3

SCM - complex, standardized software solutions for collaboration across different steps of the value chain

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OSS in Business Models

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OSS in Business Models

MaintainMaintainOperateOperateBuildBuildDesignDesignConsultConsult

OSS business models

Product relatedbusiness

models

Developerbusiness

models

Servicebusiness

models

OSSoperating

systemdistributor

OSSapplication-

providerAccessories,

Books

OSSappliance-

manufacturer

Developmentportals,

-platforms

OSservice

offerings

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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

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OSS Fields of Action

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Open Source Fields of Action

OSSReleaseProcess

OSSDevelopmentProcess

OSSUsage

Business Models

Application

Company internal OS Processes

Open Source Community

OSS Development

Idea/ Requirements

Existing Software

Mixed Portfolios

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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