A recap of the European workshop on software ecosystems 2021

The workshop was a complete success with forty participants from all over the world, Europe, USA and Brazil, too.

Academics and professionals were happy with the presentations and even more with the opportunities and time to ask questions and to interact with presenters and fellow professionals via wonder.me during the coffee breaks.

With people from numerous companies like Schwarz, CloudBlue, Freudenberg, Tricentis, Kaufland, Bosch, Arvato Systems Bertelsmann, SNP SE, BELTIOS GmbH, SAP, Synomic and others the workshop was equipped with professionals from large and small software companies and service providers.

A big thank you goes out to all presenters, participants,program committee and sponsors!

While this page provides an overview, you can find all the details in the proceedings.

Industry Keynote by Rolf Schumann, Chief Digital Officer | Schwarz Group

Rolf talked about the challenges and successes in digitizing retailers. He also talked about the different digital and platform strategies in the Schwarz Group Companies Lidl and Kaufland. His entertaining and informative presentation was well received.

A Focus Area Maturity Model for API Management

by Max Matthijssen, Michiel Overeem, Slinger Jansen | University Utrecht

Organizations are increasingly connecting using Application Programming Interfaces to share data, functionality, and even complete business processes. However, the creation and management of these so-called APIs, is non-trivial. Aspects such as the business model, usage throttling, documentation, are often rushed afterthoughts. In this research, we present and evaluate the API Management Focus Area Maturity Model, addressing the domains of Community Engagement, Security, Lifecycle, Monitoring, Performance, and Commercial. The API-m-FAMM is a model that organizations can use to evaluate how well they are doing at API management and to set out a course for systematic improvement and evolution. We have used the model in practice in several organizations, and report on these results as well.

How to build a great Open Source Company and Ecosystem

Industry Keynote by Thomas Curran| Ory GmbH

Thomas took everybody on a journey from the early days of the free software movement to professionally managed open source to open source ecosystems of today. He explained how Ory GmbH has become an open source company with worldwide usage and high reputation.

The power of the ecosystem - the startup heatmap

Thomas Köster from DEEP presented key facts about Europe´s startup ecosystems. In his analytical research he covers 200 accelerators and 100 cities in Europe. Within the top spots, Berlin finally overtook London in number of startups.

Digital Platforms in Business-to- Business Markets

Maximilian Schreieck et al.| TU München

Maximilian took the audience on a journey to successful digital platforms in business-to-business markets (e.g., Salesforce, ServiceNow). However, he showed that there are also many companies that struggle to launch digital platforms and he explained why they struggle. Any launch challenges were analyzed.

The Software M&A Ecosystem

Industry Keynote by Jon Scott | Corum Group

John presented his analysis of the players and hot topics in the M&A market for software companies that are based on many deals that the Corum Group has worked on. While there were hot topics that we expected, like AI applications, we also learned that blue collar software, which is software for workers, is also a hot topic.

Management of complementary platform-based software products

Christopher Jud | Kaufland Digital

While platforms are the standard concept to interact with customers in some industries, they are just now emerging in others. Platforms often are technical foundation and distribution channel for complementary software products like mobile apps. While this is a great business opportunity for complementors, platforms set the rules of the game for the platforms.
Christopher Jud analysed in the effects of platforms on software products. as well as technological aspects and impacts on business models.

How to leverage APIs to grow your business

Max Kuzkin, Executive Director Engineering | CloudBlue

After a short run through the history of networking and applications integration, Max presented the API to API platform CloudBlue. It is a platform that operates integrations points and shares integration functionality between the participants to create massive network effects.

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