University Alliances Research
SAP UA Research is designed to foster a dialogue between faculty teaching SAP and cutting-edge researchers.
Additionally the site will act as a central hub where researchers and faculty around the world can connect, share, discuss and collaboratively advance research on very large business applications such as SAP's business suite and SAP Business ByDesign (ByD).
Highlighted Blog
Consolidation of Physical Server Systems in Large Data Centers
New!
Read the blog by Joran Beel, researcher and PhD student at the Very Large Business Application Lab in Magdeburg, as he introduces a thesis-turned-into-a-book by his colleague Markus Winter. Markus fouses on the importance in cosolidation of phsyical server systems and dives into the server virtualization.
As part of his blog, Joran provides the abstract to Markus' book as well how to find it. In addition to reading Joran's recent blog, also, be sure to view other University Alliances blogs located in the UA Message Board.
Conferences and Workshops
February 16-18, 2011: 10th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik, Zurich, Switzerland
March 15-18, 2011: SAP IT2011 & BI2011, Las Vegas, USA
February 17th 2011: AMCIS 2011 Submissions Deadline
March 7th 2011: PACIS 2011 Papers, Workshops and Tutorials Submissions Deadline
May 2nd 2011: MCIS 2011 Submissions Deadline
May 3rd 2011: ICIS 2011 Submissions Deadline
UA Research Centers
At many SAP UA member universities, distinguished research programs have
been established.
Since 2007, SAP has sponsored the three research centers below with specific focus on Very Large Business Applications (VLBA):
UA Research in the News!
3 March 2011: CVLBA Annual Report 2010 - Current Research Activities within the SAP University Alliances Program now online
15 November 2010: Submission deadline is finished - doctorial consortium will take place on the 16-18 of February, 2011 in Switzerland, Zurich
Research Topics
Very Large Business Applications (VLBA) has become an essential part of today's heterogeneous system landscapes. Thus, it seems logical to adopt software engineering principles in order to establish a design theory of system landscape engineering. Aspects implied by this research are:
A variety of research topics can be classified in this framework. Researchers around the world are welcome to share, discuss and collaborate on the SAP UA Research wiki.
Stay Connected with UA Research
Connect with professors, students, and other academia on research topics by viewing and contributing to the UA Research forum and UA Research wiki.
For UAP members, access the UA Research Exchange to collaborate with other professors and students interested in research projects.