For the SAP certification course "TERP10", which takes place from 8 to 19 March 2010, there are still a few remaining places available until 10 January 2010. If you are interested, please register with us by this date.

During the course, students from all Schools will be able to acquire a recognised certificate as "SAP Certified Solution Architect ERP-Integration of Business Processes". The fee-based course is offered as a 10-day block seminar in addition to the regular course programme. The certification exam will take place on 22 or 23 March 2010.

Further information (including the registration procedure) is available at: SAP in Teaching --> TERP10.

External doctoral candidate from the Department of Information Systems I / VLBA Thomas Biskup successfully completed his thesis defence on the topic of "Agile domain model-driven software development for medium-sized IT projects" last "Friday the 13th". The examining board was made up of Prof Dr Jorge Marx Gómez, Prof Dr Kurt Schneider, Prof Dr Michael Sonnenschein and Dr Marco Grawunder. At the end of the thesis defence, the newly-awarded "Dr" hosted a celebratory champagne reception.
Dr Grawunder, Prof. Dr Sonnenschein, Prof. Dr Marx Gómez, T. Biskup & Prof. Dr Schneider (from left)
We congratulate Thomas Biskup and wish him all the best for his future career!

Based on the positive experience and strong demand in the summer semester 2009, all students at the University of Oldenburg will again be offered the opportunity to take part in SAP certification during their studies this winter semester in cooperation with SAP University Alliances and SAP Education.

Nowadays, expertise in the use of SAP software products is regarded as a valuable skill on the labour market and enables students to improve their career prospects.

The TERP10 course enables students from all Schools to acquire a recognised certificate as SAP Certified Solution Architect ERP-Integration of Business Processes. The fee-based course is offered as a 10-day block seminar in addition to the regular course programme. The course will take place from Monday, 8 March 2010 to Friday, 19 March 2010. The certification exam is expected to take place at the beginning of the week starting 22 March 2010.

Further information on costs, prerequisites and binding registration can be found on our website or by sending an email to

The research project "Competence and Research Transfer Network for Corporate Environmental Information Systems", which is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), will start on 1 October 2009. The project is being carried out in co-operation with the University of Osnbrück (Prof. Teuteberg)

In the two weeks from 31 August to 11 September 2009, the first SAP Training ERP course took place at the University of Oldenburg in cooperation with SAP Education and SAP University Alliances. During this time, the 25 participants from business and technical degree programmes were able to learn theoretical knowledge from the field of Enterprise Resource Planning and at the same time gain practical experience in using the SAP system. The course concluded with an examination to become a SAP Certified Solution Architect ERP-Integration of Business Processes.

Would you like to study Business Information Systems (M.Sc.) and have a Bachelor's degree or a comparable degree in Business Information Systems or a closely related degree programme? Then you can apply from 1 June 2009 for the coming winter semester. Find out more on the pages of the degree programme offered by the University of Oldenburg. If you decide to apply for the Master's in Business Informatics, please submit your documents by 17 August 2009 at the latest.

Further information on application and enrolment: Study programmes at the University of Oldenburg.

On 3 and 4 July 2009, the 2nd closed conference of the Department of Information Systems I / VLBA took place. At the 2-day event, which took place outside the university premises and thus outside the usual environment, all doctoral candidates of the department gave a 30-minute presentation on the current status or the current idea of their doctoral project. Afterwards, there was the opportunity to discuss the work in a large group and develop new ideas. All in all, the retreat was a productive and enjoyable event for the department. There was a lively exchange between the participants. The social event on Friday evening rounded off the event. We would like to thank all the participants and speakers!

The Department of Information Systems I / VLBA is offering two new project groups for students at the University of Oldenburg for the coming winter semester 2009/2010. On the one hand, the project group Sustainability Reporting in Web 2.0 under the direction of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jorge Marx Gómez, Daniel Süpke and Andreas Solsbach. On the other hand, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jorge Marx Gómez, Tariq Mahmoud, Ammar Memari and Benjamin Wagner vom Berg offer the project group S-FABA - A Semantic SOA Framework for Adaptive Business Applications project group.

Registration for one of the new PGs is possible via the StudIP system. Register here in the course "Projektgruppen" (SS 2009), click on the menu tab "Tutorienbelegung" and enter the desired PG. Registration is possible between 26.06.09 and 08.07.2009.

There will be a new edition of SAPiens again this year. From 7 April, both students and, for the first time, lecturers can submit innovative ideas for new areas of application and business fields as well as new products for SAP AG or improvements to existing SAP software on the Internet-based ideas platform.

At the European conference Towards eEnvironment, Prof Dr Jorge Marx Gómez and Dr Ralf Isenmann from the University of Bremen received the Best Paper Award for their paper "Advanced corporate sustainability reporting - Towards a XBRL taxonomy for sustainability reports based on the G3-guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative". The conference took place from 25 to 27 March 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic. The jury selected the paper for first place from a total of almost 100 accepted submissions due to its excellent theoretical results.

The Department of Information Systems I / VLBA is offering a series of courses with SAP content for the summer semester 2009. Both in the Business Information Systems II / Information Management course and in the ERP Technology block course at the end of the semester, students are given a practical insight into SAP software products.

Contact: Andreas Solsbach and Dirk Peters

At"Computing Science 2009 - Focusing on Life", the 39th annual conference of the German Informatics Society, a workshop on Computing Science and Sustainability Management will take place. The conference will take place from 28 September to 2 October 2009 at the University of Lübeck. The workshop, for which contributions can still be submitted until 26 April, will focus on IT support for the economic and ecological dimensions of sustainability management and discuss research questions, perspectives and applications in this field.

This year, a total of four Oldenburg Computing Science projects will be presented at the joint stand of the State of Lower Saxony (Hall 9, Stand B22). In addition to two projects from the OFFIS computer science institute, Business Informatics I / VLBA, headed by Prof Dr Jorge Marx Gómez, will also be presenting two exhibits:

Venture Express is the name of a practice-oriented teaching concept for students of Computing Science and Business Administration, which Business Informatics I / VLBA is presenting together with the endowed professorship Entrepreneurship(Prof Dr Alexander Nicolai). It combines experimentation and prototype development with elements of business plan development. Interdisciplinary teams translate what they have learnt into real business models. They receive comprehensive support from the participating chairs and external partners.

The second exhibit of Business Informatics I / VLBA presents two research projects under IT Transfer that are on their way to becoming spin-offs: Enterprise Tomography and Repugraph. Enterprise Tomography stands for a process for the efficient identification and visualisation of integration relationships in heterogeneous and distributed enterprise software systems. Repugraph is the name for an independent and trustworthy reputation service that makes it possible to link the evaluation of isolated online offers to actual market transactions and supports cross-customer evaluation.

Source: University of Oldenburg press service

Proposals for contributions on the topic of "Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems (CEMIS): Advancements and Trends" can now be submitted. The deadline for submissions is 30 April 2009. The book planned by IGI Global will be edited by Prof. Dr. Frank Teuteberg of the Department of Management Accounting and Information Systems at the University of Osnabrück and Prof. Dr. Jorge Marx Gómez. Details of the Call for Chapter Proposal can be found at www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=582. Contact: Prof. Dr Frank Teuteberg (University of Osnabrück) and Prof. Dr Jorge Marx Gómez

Nico Brehm, a former research assistant in the Department of Information Systems I / VLBA, successfully completed his thesis defence on the topic of "Federated ERP systems based on web services" in front of an audience of around 50 people at OFFIS. The examining board was made up of Prof Dr Jorge Marx Gómez, Prof Dr Klaus Turowski, Prof Dr Michael Sonnenschein and Dr Marco Grawunder. The subsequent celebration was held at the nearby Carls, where this special day was crowned. We would like to congratulate our former colleague and wish him all the best!