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brox stellt ein..

2010-02-15T10:37:20Z

Zur Verstärkung unseres Consulting Teams suchen wir engagierte IT Governance Berater, sowie IT Service Management Spezialisten.

Interessiert? Klicken Sie bitte hier, um mehr über die Stellen zu erfahren.

brox ist Mitglied der LiSoG

2009-11-30T15:22:18Z

Die LiSoG - Linux Solutions Group e.V. - wurde im März 2005 gegründet. Sie verfolgt eine klare Geschäftsorientierung und agiert länderübergreifend mit Kontaktbüros in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Zürich und Wien im deutschsprachigen Raum.

IT-Anbieter, -Anwender, sowie wissenschaftliche Partner haben sich in der LiSoG zusammengeschlossen, um verstärkt Linux und Open Source Software in Unternehmen zu etablieren und das Vertrauen in Open Source-Lösungen zu erhöhen. Im Zentrum der LiSoG steht „Collaborative Innovation": Die LiSoG initiiert Projekte zu aktuellen marktrelevanten Open Source-Themen, in denen Mitglieder und Interessierte gemeinsam Lösungen erarbeiten, und treibt sie katalytisch voran. Außerdem bietet die LiSoG eine Networking-Plattform für Projekte, Partner und Interessierte.

Unter den Mitgliedern der LiSoG finden sich IT-Anbieter wie IBM, Novell, Red Hat, Collax, Topalis, Abraxas, Agami (AT) und Integratio (CH). Als Anwender-Mitglieder sind Einrichtungen des Public Sector wie beispielsweise die Städte Schwäbisch Hall und Freiburg sowie die Schweizer Bundesverwaltung vertreten. Ebenso sind Banken und Versicherungen wie die Baader Wertpapierhandelsbank und die Stuttgarter Lebensversicherung Mitglied der Linux Solutions Group. Zu den wissenschaftlichen Partnern der LiSoG gehören Hochschulen u.a. in Fribourg (CH), Heilbronn, Karlsruhe, und Linz (AT).

Eclipse Demo Camp findet in Braunschweig statt

2009-11-13T15:15:53Z

Die Firmen brox und bredex veranstalten gemeinsam das Eclipse DemoCamp am 25.11.2009 in Braunschweig.

Brox ist Strategic Member der Eclipse Foundation geworden, um durch die Bereitstellung einer Referenzarchitektur (SMILA - Semantic Information Logistics Architecture) auf Open Source Basis die Informationslogistik grundlegend zu optimieren. Eclipse DemoCamps in aller Welt bieten nun interessierten Besuchern die Chance zu einem direkten Einblick in den Stand unserer Entwicklung.
Ich lade Sie herzlich dazu ein, die SMILA Präsentation durch das brox Team in Braunschweig bzw. durch unsere Partner Empolis in Kaiserslautern hautnah zu erleben.

Zur Anmeldung: http://democampbraunschweig.eventbrite.com/

Ihr,
Hans-Chr. Brockmann

PS:
Man braucht kein Softwareentwickler zu sein um teilzunehmen! Das Format der DemoCamps ist absolut ungezwungen. Eine Übersicht aller Eclipse DemoCamps finden Sie hier:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2009

brox ist Mitglied der ITA

2009-11-10T10:44:34Z

ITA - Information Technology for the Automotive Industry

Die ITA ist ein assoziiertes Gremium des VDA (Verband der Automobilindustrie)..

ITA wurde am 14. März 2000 mit dem Ziel gegründet, den Informationsfluss zwischen den
Automobilherstellern und -zulieferern auf der einen und den IT-Unternehmen auf der anderen Seite zu verbessern, wobei das bestehende Augenmerk auf der Analyse der Logistik der Lieferketten liegt.

Heute sind bereits mehr als 50 namhafte Unternehmen der IT-Branche mit verschiedenen Kernkompetenzen in ITA vertreten. Sie kennen die Geschäftsprozesse der Automobilindustrie im Detail und sind in der Lage, deren speziellen Anforderungen IT-technisch umzusetzen oder hierbei beratend zu unterstützen.

Die ITA Mitgliedsfirmen erwirtschafteten im Jahre 2006 mit insgesamt ca. 775.000 Mitarbeiter einen Umsatz von ca. 135 Milliarden Euro.

ITA wirkt in internationalen Gremien und Arbeitsgruppen, z.B. ODETTE, AIAG und OAGi mit. Dies ermöglicht, dass Know-how und Kompetenz übertragen, nationale und europäische Interessen mitgestaltet und IT-gestützte Prozesse der Automobilindustrie insgesamt transparenter und effektiver realisiert werden können.

Neue brox website

2009-07-08T07:57:59Z

Lieber Besucher der brox Website,

wir freuen uns, dass nun auch brox.de in neuem Glanz erstanden ist. Wir wünschen allen viel Spaß beim Studium unserer Sites.

Ihr
Sebastian Sybrecht

Eclipse DemoCamp Hannover

2010-05-20T19:19:46Z

Anlässlich des Helios-Release von Eclipse veranstalten das neue Hannover IT Mitglied und strategische Mitglied der Eclipse Foundation - brox IT-Solutions GmbH - zusammen mit der BREDEX GmbH aus Braunschweig wieder ein Eclipse DemoCamp. Nachdem beim letzten DemoCamp mehr als 60 Eclipce Enthusiasten teilnahmen, stellt uns jetzt die FHDW - Fachhochschule für die Wirtschaft Hannover als "Raumsponsor" ihren großen Hörsaal zur Verfügung.

Im Rahmen des äußerst informellen Formats gibt es einerseits ausreichend Gelegenheit zum Networking und andererseits hochkarätige Vorträge von aktiven Eclipse Foundation Committern und Mitgliedern.

Termin:	Montag, 21. Juni 2010, 17:00 - 20:00 Uhr
Ort:	FHDW - Fachhochschule für die Wirtschaft Hannover Freundallee 15, 30173 Hannover
Thema:	Eclipse DemoCamp hochkarätige Vorträge von aktiven Eclipse Foundation Committern und Mitgliedern zum Helios-Release von Eclipse
Zielgruppe:	Eclipse Entwickler und Anwender sowie Eclipse Enthusiasten
Kosten:	Die Veranstaltung ist für Teilnehmer kostenfrei
	Agenda >>>Anmeldung >>>

Derzeit werden folgnde Vorträge erwartet:

Nutzung von GUIdancer reporting zur Messung von ProjektqualitätHans-Joachim Brede und Alexandra Imrie, BREDEX GmbH

Automatisierte semantische Informationsverarbeitung mit SMILA
Dr. Sebastian Voigt, brox IT Solutions GmbH

Eclipse Modelling und Programmierung mit UML-LAB
Patrick Oppermann, Yatta Solutions GmbH

Xtext - Language Development is Fun

Weitere Vorträge sind in Planung und werden laufend auf der Eclipse Wiki Seite aktualisiert.
Anfahrtinformationen und die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung für das DemoCamp finden Sie auf der Eventbrite Seite.

Wir bitten Sie um Anmeldung ausschließlich online und freuen uns auf Ihre Teilnahme.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Geschäftsführer
Projektzentrum Hannover IT GmbH

Anwendungsszenario ORDO veröffentlicht SMILA 0.7

2010-05-11T14:18:32Z

Theseus News

Nach 20 Monaten intensiver Entwicklung wurde nun eine erste offizielle, von der eclipse-Foundation umfassend geprüfte Version von SMILA („SeMantic Information Logistics Architecture") veröffentlicht.

Durch diese Prüfung wurde sichergestellt, dass SMILA frei von Rechten Dritter ist und somit zukünftig in industriellen Suchanwendungen eingesetzt werden kann. Somit ist ein weiterer wichtiger Schritt getan, SMILA als eine standardisierte, industriell einsetzbare Infrastruktur für Informationsmanagement zu etablieren.

Maßgeblich wurde SMILA durch die Arbeit von Empolis im Rahmen des Use Case ORDO innerhalb des THESEUS Forschungsprogramms entwickelt. Inzwischen wird SMILA auch in weiteren THESEUS Use Cases wie z.B. TEXO und PROCESSUS verwendet und kommt darüber hinaus auch beim Projekt „THESEUS Mittelstand" zum Einsatz. Auch außerhalb von THESEUS findet SMILA bereits Anwendung. Beispielweise nutzt kinkon.de - ein Portal zum kindgerechten Surfen im Internet - die SMILA-Architektur.

Die Mitarbeit als auch Nutzung von SMILA steht interessierten Institutionen aus Industrie und Forschung offen.

Leipziger Semantic Web Days 2010

2010-04-01T11:49:40Z

I just got the invitation for this years semantic web days in Leipzig and wanted to let you know that they have done a wonderful job at getting an interesting mix of technical speakers and business/industry/government use-case presentations. The eccenca team will be present as well and will provide a short presentation of its vision of how the Eclipse.org project SMILA (semantic information logistics architecture) will fill the gap between the semantic web and today's enterprise IT infrastructure.
General information on the event including registration can be found at: http://aksw.org/LSWT The eccenca/SMILA presentation will take place on Mai 6th at 11:45 am.

I will be there for the evening session on the 5th and would like to invite everyone to participate in a discussion of how semantic technology can become a key success factor to the enterprise. Every reasonable suggestion will automatically result in an invitation to have a few beers with me;-)

Looking forward to seeing you there,

Chris Brockmann

Release eccenca 1.1

2010-02-24T14:08:29Z

We have just release Version 1.1 of eccenca. It contains a lot of bugfixes because it is based on a new SMILA revision.

Please try it eccenca 1.1 and give us feedback:
http://download.eccenca.com/

See the Release Notes

Introducing the eccenca desktop search client eDiscoverer

2010-02-19T11:50:07Z

We are proud to introduce the all new desktop search client from eccenca.

At a first glance eccenca Discoverer is just another desktop search. So why should the eDiscoverer boost your productivity in comparison to existing systems?

The eDiscoverer features a superior fault-tolerant search and indexing technology. Besides it enables users to quickly find and review documents from remote severs. Companies usually don't allow desktop search engines to index fileshares over the network as the resulting increase in traffic has been linked to network break down. But how are we supposed to quickly find important documents on remote servers without being able to index network drives?
eDiscoverer has the ability to seamlessly connect to eccenca server engines. These are directly placed on central file- or groupware-servers to avoid network traffic during indexing. Lightning fast document preview functions assure instant gratification and improved "findability" with eccenca - no matter if documents are stored locally or on a remote server.

Click here to get your free trial version!

EclipseCon Is All About You

2010-02-18T16:26:32Z

EclipseCon is the conference for anyone involved in Eclipse. As an Eclipse user, EclipseCon is where you will learn about the latest Eclipse products as well as picking up those valuable how-to tips from the experts and user groups. As an Eclipse developer, EclipseCon is where you collaborate with your colleages and do that whiteboard planning for the next generation of APIs and features. As an Eclipse company, EclipseCon is the place to talk directly to your users and learn how to make the most compelling tools on the planet.

Visit us March 22nd - 25th at EclipseCon 2010 in Santa Clara, California.

Sebastian Voigt is our speaker at the convention. He will present "Searching the Cloud - the EclipseRT Umbrella! " together with Igor Novakovic from Empolis and Markus Knauerfrom EclipseSource. We are looking forwar to seeing you in Santa Clara!

Title Story about eccenca

2009-12-17T14:55:52Z

Following article has just appeared in the German Management Magazine Chefbuero

brox-Artikel Chefbüro 08-09.pdf

eccenca marketplace has been launched

2009-11-04T14:21:06Z

We are proud to announce the launch of the new eccenca marketplace! This version replaces the preliminary system that was actually not more than a component info system. Many missing features are now aboard.

Of course there is all necessary e-commerce functionality. Besides, the marketplace is designed to serve as a comprehensive information source for information logistic news, trends aswell as existing software. We plan to extend this mission a lot in the future.

In the meantime further providers of great free and commercial components have joined. Please welcome the imaging technology specialist accusoft pegasus as a representative.

Short demo explaining the semantic web that I found useful

2009-09-02T19:38:40Z

Why participate or contribute to an Eclipse Open Source Project?

2009-08-31T14:13:40Z

I found the following clipping in a presentation created by Ralph Müller (Director, Eclipse Foundation) . In his presentation Ralph summarizes a few facts that aim to explain, why companies from the automotive Industry have decided to cooperate within an Open Source industry working group with the objective to define common standards for their industry. The clipping itself is from Hanse Report on Automotive Electronics.

To view Ralphs full presentation click here: 2009-07-30 Eclipse Industry Collaboration.pdf

Having started a discussion about the timing and opportunities of deploying semantic technologies for the enterprise in my last blog entry I though discussing this question would make all the sense in the world.

]]> If I am going to get feedback from my readers on their take - as to what it will take to make semantic technologies pervasively available in the enterprise context - I expect it to be focusing on these aspects:

Tools
Standards
Best Practices / use Cases
Solutions

I agree that all of the above should be put into place before semantic technologies reach pervasive distribution. Let us take a step back. If in fact we - the tech geeks - have seen a set of technologies that can have a huge impact on the business world, then we need to figure out how we can get the business people to share our understanding and start adopting these new techniques.

Well, if we assume for a moment that semantic enterprise technologies can have a huge impact. What could we do to get these things off the ground?

You guessed it - start an Eclipse.org project and working group. There is no other place on this planet where you will find more tooling competence. No other organization has such a pragmatic and successful track record in creating standards by implementing them in industry consortia. Make the stuff you are developing Open Source, so that as many people as possible can benefit at minimal cost - and you have the fastest and most dependable way to finding best practices and use cases.
Your bet is on solutions? How are you going to expedite the process of the creation of new solutions for a new technical era? Provide dependable standards, infrastructure, tooling and a vast community of early adopters and "tech-geeks" like us...The eclipse Foundation has approximately 200 enterprises investing into the future of eclipse by contribution resources. The IDE has a market share of approximately 70%. Where else would you go, what other options would you have to maximize the chances of success for your initiative?

We are seeing such industry working groups in the automotive tools chain, the insurance industry, the health care market and the semantic technologies market, where we are one of the leaders.
So, if ever you were wondering whom to turn to or what to do to minimize cost and risk and maximize adoption for your technology driven industry vision....Eclipse.org might be a good place to start looking.

Here is a question that we really need to discuss:

2009-08-31T07:53:07Z

Are we ready for the semantic enterprise?

For those of you who understand German, here is a link to what initially seemed to be a provocative article. As it turns out, it was inspiring and lead me to post this question asking your help.
http://www.omnisophie.com/day_97.html
Just a little background about the author: Prof. Dr. Gunter Dueck (Business Leader, Dynamic Infrastructure, IBM Germany Chief Technologist, IBM Innovation Network, Germany IBM Distinguished Engineer & Member of the IBM Academy of Technology IBM Deutschland) in other words a guy who gets paid by IBM to ask the kinds of questions they do not want to be asked. ]]>
But back to the question.
Gunter was postulating, that the majority of good ideas lie half dead in some corner, not because the idea is bad, but because the required infrastructure, mindset and whatever else is necessary for the idea to blossom, is missing. (He actually complains about people who come to him with ideas that are half baked and have not bothered to confirm that the infrastructure necessary for the ideas success is actually in place)

Here are some simple examples of ideas he sights:
Amazone had to wait a long time before the internet was actually available to a broad audience and the more time before people understood that e-commerce is not evil. SecondLife had only the slightest chance once there was broad availability of high internet bandwidth, digital cameras started selling well when people started sending pictures by mail....video phones will be a killer product, once others have them too and there will be once again enough bandwidth.....you could go on like - who needs ships, if there are no harbors or airplanes if there are no landing strips. I bet you get the message by now!

The question I would like to debate with you is: What are the prerequisites for the semantic enterprise to come to life?
We are seeing the semantic web coming to life with the LOD cloud growing like weeds. In this case it was standards like microformats, RDF, Sparql, scalable triple stores and maybe even applications like DBPedia and Parallax etc. and of course restless efforts by TBL.

You know that we have set our sights on building an open semantic information logistics architecture for the enterprise. Is this a ship that is yet without a harbor, or are we building railroad tracks without providing trains?

Please give me your ideas as to what are the missing bits and pieces that we need to put together to get the semantic enterprise off the ground!

I am looking forward to hearing from you!

Ever wonder why people invest money into Open Source projects?

2009-08-29T18:50:03Z

Stefan Wess of Attensity Group published an article that describes Attensity Empolis long road to finally deciding to invest into Open Source and to initiate SMILA base on that decision.

This is even more astonishing we taking into consideration, that Attensity Group with more than 500 enterprise clients is one of the worlds leading providers of information logistics solutions. If anyone could ever have economies of scale in reinventing the wheel for information logistics, then Attensity Group would definitely be it.

]]> 1) They listened to their clients who like the idea
2) They analyzed past sales and sale profitability and found that customers were choosing Attensity group for its unique technology and not the technology it was built on

We have been very closely involved in this decision process and of course Stefans decision to give us the go ahead to launch the project as part of the Eclipse Foundation.
We spoke with other German partners and clients and they all agreed - the future will belong to hybrid solutions that share the cost of a deployment platform built in an Open Source setting while creating an ideal setting to leverage ones technological and process USPs in a way that creates the biggest value for the user.

If you are curious to learn why one of the worlds leading information logistics companies decided to initiate SMILA with brox, please read Stefan Wess post at Attensity.com:

http://www.attensity.com/en/Company/Blog/2009/08/YesWeDoOpenSource.php

Any doubts that semantic technology CAN make a difference in information logistics?

2009-08-19T07:18:28Z

Well, if you have had any doubts about the potential of semantic technologies then please take the time to review the below video.
If you have not got any doubts, please view the video anyway.
This is what I want my tax money to be spent on. I want research that comes up with software that will make a difference in our lives! And this type of stuff will make a huge difference!

My sincere thanks to Paolo, Giovanni and the rest of the Sindice and SIGMA team!

Sig.ma - Live views on the Web of Data from Sindice Team on Vimeo.

]]> I know that getting the eccence of information does not mean that we want pages filled with hyperlinks....but don't you see the potential?
Linked data will change the way we can access and work with information from disparate sources within the enterprise and outside of it.
SIGMA is designed to work with a very broad range of sources and types of searches. I have no doubt in my mind that a similar application in an enterprise context could produce absolutely crisp and clear information in dashboard style.

The only problem - there is too little linked data available in enterprises. Tim Berners-Lee has been asking us to make our information and our data available to the public ....well, the least we could do is to make it available to our colleagues and business partners. Shouldn't we? The technology is already available. Of course we are capable of publishing new information in RDF and SMILA will provide the capability to automate the publication of all the "old stuff" in RDF as well.
Every day I am talking to people who have come to see, that the benefits of a future semantic web can be translated into real values for enterprises right now. We do not need to wait and see how this whole Semantic Web thing will play out! It is "yes we can!" and yes, we can start sharing information internally and build business process driven solutions that allow us to consume data powered by semantic web standards today.

Want to see and hear something scary?

2009-08-19T06:45:18Z

I have just come back from a few days of vacation during the course of which I have finally been able to catch up with some reading.
One of the most exciting and to some degree scary things I have come across was a video published by the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi).
I found this video on the website of John Dominique. John is the President of STI International a global organization with members in Europe, North America, and Asia with a mission to "make semantics real".

Future Internet from KMi on Vimeo.

Let's think about this video and its message for a moment... How do you feel about STis Vision of the future? Please feel free to comment ;-)

]]> With SMILA being the basis for the German Theseus Programm I was aware of the fact that SAP is very serious about semantic technologies and their future potential as part of business processes. At the same time I was not aware of the dimension of commitment and investment companies like SAP and the European Governments were putting into the semantic web. No question that this will have a significant impact on our private lives, but also our business life will be affected. Just consider the effect this will have on the half-life of information! This in turn will have a dramatic impact on the speed at which organizations will need to adapt to changing forces in the market. In my mind there will be a need to start fighting fire with fire. As a consequence organizations need to brace themselves for a dramatic increase in the use of just those technologies, that by exerting market forces, are bound to change the way we all are working today.

The good news for those of us, who would like things to progress a little less rapidly is that in spite of the huge investments: Many aspects of this vision require standards and technologies that have yet to be invented.

You would like to be part of the wild few, who are working on the forefront of these new technologies? Well, here are a few cool projects that might be worth looking at or even worth contributing to:

MITs SMILE Project
DERIs Sindice Project
DERIs SIG.MA Project
OKKAM
Eclipse SMILA Project

If you like to be scared, then this other video might interest you as well:

Content Management Meets Text Analytics

2009-08-10T20:46:04Z

Information is the lifeblood of any company. While organizations have made significant progress in analyzing their structured data (such as sales figures and number of complaints), the reality is that most company information is unstructured. This unstructured information includes claims, contracts, patents, call center notes, clinical trial records, and survey responses, which are often stored in enterprise content management systems. Content management systems are a treasure trove of information since there is a significant amount of insight that can be derived from this unstructured data. If you have ever asked yourself why SMILA and eccenca go to such length to make it easy to apply best in class text analytics to your documents, then please download and reade this interesting white paper.
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