Today's inescapable conditions are rapidly changing requirements, historically grown, heterogeneous IT application landscapes and short technological innovation cycles. To enable business information systems to fulfil their tasks in this area of conflicting interests, flexible and agile concepts are required both in the development of individual applications and in the evolution of IT application landscapes.
An exciting field of application is the future energy supply system, which is increasingly based on IT - the so-called "smart grid": Increasingly decentralised management of energy flows and the spread of decentralised, regenerative generators are changing the existing communication and energy distribution structure. This cannot usually be mapped with existing IT systems, so that a corresponding further development of the architecture of both individual IT systems and interacting systems is necessary. Standardization plays a major role in ensuring interoperability between the systems.
The Group applies its broad methodological knowledge in the area of designing standardized systems for complex IT structures to consulting in the areas of enterprise architecture and software development.
The purpose of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the documentation of relevant information at various levels of an enterprise; such as strategies, business processes, the IT application landscape and the IT infrastructure.
Linking this information across levels helps to gain a better understanding of the relationships between levels. For example, it provides insight into which business processes are supported by which software applications or which projects will change what part of the IT application landscape. Tools for the analysis and visualization of these relationships support decision makers and designers both in business and IT.
Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) deals with the long-term planning of IT and how IT is best aligned with the business goals of an enterprise. It enables the goal-oriented designed and control of IT projects so that a continuous evolution towards the best IT support for business needs is possible.
Flexibility is one of the most important requirements of modern business information systems; systems are required to be quickly and inexpensively adaptable to new or changing business processes. Model-driven software development (MDSD) meets the demand for increased flexibility through the use of modeling and generator technology. However, model-driven approaches are only slowly gaining importance in practical application for a number of reasons:
The increasing decentralization of energy management due to the growing number of decentralized, renewable generators requires changes to the established communications and power distribution structures. These are usually not coverable by existing IT systems - integration in a plug-and-play seldom possible. An increasing number of new standards and norms are under development to achieve the interoperability of field devices and control systems. OFFIS is actively participating in national and international standardization processes, such as the IEC or the German VDE / DKE. The CISE (Center for IT Standards in the Energy Sector) is the OFFIS Competence Cluster for automation and network control technology and provides training in standards, support during the implementation of projects and guidance for technology choices by manufacturers, energy suppliers and advisors.
Our topics:
Intelligente Digitalisierung der Energieversorgung zur Optimierung des Netzbetriebs und zur Erhöhung der Akzeptanz
Duration: 2021 - 2024
National Research Data Infrastructure for the Interdisciplinary Energy System Research
Duration: 2023 - 2028
Untersuchung von Anforderungen, Lösungsmustern und Methoden zur Befähigung produzierender Unternehmen für GAIA-X
Duration: 2022 - 2024
WärmewendeNordwest – Digitalisierung zur Umsetzung von Wärmewende- und Mehrwertanwendungen für Gebäude, Campus, Quartiere und Kommunen im Nordwesten
Duration: 2021 - 2025Alexander Maedche, Edona Elshan, Hartmut Höhle, Christiane Lehrer, Jan Recker, Ali Sunyaev, Benjamin Sturm, Oliver Werth ; Business & Information Systems Engineering; März / 2024
Ferenz, Stephan and Ahrens, Antje and Heiken, Julia and Jandrich, Annabelle and Nieße, Astrid and Seitz, Nicola; 1. NFDI4Energy Conference; February / 2024
Castro, Leyla Jael and Ferenz, Stephan and Fuhrmans, Marc and Göpfert, Jan and Iglezakis, Dorothea and Karras, Oliver and Struck, Alexander; December / 2023
Azamat, M. and Schütz, J.; 27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2023); June / 2023
Markus Reinke, Erika Root, Christine Rosinger; 2023 IEEE 21st International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN); August / 2023
Werth, Oliver and Ferenz, Stephan and Niesse, Astrid and German, Reinhard and Huelck, Ludwig and Weinhardt, Christof and Vogel, Berthold; Proceedings of the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure; September / 2023
Veith, Eric and Wellßow, Arlena and Uslar, Mathias; Frontiers in Energy Research; 2023
Oliver Werth, Stephan Ferenz & Astrid Nieße; Zeitschrift für Energiewirtschaft; Dezember / 2023
Oliver Werth, Stephan Ferenz, Astrid Nieße; Zeitschrift für Energiewirtschaft; Dezember / 2023
Kuchenbuch, R. and Azamat, M. and Schütz, J.; 27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2023); June / 2023