Studies and White Paper

There are more and more vendors, which led to IoT being a heterogeneous collection of different IoT platforms, isolated solutions and several protocols. It has been proposed to use Data Integration to overcome this heterogeneity. In addition, costs are on the raise due to increasing volume of data which increases demands on bandwidth and cloud computing capabilities. Again a solution has already been proposed by reducing the amount of data to forward by processing data at the edge of an IoT-System, e. g. filtering or aggregation. This concept is called Edge Computing. In this article the Semantic Edge Computing Runtime (SECR) is introduced, combining both concepts.

The first four editions of the study entitled »Logistics Real Estate – Market and Locations« deliver an objective assessment of the logistics real estate market and the relevant locations. As a research platform, »L.Immo online« aims to deliver more user value by publishing increased digital content.

Being IT-outsourcing an important business trend in the era of digitalization, the topic has received attention from scholars during the last decade. However, the particular phenomenon of IT-outsourcing in the logistics sector, which is also gaining momentum as a business practice, has been much less studied and therefore not present in academic literature. This text provides an interesting an encompassing account on the topic of IT-outsourcing within the context of logistics service providers facing the challenge of digitalization by providing an account of the main drivers and implications of IT-outsourcing in the field of logistics. Based on a conceptual model, an empirical comparative study between the logistics sectors of Germany and Mexico is conducted and further enhanced through information gathered by means of in-depth interviews giving further illumination of the factors influencing IT-outsourcing in both countries.

Workflow languages have been successfully applied for modelling behaviour in enterprise information systems, in which the data is often managed in a relational database. Linked Data interfaces have been widely deployed on the web to support data integration in very diverse domains, increasingly also in scenarios involving the Internet of Things, in which application behaviour is often specified using imperative programming languages. In their work, Tobias Kaefer and Andreas Harth aim to combine workflow languages, which allow for the high-level specification of application behaviour by non-expert users, with Linked Data, which allows for decentralised data publication and integrated data access.

In recent years, logistics has been recognized increasingly as one of the largest and most critical sectors. The attention the Fraunhofer SCS study "Top 100 in Logistics" is attracting in means of assessing markets, market boundaries, market sizes and the market shares of large logistics operators prompted us to carry out the current study on a systematical approach to define market boundaries for a proper assessment of competitive intensity and to compare them.

This research answers following questions: »How do digital technologies impact value creation of companies in the manufacturing industry?« Therefore, the key digital technologies that impact companies in the manufacturing industry have been identified by a systematic literature review. In the following, a focus was set on the value creatino of companies in the manufacturing industry. A defining feature of digital transformation is that networks of firms, instead of individual firms, are competing with each other. Thus, the author of this work created a role model with key cooperation partners of companies in the manufacturing industry by application of grounded theory.

The standard work on logistics – in English and focused on the “EU30” (European Union plus Norway and Switzerland). The digital study provides all the key data for a thorough market analysis, bringing transparency to your supply chain.

The European general cargo market is multifaceted and has previously only been insufficiently covered. For this reason, it is time to take a closer look at this market with scientifically grounded analyses and evaluations.