Solutions for your digital business models and software in digital ecosystems

On the road to the digital future, processes are getting digitalized, automated, and networked. Information systems and software on mobile devices and on the "Internet of Things" control these processes and workflows. This leads to the emergence of digital ecosystems that are available and can be experienced at all times and almost anywhere, and which trigger the establishment of novel types of digital business models.

Our goal is to ensure the long-term success of your business through digital revenues. We assist you in the development of your digital business model with our leading innovative methods. This means that our experts will accompany you from ideation via the concept to the prototype implementation of a digital service, a digital ecosystem, or a platform.

Information systems and mobile systems permeate our daily lives in many areas. In the future, company-internal systems such as ERP, CRM, ICIS, accounting and billing systems will not only provide support for and automation of business processes and daily processing of millions of transactions, but will also be networked with and interact with other system classes, such as Social Media, eCommerce, FinTech, systems in vehicles and in other companies – also from other industries. This will result in better, more widely available, data-based, and personalized services for customers and users.

With our three service areas, you will successfully master the challenges of the digital transformation.

Innovation & Strategy

• Fraunhofer is your incubator and your workshop: We accompany your digitalization projects and innovative product developments from ideation to rapid prototyping in our Innovation Labs with guaranteed qualities such as Security, Safety, Privacy, and User Experience.
• We design your digital ecosystem for you and with you, so that you can use new digital business models to secure your company’s long-term success also with digital revenues.
• Together with you, we develop a vision, a goal, and a migration path for the modernization of legacy systems in order to make them fit for the future and for use by younger generations.

Diagnostics & Optimization

• Fraunhofer optimizes your IT and software processes for software and application development and for the continually increasing requirements of users and customers in terms of competitive productivity, quality, regulatory requirements, as well as fitness for the digital transformation.  
• We revise your software architectures to enable them to master future challenges regarding networking in digital ecosystems, quality, longevity, and extensibility.
• We improve the User Experience of the user end points for your digital services and platforms – your customers will love using your products or working with your software!

Engineering Support

• Fraunhofer helps you design your software and services – from the requirements via the architecture to the user interface and the right test cases – in order to ensure right from the start that the complexity of ecosystems and digital services remains manageable.
• We provide operational support for the modernization of your software systems, from the user interface via the architecture to the code and the exchange of implementation technologies in accordance with the developed goal and the defined migration path.

Have we aroused your interest? Get in contact with us! We will be glad to discuss your individual challenges with you and design a solution based on our competencies.

In the context of the digital transformation, more and more data including personal data is being processed. Since May 2018, the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in force in the EU. Our series of four posts on the Fraunhofer IESE Blog provides background information and practical tips and addresses the importance of the GDPR for digital ecosystems and digital business models.

Blog Post: “Digital Ecosystems and Platform economy” [in German]

Find out more about the new responsibility resulting from the GDPR as well as about the economic opportunities arising from it in this interview about GDPR.

Blog Post: “The GDPR: New Responsibility – New Opportunities” [in German]

One of the Fraunhofer flagship projects in the area of Digital Ecosystems and Platform Economy is the cooperation with CARUSO dataplace. In this exciting blog post, you can learn more about the CARUSO Go-Live event, which took place in November 2017 already. Since then, CARUSO dataplace has been running with increasing success. 

Blog Post: “Caruso Go-live – The Networking Platform” [in German]