The document discusses research projects from the University of Koblenz-Landau's Center for Enterprise Information Research (CEIR) and Integrated Business Design (IBD) that aim to support digital workplaces. It describes apps created by the university researchers, including a groups app to automate team formation, a content dashboard to visualize social business documents, a whiteboard bot to upload photos, and an IoT middleware. The researchers present their work and its benefits to organizations.

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There is nothing more practical than a good theory :
A p p s m a d e b y u n i v e r s i t y r e s e a r c h e r s
Prof. Dr. Petra Schubert
Söhnke Grams
University of Koblenz-Landau

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www.ceir.de integrated-business-design.com
"Our goal is to conduct high quality research in the area of
IT-enabled business change and the digital workplace."
“Realising the digital workplace”
CEIR & IBD ...
leveraging two decades of evidence-based
research and industry analysis…
to support companies in the design of their
Digital Workplace and to help themto bring
collaboration to the business

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FlorianSchwade
PhD Candidate
ResearchAssistant
SocialCollaboration
Analytics
Petra Schubert
Professor
Director of CEIR
Business Software
SöhnkeGrams
PhD Candidate&
ManagerUCT
Benefitsof ECS
Susan Williams
Professor
Director of CEIR
Social Informatics
ClaraNitschke
PhD Candidate
ResearchAssistant
SociotechnicalChange
JulianMosen
PhD Candidate
ResearchAssistant
SocialBusiness
Documents
MikeReuther
ResearchAssistant
SocialProcessMining
PatrickNitschke
PhD Candidate
ResearchAssistant
Internetof Things
BeritGebel-Sauer
PhD Candidate
ResearchAssistant
InformationIntegration
Jan Kiesewalter
StudentAssistant
MediaandInformation
Design
CarolinWambach
StudentAssistant
ProjectSupport
SimonMeier
StudentAssistant
UniConnectPlatform
Manager
SebastianBahles
StudentAssistant
CommunicationManager
JohannesGlitsch
PhD Candidate
ResearchAssistant
ECSUse Cases

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Domino
Notes
Applications
IBM Connections
XPages
Community
Apps
iWidget
Single Sign-On (SSO)
iFrame
Session Parameter:
- Community-ID
- User-ID
APIs
Connections 5.5 +
Database
Queries
Container Host
Node-
RED
Node-
RED
Node-
RED
Provisioning
(Mosen 2018)

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FEATURES
Workflow support and automation.
A self-service app to manage a
group formation process. Allows
users to register themselves into
groups and then automatically
generate the necessary sub-
communities in IBM Connections.
MAINBENEFICIARIES
Community owners
POSITIVEEFFECTS
Lecturer saves approximately 10
hours of work per class (with 12
groups of 4 students). No need
for Learning Management
System any more.
USERS
Community owners and
community members
GROUPSAPP

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Teams will be formed using the “groups” component of the course’s UniConnect community. Every student who wants to participate must be registered for one team by the
deadline.
Each team must consist of two to three students. If more students register to a single group, some of them will be assigned to other groups. Students, who do not find a
team, can register for team 99 and will be assigned to teams by the supervisors.
Team numbers correspond to seminar topics. By registering to a team, students choose the topic they want to work on as well as the track they want to present in. Only
choose a team/ topic, if you have found a group and do not block it for others! Conflicting choices will be dealt with primarily following a first-come first-serve principle
preferring complete groups over individuals.
There can only be four teams per track. Teams will be reassigned to another track or topic, if there are more than four teams in a track.

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Teams will be formed using the “groups” component of the course’s UniConnect community. Every student who wants to participate must be registered for one team by the deadline.
Each team must consist of two to three students. If more students register to a single group, some of them will be assigned to other groups. Students, who do not find a team, can register for team 99 and will be assigned to teams by
the supervisors.

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FEATURES
Visualize the content in a
selected community. Reveal the
structure of the contained Social
Business Documents with their
(“social”) components. Show the
relationships between documents
(e.g. hierarchies and links).
MAINBENEFICIARY
Community owners and
Business Managers of IBM
Connections
POSITIVEEFFECT
Deeper understanding of the
volume, nature and structure of
SBDs. Improved Community
Management. Generated
information can be used for
adoption measures (e.g.
communication and training).
USERS
Community owners and
platform managers
CONTENTDASHBOARD

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Activity
Streams
Communities
Activities Blogs Bookmarks
Files Forum Wikis
Metrics
Profiles
Home
Intellectual
Core Element
Recommendation
Tags
Comments
Attachments
Versions
Wiki PagesTopicsFilesProfiles
Status Updates
Activities Blog Posts
(Mosen 2017)
SOCIALBUSINESS DOCUMENTS

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Overview Allocation
Ø Users / SBD
# Compound SBDs
99 of 111
2.3
Ø Size / SBD
# Collections
7.2
10

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FEATURES
Automatically upload an image from
a camera into an (admin-)defined
community in the name of the
sender.
MAINBENEFICIARY
Everyone who needs the
information documented in the
image as soon as possible
POSITIVEEFFECT
Automation of upload, saved
time, reliability of correct
destination.
USERS
Users of a meeting room
WHITEBOARD BOT

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Community
„IndustryConnect“Community-Member
„Julian Mosen“
Share meeting results with
IndustryConnect
Community.
Julian Mosen
Three weeks ago I took a photo of our meeting results. Here it is, sorry for the delay
Skizze_vom_Whiteboard.jpg
Whiteboard
3 weeks
(Nitschke & Mosen 2018b)

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Community
„IndustryConnect“Community-Member
„Julian Mosen“
Button
RFID
trigger
Community-Member
„Whiteboard A104“
Share meeting results with
IndustryConnect
Community.
@Mention
Whiteboard A104
@Julian Mosen asked me to share the following photo with the community.
WhiteboardA104_Meeting_IC_2018_03_12_-_10_15_55.jpg
(Nitschke & Mosen 2018b)

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target system
app platform
own devices
external devices
web services
Middleware
Defines „general“ rules
Which information is
supposed to be integrated in
which system?
Contains „local“ rules
How to respond on incoming
information and how is it
classified?
IoT MIDDLEWARE
(Nitschke & Mosen 2018a)

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Whiteboard 11-00002346 (Bot) @Julian Mosen asked me to share the following photo with the community.
Patrick Nitschke liked Whiteboard 11-00002346 (Bot)‘s message.

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FEATURES
Presenting highly-personalized,
contextual information to a
specific user (with the help of an
underlying network of information
objects).
MAINBENEFICIARY
Everybody.
POSITIVEEFFECT
Presenting highly-personalized,
contextual information to a
specific user (with the help of an
underlying network of information
objects).
SoNBO EXPLORER
USERS
All users in the Digital Workplace

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SOCIALNETWORK OF BUSINESS OBJECTS
E
Mueller
OF
1710
OI
1725
Dep.
IT
Product
Bridge
CCP
Schmidt Dep.
Building
E
Diehl
(Gebel-Sauer 2017)

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Database
ERP-
System
Client
Database
ECS
Client
Database
…
Client
Database
ERP-
System
Client
Database
ECS
Client
Database
…
Client
Database
Mueller (Employee)
Diehl (Employee)
Bridge (Product)
1710 (Offer)
1725 (Outgoing invoice)
Building (Department)
IT (Department)
Schmidt (Customer)
Mueller (Employee)
Diehl (Employee)
Bridge (Product)
1710 (Offer)
1725 (Outgoing invoice)
Building (Department)
IT (Department)
Schmidt (Customer)
(Gebel-Sauer 2017)

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Primary source
IBM Connection
Other source Frontend Integrated
application for
communities
Groups App Yes .nsf Yes Yes
Content Dashboard Yes Yes Yes
IoT-Middleware No Things Yes Yes
IRESS Visualizer Yes Yes Yes
SoNBO-Explorer CRM No .nsf Yes Yes
SoNBO-Explorer ERP No NAV Yes Yes
Wiki Synchronizer Yes Yes Yes
Community Text Miner Yes .nsf Yes Yes
OVERVIEW
appsmadebystudentsandresearchers
oftheuniversityofKoblenz-landau

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„To infinity and beyond.“
CaptainBuzzLightyear
SpaceRangerofStarCommand

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References
• Gebel-Sauer, B. (2017). Anwender-Umfrage „Informationsmanagement und
Informationsintegration (mit dem SoNBO-Ansatz) in Unternehmen“. In
Koblenz: CEIR-Forschungsbericht, Nr. 02/2017, Vol. 02., Universität
Koblenz-Landau
• Mosen, J. (2017). Social Business Document Monitoring. Master Thesis.
University of Koblenz-Landau
• Mosen, J. (2018). Technical Setup: IBM Connections & IBM Domino.
Domino V10 World Premiere, Frankfurt, 09.10.2018.
• Nitschke, P. & Mosen, J. (2018a). Einrichtung von automatisierten Abläufen.
IndustryConnect-Workshop 9, 05.10.2018, Seeheim.
• Nitschke, P. & Mosen, J. (2018b). Showcase: Verknüpfung von IoT und
ECS. IndustryConnect-Workshop 8, 05.04.2018, Koblenz.

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