Karl Michael Popp

The goal of the book is end-to-end automation of M&A processes. With this book, the following tasks can be carried out: 1.Determination of the tasks to be automated: In this book, all tasks in due diligence are described. The tasks relevant for a company can be selected and then automated in a targeted manner. 2.Overview of the automation options for the M&A process: The automatability described for the tasks allow an overview of which tasks in the M&A process can already be automated in which way. 3.Determination of the automation potential of M&A processes: The methodology contained in this book and the details of the tasks and their automatability allow the determination of the digitization potential. 4.Familiarization with M&A processes: In this book all tasks in the Due Diligence phase are documented with their objectives, a description and with questions during the execution. This enables a quick familiarization with the details of the Due Diligence phase.

Due Diligence Tasks and Automation

Automation of Mergers and Acquisitions

This book enables you to leverage the state-of-the-art of creating open source based business models and of managing open source in the development cycle of commercial software and during due diligence in mergers and acquisitions. In addition, it provides information about why investments in open source makes sense. Practitioners, investors and consultants created this book to help professionals in the software business like investors, executives, business developers, product managers, architects, developers, quality managers, development operations managers as well as students to get acquainted and proficient in using open source products in a commercial context. First, the focus is on business model impact of open source products and open source licenses. Dr. Karl Michael Popp gives an overview of the different types of business models for open source companies. Dr. Josef Waltl shows how open source licenses and intellectual property strategies can create a unique business model based on a combination of open source and proprietary software. Then, the focus is on detection and license compliance aspects of open source software in mergers and acquisitions. The acquisition of a software vendor requires the review of intellectual property rights including open source license compliance as described by Dr. Karl Michael Popp. The following new chapter, authored by Joseph Jacks from OSS Capital, provides fundamentals of the open source business by elaborating on value creation and value capture for commercial open source companies. Then, two chapters cover the offerings of tool vendors for governance of open source software but also for development enablement. First, Bill Weinberg and Greg Olsen show the broad offering of solutions of Black Duck Software, a provider for open source governance and enablement tools. The next, new chapter, provided by Snyk, focuses on development aspects of using open source software as part of commercial products like assistance for developers in selection and in continuously updating open source components during the software development lifecycle.

Business models, processes and tools for managing open source software 2nd edition

Best Practices for commercial use of open source software

Thomas Aidan Curran

Slinger Jansen

Peter Buxmann

Gerald Eichler

Thomas Kude

The European Workshop on Software Ecosystems http://www.ewseco.org is an annual event which connects researchers and fellow professionals in the field of software ecosystems. Presentations in 2017 included: 1. Software M&A Ecosystems -- Industry Keynote by Julis Telaranta, Corum 2. Sandbox vs. Toolbox - Analyzing boundary Resource in B2B Software Platforms -- Maximilian Schreieck, Robert Finke, Manuel Wiesche, Helmut Krcmar 3. Manage multiple platform-ecosystems -- Christopher Jud, Georg Herzwurm 4. Survival of the smartest: Digitalization of mechanical engineering companies by creating a software ecosystem -- Industry Keynote by Benjamin Müller, ADAMOS GmbH 5. Building your IoT ecosystem: Proposing the Hybrid Intelligence Accelerator -- Dominik Dellermann, Nikolaus Lipusch, Philipp Ebel, Jan Marco Leimeister 6. The European Standard on eInvoicing EN16931 - Applications and Services to implement Directive 2014/55/EU on electronic invoicing -- Industry Keynote by Seeburger AG 7. Platform Business in Application Markets: Data Analytics of Mobile App Usage and Descriptions -- Lauri Frank 8. Fake it till you make it: how to bootstrap an ecosystem before your company is ready -- Alexander Eck, Benjamin Spottke 9. Strategy definition in large enterprise software ecosystems -- Ralf Meyer

Proceedings of the European Workshop on Software Ecosystems 2017

Proceedings of the European Workshop on Software Ecosystems 2012 The research on software ecosystems still is a young and emerging field. We created the European Workshop on Software Ecosystems to: - bring together the research community from all over Europe and - share, present and discuss their latest research with business experts from the software industry A big thank you to the many people who supported this workshop and the proceedings. Researchers and Presenters: - Josef Waltl / Technical University of Munich, Germany What makes a software platform attractive for ecosystem partners? - Karthik Jayaraman / University of Oslo / Norway Managing the Arbitrage of Control and Generativity in Software Ecosystems - M. Schreiner, T. Hess / Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany The Success of Software Companies Internationalization: The Case of Germany - K.-B. Schultis, C. Elsner, Siemens AG, D. Lohmann / FAU University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Architectural guidance and governance in industrial software ecosystems - S. Hyrynsalmi, A. Suominen, T. Makila & A. Jarvi / University of Turku, Finland Analyzing Developers Challenges in Mobile Application Marketplaces - J. Wollersheim, A. Teufl, P. Hoberg, P. Wolf, fortiss GmbH, H. Krcmar, Technical University of Munich, Germany Mechanisms to gather customer feedback - Requirements in the cloud service ecosystem Industry Sponsors: BlackDuck Software, Corum M&A, fluid Operations, InnoWerft, Netfira, Partner-Port, Suse Software, Synomic. WWW.EWSECO.ORG

Proceedings of European Workshop on Software Ecosystems

The European Workshop on Software Ecosystems is an annual event which connects researchers and fellow professionals in the field of software ecosystems. Presentations in 2015 included: Jon Scott, SVP Corum - Keynote Software M&A Ecosystems, Stefan Henningson, Copenhagen Business School - Cisco is using acquisitions of software companies to re-invent its „platform core“, Andreas Schönberger, Siemens AG - Using ecosystem modeling to drive ecosystem projects, Abilio Avila, Orestis Terzidis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Management of Partner Ecosystems in the Enterprise Software Industry, Alexander Serebrenik, Technical University of Eindhoven - Surveying Challenges in Software Ecosystems Research, Ralf Meyer, Synomic GmbH - Why even successful large Software Ecosystems need professional representation like International Association for SAP Partners, Jonathan Hildenbrand, Netfira - Keynote Business networks, Sami Hyrynsalmi, University of Turku - To Redefine Ecosystem Health, or not to Redefine? A view of scientific knowledge on the „software ecosystem health“ concept, Dominik Dellermann, Alexander Fliaster, University of Bamberg - The Strategic Risks of Software Ecosystems, Christopher Jud, Georg Herzwurm, University of Stuttgart - Platforms and ecosystems from complementers’ point of view.

Proceedings of the European Workshop on Software Ecosystems 2015

Ziel dieses Buches ist es, Ihnen wichtige Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten für eine erfolgreiche Due Diligence in der Softwarebranche zu vermitteln. Sie lernen den M&A-Prozess, die M&A-Organisation, Due Diligence Inhalte, Due Diligence Hacks und Besonderheiten der Softwarebranche wie Geschäftsmodelle, Software-Ökosysteme und Partnerschaftsmodelle kennen.

Karl Michael Popp

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