Team

The origins of the #ubimic idea is research-driven. However, the #ubimic initiative includes participants from both academic and practice:

Core Team

Martin Böhringer

Martin (@boehr) is a Ph.D. student at Chemnitz University of Technology (Department of Business Information Systems) and initiator of #ubimic.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Gaedke

Martin (@gaedke) is Full Professor of Computer Science at Chemnitz University of Technology. He leads the Distributed and Self-organizing Computer Systems (VSR) research group.

Dr. Lutz Gerlach

Lutz (@LutzGerlach) is a researcher at Chemnitz University of Technology. He studies micoblogging and it’s impact on innovation and absorptive capacity in organisations and works at the Department for Organisational Studies. Lutz  also is Co-Founder of cm|d.

Stefan Hauptmann

Stefan (@StefanHauptmann) is Co-Founder of cm|d – corporate mind development. cm|d offers support for organisations who want to use microblogging. The focus of cm|d are use cases and change management processes. He also works on the Project InnoLab-Pro that is funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development.

Associated Partners

We cooperate with a number of partner organisations. Beyond them are:

Research Group Cooperation Systems, Munich

We cooporate with Prof. Dr. Michael Koch (@kochm), Alexander Richter (@arimue) and their colleagues from the research group for cooperation systems in Munich in different publication projects. Together, we worked on microblogging and its relation to the ‘awareness’ concept.

Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment (ESME)

Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment (ESME) is a secure and highly scalable microsharing and micromessaging platform that allows people to discover and meet one another and get controlled access to other sources of information, all in a business process context. ESME’s origins are in the SAP community. Together we collaborate on a scenario for microblogging/ERP integration (see the ESME wiki for the full scenario).

Communote

Communote is an enterprise microblogging tool from Communardo Software GmbH. We have a lively collaboration with them. For example we have students working for Communote (e.g. in their master thesis) on a regular basis.

Akibot

Akibot is an enterprise micro-blogging platform that not only allows real time group collaboration and awareness, but is also actionable: it uses its artificial intelligence to understand conversations. By understanding conversations, it assists users answering their questions and engaging interdepartmental collaboration by inquiring data from enterprise resource planning and groupware applications providing valuable information for the decision making process.