Our team is giving a series of lectures and seminars with a focus on enterprise systems design and in-memory data management. Strong links to the industry ensure a close connection between theory and its implementation in the real world.

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Research Areas

Our research focuses on the principles of in-memory data management on modern hardware and the integration of different hard- and software systems to meet business requirements. This involves studying the conceptual and technological aspects of modern enterprise applications profiting from hybrid transactional and analytical data processing and computational statistics. In customer-centered enterprise software development, the focus is on the end users. Developing solutions tailored to user needs in a timely manner requires well-designed tools and methods for enterprise systems design and engineering. We apply our findings to real-world scenarios and showcase future enterprise applications by developing and evaluating functional prototypes closely together with our industry partners. One particular domain of interest is the application of in-memory data management in life sciences.

In-Memory Data Management on Modern Hardware

The increase of computing power with new multi core hardware architectures is about to accomplish new breakthroughs in the software industry. It allows for significant parallelization of application processes with new data management paradigms, as well as in-memory, real-time analytics over massive amounts of data.

Concepts of Modern Enterprise Applications

Industry trends such as smart devices (IoT), natural language processing, and machine learning on big data place high demand on modern enterprise systems, but also create tons of new opportunities. Our research aims at effective methods and algorithms to extract business-relevant insights from raw data and is demonstrated by proof-of-concept prototypes built in close collaboration with our industry partners.

Tools & Methods for Enterprise Systems Design and Engineering

In a business context, a designed product or service is often the most direct channel of communication to the end-user. A good or bad design has an undeniable impact on branding. In effect, design becomes a proxy for the company, where the feeling and emotions that an end-user experiences with what is designed becomes the feelings and emotions that the end-user has for the company.

Chair of Prof. Hasso Plattner

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Dr. Michael Perscheid

Chair Representative

Tel.: +49 (331) 5509-566

E-Mail: michael.perscheid(at)hpi.de

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Room: V-2.12

Tel.: +49 (331) 5509-560

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News

28.07.2020 | "An Experimental Evaluation of Index Selection Algorithms" published in PVLDB

Our recent paper compares and evaluates eight index selection algorithms along different dimensions, such as solution … > Go to article

04.05.2020 | "Quantifying TPC-H Choke Points and Their Optimizations" published in PVLDB

In our latest paper, we quantify the importance of eleven query plan optimizations for the TPC-H benchmark. Knowing … > Go to article

01.05.2020 | Change of Chair Representation

With beginning of May, Dr. Michael Perscheid is becoming the new Chair Representative at the chair of Prof. Dr. Hasso … > Go to article

03.03.2020 | Best Master Thesis in Education Technologies 2019

An expert jury of the German society for computer science awarded Sebastian Serth’s master thesis as the best thesis in … > Go to article

21.11.2019 | Sugar Fall Presentation @ HPI

The Design Thinking teams are ready to present their first findings! After a successful start and an amazing SUGAR … > Go to article

14.10.2019 | 2019 Bachelor's Project featured in SAP TechEd Keynote

The results of our 2019 Bachelor's project were featured in the keynote given by SAP Chief Technology Officer and … > Go to article

23.07.2019 | Presentation of 2019 Bachelor's Project

The students of the 2019 EPIC bachelor's project developed a platform that helps employees tackle common, repetitive … > Go to article

12.06.2019 | Global Team-based Innovation Final Presentations

Another successful year of our course "Global Team-Based Innovation (GTI)" is coming to an end and we invite you to join … > Go to article

25.02.2019 | Best Paper Award received at ICORES 2019

We are happy to announce that the paper "Stochastic Dynamic Pricing with Strategic Customers and Reference Price … > Go to article

Open Positions

We are accepting applications for Ph.D. and post-doc positions from exceptional candidates
We welcome highly motivated Bachelor and Master students to join our research projects

"A Course in In-Memory Data Management" by Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner. This book is the culmination of six years work of in-memory research. As such, it provides the technical foundation for combined transactional and analytical workloads inside one single database as well as examples of new applications that are now possible given the availability of the new technology. The book is available at Springer.