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 technical aspects and design principles of enterprise systems with the goal to maximize performance, cost efficiency, and business value. We focus on optimizing data management on modern in-memory hardware and cloud infrastructure, rethinking software engineering for enterprises, and enabling machine learning for data-driven decision support.

Autonomous Data Management

The trend of enterprises storing more and more data in database systems requires providers to focus on self-optimization and cost-efficiency to stay competitive. Therefore, our research group investigates approaches for autonomous physical database design optimization and exploitation of cloud resource elascitiy.

Enterprise Software Engineering

Data of one business is usually processed by various applications and stored in multiple locations. Bringing this data together often means high integration cost and a laborious development experience. Therefore, we explore current shortcomings in data- and process-integrations to develop solutions narrowing the existing gaps and lowering the required effort to access business data in a unified way.

Data-driven Decision Support

Having access to data in a unified way, firms are able to focus on data-driven solutions. However, business accounts for complex dynamics and still should remain explainable. We want to build self-adapting decision support systems, which can (i) reveal the causal effects of certain decisions and (ii) optimize them automatically while balancing their short- and long-term impact. Specifically, our research group investigates how decision problems can be solved using quantitative methods of operations research and data science in order to improve automated decision-making in the areas of revenue management and business analytics.

News

22.09.2023 | Trends and Concepts in the Softwareindustry Seminar offered in WiSe 2023/2024

Trends and Concepts in the Softwareindustry Seminar offered in WiSe 2023/2024 > Go to article

22.05.2023 | Christopher Hagedorn Successfully Defended His PhD Thesis

Christopher Hagedorn Successfully Defended His PhD Thesis > Go to article

03.03.2023 | Last Trends and Concepts course of Prof. Hasso Plattner

After more than 20 years of teaching, our founder and benefactor Prof. Hasso Plattner visited the HPI this week for his … > Go to article

01.03.2023 | Jan Kossmann Successfully Defended His PhD Thesis

Last week, Jan Kossmann another PhD student of our EPIC group successfully defended his thesis on the topic of … > Go to article

26.02.2023 | Paper on Data Tiering in Hyrise Published in BTW Proceedings

Our latest paper on data tiering in Hyrise "Workload-Driven Data Placement for Tierless In-Memory Database Systems" by … > Go to article

24.02.2023 | Paper on EPIC Research Group Published in SIGMOD Record

Our report “Enterprise Platform and Integration Concepts Research at HPI” has been published in the December issue of … > Go to article

30.11.2022 | Paper on Database Optimizations for Spatio-Temporal Data published in PVLDB

Our paper “Robust and Budget-Constrained Encoding Configurations for In-Memory Database Systems” has been published in … > Go to article

04.10.2022 | Günter Hesse Successfully Defended His PhD Thesis

Last week, Günter Hesse another PhD student of our EPIC group successfully defended his thesis on the topic of "A … > Go to article

08.07.2022 | Successful PhD Defense by Markus Dreseler

Markus Dreseler has successfully defended his PhD thesis on Automatic Tiering for In-Memory Database Systems. > Go to article

Literature

"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.

Contact

Dr. Michael Perscheid

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Tel.: +49 (331) 5509-566

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

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E-Mail: office-epic(at)hpi.de

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