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Methods to Manage Information Sources for Software Product Managers in the Energy Market

A Reference Model Catalog for the Energy Market

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The German energy market is facing several challenges due to changes in regulation, technical advancements as well as increasing energy costs and climate achievements like CO2 reduction. This results in changing requirements for companies in the energy market and thus business information systems, which support their core tasks and processes. Software product managers in energy and software developing companies in charge of driving the functional development of information systems have to deal with these challenges and need to develop new information systems or enhance existing ones. Conceptual models proved helpful to design and implement information systems within several industries. However, identification and management of models as well as impact analysis of model changes results difficult. This contribution describes methods to construct, use and maintain a domain specific reference model catalogue to support requirements analysis for software product manager in the German electricity and gas market.

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  1. FuE Bereich Energie, OFFIS Institut für Informatik, Escherweg 2, 26121, Oldenburg, Germany

    José Manuel González Vázquez &  Hans-Jürgen Appelrath

  2. Department für Informatik, Abteilung Business Engineering, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Ammerländer Heerstr. 114–118, 26129, Oldenburg, Germany

    Jürgen Sauer

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Accepted after two revisions by Prof. Dr. Terzidis.

This article is also available in German in print and via http://www.wirtschaftsinformatik.de: González Vázquez JM, Sauer J, Appelrath H-J (2012) Methoden zum Management von Informationsquellen für die Unterstützung von Softwareproduktmanagern in der Energiewirtschaft. Ein Referenzmodellkatalog für die Energiewirtschaft. WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK. doi: 10.1007/s11576-011-0308-9.

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González Vázquez, J.M., Sauer, J. & Appelrath, HJ. Methods to Manage Information Sources for Software Product Managers in the Energy Market. Bus Inf Syst Eng 4, 3–14 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-011-0200-6

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