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| Abbreviation | BIT |
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| Formation | 2007 |
| Type | GmbH |
| Purpose | Research |
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Region served | Europe, Germany |
Director | Franz Steffens |
| Affiliations | University of Mannheim |
Staff | 20 |
| Website | bit-institute.com |
The BIT – Business Information Technology InstituteinMannheim, Germany is a computer science and information systems research institute and affiliated with University of Mannheim.[1] Under the leadership of Franz Steffens, president of the institute, BIT employs a staff of about 20 researchers. The BIT was established in Mannheim in 2007 and is still headquartered there. BIT is organized as a research group within the University of Mannheim and belongs to the Mannheim School of Computer Science and Mathematics. The institute addresses standard business application software and perceives itself as a mediator between science and enterprise practice.[2]
The BIT Institute headed by Professor Dr. Franz Steffens. It is located on the 4th floor of the Haus Oberrhein directly by Mannheims river bank. The BIT is subdivided into 3 pillars:
The BIT Institute is focused on projects for organizational development and software rollouts in industry companies and projects in the area of developing standard business application systems with software vendors. The main focus of Research Group Information Systems is the comparative analysis of standard enterprise application systems, primarily under the consideration of technical and functional aspects. This includes systems concerning Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Here, the BIT is engaged in several research areas that are divided into six different research clusters:
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