Relationship between SpagoWorld initiative and Universities
Engineering Group, the company which created and manages SpagoWorld initiative, has always been collaborating with universities and individual students. We believe that open source software can and should be used in the educational field, not because it is free of cost, but because it can be a formative base for the Information Technology professionals of tomorrow. SpagoWorld support team has always been glad to take part in workshops and presentations at universities, and to support training stages and students' master degree thesis. Here below, we mention some consolidated relationships between Engineering Group and some universities or individual professors, significant results and demonstrations at different universities and master degree courses.University of Padua, Italy
Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences - Computer Science Degree
Faculty of Statistics - Degree in Statistics and Information Technology
The collaboration with these faculties, through professor Susi Dulli, has given rise to several demonstrations on SpagoBI project during some courses on Data Mining (Post-graduate degree in Computer Science) and on Business Information Systems (Degree in Statistics).
Gabriele Ruffatti, member of SpagoWorld Executive Board, worked as an Adjunct Professor at this University (Post-graduate degree course in Computer Science) on open source themes, during the academic years 2006-07 and 2007-08.These collaborations have give several important results, such as:
- Some contributions (bug fixing) to Spago software by some students attending the Computer Science Degree:
- SPAGO-28: SourceBean should use JAXP to discover a SAX parser by Enrico Pilotto
- SPAGO-31: The method to XML of the SourceBean doesn't handle properly multivalue attributes by Luca Rossi
- Some contributions to SpagoBI demo (some analysis of the Inventory area) by some students of the post-graduate Computer Science degree:
- Academic year 2006-07: Fabio Gallonetto e Carlo Tomba
- Academic year 2007-08: Andrea Baldovin, Erika Contiero, Andrea Gazzi, Nicola Bertazzo, Federico Dal Maso
- A contribution (bug-fixing) to Spagic software by Claudio Carbone:
- Spagic-131: Optimize the creation of the queue connection in the class AuditingExchangeAsyncListener
- Three post-graduate degree thesis in Computer Science at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences:
- I metadati nel Data Warehouse: un prototipo per SpagoBI di modellazione OLAP e rappresentazione CWM by Giulio Gavardi (download here)
- EII: Integrazione tra i dati georeferenziati e di business intelligence per la piattaforma SpagoBI by Nicodemo Valerio (download here)
- Generazione di grafi in Business Process Management Notation by Erika Contiero (download here)
- Two degree thesis at the Faculty of Statistical Science:
- SpagoBI e PentahoBI: Due software Open Source per la Business Intelligence by Roberto Marchetto (download here)
- Business Activity Monitoring e la Business Intelligence - BAM e BI con soluzioni Open Source by Stefano Donin (download here)
Faculty of Information Engineering
Post-graduate degree in Innovation and Project Management
Since 2005 Engineering Group has been collaborating with prof. Moreno Muffatto presenting open source themes to the students attending the degree courses of Economy and Enterprise Management, Information Economy and presenting innovation and open source to those of the first-level master degree in Innovation and Project Management.
The collaboration with this faculty has brought some important results, such as:
- A post-graduate degree thesis at the Faculty of Information Engineering, Computer Science degree:
- Aree di misura ed Indicatori per l'applicazione open source Spago4Q: estrazione dei dati per il monitoraggio del processo di sviluppo del software - by Nicola Salier (download here)
Faculty of Engineering - Degree in Computer Science Engineering
The collaboration with this Faculty, through prof. Moreno Muffatto has given several important results such as:- Some post-graduate degree thesis in Computer Science Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering:
- Competitive Intelligence nella Pubblica Amministrazione: il caso dell'e-Government - by Giovanni Minelle (download here)
- Progettazione di un Service Recommended System basato su Intelligenza Collettiva - by Marco Zanchetta (download here)
- Location Intelligence: sviluppo del cruscotto di gestione dell'e-Government Intelligence di Regione Veneto con software open source - by Alessio De Rossi (download here)
University of Milan, Italy
Since a long time, Engineering Group has been collaborating with the Department of Information Technologies of the University of Milan and with the Didactic and Research Pole of Crema, through prof. Ernesto Damiani. This collaboration has given rise to:- didactic collaboration, presentations and demonstrations on open source, training services and collaboration for graduation thesis
- joint activities within the OW2 BI Initiative
- joint research activities, through the SESAR research group
- contribution to the development of Spago4Q platform and consulting services in the definition of the reference model
The collaboration with this faculty has brought some further important results, such as:
- A degree thesis in Information Society Technologies at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences:
- Implementazione del Modello QEST nD in Spago4Q by Mauro Regoli (download here)
- A degree thesis in Computer Science at the Faculty of Computer Science:
- Report Generator per Dati di Processo basato su .Net - by Salvatore Camodeca (download here)
University of Bologna, Italy
Engineering Group collaborates with the DEIS, the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Informative Systems of the University of Bologna, through prof. Stefano Rizzi and Matteo Golfarelli. This collaboration has given rise to:- didactic collaboration
- joint activities within the OW2 BI Initiative
- a degree thesis in Information Science at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences
- Analisi comparativa delle piattaforme Open Source per la Business Intelligence by Mattia Camporesi (download here)
University of Turin, Italy
Engineering Group collaborates with the Univeristy of Tunin.Grazia Cazzin, SpagoBI project leader, worked as an adjunct professor for Business Intelligence and Management Systems, at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, at the degree courses and master’s degree courses in Computer Science, during the academic year 2010/2011.
University of Trento, Italy
Engineering Group collaborates with the DISI, the Department of Computer Science and Informative Systems of the University of Trento, through prof. Fabio Casati. This collaboration has given rise to:- didactic collaboration, with presentations and demonstrations
- joint activities within the OW2 BI Initiative
University of Venice, Italy
Engineering Group collaborates with the University of Venice, Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences.The collaboration with this faculty has given rise to:
- a degree thesis in Computer Science:
- Modelli e Sistemi di eGovernment Intelligence by Lorenzo Bianchin (download here)
ISUFI High School, Italy
The cooperation with the e-Business Mangement-ISUFI of the University of Salento has has given rise to a collaboration based on the use of SpagoBI and Spagic platforms. One of these activities has given rise to a project, whose results are presented in one of SpagoBI success stories.Reutligen University, Germany
The collaboration with Reutlingen University, Germany, consisted in the support to the Business Information Management degree course of the "Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence" Department of prof. Roth Armin. The aim of this project was the developemnt of a management cockpit. Further information is available in one of SpagoBI success stories.University Center Rottenmann (UZR), Styria, Austria
SpagoBI Team collaboration with the University Center Rottenmann (UZR), Styria, Austria, which is a branch seat of the Kepler University in Linz and of the Technical University in Graz, has brought to the following result:- a post-graduate thesis, at the Faculty of Geo-Information Technology:
- Reporting and Integration of geographic information with Business Intelligence systems on the specific example of companies in the utilities sector by Jasmin Maier (download here the abstract in English language)
Presentations and demonstrations at degree and post-graduate degree courses
The theme of Open Source and SpagoWorld initiative have been presented many times in the last years. In addition to the regular presentations at the above-mentioned universities, with which Engineering Group regularly collaborates, we can mention:- November 2005 - University of Padua, Master Degree Course in Innovation & Project Management - Innovation & project Management in Information Technology and Engineering Group's experience
- May 2006 - University of Padua, Faculty of Engineering - Course on Economics and Corporate organizations - Business models in IT: present, OSS and future
- September 2006 - University of Bologna, ALMA Graduate School - OSS, business models, economic and practical efficiency
- November 2006 - University of Padua, Master Degree Course in Innovation & Project Management - Innovation & Project Management in Information Technology and Engineering Group's experience
- October 2007 - University of Padua, Master Degree Course in Innovation & Project Management - Innovation in Information Technology and Engineering Group's experience
- May 2008 - University of Padua, Faculty of Engineering - Course on Economics and Corporate organizations - Free Open Source Software and the market: economic models. Many point of view and Engineering Group’s experience
- May 2008 - University of Trento, Department of Computer Science and Informative Systems - Free Open Source Software and the market: economic models. Many point of view and Engineering Group’s experience
- June 2008 - Bocconi University in Milan, post-degree courses in Informative Systems Management - Engineering Group's open source experience and SpagoWorld initiative
- July 2008 - University of Messina, first-level master degree in Open Source and Computer Security - The market and the FOSS - Economic models for FOSS development: various points of view and Engineering Group's experience
- April 2009 - University of Bologna, Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, Department of Information Technologies - Open Source solutions for Business Process Management and Service Oriented Architectures: Spagic platform
- May 2009 - University of Padua, Faculty of Engineering - Course of Economics and Corporate Organizations - Open Source Software: licensing and organizations
- May 2009 - University of Padua, Faculty of Engineering - Course of Economics and Corporate Organization - Open Source Software for business, from the present, towards the future
- May 2009 - University of Bologna, ALMA Graduate School - Open Source Software between "Make and Buy": open source impact on the IT market
- October 2009 - Ca' Foscari University of Venice in Treviso - Seminar on Open Source between Innovation and Knowledge - SpagoWorld: an ecological approach to the development of free software at the industrial level
- March 2010 - University of Perugia, Faculty of Engineering - Seminar on Open Source for the Quality of Software, Engineering Group’s approach, within the course on Software Quality.
- May 2010 - University of Padua, Faculty of Engineering - Course on Economics of Information - Open Source and Ecology of Value
- May 2010 - University of Padua, Faculty of Engineering - Course on Economics of Information - Open Source for Quality
- May 2010 University of Bologna, ALMA Graduate School - Open Source and Ecology of Value
- March 2011 - University of Milan, Faculty of Political Science, Degree Course on European Economny - How enterprises create new value by participating in open source communities - The case of Enginering Group and SpagoBI
- May 2011 - University of Bologna, ALMA Graduate School - Degree Course in Information Systems - How enterprises create new value by participating in open source communities - The case of Engineering Group and SpagoBI
- June 2011 - Politecnico in Milan - Faculty of Sotware Engineering - SpagoBI: Open Source Business Intelligence
- November 2011 - Polytechnic Institute of New York University (New York, N.Y., United States), graduate courses on Corporate Entrepreneurship, Managing Growing Enterprises - Open source software adoption: enterprises and communities - How to build a business with OS BI
