Orestis Terzidis, SAP Research Centre CEC

" We are moving towards a services economy where more and more value in an economy is created through services. The Internet of Services addresses the challenge to transform services into tradable goods that are offered, sold, executed and consumed via the internet. More specialized services will be offered as organizations need to focus on core competences to be able to compete on the global market. Semantic technologies are key enablers of the Internet of Services to allow for the aggregation, composition and coordination of such specialized services, which are potentially provided by different service providers, into value-added services. The German funded TEXO project runs under the umbrella of the THESEUS research programme and addresses the challenges for an Internet of Services. The interdisciplinary TEXO consortium is coordinated by SAP and includes a number of industrial and academic partners having technical, economical and legal competencies."

Orestis Terzidis - Director SAP Research Centre CEC

Orestis Terzidis graduated in theoretical Physics. As from 1998 he worked as applied developer at the SAP Labs Sophia Antipolis. From 2000 to 2003 he worked as assistant of the committee member of SAP AG, Henning Kagermann. Since January 2004 Terzidis is director of CEC Karlsruhe, a leading Centre of SAP Research. Within SAP he has the leading function in projects on strategic development.