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- Business Models and Partnering Strategies
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- Enterprise Open Source Best Practices
- SAP Ecosystem
- Mergers Acquisitions (M&A)
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Research
Synomic published together with our academic and industry partners a growing number of books on software industry specific topics such as: Business Models in the Software Industry, Software Ecosystems, IP Management, Partnering with SAP, Open Source Software and Mergers & Acquisitions. Books are available thru major book stores and distributors such as e.g. Amazon, mostly also as Kindle or iBook.
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Profit from the SAP Ecosystem
This book is a guide to SAP ecosystem opportunities, challenges and how to successfully manage them. It combines on 400 pages startup methodologies with SAP ecosystem best practices, including business model and value proposition design, SAP solution alignment, go-to-market, and much more. The authors collectively worked more than 50 years at SAP and 250 years in the ecosystem.


Mergers and Aquisition in the software industry
For mergers and acquisitions in the software industry this book lays the foundation for successful due diligence. Based on methodological foundations, a business model driven approach for due diligence is presented. The key difference between this book and other due diligence books: this bookfocuses on a business model driven approach, M&A processes, M&A organization and software industry specifics.

Best Practices for commercial use of open source software: Business models, processes and tools for managing open source software
This book describes the state-of-the-art of creating open source based business models and of managing open source in the development cycle of commercial software and during due diligence in mergers and acquisitions. Practitioners and consultants created this book to help professionals in the software business like executives, business developers, product managers, architects, developers, quality managers, development operations managers as well as students to get acquainted and proficient in using open source products in a commercial context.

Intellectual Property Modularity in Software Products and Software Platform Ecosystems
This book examines the impact of Intellectual Property (IP) modular architecture on software products and software platform ecosystems. It also demonstrates the connections between IP management, software architecture and the respective business models of software product or platform providers.

Management of complementary platform-based software products: Analysis from a complementors point of view
The concept of platforms emerges in an increasing number of industries and affects customers’ changing expectations, industries themselves, and new technologies’ availability. Today, most platforms act as a technical foundation and distribution channel for complementary software products. Organizations can join platforms and use them to develop and distribute software products. They become complementors on the platforms. Platforms influence the motivations as well as the organization and affects software products of the complementors. Among other things, when using platforms, complementors must accept the platforms’ specifications (for example, the technologies to be used). These requirements lead to additional work for complementors. The effort for complementors increases if software products are to be offered in parallel on multiple platforms. This publication examines how platforms affect organizations that use multiple platforms. It gives organizations recommendations for action on how to accommodate the platforms’ influence.

Zuliefernetzwerke und Partnermodelle in der Softwareindustrie
This thesis (in German language) outlines the reality of business cooperation’s, analyses them on the basis of popular economical theories and verifies them in interviews with a number of larger and smaller software vendors.

Partnering with SAP
gives interested readers an overview of the many options to partner with SAP. It outlines the details of the different partnering models and gives down to earth advice of how to establish a partnership with SAP, no matter if you are business software or a technology company.

Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung und neuer Technologien auf das Geschäftsmodell der Versicherungsbranche: Risiken und Chancen (German Edition)
The concept of platforms emerges in an increasing number of industries and affects customers’ changing expectations, industries themselves, and new technologies’ availability. Today, most platforms act as a technical foundation and distribution channel for complementary software products. Organizations can join platforms and use them to develop and distribute software products. They become complementors on the platforms. Platforms influence the motivations as well as the organization and affects software products of the complementors. Among other things, when using platforms, complementors must accept the platforms’ specifications (for example, the technologies to be used). These requirements lead to additional work for complementors. The effort for complementors increases if software products are to be offered in parallel on multiple platforms. This publication examines how platforms affect organizations that use multiple platforms. It gives organizations recommendations for action on how to accommodate the platforms’ influence.