Bernhard Mitschang

Professor at Universität Stuttgart, Germany

Bernhard Mitschang is professor for Database and Information Systems and head of the department ’Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems’ that is part of the Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems at the Universität Stuttgart, Germany. Both research and teaching spectra of his department cover on one hand data-intensive applications ranging from business applications to engineering systems and on the other hand fundamental data management techniques, data analytics as well as scalable data processing architectures. Since 2013, he is CEO of the Graduate School of Excellence on advanced Manufacturing Engineering and head of the Technology Partnership Lab at the university.

Title: Turning Data Into Data Products

Almost all businesses as well as the social areas depend on data availability in some digital form. In order to exploit these information sources many different approaches have been installed, e.g., data bases, data lakes, data platforms, data meshes, data spaces, data catalogs, data fabrics, etc. Recently, the concept of Data Product (DP) pops up as a kind of solution to provide the right data in the right form as requested by the interested consumer. In an abstract setting, this may work, but in reality many questions have to be answered and challenges have to be solved, still. In this talk we want to give some overview and highlight some of these issues.