Proceedings of the European Workshop on Software Ecosystems 2012 The research on software ecosystems still is a young and emerging field. We created the European Workshop on Software Ecosystems to: bring together the research community from all over Europe and share, present and discuss their latest research with business experts from the software industry A big thank you to the many people who supported this workshop and the proceedings. Researchers and Presenters: Josef Waltl / Technical University of Munich, Germany What makes a software platform attractive for ecosystem partners? Karthik Jayaraman / University of Oslo / Norway Managing the Arbitrage of Control and Generativity in Software Ecosystems M. Schreiner, T. Hess / Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany The Success of Software Companies Internationalization: The Case of Germany K.B. Schultis, C. Elsner, Siemens AG, D. Lohmann / FAU University of ErlangenNuremberg, Germany Architectural guidance and governance in industrial software ecosystems S. Hyrynsalmi, A. Suominen, T. Mäkilä & A. Järvi / University of Turku, Finland Analyzing Developers Challenges in Mobile Application Marketplaces J. Wollersheim, A. Teufl, P. Hoberg, P. Wolf, fortiss GmbH, H. Krcmar, Technical University of Munich, Germany Mechanisms to gather customer feedback - Requirements in the cloud service ecosystem Industry Sponsors: BlackDuck Software, Corum M&A, fluid Operations, InnoWerft, Netfira, Partner-Port, Suse Software, Synomic. WWW.EWSECO.ORG

Dr. Karl Michael Popp is Senior Director M&A in the Global Business Development and Ecosystem Team in the Office of the CEO of SAP SE. In this area, he works on inorganic growth projects of SAP SE, such as due diligence and merger integration of technology companies as well as strategic partnerships. In his career, he has completed more than 30 acquisitions and corresponding merger integrations worldwide and worked with over 50 companies on partnerships. He is the author of several books and a speaker on software due diligence, post merger integration, digitization of M&A processes as well as business models and platform business models in the software industry. Dr. Popp is a long-standing member of the German M&A Association (Bundesverband M&A) as well as a former board member of the Gesellschaft für Post Merger Integration (now part of the Bundesverband M&A) and works in the program committee of the European Workshop on Merger Integration and of the Think Tank Denkfabrik Wirtschaft. He studied economics and received his doctorate in information systems from the University of Bamberg. More information can be found at https://www.drkarlpopp.com/ .