During this year's graduation celebration, which took place at May 22nd, 2015 at Ulm University, our graduate Stefan Büringer, M.Sc. was honored with the eXXcellence Award for his outstanding master degree. In his thesis project about the “Development of a Cloud Platform for Business Process Administration, Modeling and Execution“, he was co-supervised and supported by DBIS staff members Jens Kolb and Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert. The DBIS team congratulates Stefan on his excellent work and wishes him all the best for his future endeavors.

In his master studies, Stefan Büringer steadily achieved exceptional performance and consequently finished his master degree in Computer Science in four terms. For his master thesis, Stefan developed central components of the Clavii BPM Cloud Plattform—a platform for managing, modeling and enacting business processes in the cloud. Relying on web interfaces, the latter especially enables users to manage, model and execute business processes in the cloud. Therefore, Stefan’s thesis focused on the design and realization of a user-friendly modeling and execution environment. In particular, he developed innovative concepts for modeling, visualization and change of complex process models based on views to hide complexity from end users as well as to provide intuitive usability. Overall, his master thesis is an excellent technological contribution exceeding expectations for master theses in general.