On April 10^th 2008 the "Stifterverband for German Science" announced that the IT-Service Center (ITS) of the University of Augsburg was one of the three winners of the contest "Campus online". The Chair of Business Informatics and Systems Engineering was significantly involved on the implementation of the ITS Center. 43 Universities took part at the contest and 10 finalists were invited to Berlin to present their concepts. All three winners received 100.000 Euro each for their project implementations.

For the evaluation of the presented concepts the Jury has focused on model liabilities and transferability of the IaC strategies. The concepts from Augsburg, Freiburg and Weimar have convinced the Jury that on the basis of the given resources the efficiency of administration- and business processes in research and teaching considerably increased by usage of the IaC-technologies.

All three concepts were built upon existing structures, involved all important lobbies and were primarily integrated in the central steering structures of the university. "IaC is a matter for the board, and we appreciate it" said Ingrid Becker from the company Scientia, partner of the Stifterverband in the contest and member of the Jury.

With the view on the ITS project of the University of Augsburg, which already was an award winner at the DFG-Innovation-Contest 2005 "Service center for research information - integrated information management" the Jury accentuated that 3 part strategies were completed to one IaC-corporate strategy. An integration strategy reunites old and new processes, an innovation strategy checks new types of cooperation and a service strategy optimizes the range of services offered and the service orientation. With the ITS the University of Augsburg pursues a local model, where the core competences retained to the respective facilities through cooperation and resource bundling by the IT-provider.

In this project the Chair of Business Informatics and Systems Engineering is especially responsible for the business process analysis and - restructuring as well as the conception and realization of a federate architecture where old IT systems are involved and existing data and services are integrated to a unique standardized perspective.