Dr. Andreas Both is head of research and development at Unister, a leader in the e-commerce B2C market in Germany. He received a PhD in Computer Science for his research on component-based systems and service-oriented architectures. At Unister his work is focused on modern web technologies. In particular, data-driven processes and data integration are the main topics. His group commits itself to advance in using the Internet as knowledge base and developing the next generation of Internet applications.