Recently, the SITM chair became a member of the paluno Ruhr Institute for Software Technology. The aim of the Institute, which comprises eight professors and over 70 research assistants from the information systems and computer science disciplines, is to develop innovative applications for business models and processes. The SITM chair complements the Institute’s research portfolio with its expertise in software development management. Paluno’s research teams combine competencies covering all phases and layers of software engineering, and offer experience in application domains as diverse as insurance, automotive, health, energy, and logistics. In research and industry projects with partners across Europe, paluno develops scientific, yet pragmatic, approaches to provide complex software systems for future infrastructures and for the current application landscapes.