Stefano De Panfilis RD Laboratories Engineering Ingegneria Informatica

Stefano De Panfilis R&D Laboratories Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S. p. A. The NESSI European Technology Platform 19/02/2006 2 nd Grid@Asia Workshop – Shanghai - 20 -22 Feb 2006

Summary 19/02/2006/© Nessi 2006 • Why, Who, What is NESSI • NESSI Holistic Model • NESSI Work Model 1

Services in IT - Market Expectations Service is something used but not owned n Lower the risks for customers and improve value and reliability n Increase process flexibility for businesses as well as public institutions 19/02/2006/© Nessi 2006 n Accept complex world environments, and co-operate on standards, so the end-user value can be created for a huge number of people in Europe 2 The IT Industry is transforming and NESSI is a research initiative to foster this change!

NESSI Partners The promoters: 13 key European stakeholders in Software and Services: 19/02/2006/© Nessi 2006 But also: 3 More than 60 European companies and academic organizations in this field

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S. p. A- BRUSSELS DUBLIN Largest Italian system integrator (draft data) 4 35 branch offices 4 4. 500 employees (200 researchers) 4 450 MEUR turnover 4 7% R&D investments 19/02/2006/© Nessi 2006 4 more than 500 clients 4 ROMA www. eng. it

NESSI Vision 19/02/2006/© Nessi 2006 5 The NESSI initiative aims to provide a common basis for European research in Services and Software and their provision as a service oriented utility in order to establish the technological basis and the strategies that will speed up services ecosystem dynamics, by § providing European industry (notably SMEs) and public sector with technology to master complex software systems for innovation and growth; § transforming Software and Services Industry in Europe to achieve a leadership position; § fostering the well-being of citizens through new societal applications, enhanced efficiency of industry and public sector, and competitive labour market; in this way driving the transformation of the European economy toward a knowledge based economy based on service-oriented business models.

NESSI Holistic View EU Economy Busines s Services Business Domain 1 Business Domain 2 Business Domain n NESSI Landscape (Business level Services) Cross business Collaborations NESSI Adoption Practices and Usages Regulatory Governance Architecture and Engineering Core Services 19/02/2006/© Nessi 2006 Management Services Infrastructure Layer Interoperability 6 Service Integration Layer Security Semantic Layer NESSI Framework NESSI is about transforming the EU economy through Service Oriented business models

NESSI’s Roadmap – phasing the SRA n SRA – Volume 1 – Framing the future of the service oriented economy n 26/1/2006 - Draft version – discussed at Forum 26/1/2006 n 03/2006 - Public comment period n 5/2006 – Version 1. 0 19/02/2006/© Nessi 2006 n SRA – Volume 2 – Strategy to build NESSI 7 n 5/2006 – Draft version – to be delivered at General Assembly n 6/2006 - Public comment period n 9/2006 – Version 1. 0 n SRA – Volume 3. x – Roadmaps (phased in short, mid and long term) n 7/2006 - Short term roadmap draft n 11/2006 – Short term roadmap version 1. 0 n Mid and long term roadmaps to be defined

How to join NESSI: Working Groups coordination 19/02/2006/© Nessi 2006 contribution 8 Working Groups NESSI Members participative awareness N E S SI G O V E R N A N C E

NESSI and GRID Main Goals n To fully adopt the NGG group vision « Grid: from a tool to solve compute- and data-intensive problems towards a general-purpose infrastructure enabling complex business processes and workflows across virtual organisations (VOs) spanning multiple administrative domains » . n To fully implement the concept of resources virtualisation (middleware OSS reference implementation) n To fully implement dynamicity (dinamic interoperability) with any kind of devices n To let the Grid be perceived as a utility Semantic Layer Service Integration Layer Infrastructure Layer Management Services Core. GRID EGEE BEin. GRID NESSI-Grid Interoperability 9 n n Security 19/02/2006/© Nessi 2006 NESSI already met: NESSI Framework

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