1. Status of EGI Marketplace
Dean Flanders
Friedrich Miescher Institute /
Swiss National Grid Association
EGI Conference 2016
Amsterdam, April 6th 2016

2. Primary Goal
The goal of the marketplace and service registry activity is to design a simple entry point for researchers to discover and access resources and services from those interested in making them available, either as central portal or as custom views for organizations and communities.
As mentioned in the “Activity Summary: Marketplace and Service Registry”

3. Benefits of the EGI Marketplace
Optimize
Discover
Accelerate
Help optimize resource utilization by sharing of resources and tools to manage resources.
To help researchers discover local, national, and international resources available to them.
In allowing researchers to discover and access cutting edge resources they will be able to accelerate their research activities.

4. Key Functional Requirements
Easy discoverability of resources and services, with advanced filtering and information on capability and service levels.
Resources and services with the ability for users to rate them.
Ability for service providers of the EGI federation to register a resource or service and make it available to others. This could any be any type of academic or commercial service or resource relevant to research (data, software, instruments, services, etc.).
Ability to define visibility and access to resources or services by user, research group, organization, project, and community. Only exposing resources and services to the right audience.
Customizable views that can be defined for labs, communities, and organizations.
Integration with federated identity management solutions to simplify access for users.
Possibility for resource providers to define usage quotas and statistics.
Users can access free and for fee resources and services.
Resource providers can manage the lifecycle of services and resources via requests, authorisation, usage, accounting, and billing.
As mentioned in the “Activity Summary: Marketplace and Service Registry”

5. Long Term Vision of the Marketplace
Goal to have a “one stop shop for resources”.
As defined in the deliverable D2.3 “Concept of EGI Marketplace”

6. Steps to take to get there…
In the initial phase the “EGI Marketplace” will provide a list of EGI available services from the EGI Service Portfolio (i.e. those with OLAs with EGI and that can provide SLAs).
The marketplace should then be extendable with the addition of services from other service providers in order that it can be used for them to provide a service catalog of their own, which can include services from the “EGI Marketplace”. Providers retain responsibility for their own services
These then can be included into thematic or general purpose collections within the “EGI Marketplace” with UAs.
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7. High Level Architecture
Details in deliverable 3.2 of EGI-Enage “Design of the EGI Service Registry and Marketplace”.

8. Directory Model
Details in deliverable 3.2 of EGI-Enage “Design of the EGI Service Registry and Marketplace”.

9. Example Catalog of Resource Providers
A broad collection of resource providers is essential in order to engage the long tails of science.

10. Example Catalog of Resources/Services/Applications
EGI services could appear along side of other resource providers to facilitate discovery.

11. Existing Candidate Applications for the EGI Marketplace
Various solutions were evaluated:
AppDB
GOCDB
FIWARE Marketplace Generic Enabler
Open IRIS
PrestaShop
WooCommerce
The following have been shortlisted:
Details in deliverable 3.2 of EGI-Enage “Design of the EGI Service Registry and Marketplace”.

12. Roadmap
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13. Possible Synergies with Procurement
Cross linking of procurements can be linked to the “EGI Marketplace”.
Directory model and permissions allowing publishing information (e.g. pricing) to a select set of people while still using AAI.
Researchers can discover opportunities that they may not be aware of (e.g. storage besides a microscope, compute linked to local Matlab license).
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14. Summary
A “EGI Marketplace” will be an entry point for researchers to discover services and resources.
This will initially be limited to EGI services, but later extended to support other service providers, which can be combined into thematic or general collections.
Further details need to be examined in terms of cost of ownership and operational model from the short listed options.
Demonstrator to be released in August 2016.
It would be interesting to have procurement use cases also in the demonstrator.
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