1. 19/02/2006 The NESSI European Technology Platform 2nd Grid@Asia Workshop – Shanghai - 20-22 Feb 2006 Stefano De Panfilis R&D Laboratories Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.

2. 1 19/02/2006/ © Nessi 2006 Summary Why, Who, What is NESSI NESSI Holistic Model NESSI Work Model

3. 2 19/02/2006/ © Nessi 2006 Services in IT - Market Expectations Service is something used but not owned Lower the risks for customers and improve value and reliability Increase process flexibility for businesses as well as public institutions 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 The IT Industry is transforming and NESSI is a research initiative to foster this change!

4. 3 19/02/2006/ © Nessi 2006 NESSI Partners The promoters: 13 key European stakeholders in Software and Services: But also: More than 60 European companies and academic organizations in this field

5. 4 19/02/2006/ © Nessi 2006 www.eng.it Largest Italian system integrator (draft data) 35 branch offices 4.500 employees (200 researchers) 450 MEUR turnover 7% R&D investments more than 500 clients BRUSSELS DUBLIN Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A- ROMA

6. 5 19/02/2006/ © Nessi 2006 NESSI Vision 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.

7. 6 19/02/2006/ © Nessi 2006 NESSI Holistic View EU Economy NESSI Landscape (Business level Services) Cross business Collaborations Business Domain 1 Business Domain 2 Business Domain n Busines s Services NESSI Framework Infrastructure Layer Service Integration Layer Semantic Layer Security InteroperabilityManagement Services NESSI is about transforming the EU economy through Service Oriented business models Practices and Usages Architecture and Engineering Regulatory Governance NESSI Adoption Core Services

8. 7 19/02/2006/ © Nessi 2006 NESSIs Roadmap – phasing the SRA SRA – Volume 1 – Framing the future of the service oriented economy 26/1/2006 - Draft version – discussed at Forum 26/1/2006 03/2006 - Public comment period 5/2006 – Version 1.0 SRA – Volume 2 – Strategy to build NESSI 5/2006 – Draft version – to be delivered at General Assembly 6/2006 - Public comment period 9/2006 – Version 1.0 SRA – Volume 3.x – Roadmaps (phased in short, mid and long term) 7/2006 - Short term roadmap draft 11/2006 – Short term roadmap version 1.0 Mid and long term roadmaps to be defined

9. 8 19/02/2006/ © Nessi 2006 NESSINESSIGOVERNANCE GOVERNANCENESSINESSIGOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE How to join NESSI: Working Groups participative awareness contribution coordination NESSI Members Working Groups

10. 9 19/02/2006/ © Nessi 2006 NESSI and GRID Main Goals 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 ». To fully implement the concept of resources virtualisation (middleware OSS reference implementation) To fully implement dynamicity (dinamic interoperability) with any kind of devices To let the Grid be perceived as a utility NESSI already met: CoreGRID EGEE BEinGRID NESSI-Grid NESSI Framework Infrastructure Layer Service Integration Layer Semantic Layer Security InteroperabilityManagementServices

11. 19/02/2006 Xie Xie www.nessi-europe.com stefano.depanfilis@eng.it