Application Services Provision - Best Practice

Objective

This project constitutes a framework in which 6 experiments regarding ASP technology-based applications applied in different industrial field will be realised. Under this framework, management, dissemination and exploitation of synergies will be performed centralised to increase effectiveness.

The about 30 organisations participating in this project will produce the following activities:
STEDI - Deployment of a New ASP Model for Web-computing in the Building Sector: Building sector. Application Service Provider model in the architecture, engineering and construction sector (web-computing, dynamic simulation of the building's thermal behaviour and the power consumption, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) application);
SOAVE: Second generation Application Service Provision in Vertical Business Relations: Telecommunication sector. Second generation of application service provision business models. The project will allow for the provision of CRM related standard software applications experimenting a newly developed business model, that aims at leveraging interaction in vertical business relations (telecommunication service provider with a vast network of distributors);
FURNITURE_ASP: Commercial CAD ASP Solution for Furniture Sector: Furniture sector. Internet services focused on CAD applications (libraries, licences of software, management system -furniture ERP Enterprise Resource Planning);
FIPSEE: Food Industry Problem Solving Electronic Environment: Food sector. Customisation of existing web services and simulation tools for the food sector. Three main services will be offered: training, state-of-the-art information repository and remote computation tools (thermal pasteurisation, sterilisation and refrigeration -freezing simulation);
EINA/ASP: Application Service Provision of the Eina CASE Tool: Computing sector. Extending the CASE uses by modifying the business model from sales to rental, eliminating upgrade costs and providing for a rapid response time to new versions solving application errors and/or offering new features. An additional objective will be making the physical access to the tools and the repository universal/ubiquitous giving true support to reuse of components stored in corporate libraries;
ITACA: Internet Technology Advanced Clinical Automation: Health-care sector. Supply of information when and where needed (wards, district, doctors). Web technology enables to get these data as soon as they are produced from specialised medical modalities. Possibility to access patient data repository produced in hospital structures will permit a better homecare and prevention. Avoiding troublesome displacements and to reduce the necessity of care inside the hospital. The cluster will give a corporate image of all the projects for the dissemination of results and will provide efficient management and monitoring.

Work description:
The activities are clustered in one contract with three horizontal tasks:
Dissemination: the individual results as well as the experiences gained with ASP technologies are extracted and collectively disseminated to stimulate further take-up;
Synergies: Synergies between experiments are planned to be exploited. In particular, a common lack of experience related to ASP-specific middleware and security aspects such as privacy, no-repudiation, identification, authorisation, authentication, firewalls, virus protection, and database security has been planned to consider more competent partners and/or joint procurement of this expertise from the outside;
Co-ordination: Administrative and financial co-ordination as well as the horizontal work packages are centralised, e.g. carried out by three experienced principal contractors.

Fields of science

• engineering and technologymechanical engineeringthermodynamic engineering
• social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
• natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitynetwork security
• natural sciencesphysical sciencesclassical mechanicsfluid mechanicsfluid dynamicscomputational fluid dynamics
• natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software

Programme(s)

• FP5-IST - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on a "User-friendly information society, 1998-2002"

Topic(s)

• 2001-5.1.12 - CPA12: Application services provision

Call for proposal

Funding Scheme

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Participants (28)