During this SME Phase-2 project, oculavis worked on six work packages, which included a total of 25 individual sub-tasks and 28 deliverables. Further regular project updates regarding the use of funding and technical implementation were presented in the form of regular technical and financial reports, which were submitted every ten months and now consist of three financial reports and three technical reports. The project also included a milestone plan consisting of seven individual milestones, all of which were achieved by the end of the project. With the exception of one deliverable and one milestone, all work packages, sub-tasks, deliverables, reports and milestones were achieved or submitted on time.
The main achievements in each work package are as follows:
Work package 1 – Project Management and Administration:
• a project management and quality assurance plan
• a self-assessment plan
Work package 2 – Scalable Business Processes Definition and Implementation
• a digital process handbook
• a sales pipeline software
• a service management system
• an employee qualification plan
Work package 3 – oculavis SHARE Conception and Development
• the further development of the key software modules (1) digital machine documentation, (2) spare parts ordering system, (3) augmented reality x-ray view, (4) augmented reality step-by-step instructions, (5) data analytics, (6) event-based machine supervision and (7) administration
• the optimization of basic SHARE functionalities
Work package 4 – Software-as-a-Service Conception and Development
• a proof of concept for a automated deployment and updating system
• the documentation of the internal development API and the concept for a more stable and maintainable partner Rest API
• a free trial system for oculavis SHARE
• a roles and permissions and user management system that supports multi-client capability and platform interoperability
• SHARE single sign on/out and azure AD support to enable multi-client capability and platform interoperability
• a proof of concept for an online payment system
Work package 5 – Customer Online Information System Conception and Development
• a SHARE documentation and template set for contracts, IT safety and security measures, privacy policies, GDPR-information, hardware guise, software instructions and more
• an online customer information system to provide all of the above mentioned information and documentation to the customer
Work package 6 – Dissemination, Exploitation and Ecosystem Creation
• a dissemination and communication plan that (1) defined the overall strategy for oculavis’ dissemination and communication activities, (2) defined the communication objectives for this project, (3) defined target groups, (4) provided a complete overview of the planned communication activities and (5) documented the key performance indicators (KPIs) that were used to monitor and evaluate the success of the activities
• the participation in 11 physical events and 31 virtual web seminars and online talks in 2020
• the participation in 21 physical event and 50 virtual web seminars and online talks in 2021
• the successful realisation of the inhouse business conferencre “All About Remote powered by oculavis” in 2019, 2020 and 2021 with a total of more than 1600 participants
• the production of 12 publications and press releases in 2020
• the production of 24 publications and press releases in 2021
• several hundred of live demos to potential parties
• several exploitation activities and strategic alliances like (1) the definition of assets for the oculavis product portfolio, (2) the newly described oculavis vision, (3) the oculavis market positioning, (4) the oculavis pricing, (5) a newly validated market analysis containing a market segment analysis, market sector analyisis and priorisation and use cases for target markets, (6) a process to analyse and the results of competition analysis, (7) battle sheet for communication in competition, (8) definition and implementation of a holistic partner management, (9) defitiniton and presentation of main results of the technical strategic alliances of oculavis with SAP and Salesforce
• a business plan, go-to-market strategy, recruitment plan and financial plan for the sales expansion in North America
• the set-up of the sales office in Chicago, USA
• the preparation and set-up of the technical join Venture in China
