Exploitable results
Now that the Internet has become a commodity for professional and everyday life, businesses and citizens aspire to access ICT-based services in a more seamless, natural fashion. Target sectors range from public health, government and educational services to energy, transport, skills and mass services to individual users.
This demand defines a new global system, in which every electronic medium will support the provision of services. This creates the need for an open, service-oriented approach, with the Internet as its underlying infrastructure and designed to meet the expectations of a service-oriented economy.
Europe aims to play a major role in this shift towards an Internet of Services. The Networked European Software and Services Initiative (NESSI) was launched in September 2005 to support this shared vision, with the mission of developing a strategy for software and services driven by a common European research agenda.
Since then, NESSI is promoted by 22 industrial and academic partners and a community of 500 members from 300 organisations.
NESSI represents a major advance: for the first time ever, industry and academia have joined forces to define a common service-oriented strategy and a target deliverable - NEXOF, the NESSI Open Service Framework.
From its initial vision, NESSI has achieved major results:
- drawing-up of a NESSI Strategic Research Agenda;
- definition of NEXOF: the NESSI Open Service Framework;
- design of the contribution process to gather the widest possible support;
- definition of application scenarios;
- focused workgroups on services, technology or applications
NESSI-Grid contributes to NESSI by defining a vision and strategic research agenda (SRA) for grid infrastructures used in business environments and in particular in NESSI scenarios.
While contribution to the NESSI SRA constitutes the key goal of NESSI-Grid, the project also addresses related matters, such as standards, IPR, research infrastructure, training and dissemination.
NESSI-Grid?s main achievements include:
- support the widest and general agreement of the Grid and SOA vision,incorporating views from a wide variety of stakeholders;
- assist the production of a widely supported Strategic Research Agenda(SRA), which would contribute to the Seventh Framework Programme;
- support the development of the Grid and SOA business domains,ostering new opportunities;
- disseminate a Grid research strategy;
- support the co-ordination of research in the Grid and SOA domain. NESSI-Grids ambition is to serve as a reference point around these technologies and services.
- provide the support structure for the GRID focus of NESSI;
- facilitate liaison with other R+D communities outside of Europe
As NESSI structure and objectives have been continuously evolving, NESSIGRID evolved in parallel. For instance, while NEXOF did not exist when NESSIGrid was defined, contribution to NEXOF-RA became one of the main objectives of NESSI-GRID when NEXOF-RAs activities started. During these last two years and a half, the technical terminology has evolved as well, and new buzzwords have come out from Enterprise or Business Grids, through Service Oriented Infrastructures to Cloud Computing. All of these terms are covered by the NESSI-GRID SRA scenarios, research challenges and roadmaps.
The NESSI-Grid SRA focuses on opportunities for grids to evolve into major business infrastructures for the more agile and effective delivery of services. The SRA has been developed by the Grid community and details how this evolution can be achieved through a set of research challenges based on business scenarios and current technology trends. The innovative infrastructure is underpinned by the concept of Business Grids.
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