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Enterprise Interoperability Research Roadmap SME aspects. Man-Sze Li IC Focus msli@icfocus.co.uk. State of the Art. Enterprise business relations – increasing cooperation Frameworks Sector specific specifications
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Enterprise Interoperability Research RoadmapSME aspects Man-Sze Li IC Focus msli@icfocus.co.uk
State of the Art • Enterprise business relations – increasing cooperation • Frameworks • Sector specific specifications • Service oriented computing and service oriented architectures - Web services, Grid services, and P2P services • Commercial middleware solutions • Semantic web services • Domain ontology • Modelling and notation languages • Enterprise modelling • Trust and contract management M-S Li IST 2006 Networking Session on Enterprise Networks, 22.11.06, Helsinki
Use of ICT by Enterprises M-S Li IST 2006 Networking Session on Enterprise Networks, 22.11.06, Helsinki
Problem Space • Managing more rapid change/innovation • Adapting to globalization • Large integration/interoperability costs • Difficulties in decision making (e.g., namely when to interoperate with other enterprises) • Lack of business case for Enterprise Interoperability • A change in the model of collaboration towards open innovation M-S Li IST 2006 Networking Session on Enterprise Networks, 22.11.06, Helsinki
eBusiness Value Creation • Enterprise flexibility • Barriers to enterprise collaboration • An enterprise’s ability to exploit new business opportunities • Cost of interoperability • Time to market for new innovations • Access to new markets (geographic and product/service space) • Access to technologies, knowledge, skills and information • Quality of ICT solutions, and ICT-enabled products and services • Performance measurement • Barriers to geographically distributed team work • Access to innovation ecosystems M-S Li IST 2006 Networking Session on Enterprise Networks, 22.11.06, Helsinki
Principles for setting Grand Challenges • The public interest dimension of Enterprise Interoperability as a strategic element of innovation ecosystems • The needs of end-users of technologies and related services in enterprise networking, leading to research activities that have tangible impact above and beyond research • SMEs as the backbone of European industry and the unique contribution of SMEs to innovation • The need to open up the field of Enterprise Interoperability research by linking with other scientific domains and communities • The need to reinforce and strengthen international co-operation in research, from ideas generation to collaboration at project and possibly even at programme level M-S Li IST 2006 Networking Session on Enterprise Networks, 22.11.06, Helsinki
Grand Challenges Knowledge-Oriented Collaboration Web Technologies for Enterprise Interoperability Interoperability Service Utility A Science Base for Enterprise Interoperability M-S Li IST 2006 Networking Session on Enterprise Networks, 22.11.06, Helsinki
What is at stake • eBusiness / “Web 2.0” • ecosystems, open innovation and value creation • Software and services markets • open, competitive, transparent and vibrant • Next-generation software and services • software as a service • a scientific foundation: knowledge, methods, techniques and tools • Future Internet (Future Networks, the Semantic Web, the Internet of Things …) • “critical infrastructure” for virtually all enterprises • a services layer to serve the needs of enterprises, esp. SMEs, and new paradigms of work and economic activities M-S Li IST 2006 Networking Session on Enterprise Networks, 22.11.06, Helsinki
Remarks • Future markets for enterprise interoperability will be substantially different from those of today • A unifying theme for those markets will be innovation, and specifically business innovation • A homogenous picture of a single technology pathway purposively proceeding towards interoperability is not likely • Interoperability will not come built into software applications unless the silo approach to software provision is broken • Software provision as a flurry of bursts and spikes of the “next new thing” does not serve the interest of the enterprise users • Rethinking enterprises and industrial sectors is vital for considering the development of the future markets for enterprise interoperability M-S Li IST 2006 Networking Session on Enterprise Networks, 22.11.06, Helsinki
Further informationhttp://cordis.europa.eu/ist/ict-ent-net/ei-roadmap_en.htmhttp://cordis.europa.eu/ist/ict-ent-net/ei.htm