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European Technology Platforms
and European Software Industry
José M. Cavanillas
International Activities Director
Turning Client Vision into Results2
Agenda
• Atos Origin
• Global strategy on ETPs
• ETP: simple approach and deeper view
• ETP on software and services
• S3 short history
• Baltic presence in ETPs
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An International Player
A leading IT services company providing business consulting, systems integration and managed operations that improve the effectiveness of its clients’ businesses
• 5th largest worldwide IT Consulting company, 1st European
• Annual revenues over € 5 bn
• 48,000 employees
• In 50 countries
• R&D mainly in Spain
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Worldwide Presence
Total Employees 48,000
North America 1,000
Spain5,000
Benelux9,300
France12,400
Italy3,100
Asia/Pacific2,000
UK 6,500
Nordic1,500
South America 1,300
Middle East & Africa
500
Central Europe2,600
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Global strategy on ETPs
• ETP is an important asset & challenge (+)
• ETP requires investment (-)
• Atos is cautious where to intervene:• Nanotech (ENIAC)
• Embedded (ARTEMIS)
• Mobile (eMobility)
• NEM [under consolidation process]
• Software ETP (S3 + SCOUT) [under consolidation process]
• Other options, always under the light of coherence, clear definition of role for Atos, and impact in Europe and business -> Not “any good idea” is an ETP
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ETP – simple approach
IP IP IP
NoENoE NoE
IP IP IP
NoEETP ETP
FP5 FP6 FP7
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ETP – simple approach
• Lentius, Altius, Fortius• Vacuius
IP IP IP
NoENoE NoE
IP IP IP
NoEETP ETP
FP5 FP6 FP7
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ETP – deeper view (1)
• ETP is– is *NOT* an instrument of the European Commission,– *NOR* an Member State project, – *NOR* a private bank’s project
• An ETP exists because companies get together and decide to join forces
• Several contributors may support the existence of platforms: (EC, MS, private banks, companies)
• Ways of contribution by EC:– For the moment, room & coffee– Joint undertaking (art. 171)– Assisted presence in IP, NoEs, STREPs
• Ways of contribution by MS:– National research programmes– Art 169 (uncertainty)
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ETP – deeper view (2)
• When is an ETP created?– An ETP (industry-driven) is created when industry observes:
• (+) an industry need/challenge
• (-) an industry concern
• ETP is an autonomous entity, industry-led, and industry-driven. Contribution from public partners and academia are welcome
• ETP is made for agreeing on research agenda that will drive to business (company’s target) and EU target (growth, jobs, competitiveness)
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Candidates to ETP
2004 2005
DecNovOctSep AprMarFebJan
SCOUT:Atos OriginBTHPIBMSAPTelefónica
S3:Atos Origin NokiaEngineering SiemensSoftware AG SymbianThales Telecom ItaliaTelefónica ObjectWeb
Jointinitiative
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S3 and SCOUT merged Two merging teams were created:
Governance team (Atos, SAP, BT, Engineering) Vision Document team (Atos, SAP, Engineering, HP, Thales)
S3 + SCOUT is a 14 company-wide platform
ETP on Software (17)
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Technological Initiative ID Card
• Preliminary works since July 2004• First Plenary Meeting: 12-October-2004• Outcome: vision document and initiative launch (FP7)• Organisation and roadmap:
• Weekly conference calls (Core Group)• 14-Dec-2004, Second Plenary Meeting• 15-Dec-2004, Discussion with Member States (Mtries of S&T)• 22-Dec-2004, Rome• 12-Jan-2005, Brussels• ...
S3 short history (1)
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Who is there? Participants (open):
Software System Development: 14 Software Product: 5 Industrial Users: 3 Telecom: 3 Mobile: 2 Research: 8
Core Group: Atos Origin Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA Nokia ObjectWeb Siemens Software AG Symbian Telecom Italia Telefónica Thales
S3 short history (2)
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Who is there? Participants (open):
ABB Alcatel Archimedia ATC Atos Origin BAE Systems CEA City University Engineering I.I. SpA European Dynamics European Software Institute EuroTEX FIAT Ibermática ILog INRIA Interactive Object Software MySQL
Nokia ObjectWeb Politecnico di Milano SAP Semantic Systems Siemens SINTEF Società Generale d’Informatica Software AG Symbian T-Systems Telecom Italia Telefónica Telelogic Telvent Thales TSSG Universidad Carlos III
S3 short history (3)
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Integration and cohesion in research activities in the European Software Industry is progressing from being “a good idea” to “a real need”
Why?: New technological waves require a common perspective:
Service engineering Ambient intelligence Semantic interoperability …
Large investments in research call for joining forces Specific concerns (e.g. global threats) for European
Software Industry should be tackled together
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Global Threats: U.S. domination in packed consumer software and operating
systems: Few room/development for European companies
Offshore software factories in Third Countries Globalisation effect Economic factors we cannot modify Unlikely other markets, software does not imply
transport costs The effect of software BPO will only grow (prices will
remain low, quality will remain high or get higher) Long-term industry-scape:
European IT companies as “sales agents” for European customers of the Asian companies devoted to software production
S3 short history (5)
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Consequences: European software companies have to rethink the way they
do business Investigate the points where we can act Act !!
S3 short history (6)
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Keep the European software industry competitive advantage (BUILD ON KNOWLEDGE):
Find the path ahead of European industry for the coming years (Key Evolution Elements that will allow European software to evolve above 3rd countries’ software factories)
Tackle European software industry needs: Avoid shortage of professionals in the KEE Resiliency to external attacks Keep/Care European users through user-centred
engineering Attack other markets
S3 short history (7)
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Our sector: > 1 million workers in Europe Roughly 0,5 % of labour force 205,000,000,000 Euros sector turnover in 2004 Expected growth of 4,4% for 2005 Roughly 2% of European GDP
Is it worth it to help it prevent threats? Hence... let’s do it!
S3 short history (8)
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Main Goal and Actions
The main goal of this initiative is to consolidate the creation of a joint undertaking of companies, research centres and institutions that, counting on resources of their own and from external donors, and in line with regulatory authorities in Europe, carry out the following actions:
1. Establish a vision2. Identify the KEE3. Apply the KEE4. Evaluate and measure actions and effects, modifying 1, 2,
and 3
S3 short history (9)
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1. Establish a vision
Establish a clear vision of the situation of the market of Software, Services, and Systems in Europe, its evolution in the last years, and its forecasts for the coming years, concerning
Existing technical trends Thorough analysis of the most important technologies for the evolution of S3
Economic vision: last years and coming years, in relation with those technologies
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2. Identify the KEE
Identify the Key Evolution Elements (KEE) that may drive up the forecasts for the coming years, in a way that both national economies, Europe continental economy and, if applicable, worldwide economy, result in clear profit. This information will also be provided to the European Commission and National Authorities as input for deciding future research trends
S3 short history (11)
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2. Identify the KEE (cont’d)
Key Evolution Elements preliminarily identified: The aware computer: comprising the basics of semantics and the
awareness of concepts (ontologies), self-awareness and awareness of its own resources (tackling semantic grid), and awareness of physical locations (advanced GIS, based on different sources, like GPS, Galileo, using connectivity standards, architectures and infrastructures like INSPIRE).
The trusting computer: advanced PKI mechanisms for secure identification of source and destination of information, as well as all possible ways of assuring the communication path for avoiding tapping or fraudulent emission.
Total ubiquitous computing, including computing based on wireless usage, RFID, support for ambient intelligence, mobile applications, satellite connections, wireless internet, autonomous sensors and actuators (pervasiveness).
S3 short history (12)
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2. Identify the KEE (cont’d)
Key Evolution Elements preliminarily identified: Advanced technologies paving the way for the “alive software”: shared
Free/Open Source Software, adaptative algorithms, reconfiguration, web services as a tool for run-time service aggregation and the complex application of aggregation to solving complex problems, process composition, component engineering and component interaction up to full-fledged fourth level component interaction, MDA, and dynamic grid applications.
Advanced technologies paving the way to let the user harness the power of IT to its maximum extent: requirement engineering, and service engineering as a superset of that, usability techniques, complex legacy evolution algorithms in order to incorporate new systems to users depending on old systems, vertical downstreaming on user markets with specific needs, like eGov, or eHealth.
S3 short history (13)
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3. Apply the KEE
Apply the identified Key Evolution Elements in the contents of the coming Framework Programme(s) by supporting research and development activities in Europe using the methods of implementation described in chapter 5 of “Guidelines for future European Union policy to support research” from 16-06-2004, “Doing better to do more”
Actions enabling Implementation methods: Establish a management structure in order to develop Article
171 of “Treaty Establishing the European Community” (OJEC 12-12-2004), that is capable to carry out small-scale, medium-scale and large-scale RTD actions that do apply the identified Key Evolution Elements.
S3 short history (14)
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3. Apply the KEE (cont’d)
Actions enabling Implementation methods (cont’d): Pave the way, in line with Article 169 of Treaty, and as explicitly
mentioned in chapter 5 of “Guidelines”, for incorporating national research programmes and inter-national research co-ordination to the fulfilment of the KEE’s, and define clearly the communication matrix with the different national authorities in a way that all companies, research institutions, European Commission and national authorities work towards the same goal and in a co-ordinated way.
Foster, with the support of the management structure, the creation of specific TEN’s (Trans-European Networks) with concrete sub-objectives, which comply with the KEE’s.
Convert the mgt structure into a transparent, private-run, solid, economic and management platform that can be used used by the European Commission for implementing Externalised Management as mentioned in Articles 47 and 48 of “Guidelines”, concerning specific research fields or sub-fields.
S3 short history (15)
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4. Evaluate and measure actions and effects
Evaluate in a continuous way the procedures of application of KEE in the contents, measuring the effects and impact of every single RTD action in the European market, at micro-scale, medium-scale and large scale results. Results of this continuous evaluation will be used to modify periodically the vision established in 1, update the KEEs identified in 2, and correct the actions developed in 3.
Highlight on IMPACT
S3 short history (16)
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Operating
Systems
Packed
software
USA, Others
Application-
Specific
Software
Europe
Low-price
Software
Factories
user
Aware
Third countries
TrustingUbiquitous
alive
In the past, RTD to high-added value IT
Technologies was a good factor to GROW
Currently, RTD to high added value IT
Technologies is a NEED
National Research Programmes and FP7
should be built taking these elements into account
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Approaches on governance being discussed
Joint S3+SCOUT initiative
European Software Industry Forum
Executive Board
Secretariat Mirror Group (member states)
Scientific Committee
SME Committee
Strategic Board
App Domain Committee
Tec
h C
omm
ittee
WorkingGroups
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Baltic presence in ETPs under construction (to my knowledge)
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Ministries of S & T
Partners in ETPs