Digital Businesses, Integration and challenges

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Digital Businesses, Integration and challenges
Bernard Barani Attaché DG INFSO-D
Bernard.Barani_at_cec.eu.int
No REST Workshop Sophia Antipolis, 27 May 2005
The views expressed herein are those of the
authors and are not necessarily those of the
European Commission
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Lisbon objective and IST

• There is now a greater consensus than ever before
  on the significant contribution which ICTs make
  to productivity and growth.
• ICTs play a role directly through the
  contribution of the ICT sector to GDP, and
  indirectly as other sectors throughout the
  economy take up and exploit ICTs.
• ICTs also improve the quality of life of
  citizens for example by promoting improved
  access to existing services or by providing
  completely new services.
• The Lisbon targets cannot be met without a
  pro-active policy on ICT as a key component.
• Pervasive adoption of ICT by businesses is a key
  pillar of such policy

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ICT in Figures

• In Europe the growth rate is 2.8 in 2004,
  US3.5 and Japan2.8
• 40 of this growth rate is related to ICT goods
  and services.
• Overall, the EU invested half the US amounts in
  ICT EU total investment in ICT only grew from
  2.2 to 2.6 of GDP from 1990 to 2001, while in
  the same period it grew from 3.3 to 4.2 in the
  US. Overall the EU economy is less ICT-intensive.
  
• Need to foster ICT adoption by entreprises and
  SMEs

Source EITO Report 2004
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Policy, i2010

• An umbrella policy initiative, currently in the
  making
• In the context of a renewed commitment to the
  Lisbon Strategy
• Commission adoption, planned Early June 2005,
  presentation to the Council end of June,
  Resolution end of year
• 3 Pillars deployment, innovation, inclusion
• Salient features include
• ICT as engine for growth
• favourable environment for deployment regs,
  stds, targeted actions on interoperability
• e_business promotion and deployment
• research
• cutting red tape (SMEs..)
• in the context of telecom-media convergence
• ..
• Complemented with Competitiveness and Innovation
  Programme

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Some Challenges and associated Policies (i2010)

• Globalisation and delocalisation (Trade and
  competitiveness)
• Interoperability and Standardisation (Competition
  and Internal Market)
• Open Source (Competition and consumer protection)
• Regulation and Market Barriers (Comp)
• Trust and reliability (Security)
• Deployment (Member States/Regional deployment
  policies eEurope/i2010, eTEN, Structural funds)
• Convergence of technologies and industries (
  competitiveness and innovation)
• All are important drivers for Business Ecosystems

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Ever growing complexity
ANY DEVICE All devices can communicate with and
understand one another
RFID Interactive Sensors

• There will be over one trillion devices by 2005
• Number of communicating data devices growing from
  2.4 billion to 23 billion in 2008 and one
  trillion by 2012
• Towards more complex business environments

Source IDC Research 02/2004
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Ever growing complexity
ANY DATA Seamlessly communicate exploding amount
of data on demand, to support people and business
processes
Amount of data received or transmitted by device
(in Petabytes/Day)

• Amount of data accessed will explode to 1.075
  Zettabytes (1018) by 2008
• Variety of Data
• Driving the need for flexible architectures
• Driving more complex business relations
• Creating opportunity for business transformation

Industrial Automobile
Entertainment
Mobile
Computers
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Increased complexity in Business Networking
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Enterprise priorities
61
Integrating systems and processes
External customer service / relationship
management
49
39
Enabling / enhancing e-commerce
Knowledge management / leveraging intellectual
assets
35
33
Implementing data security and privacy measures
Automating / optimizing the supply chain
32
26
Implementing new technologies, such as wireless
21
Extending systems globally
8
Other
(Source CIO Magazine, Sept 2002)
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Why enterprise interop?
System Implementation Budget
Misc.
Integration
20
40
Hardware
10
Software
Impl. Services
10
20
Over 72 of companies need to integrate more than
6 applications
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Networked businesses

• Perceived Barriers
• High infrastructure and integration costs
• not allowing data, information and knowledge
  sharing
• Lack of a flexible open framework
• not allowing participation in different networks,
  easy entry and exit
• Incompatible systems/applications
• impeding full collaboration between business
  partners
• Both standardisation and RD activities are
  needed to solve this issue

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Networked Businesses, the IST picture
ATHENA
CrossWork
Co-DesNet
No-Rest
ECOLEAD
ILIPT
TrustCoM
Mosquito
INTEROP
Spider-Win
DBE
MyCarEvent
V-CES
Legal-IST
MyTreasury
SATINE
VERITAS
XBRL in Europe
VE-FORUM
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Networked Businesses, the IST picture
Product Lifecycle Business models Smart objects
identification Wireless RF technologies Real-tim
e monitoring Middleware interfacing Agent-based
systems Knowledge discovery Self-configuring
networks Operations research
Business Networking Reference models Knowledge
Management Multi-agent systems Virtual
Organisations Breeding Environments Support
technologies
Enterprise Interoperability Frameworks, reference
architectures Interoperability Infrastructure Ente
rprise Modelling Service-oriented
architecture Trust management Contract management
ATHENA
CrossWork
Co-DesNet
No-Rest
ECOLEAD
ILIPT
TrustCoM
Mosquito
INTEROP
Spider-Win
Digital Ecosystems Complex systems theory Formal
languages Business models Policy and growth
models Knowledge Sharing
DBE
MyCarEvent
V-CES
Legal-IST
MyTreasury
SATINE
VERITAS
XBRL in Europe
VE-FORUM
CLUSTERS DRIVE FUTURE RESEARCH
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ICT for Networked Business FP6 call 5

• Key Objectives
• Software solutions adaptable to the needs of
  local/regional SMEs, supporting organisational
  networking and process integration
• Distributed collaborative ambient
  intelligence-based network-oriented systems for
  efficient, effective and secure product and
  service creation and delivery
• Focus
• Digital business ecosystems for SMEs
• open-source distributed self-adaptive
  environment and models enabling SMEs to
  cooperate for design, development of flexible
  and adaptable components interoperable with
  proprietary systems
• Support of spontaneous composition, sharing
  distribution of business solutions and knowledge
• Extended products and services
• decentralised architectures new approaches to
  business processes
• Horizontal actions
• IPR and legal issues raised by os, networked
  and collaborative paradigms

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Looking Ahead

• IST-FP6 Call 5 ICT for Networked Businesses
• Digital business ecosystems for SMEs
• Open-source distributed self-adaptive environment
  and models enabling SMEs to co-operate for
  design, development of flexible and adaptable
  components interoperable with proprietary systems
• Support of spontaneous composition, sharing
  distribution of business solutions and knowledge
• IST in FP7
• Technology Pillar Software, Grids, security and
  dependability
• Application Pole ICT supporting business and
  industry
• New forms of dynamic networked co-operative
  business processes, digital ecosystems
• i2010
• Take-up of ICT ? an integrated policy on
  e-business giving special attention to SMEs

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Roadmap to FP7 - 2005

• 7 June Council - Orientation debate
• 21 Sept EC proposal on SP and RfP
• 11 Oct Council - views on SP and RFP
• 23 Nov EC proposal under Art 169/171
• 28/29 Nov Council - Orientation debate on
  SP and RFP
• 12-15 Dec EP First reading on FP

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Roadmap to FP7 - 2006

• Feb/Mar Council - Common position on FP
• EP First reading on RfP
• April Common position on RfP
• May/June EP - Second reading FP,
• opinion SP, second reading RfP
• June Council adoption of FP RfP
• July Council EP - Adoption FP RfP
• July Council - Adoption of SPs
• Oct Commission adoption WP
• Nov Publication of the first call

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Seeing Old Things in New Ways