Strategic Technology Plan 20042006

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Strategic Technology Plan 2004-2006

• European Software Institute

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ESI business model
feedback
services
proposals
contracts
projects
results
offers
products services
ServicesBusiness Dev. Areas
RD Projects Area
marketing
ESI_at_net
agreements
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RD Projects

• RD Projects
• consist in applied research, adaptation, and
  experimental validation in the field of
  Information Technology with the ultimate
  objective of improving industry competitiveness.
• Project results are packaged into technology
  transfer products and services, putting the
  emphasis on ensuring their effectiveness by
  performing experimental trials

RD Projects are carried out in cooperation with
ESI members and partners and with leading
European companies to develop high-quality
technology, addressing current and future market
needs
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Technology Adoption Path
Identify Adapt Validate Consolidate
Deliver
Transfer technology Deliver training
consultancy Deliver product
Trial in pilot experiments and develop case
studies Awareness action through publications
dissemination events
Develop solution, adapt models and
methods Develop supporting tools
Identify emerging technologies Characterise
problem
Package into training and consultancy
products Develop business case
Technology adoption in the market
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The challenge

• State-of-the art State-of-the technology
  practice
• Risk River

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Packaging RD project results

• Process assessment and improvement A full
  consultancy service, based on recognised
  improvement models.
• Start-up services affordable and focussed first
  step towards process improvement.
• Training courses 2-5 days classroom training
  including concept introduction and extensive
  hands-on practical exercises
• Tutorials Short and focussed insight, designed
  for managers.
• Internet-based products services to bring the
  technology directly to SMEs at their workplace.
• Publications state-of-the-art surveys, models,
  methods.

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Strategic objectives

• Technology objectives set in ESI Strategic Plan
  2004-2006
• Market orientation Develop competitive products
  and services addressing current and future market
  demand
• Develop competencies according to market needs
• Bring added value with respect to existing market
  offer
• Leadership Be leaders in Information Technology
• Select strategic technology areas that will bring
  technological innovation
• Disseminate knowledge and incorporate innovation
  in products and services.

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RD Strategic positioning

• Promote the interest on ESI projects
• involving current and potential customers,
• encouraging ESI patrons participation in project
  development.
• Establish strategic alliances
• for the scope of the technology development,
• in particular integrating competencies with ESI
  Centers
• Favour the use of Open solutions and standards
• supporting Open Source Software (OSS)
• Participating in standardisation initiatives

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Software Systems development challenges

• Predictability effectiveness
• Lack of sound models for quantitatively
  predicting process and product qualities
• Managing distributed development teams and
  growing off-shoring
• Complexity and productivity
• Specialisation by sector/domain (banking,
  automotive, aerospace, government, control and
  supervision, etc.)
• Growing complexity of systems (specially non
  functional pervasive aspects)
• Heterogeneity in software systems environments
  will remain
• Service-based model is still in very early
  adoption phase
• Flexibility and interoperation
• Adaptation of behaviour to context conditions
  (resources, user, etc.)
• Integration efforts grows significantly with
  respect to actual development.
• Ambient intelligence based in interoperable
  service model with mobility
• Security
• Dependability on software systems provoke
  Increasing security concerns
• A comprehensive approach to security requires
  integration of technical, management and
  organisational aspects

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ESI Technologies

• Quality Technologies
• Software Process Improvement
• TQM for software-intensive organisations
• QMT Quantitative Management techniques
• Productivity Technologies
• Systematic Reuse, Product Family Engineering
  COTS
• Model-driven Development
• Service-centric Enterprise Interoperability
• Key Support Technologies
• Information Security Management
• Technology evolution (not a technology)

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Strategic ESI Technologies (RD)
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Reuse Product-Family Engineering

• ESI Approach
• Achieving Systematic Reuse involves organising
  software production in an industrial way
• At the organisational level, differentiating
  between the productions means and the production
  itself
• At the process level, standardising the norms and
  the techniques
• At the engineering level, automating the process
  through component-based production.
• Benefits
• Achieve dramatic productivity increase by
  eliminating redundant work and streamlining
  production process.
• For software development organisations with a
  potential demand of similar products and with
  experience in developing them.

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Reuse Product-Family Engineering

• Areas or work
• Variability Management Method and tool
• Techniques to identify, model and trace
  variability through different kinds of documents
  (design, code, etc.)
• Product Family Evaluation Framework
• Integration of Product Family practices into
  CMMI framework as a discipline
• Family Engineering extended to embedded systems
  and non-software domains
• Enlarge applicability of family approach,
  addressing the specificities of embedded systems
  and other domain in which product variants are
  derived from a single asset base.
• Third-party components in software development
• Address market and quality issues of COTS
  (including Open Source). Emphasis in overcoming
  technical and non-technical barriers to develop a
  component market.

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Model-Driven Development

• ESI Approach
• Facilitate the successful industrial adoption of
  Model-driven Development
• Ensure a complementary and compatible approach
  with other process improvement initiatives
• Provide the technology change management
  measurements to guarantee business alignment
• Benefits
• Productivity gains from the automation of
  significant parts of development of software and
  other work-products
• Protect investments in business architecture from
  changing and heterogeneous technological
  platforms
• Better use of qualified and skilled human
  resources

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Model-Driven Development

• Areas of work
• MDD Process Framework
• MDD-compatible structured collection of
  engineering and management practices, integrating
  agile practices and using SPEM as process
  modelling language.
• MDD Maturity Model
• A staged approach to adopt MDD practices in an
  industrial context
• MDD Technology Change Management and Metrics
• Guidelines for planning and quantitatively
  tracking MDD transition.
• Model-driven Service oriented architectures
• A contact point with Service-centric Enterprise
  Interoperability
• Model checking and simulation
• To provide indicators for quality of models and
  quality of their implementations.

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Service-centric Enterprise Interoperability

• ESI Approach
• Address interoperability in a coherent way
• at business level, for process interoperability
• at IT system level, for application
  interoperability
• Facilitate the development of high quality,
  interoperable services, addressing trust and
  security issues.
• Establish a technological basis for Ambient
  intelligent vision
• Benefits
• Better understanding of business processes and
  collaborative processes with external entities in
  a networked enterprise
• Address dynamicity in the discovery and
  composition of services to support changing
  business needs.

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Service-centric Enterprise Interoperability

• Areas of work
• Developing quality Services
• Modelling languages and methodologies for
  creating verifiable high quality services
• Service Composition
• Dynamic discovery and aggregation of elementary
  services preserving desired qualities
• Enterprise Interoperability Maturity
• A roadmap towards becoming a networked
  e-Enterprise to be used as a reference for
  evaluation and as improvement path
• Enterprise Modelling
• Modelling languages and methodologies to
  represent collaborative processes and be used as
  the basis for model-based work-place generation
  for different roles.

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Information Security Management

• ESI Approach
• Comprehensive approach to the definition and
  implementation of a ISMS (Information Security
  Management system), addressing
• Organisational level
• Physiscal security
• Legical security
• Build on ESI experience in diagnosis and
  improvement activities
• Focus on supporting market-oriented activities
• Benefits
• For IT departments in all industrial sectors with
  a growing concern about lack of security and the
  vulnerability of core business assets.
• For Information Society applications, where lack
  of trust and security is perceived as one of the
  most important barriers to its development.

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Information Security Management

• Areas of work
• Application of ISO/IEC 17799
• Consolidate the support for the application of
  the standard ISO/IEC 17799, including diagnosis
  and implementation of solutions.
• Secure Software Development
• Methodologies and techniques for the secure
  software development of distributed,
  interoperable and interconnected systems. The
  reference is the standard ISO/IEC 15408 Common
  Criteria for Information Technology Security
  evaluation.
• Security Risk Management
• Adaptation of security risk evaluation schemes
  and tools to the SME needs.

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Technology Evolution/Roadmapping

• A strategic tool for ESI (not a technology area)
• Aid in setting priorities towards the achievement
  of technology objectives
• Establish synergies with Tecnalia X-pin
• Gain visibility in IT leadership
• Target audience
• Administrations
• IT research agents
• ESI itself for complementing TAG views
• Results
• ESI reports addressing important issues in
  software world (open source software, technology
  adoption, trends in the IT sector, etc.)
• Higher visibility for ESI through participation
  in international committees such as ISTAG, ITEA,
  etc. And the organisation of diffusion events.

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Key RD Projects

• ATHENA Advanced Technologies for
  Interoperability of Heterogeneous Enterprise
  Networks and their Applications
• FP6 IP Networked business SO
• Projects coordinator SAP
• Starting date February 2004 (3 years)
• Modelware Modelling Solution for Software
  systems
• FP6 - IP Software Service Tech. SO
• Projects coordinator Thales
• Starting date August 2004 (2 years)
• SECSE Service centric Systems Engineering
• FP6 - IP Software Service Tech. SO
• Projects coordinator Engineering S.p.A.
• Starting date September 2004 (4 years)
• ASSERT Automated proof based System and
  Software Engineering for Real-Time Applications
• FP6 - IP Embedded Systems SO
• Projects coordinator ESA
• Starting date September 2004 (4 years)

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