TXT Corporate Research:

2010 Overview

Sergio Gusmeroli
Corporate Research Director
 TXT Group & Corporate Research

TXT POLYMEDIA TXT NEXT

TXT PERFORM New Enterprise Software
Media & Channel
Supply Chain Management
Integration Technology

TXT CORPORATE RESEARCH

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 TXT CORPORATE RESEARCH

To provide TXT Group Companies and Business Units with

Corporate Research & Innovation Services to:

• Identify, study & develop new technologies, tools and knowledge, to

gradually stimulate and support their adoption and take-up as strategic
competencies for TXT Business Units (Research capability)
• Develop and Maintain long-lasting and profitable relations with National and
EU first class Research Centers, mainly in Countries not covered yet by
current TXT network (Dissemination capability)
• Design & realize innovative services & software prototypes, according to
TXT Business Units product-service medium-long term strategies, towards
modernization, extension, improvement of TXT current business models and
value proposition (Innovation capability)

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 TXT CORPORATE RESEARCH

To provide TXT Group Companies and Business Units with

Corporate Research & Innovation Services to:

• Identify, study & develop new technologies, tools and knowledge, to

gradually stimulate and support their adoption and take-up as strategic
competencies for TXT Business Units (Research capability)
• Develop and Maintain long-lasting and profitable relations with National and
EU first class Research Centers, mainly in Countries not covered yet by
current TXT network (Dissemination capability)
• Design & realize innovative services & software prototypes, according to
TXT Business Units product-service medium-long term strategies, towards
modernization, extension, improvement of TXT current business models and
value proposition (Innovation capability)

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 2009Pillar#1: Enterprise Interoperability
TXTPerform® next generation suite
TXTChain for standard Business Documents exchange (UBL)
TXT Enterprise Service Bus for pervasive adoption of SOA
TXTPlan for RFID-based CPFR (Collaborative Planning Forecasting Replenishment)
Provided Required
ABILITIES 1st Review Meeting

Enterprise
Models Collaborative Enterprise
Models
FOCUS on ABILITIES Interoperability Bus
Enterprise Modelling

ABILITIES Interoperability Bus

Model-Driven Interoperability

Legacy Interface
Ontologies and Semantics

Legacy Interface
Processes Cross-Organisational Processes
Business Processes Synchronization Reconciliation Negotiation Collaboration
Module Engine Engine Module
Services Flexible Execution and Services
Composition of Services
COIN Enterprise Service Bus

Messages Event Handler BPEL Engine Task Manager

Information / Data Information / Data
Information Interoperability

Repositories

Negotiation Reconciliation
Rules Multimedia Messages Users
Rules

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 2009Pillar#2: Collaborative Networks
TXTPerform® next generation suite
TXTDemand: BA & BI convergence (Business Applications B. Intelligence)
TXTFlow: Project, Task & Document Mgmt (Ambient Intelligence)
TXTCollab: Virtual Organizations & Social Communities

[SOURCE: Gartner, 11 Nov. 2005 –

“Confusion Escalates in SCM Demand Planning Market”]
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 2009Pillar#3: Grid and Cloud Computing
TXTPerform® TXTPolymedia® next generation
TXTHPC: Integration of High-Performance Components
TXTGrid: Grid Computing, Dynamic Resources Allocation
TXTCloud: Infrastructure, Platform, Software as a Service

GRID-based
GRID-basedDemand
DemandManagement
ManagementApplication
Application
TXT
TXTe-Solutions
e-Solutions

ASSIST
ASSISTProgramming
Programming&&Execution
ExecutionEnvironment
Environmentwith
with
Dynamic
Dynamiccontrol
controlof
ofQoS
QoS
UniPISA
UniPISA
Globus 4.0

GRID
GRIDInfrastructure
Infrastructure
ATOS-ORIGIN
ATOS-ORIGINServer
ServerFarm
Farm

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2009Pillar#4: Info-
Info-mobility Wireless Apps.
TXTPolymedia® Mobile Applications
TXTInclusion: Itinerary Planning & Info-mobility Services
TXTCulture: Archives, Museums, Cultural Heritage
TXTTourism: Urban tourism, Augmented Reality

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 2009Pillar#5: Enterprise Content Mgmt
TXTPolymedia® next generation
TXTPortal: Corporate Knowledge & Portal Management
TXTInnov: Innovation & Creativity Support, Living Labs
TXTContent: open CMS & semantic multimedia search
TXT e-Relations Hub

e-Platform
e-Platform
Portal
Developer Portal

User
Administrator

UserInterface
e-Mining
e-Mining

Interface
e-Profiling
e-Profiling
e-Training
e-Training
Legacy e-Consulting
e-Consulting
System
e-Support
e-Support
WWW Portal
User

Knowledge
Repository Users DB

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 2009Pillar#6: Software Eng. & Security
TXTNext, TXTPerform® & TXTPolymedia®
TXTStudio: methods for software specification / vulnerability
TXTMDA: Collaborative software-service development
TXTADM: Modernization of complex software systems

Eclipse/RSM – Modelling environment

EMF Ecore RSM

Web service artefacts Web service artefacts
Metamodels/Models UML Models and Profiles

PIM4SOA model (.ecore) PIM4SOA model (.uml2)

XSD XSD
1
M2T M2M M2T
WSDL WSDL

BPEL BPEL
UML profile
2 for PIM4SOA

M2M M2M

WS-* models (.ecore) WS-* model (.uml2)

XSD XSD XSD

3
M2M M2T
WSDL M2T WSDL WSDL

UML profile for

BPEL BPEL BPEL
Web services

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 2010 Evolution of the Pillars
Interoperability to become Service Utility (P1-P3)
New Enterprise Software & Applications architectures
inspired by Cloud Computing (servification, XaaS)
Platform as a Service, as the most critical layer (develop-
delivery), what does PaaS mean?
Innovative Business Models associated to Utility Services
(COIN SaaS-U, Anderson Free)
Integrated-Unified-Federated data interoperability forms
Massive and Transactional data interoperability
Semantic interoperability services development platforms
CIM-PIM-PSM Model Driven Interoperability
Cross-organizational Business Processes Interoperability
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 The COIN Vision & Motto

COIN VISION: “By 2020 enterprise collaboration and interoperability services will
become an invisible, pervasive and self-adaptive knowledge and business utility
at disposal of the European networked enterprises from any industrial sector and
domain in order to rapidly set-up, efficiently manage and effectively operate
different forms of business collaborations, from the most traditional supply
chains to the most advanced and dynamic business ecosystems.”

COIN MOTTO: “Enterprise Interoperability and Enterprise Collaboration

are the two sides of the same COIN”
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 The COIN Integrated Project
Project No: 216256
Project Full Name: Collaboration & Interoperability for
Networked Enterprises
Duration: 48 months
Start date: January 1st 2008
Partnership: 21 partners, 9 countries
Strategic Objective: FP7 ICT-2007.1.3
ICT in support of the networked enterprise
Total Eligible Cost: 14.383.834 EURO
EC Contribution: 9.996.480 EURO

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 The COIN Consortium & Funnel Model
Industrial Partners Academic & Research Partners User Partners

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 The COIN Metaphore
COIN MOTTO:
“Enterprise Interoperability and Enterprise Collaboration are
the two sides of the same COIN”

• The SIDE A of the COIN: Enterprise Interoperability

• The SIDE B of the COIN: Enterprise Collaboration

• The Substrate of the COIN: Service Platform

• The Value of the COIN: Software as a Service-Utility SaaS-U

• The Market of the COIN: Enterprise Networks (mainly SMEs)

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 2010 The COIN-
COIN-EEU Project
Linked to COIN-IP vision:
"By 2020 enterprise collaboration and interoperability services will
become an invisible, pervasive and self-adaptive knowledge &
business utility at disposal of the European networked enterprises
…to manage and operate different forms of business collaborations"
Contribute to the reinforcement of the cooperation in ICT R&D across EEU by:
Making available and adapting COIN IP results to EEU end-users (SMEs)
Maximising the impact of EC/EI research results, especially for economies mostly based on
SMEs

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 2010 The Nisb Project

Objectives:
• provide ICT support for value networks of SMEs
• provide ICT means for establishing and maintaining Semantic Interoperability
between interacting parties
• Develop and prototype a model for micro-mapping
• Sharing and reusing interoperability information
• Promoting business-user-centric collaboration and interoperability
• Develop and demonstrate scenarios of Highly Innovative Networked Business (HINB)

Participants:
• SAP AG
• TXT e-Solutions SPA
• Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
• Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
• Momentum ICT Federation LTD
• Centro Ricerche FIAT SCPA
• Universitat ST Gallen

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 2010 The SPIN-
SPIN-EaaS Proposal
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IoS IoT
• The basement and the 4 pillars of the X-ETP Greek Web 2.0

Social
IoP IoS

S
Smart
Cars

Service Platform Service Platform Smart HCI

temple vision become a federation of Open and Trusted Networks

US US P US US Spaces

Smart RFID
Enterprise US US I US US

platforms in the DG INFSO FI WG vision 2.0

Collective
US
Utility Services US N
US
Utility Services US
Orchestrations
Products
Smart
Containers
Intelligence Orchestrations
Value Added Value Added Smart
Participation Services VAS Smart Things
Services VAS
• The EU future networked society roof of the temple Living
Labs Exposed I Exposed Sensors

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becomes a constellation of Smart satellites to be Video
on-demand
IoC-K IoS
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DBMS

developed on top of the FOT Platforms Music

Entertainment
Service Platform
US US
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US US
Legacy
Applications
News
Summary
US US R US US Office
US
O US
Applications

• We argue that the core of the FI will be a federation of Semantic

Technologies
Utility Services US
Orchestrations
Value Added
Services VAS
P
Utility Services US
Or chestrations
Value Added
Workflow
Workgroup
User Profiling Digital

Utility Platforms providing universal, available-to-all low Recommendation IPTV Exposed Services VAS
Exposed
2D-3D Business Process
Design Management

(zero) cost commodities for services search-discovery- Service Clouds SPIN Platforms Service Mashups
orchestration-execution, things identification-tracking- SPIN STUDIO
tracing-interaction, people communication-collaboration-
CIM-PIM-PSM
socialization, knowledge representation-storage-access SP Crawling

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 2010 Evolution of the Pillars
Collaboration to become Innovation (P2)
Collaborative Innovation models (Chesbrough, 2004)
The Living Lab movement (http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/)
Smart Cities and Smart Regions, catalysts for innovation
Consum-authors, who have innovation in their blood
Web 2.0 technologies in the Enterprises (rules policies)
Pre-Commercial Procurement directive for SMEs innovation
New Qualities of Being for Enterprises (Sarkozy-Stiglitz
commission “Measurement of Economic Performance & Social Progress” )

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 2010 The Elliot Project
The ELLIOT project aims to develop an Internet Of Things (IOT)
experiential platform where users/citizens are directly involved in co-
creating, exploring and experimenting new ideas, concepts and
technological artifacts related to IOT applications and services. This
will allow studying the potential impact of IOT and the Future Internet
in the context of the Open User Centered Innovation paradigm and of
the Living Lab approach.

The project is expected to dramatically increase the adoption of IOT in

Europe and to enhance the potential of collaborative innovation for the
discovery of innovative IOT application/service opportunities in
bridging the technological distance with users/citizens.
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 2010 The SmartNess Proposal
The overarching objective of SMARTNESS consists of establishing and evaluating a
Cross-experiential Open INnovation Evolutionary Ecosystem (COINEE, a combination of
ECOLEAD IP’s KSB (Knowledge-Social-Business) experiential model and of COIN IP’s
Collaboration Maturity Model (based on the 5 levels of Access-Evaluation-Participation-
CoCreation-Leadership), applied to overlapping Consum-Author generations. The IVP is
a three layered ICT platform combining open public data, private experience repositories
and service mashup development.

Knowledge Social Business

Access-1 Knowledge is consumed No social interaction Self-sufficient Business
(OPEN DATA) (PASSIVE Consumer) (ISOLATED) (AUTARCHY)
Evaluation-2 Knowledge is assessed Individual interaction Self-centric Business
(ECOLEAD) (ACTIVE Consumer) (INDIVIDUAL) (EGOCENTRISM)
Participation-3 Knowledge is shared Community interaction Co-operative Business
(COIN) (CLASSMATE) (FRIEND) (SUPPLY CHAIN)
Co-creation-4 Knowledge is created Laboratory interaction Collaborative Business
(LABORANOVA) (AUTHOR) (COLLEAGUE) (NETWORK)
Leadership-5 Knowledge is disseminated Cross-City empathy Collective Business
(EZWEB) (GURU) interaction (BROTHER) (ECOSYSTEM)

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 2010 The Peripheria Proposal
The overarching objective of Periphèria is to deploy convergent Future Internet (FI)
platforms and services for the promotion and enhancement of sustainable lifestyles in
and across networks of “Smart” peripheral Cities in Europe.

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 2010 Evolution of the Pillars
Mobile Apps. to become IoT / Manufacturing (P4)
Wireless sensor networks, intelligent objects, Ambient
Intelligence MMI
the Internet of Things
Contributions to the IoT Cluster of European Projects
(Clusterbook & Strategic Research Agenda)
Previous applications in Cultural Tourism (FILAS), Healthcare
and e-Inclusion (Elderly – Chronic Patients)
New Applications in Manufacturing Plants, Warehouse
Management, Logistics & Mobility, Virtual-Physical POSs
Back to Europe and Zero Kilometer movements mostly for
Mass Customization (Small series production) and European
market

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 2010 The IOT@Work Project

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 2010 The Corenet Project
Collaborative
small series CAD -PDM Obese, Disables,
production Diabetic, Elderly
methodologies and
technologies

LCA evaluation

Supply and
Distribution
Collaborative
Networks
Planning
Design
Forecasting
and
Replanishment
Healt medical
Sensoring
Eco - monitoring

Digital Printing Laser Engraving

Challenging products with
innovative healthy
functionalities and
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 2010 The OsmIOTics Proposal
While interoperability is good to exchange data among homologous levels of the
same nature, this is not sufficient when you have the same object which flows across
different worlds-dimensions. What is the model which makes a real world fridge (a
thing) to become a data stream in the digital world, an avatar in the virtual world, a
set of event-alarm or a diagnosis tree in the decisional world, an actor-user in the
application world? Or a decision taken in the upper world to become a BP, an
orchestration of services/commands, a set of physical computers, mobiles, actuators,
sensors to be activated in the real world?
We call it OsmIOTic model, where some particles of the real world are going through
osmotic membranes and influence the digital and the decisional world.

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 2010 Evolution of the Pillars
Ent. Content Mgmt to become Semantic KM (P5)
Towards the Polymedia CMS 2.0: semantic search, semantic
content authoring, semantic multichannel publishing
Towards the Polymedia Video 2.0: semantic user & content
metadating, personalized TV, active TV experience
Towards the “Connect to Consumers”: mass customization,
Virtual e-commerce platforms, Physical interactive Kiosks,
Intelligent shelves, Anti-counterfeiting, Advertising
Reference: SAP Future Retail Center (Regensdorf Zuerich)
and Second Life Retail, Internet of Things, Ambient
Intelligence
(http://www.sap.com/about/company/research/livinglabs/futureretail/index.epx)

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 2010 The IKS Project

Engineering for CMS

architectures: the Interactive
Knowledge Technology Stack will
enable many open source CMS
frameworks to become
semantically enabled
Research on user interaction
with knowledge objects: the use
of semantics to support direct
user interaction with knowledge
content will be a focus of
Interactive Knowledge
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 2010 The NoTube Project

The NoTube platform will be a

Semantic Web infrastructure
providing integrated content from
broadcast, Web channels and social
networks, as well as integrated
functionality for Web service-based
metadata exchange, user and context
modeling, and personalized
presentation generation.

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 2010 The OpenGarments Project

Objective:
The Manufacturing Service Provider (MSP)
business model and a related Service
Oriented Architecture that enables and
integrates the consumer for the creation of
individualised his/her garments and
accessories
Starting Point:
Opportunities of the digital world
(social networks, sophisticated knowledge
and communication methods, digital
production technologies for physical goods
such as Digital Textile Printing and Rapid
Manufacturing).
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 2010 Evolution of the Pillars
Software Engineering & ICT Vulnerability (P6)
Software and Service Engineering for Embedded Critical
systems
Towards zero-defect software: templates and tools for fixing
software bugs
Software Engineering methods for an inclusive ICT

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 2010 The MADES Project
MADES aims to develop the elements of a full-fledged model-
driven approach for the design, validation, simulation, and code
generation of complex embedded systems to improve the current
practice in the field.
MADES covers all the phases of the development process: from
design to code generation, validation and deployment. Design
activities will exploit a dedicated language developed on top of
the OMG standard MARTE (Modeling and Analysis of Real-time
and Embedded systems), and foster the reuse of components

Project type: Collaborative Project (STREP)

Duration: 30 months MADES
Project start: February 1, 2010
Project end: July 31, 2012 Model-based methods
Objective: Embedded Systems Design and tools for Avionics
and surveillance
Project web site embeddeD SystEmS

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http://www.mades-project.org/
 2010 The FastFix Project
FastFix will enable time- and cost-efficient
Partners:
•S2 Grupo
maintenance and support services, by monitoring
•Technische Universitaet software applications, replicating semantic execution
Muenchen failures, and automatically generating patches.
•University College Dublin, FastFix results will include a platform and a set of
•Instituto de Engenharia de open source tools to on-line monitoring of execution
Sistemas e Computadores em environments, gathering semantic information on
Lisboa
application and user behaviour.
•TXT E-Solutions SPA
•Prodevelop

Project type: Collaborative Project (STREP)

Duration: 30 months
Project start: June 1, 2010
Project end: November 30, 2012 FASTFIX
Objective: Internet of Services, Software Monitoring Control
and Virtualisation for Remote
Project web site Software
https://services.txt.it/fastfix-project/ Maintenance
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 2010 The I2Web Project

Tools for the development of inclusive Future Internet services front-

ends
Social Networking - Ubiquitous/Mobile Web and IPTV/iTV
Based on User-Centred Design and Design for All (DfA)/Inclusive
Design principles
usable by the broadest range of users, regardless of their expertise
or ability
30 months, 1.9M€ funding
8 partners Consortium (D, IR, UK, IT, GR, SL)
Start 9/2010

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 2010 Recent RTD Calls
ICT Call6 (April 13th, under evaluation)
Cognitive Systems and Robotics (3)
Digital Libraries & Digital Preservation (4)
ICT for Urban Mobility (2)
NMP Call2010 second stage (May 18th, under evaluation)
Responsive ecologically and economically sustainable production and service networks (FhG IPA,
Electrolux)
Flexible production in Adaptive Manufacturing Ecosystems (BIBA, ETH)
CIP ICT/PSP Pilot B, Smart Cities / LL / IOT (June 1st, under evaluation 4/44)
Networked Smart Peripheral Cities for Sustainable Lifestyles (Genova, Bremen, Athens, Palmela):
serious game for virtuous lifestyles & behaviours
Smart Networked City Innovation Platform for Future Internet-enabled Services (Roma, Paris,
Barcelona, San Raffaele Hospital): smartness model
MISE Industria 2015 Made in Italy (Final Ranking)
GRECO Funded: Global & Reliable End to End e-Commerce & On Line Service Platform (C3 e-
commerce & market intelligence: Italdata, Cantine Zonin)
FIAT LUX (C2 supply chain), CLOSE2YOU (C3 ecommerce) & Made2Consumer (B2 integrated
design-production) just passed thresholds
MiUR PON 2010 Area Obiettivo 1 (April 20th, under evaluation)
LEAN EGOV: servizi ad alto valore aggiunto e piattaforme a basso costo per la valorizzazione del
patrimonio informativo pubblico digitalizzato: PA & imprese
Sistema avanzato per l’interpretazione e la condivisione della conoscenza in ambito sanitario
A.S.K. – Health: KM nella Sanita’
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Advanced Research for Cultural Heritage Optimal safeguard ARCHEOS
 2010 Next RTD Calls
Future Internet PPP (December 2nd 2010)
FI Core Platform (EFII & FIRA)
FI Use Cases & Scenarios (Smart Cities, Smart Mobility, Smart
Health)
Factories of the Future PPP (December 2nd 2010)
Virtual Factories & Enterprises (EaaS, ECCO)
Digital Factories (VERVE, fashion)
Eco-Factory
Machine to Machine communication (Shoes Factory of the
Future)
Mass Customisation for health-lifestyle
ICT Call7 (January 18th 2011)
1.3 Interconnected Objects
Challenge 5: Personalized Healthcare, Ageing, ICT for governance
Challenge 6: Energy Efficient Buildings, Green cars, Mobility
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 TXT CORPORATE RESEARCH

To provide TXT Group Companies and Business Units with

Corporate Research & Innovation Services to:

• Identify, study & develop new technologies, tools and knowledge, to

gradually stimulate and support their adoption and take-up as strategic
competencies for TXT Business Units (Research capability)
• Develop and Maintain long-lasting and profitable relations with National and
EU first class Research Centers, mainly in Countries not covered yet by
current TXT network (Dissemination capability)
• Design & realize innovative services & software prototypes, according to
TXT Business Units product-service medium-long term strategies, towards
modernization, extension, improvement of TXT current business models and
value proposition (Innovation capability)

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 TXT Corporate Research Dissemination - Partners

334 partners in current, 2

on-going projects 7

251 commercial, 83 3 1

universities & 5 2
2
research centers 32
18
9
13 47
29 European Countries, + 1
3
1
China, Turkey, Israel, 31
2
Mexico, Brasil, 9 5
4
Singapore 2 1

68 1
2 3
28

17 3

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 TXT Corporate Research Dissemination - Events

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 Recent Dissemination Events
ICSS 2010 Hangzhou
Invited Speech on: Services for Enterprises: a European ICT research
perspective (IBM)
FI Public Private Partnership Nice (March 12)
Open floor for presentations of concrete offers to the Future internet PPP (SAP
BBC BARCO Microsoft IBM NEC vision)
Servicewave 2009 Expert Panel
Panel organizer and moderator on: Services, Content and Things: how do they
fit together? (HP)
FInES Cluster and Research Roadmap
Main Reviewer of FInES Research Roadmap
IERC Clusterbook and Strategic Research Agenda
Among the Core Authors and Editor Team : Vision and Challenges for realising
the Internet of Things
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 2010 Next Dissemination Events
FIS2010 (www.fis2010.org, Berlin September)
COIN SOA4ALL Larkc workshop on Semantic Technologies
FES@FIS COIN workshop
eChallenges 2010 (http://www.echallenges.org/e2010/, Warsaw October)
Workshop on EI/EC Industrial Applications
Workshop on Economics of Utility Services
ICT 2010 (http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict/2010/,
Brussels Sept)
Workshop on innovative FInES (with SAP)
Workshop on Interoperability and service Science
FIA Ghent and Servicewave (http://www.fi-ghent.eu/, Ghent Dec)
Caretaker of the session "Scenarios for Future
Internet Business"
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 TXT in the Future Internet Assembly
• Bled (Spring 2008): launch of the FI
Assembly initiative. IST Advisory Group
presents its FI Vision. TXT is invited as
Coordinator of the biggest EU Project
about Enterprise Collaboration (COIN)
• Madrid (December 2008): 2° FIA
meeting. TXT moderates an Experts Panel
(with HP, ATOS Origin, Telefonica) about
“Global Service Delivery Platforms”
• Prague (Spring 2009): 3° FIA meeting.
The FI Temple and F-O-T platforms
concepts are presented
• Stockholm (November 2009): 4° FIA
meeting. TXT is organizing a 1,5 hour
debate about “What does FI mean for art
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• Valencia (Spring 2010): 5° FIA meeting. L i v
Platforms
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 The 2015 Future Internet perspective
To position Europe as a leader in the Future Internet, we suggest that initiatives in
Europe should be centred on the development of Future Internet Federated, Open,
and Trusted (shortly, F-O-T) Platforms. A multitude of such F-O-T platforms could
constitute the fundamental enablers and the ecosystems of the Future Internet on which
existing and new “smart” applications could be built upon. Many different types of F-O-T
platforms will be available, allowing specific applications to use the capabilities of one or
more platforms depending on their needs[1]
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[1] Recommendation Report on "Interdisciplinary Research Challenges relating to the Future Internet", EC DG INFSO 2009

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 The 2015 TXT Smart Applications

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People Content Things Services
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The TXT of Today 2009

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 The 2015 Future Internet Temple
The Future Internet will consist of (i) a pervasive, scalable, adaptive and convergent
Network Infrastructure (ii) a set of four heterogeneous Platforms – supporting Internet
by and for People IoP, Internet of Contents & Knowledge IoC-K, Internet of Services IoS,
Internet of Things IoT – and (iii) innovative ICT Software applications for next
generation European Networked Society

Software

Platforms

Infrastructure
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 TXT Positioning as FI Platform Provider
I
 Internet of Services
• Service Parks: Clouds of generic to-all Services, Multinational Big Names
• Service Galaxies: billions of services in the open Internet, User-generated
• Service Federations: by independent highly specialized platform providers

Service Parks Service Platforms Federations Service Galaxies

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 TXT Positioning as FI Platform Provider
II
 Internet by and for People
• Web 2.0, Collective Intelligence, Social Networks and Enterprise 2.0
• From cradle to grave, for managers & citizens, for professionals & disabled
• At Work & at Home, at School and at Hospital, Alone and in Community

Internet of Content & Knowledge

• Multimedia, cross-media life-cycle mgmt platforms, multi-channel delivery
• Semantic Technologies for MM search engines & workspaces generation
• TV and Media Enterprises, Local Public Administrations, Hospitals

Internet of Things
• Wireless Sensor Networks, Smart Objects, Product Identification
• Smart Spaces, Ambient Intelligence, Wearable & Multi modal interaction
• Factory, Point of Sales, Logistics but also Transports & Ticketing

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 TXT Current Smart Applications
 Smart Enterprises
• Smart Factory, sustainable manufacturing, the European way
• Smart Engineering, collaborative product design, service economy
• Smart Retail, user-centric, capturing the shopping experience

Smart Logistics
• Smart Supply Chain, dynamic suppliers ecosystems, networking
• Smart Distribution, collaborative planning, forecasting, replenishment
• Smart Shipping, intelligent fleet management, optimization, itinerary plans

Smart TV & Media

• Smart Media Asset Management for Professionals and Journalists
• Smart Advertising, dynamic Product Placement, semantic user profiling
• Smart Wireless and Mobile, peer-to-peer networks, decision support

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 TXT 2015 Smart Applications (ex.)
 Smart Health
• Smart Pediatrics, with Educational Multimedia & Social Networking
• Smart Location-based Services, personalized bookings, Realtime tracking
• Key Partners: H. San Raffaele, Barcelona Clinic, HP, Siemens

Smart Energy
• Smart Supply Chain, dynamic suppliers ecosystems, networking
• Smart Distribution, collaborative planning, forecasting, replenishment
• Key Partners: Energy Lab, ENEA, A2A, JRC Ispra, IBM, TRASYS

Smart Transport
• Smart Public Transport, info-mobility, urban tourism, elderly/disabled
• Smart Private Transport, self-repairing car, zero-accident, zero-power
• Key Partners: INSIEL, BMT, FIAT, Magneti Marelli, ELSAG, THALES

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 TXT CORPORATE RESEARCH

To provide TXT Group Companies and Business Units with

Corporate Research & Innovation Services to:

• Identify, study & develop new technologies, tools and knowledge, to

gradually stimulate and support their adoption and take-up as strategic
competencies for TXT Business Units (Research capability)
• Develop and Maintain long-lasting and profitable relations with National and
EU first class Research Centers, mainly in Countries not covered yet by
current TXT network (Dissemination capability)
• Design & realize innovative services & software prototypes, according to
TXT Business Units product-service medium-long term strategies, towards
modernization, extension, improvement of TXT current business models and
value proposition (Innovation capability)

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 Pillar#1 2010 Innovation: SaaS-
SaaS-U@ESA
Presentation Tier/Layer S-o-A:
Presentation Services Presentation Models • Three-tier
• Human Interaction Services • Users Models, Profiles, Preferences
• Business Process Workflow Workgroup Services • Authentication, Authorization, Accounting • Data
• Multi-modal HCI primitives & Workspace Serv. • Individual, Group, Community Models
• Mashup, Composition, User-generated Services • Device, Connectivity, Presence Models • Application
• Presentation
Application Tier/Layer
• Vertical Silos
ERP HRM CRM PLM SCM
approach
Processes Processes Processes Processes Processes
• Horizontal, ad-
Applicative Services Applicative Models hoc integration
• Financial and Accounting Mgmt Services • Financial and Accounting Repositories
• Supply-Distribution, Marketing-Sales Services • Strategies, Business Rules and Policies
• Compensation, Payroll, Training Services • Product and Service Data Repositories
• Design, Prototyping, Production, After-Sale Ser. • Competencies, Profiles, Ontologies, Knowledge

Data Tier/Layer
Data Services
• Storage, Preservation, Backup, Access Services
• Privacy, Security, Dependability Services
• Computation, Virtualization, Self-* Services
• Data Interoperability Services
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Data Models
• Data Repositories, Data Vaults, Data Bases
• Computational Grids and Clouds Models
• ICT System Management, Policies, Models
• Networking, gateways, communication Models
 Pillar#1 2010 Innovation: SaaS-
SaaS-U@ESA
Software as a Service Cloudifying:
ERP HRM CRM Presentation Models
• IaaS
SCM PLM PJM Applicative Models • Computation
Presentation-Applicative-Data
ESA Services Data Models • Storage
• Networking
Platform as a Service • PaaS
Development Platforms Delivery Platforms
• Business Process Workflow Workgroup Services • Financial and Accounting Delivery Services • Development
• Mashup, Composition, User-generated Services • Supply, Distribution, Marketing & Sales Serv.
• IoS, IoT, IoP, IoC-K Development Platforms • Compensation, Payroll, Training Services • Delivery
• Primitives & Workspace Generation Services • Design, Prototyping, Production, After-Sale Ser
• SaaS
Future Internet Federated Open Trusted Platforms
• ESA Services
Infrastructure as a Service • Models Know
Infrastructure Services Infrastructure Models
• Storage, Preservation, Backup, Access Services • Data Repositories, Data Vaults, Data Bases • Opportunity
• Privacy, Security, Dependability Services • Computational Grids and Clouds Models
• Computation, Virtualization, Self-* Services • ICT System Management, Policies, Models • MS Azure
• Integration and Accessibility Services • Networking, gateways, communication Models
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 Pillar#1 2010 Innovation: SaaS-
SaaS-U@ESA
ERP HRM CRM Presentation Models SaaS-U:
SCM PLM PJM Applicative Models
• Free (or almost)
ESA VA Services Data Models
• IaaS
Value-Added Services • PaaS
• Premium
SaaS-U@ESA Business Models
• VA Services
Utility Services • Knowledge

Development Platf. Utilities Delivery Platforms Utilities • Consultancy

• Business Process Workflow Workgroup Services
• Mashup, Composition, User-generated Services
• IoS, IoT, IoP, IoC-K Development Platforms
• Primitives & Workspace Generation Services
Future Internet & COIN EI/EC Platforms Utilities
Infrastr. Utility Services
• Storage, Preservation, Backup, Access Services
• Privacy, Security, Dependability Services
• Computation, Virtualization, Self-* Services
• Integration and Accessibility Services
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• Financial and Accounting Delivery Services
• Supply, Distribution, Marketing & Sales Serv. • Training
• Compensation, Payroll, Training Services
• Design, Prototyping, Production, After-Sale Ser • Customization
• Opportunity
Infrastr. Utility Models
• Data Repositories, Data Vaults, Data Bases • FI ISU
• Computational Grids and Clouds Models
• ICT System Management, Policies, Models
• Networking, gateways, communication Models
 Pillar#2 2010 Innovation: 4 ways
• Transfer previously developed internal innovation
projects to customer or suppliers (finance ideas)
• Strategic initiatives should be developed by others
(sell ideas)
• Increase the value of intellectual property (sell IPR)
• Extended the network, even if you are not
increasing (incubators, spin-offs)

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 Pillar#2 2010 Open Innovation
Other firm´s
market

Our new
Licence, spin
market
out, divest

Internal
technology base

Internal/external Our current

venture handling market

External technology
External technology base insourcing

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 Pillar#2 2010 Innovation: TXT Innova
S-o-A:
•KMS (Next)

Collaborative,
•KMS (TXT)
Cross-functional Focal innovation
The inventor R&D department distributed
teams processes
(intra-organisational) (intra-organisational) innovation
(intra-organisational) (inter-organisational)

R&D
Develop- Trend- Ideas
(inter-organisational)

Need
Actions:
ment Scouting management bundle
Produc-
competence A

Marketing
tion
Logistic Lead User …
• TXT 2.0
competence B

• Employees
•Between brilliancy •Creation of •Networking to the •Networking to • common creation
• and madness •departments inside •the outside of new knowledge • Customers
•Implicit knowledge •Gate-Keeper •Market orientation •Methods and tools •Innovation based • Suppliers
•Of the individual problems on interaction
•Increasing •Technical • Awards
•„non-braked •complexity complexity • increasing
Engineering“ borrowing
requirement • TXT Alumni
Intuition
Innovations
efficiency
variety of
perspective
professionalism
bundling of
resources
• Social
• Knowledge
• Business
• Projects
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 Pillar#2 2010 Innovation: TXT PlusPlus
S-o-A:
• Worldwide network of
Market innovation Radical innovation contacts
(orthogonal)
Business
• In touch with new
Interdisciplinary
management focus tecnhnologies
focus
Market uncertainty
high

Actions:
• Low-high
Incremental Technical • Polymedia in Retail
low

innovation Innovation • Perform in EEU, BRIC

Mixed focus, Engineering focus • High-low
depends on
innovation • Perform on the Cloud
objective and
category • High-high
• Smart Energy
low high
• Smart Buildings
Technical uncertainty
• Smart Cars
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 Pillar#2 2010 Innovation: Smart Cities
S-o-A:
• Projects
Future Internet
Research • FILAS
• Citta’ Digitale
• City TVs
Innovation in
• HSR Vainbici
Smart Cities

Experimental
testbeds
Open
User
Driven
HSR:
and
facilities Innovation
Environments
20,000 people
50 Shops, Super-
market Restaurant
Urban Shuttle monorail
Living setting
Lab Hospital, Research
Testbed
Center, University,
Testbed
Living lab facilities
Testbed
Lab
congress center,
Urban Urban
setting setting residence, zoo
Living kindergarten,
Lab
hotel, sports
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 Pillar#4 2010 Innovation: TXT 4 FoF
S-o-A:
• Agusta
• FIAT
• MSO

Actions:
• MES-OPS
• Siemens GE
• CAPP
• Sustainability PI
• Energy
• Environment
• Social
• New domains
• Shoes
• Moulds & Die
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