Mr. Sergio Gusmeroli from TXT e-solutions SPA presented the charcteristics and positioning of the ISU. In addition, he noted the ISU business and technical roadmaps. (FInES Cluster Meeting, December 2012)

1. E n te rp ri s e C O llab o rati o n &
I N te ro p e rab i li ty
The Internet as Universal Business System:
ISU re-visited
FInES Cluster Meeting
Brussels, December 19th 2011
Sergio Gusmeroli
TXT e-solutions SPA, COIN Project Technical Coordinator

2. ISU/UBS TF Related Events
• Digital Agenda Assembly, 16-17 June, 2011 Brussels, Pillar II
“Interoperability & Standards”. Public Procurement open standards
(Action 23) and possible measures to adopt in the absence of standards
to favour interoperability and openness (Action 25).
• Samos 2011 Summit on Future Internet, 4-6 July 2011 Samos.
Workshop “Realizing the vision of the ISU: public interest, competitive
service offering and service innovation” held on July 6th.
• Future Internet Assembly, 25 October 2011 Poznan. Session 1.1:
Value creation, Value flows and liability over virtual issues, societal and
business applications perspective” plus a moderated debate.
• eChallenges 2011, 26-28 October 2011 Florence. Session 9a:
Networked, Smart and Virtual Organisations - Applications”. SaaS-
U@ESA . “The Economics and Innovation of Utility Services in ICT”.
• Future Internet Symposium, two half-day workshops to present
and debate COIN outcomes, in particular the technical and business
vision of the ISU. Moderated experts panels and audience participation.

3. A Discussion Paper
1. What is it the ISU?
2. What’s the relation between ISU & FInES?
3. What’s the relation between ISU & SSAI?
4. What’s the relation between ISU & FI research?
5. Projects’ Contributions to ISU Implementation
6. ISU and EU Policies (EU2020 strategy; DAE)
7. A 2020 Business Roadmap to ISU
8. A 2020 Technical Roadmap to ISU
9. ISU & Internet as Universal Business System

4. What is it the ISU?
Source: Man Sze Li (IC Focus), COIN Project WP62
• Delivery of IT as services
• Interoperability as a
– utility-like capability for enterprises
Collaborating Innovation Ecosystems
– a public good Collaborating Enterprises
• ISU as a basic infrastructure that
supports Value-added and proprietary IT services
– information exchange between
knowledge sources, software ISU
applications and Web services Web
– a new generation of self-* services and
Internet
e-business services
– connection between islands of Telecommunications
interoperability
– especially SMEs and start-up
companies Conceptual View of the ISU
• ISU is independent of, rather than an
extension to, EI solutions on the market

5. ISU Positioning in the FI
Source: Man Sze Li (IC Focus), FIA Valencia

6. Four main views to ISU
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Enterprise Software and Applications 125 functionalities
Value-added Service Providers (private Clouds)
100 from ext, source
ISU
Interoperability Service Utility

7. Projects contributions
• COIN: service delivery platform for EI/EC services
• COMMIUS: people, community-centric infrastructure
• NISB: wisdom of the Business Network, µ-mappings
• NEXOF RA: reference architecture for GSDP
• FI-WARE: Core Platform FI PPP, Generic Enablers
Coming soon
• MSEE: service innovation in manufact. ecosystems
• Extreme Factories: agile mgmt innovation process

8. ISU in the DAE
• 03. Interoperability and standards: making it
happen
– Action 23: Provide guidance on ICT standardisation and
public procurement. Issue a Communication in 2011 to provide
guidance on the link between ICT standardisation and public
procurement to help public authorities use standards.
– Action 25: Identify and assess means of requesting
significant market players to licence information about their
products or services. Examine the feasibility of measures that
could lead significant market players to license interoperability
information.
– In charge of it is DG INFSO D3 (Annemarie Sassen)

9. From ISU to Internet as UBS
Innovation Source: M-S Li
Ecosystem pricing, relationship
led rather than cost based
Utility service infrastructure as
(generative) platform
Marginal cost “close to” 0.0 Making new needs: co-deisgn,
Value based dynamic pricing co-creation, co-development,
Variable costs Service infrastructure as utility co-sumption
Shared resources Service federated
Fixed costs Service oriented
Dedicated resources IT Store
Product oriented
IT Switch IT Tap
IT Plug
Source: M-S Li 9 Commoditisation

10. ISU Business Roadmap
Towards Universal Business (Eco-)Systems
Value & Business Innovation
A system of exchange based on
Technology infrastructure
Business values & Social communities
Business relationships based on
Core technology offering
Value added apps based on
Generic technologies
Utility
Trajectory of ISU business development
Paradigm: Paradigm: Paradigm:
Store Marketplace Market System
10
(Today) (2020?) & new modes of exchange (2020+)
Source: M-S Li

11. ISU Technical Roadmap
Value & Business Innovation
Interoperability cloud ecosystem
from / for everyone, Interoperability
as Public Service
Interoperability of Service Delivery
Platforms in different domains
Interoperability of Services
in a Service Delivery Platform
Utility
ISU 1.0 ISU 2.0 ISU 3.0
Paradigm: Paradigm: Paradigm:
CP Gateway FOT Platforms Cloud Ecosystem
Source: M-S Li 11
(2015) (2020) (2020+)
Source: modified by S. Gusmeroli from M-S Li

12. E n te rp ri s e C O llab o rati o n &
I N te ro p e rab i li ty
The Internet as Universal Business System:
ISU re-visited
FInES Cluster Meeting
Brussels, December 19th 2011
Sergio Gusmeroli
TXT e-solutions SPA, COIN Project Technical Coordinator