Full title: Envisioning, Supporting and Promoting Future Internet Enterprise Systems Research through Scientific Collaboration
Partners: Decision Support Systems Laboratory - National Technical University of Athens (Coordinator), INTRASOFT International SA, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Coventry University, UNINOVA - Instituto De Desenvolvimento De Novas Tecnologias
Start date: 01/09/2010, Duration: 23 months
European Commission, FP7 WorkProgramme 2009/10 Objective: 1.3 Internet of Things and Enterprise Environments
Future Internet Enterprise Systems play an important role in the quest of European enterprises (typically SME's) to become more competitive, to enlarge their markets and overall potential while transforming towards new business models and developing innovative products and services. In this context, the ENSEMBLE project is a Coordination and Support Action (CSA), that combines systemic approaches, scientific multi-disciplinarity, innovative Web 2.0 collaboration tools with a community-driven mentality, to significantly increase the impact of the Future Internet Enterprise Systems (FInES) domain.ENSEMBLE aims at enlarging and supporting the FInES research community (research projects, key experts, wider audience) through establishing and maintaining specifically designed electronic collaborative tools and performing specialized workshops and consultations. Utilising the power of the community combined with key experts from neighbouring scientific domains, ENSEMBLE project also aims at a major contribution towards the establishment of a scientific base for Enterprise Interoperability - a grand challenge of the FInES research. Furthermore, ENSEMBLE activities will provide solid support for the ICT research roadmap development in the area of Future Internet, interacting with the research projects and key experts of the area, delivering policy support and research alignment recommendations. The roadmap and the various research objectives and evolving achievements will be presented as a self-standing report and as an online, dynamic, evolving knowledge base.