Full title: OPENi - Open-source, web-based, framework for integrating applications with social media services and personal cloudlets
Partners: Waterford Institute of Technology – (TSSG), DSS Lab - National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS), Logica, Ambisense Ltd, Velti, Betapond.
Start date: 01/10/2012, Duration: 31 months
European Commission, FP7 - ICT-2011.1.2 Cloud Computing, Internet of Services & Advanced Software Engineering, FP7-ICT-2011-8
OPENi will define and deliver an open-source web platform that will enable applications to access and use a broad spectrum of existing cloud-based functionality and content, consistently across different devices and platforms, in a way that enables a user-centric application experience. Targeting the needs of both application Developers and Users, OPENi will realize its vision for user-centric, cloud-connected applications by providing:
- To Developers: a platform-independent technology framework to build applications that can seamlessly integrate publicly available cloud-based functionality and content.
- To Users: the necessary cloud solutions to realize a novel application experience, by being able to keep their user generated content and data in the cloud and further make it available across different applications on different devices.
To enable this OPENi will realize a series of innovations in accessing and using cloud-based functionality, binding dynamically to publicly available cloud-based APIs, sourcing and rendering cloud-based content across different device types and underlying operating systems and establishing a framework for web security and authorization in accessing cloud-based resources.
OPENi will be a significant catalyzing factor, boosting EU software industry – which already counts a considerable number of highly skilled SME software firms to take further advantage of the thriving market of mobile applications, through a framework of open technologies that will be readily available and require almost no additional skill to take up.