1. Virtual enterprises : challenges, concepts, solutions Marco Alessi Engineering Group SpA, Italy

2. What are Virtual Enterprises? 2

3. temporary alliances of businesses 3

4. to better and rapidly respond to business opportunities 4

5. 5 supported by computer networks.

6. 6 What are the advantages of a Virtual Enterprise?

7. Main Advantages #1 7 Increased Flexibility

8. 8 Main Advantages #2 Reduced costs

9. 9 Main Advantages #3 Improved Asset Utilisation and Scalability

10. In a global, demanding and fast changing market … 10 collaboration among enterprises is becoming a strength

11. What is VENIS? 11

12. 12 1 - a research project co-funded by the European Commission VENIS is …. 2 - a prototype result of the research project

13. 13 #1 - interoperability among Large and Small Medium Enterprises supports enterprises in creating:

14. 14 supports enterprises in creating: #2 - flexible and secure business collaboration

15. Why VENIS? 15

16. 16 Running a collaboration with other companies may really be hard work! What are the main pain points?

17. 17 Doubts about the security level offered to your documents Main pain points addressed #1:

18. 18 Difficulty in managing document permission and privacy Main pain points addressed #2:

19. of organizations haven’t got visibility and control over data shared outside the firewall 19 30% Source: Enterprise Collaboration: Avoiding the Productivity and Control Trade-Off, A Hurwitz white paper

20. 20 60% of employees are using consumer tools for business file sharing Source: Enterprise Collaboration: Avoiding the Productivity and Control Trade-Off, A Hurwitz white paper

21. 21 49% Source: Enterprise Collaboration: Avoiding the Productivity and Control Trade-Off, A Hurwitz white paper of organizations block the use of consumer file synch and share applications

22. 22 Main pain points addressed #3: Difficulty in finding information

23. 3.5 hours per worker (per week) 23 Spent in searching but not finding Source: An Oracle White Paper, March 2010 The Business Case for Enterprise Collaboration

24. 24 Main pain points addressed #4: Difficulty in keeping track of all the activities in your collaboration

25. 25 Too busy or not willing to change the way you work. Main pain points addressed #5:

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27. QUESTIONS? 27

28. THANK YOU 28 Disclaimer - the images used in this presentation are property of their respective owners and are used here for non commercial purposes.