1. INFSO-RI-223782 Towards a self sustainable ETICS ETICS2 2° AHM Andrea Manieri and Isabel Matranga Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA Darmstadt, 18-20 February 2009

2. INFSO-RI-223782 2 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system Looking for a sustainability strategy ETICS after ETICS(2) To identify exploitable knowledge To identify strengths and weaknesses To know what the market offers To identify a target market To identify business scenarios To identify one or more business models To identify a post-project Cooperation Agreement (possibly too early !?)

3. INFSO-RI-223782 3 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system Looking for a sustainability strategy Some suggestions and comments 1. Really understand the market (don’t try to change their ideas or at least do so slowly). Academic and commercial software development are different. 2. Target the product in scope, functionality and usability. 3. Demonstrate the value proposition. (David, 6 hours ago) 1. the central topic which should be specified and evaluated at first is the concrete Business Model(s) the ETICS consortium (either as a whole or parts) intend to follow. 2. http://business-model-design.blogspot.com/2006/11/business- model-template-designing-your.html. http://business-model-design.blogspot.com/2006/11/business- model-template-designing-your.html (Uwe, yesterday)

4. INFSO-RI-223782 4 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system Looking for a sustainability strategy Some suggestions and comments The simplest model is when a member of the ETICS consortium for example 4DSOFT offers a test service for a company. Tool vendor companies can register their tools to ETICS system, while user companies can use it integrating any tool into their testing process described by the work flow manager. 4D SOFT develops some tools that will be integrated into ETICS. Though some of these tools can be used alone as well, all together is applicable for test case selection. With this the testing process will be shortened since only a small fraction of the total number of test cases need to be reexecuted. 4D SOFT aims at connecting the the first and this service. The critical scenario is the middle one since it requires a deep trust in ETICS from tool vendors. No one will register any tools only if ETICS is successfully used by several industrial partners. (Istvan, yesterday)

5. INFSO-RI-223782 5 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system Exploitable Knowledge

6. INFSO-RI-223782 6 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system Exploitable Knowledge The EC definition “ knowledge having a potential for industrial or commercial application in research activities or for developing, creating or marketing a product or process or for creating or providing a service ”

7. INFSO-RI-223782 7 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system ETICS 2 Exploitable Knowledge based on ETICS ETICS added value services what-ever-is-sellable ETICS System the software, tools and third-party components ETICS Infrastructure mainly the CERN/INFN/UoW Hw&Network

8. INFSO-RI-223782 8 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system 2 - ETICS Infrastructure What is it? Three resource pools managed by Condor, at CERN, UoW and INFN About 450 cores available with more than 40 different types of platforms Additionally various nodes are attached to the CERN pool from third-party projects or organizations for specific use (4D Soft Ltd for DILIGENT in Hungary, GARR for EUChinaGrid and EGEE/SA2, IN2P3 for EGEE/SA2)

9. INFSO-RI-223782 9 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system ETICS Infrastructure Open questions Is it an exploitable knowledge or pre-existing knowledge? What will it be with the infrastructure after ETICS?

10. INFSO-RI-223782 10 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system 3 - ETICS Services What are they? Any service provided to third-party entities by the ETICS Consortium Based on the ETICS System (using the ETICS infrastructure?) to perform software building, testing and quality assurance activities

11. INFSO-RI-223782 11 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system ETICS Services Which ones - examples? Installation and setting up of the ETICS system? Hosting of the ETICS infrastructure? Quality Certification Service? Testing services? Support Service? Training? …

12. INFSO-RI-223782 12 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system ETICS Services Open Issues Will ETICS system ever be something like mySQL? Are we ready for having any other commercial company to use the system to provide the same services? Would it be possible to release just an ETICS core and keep e.g. plug-ins, the web application as our own licensed sw?

13. INFSO-RI-223782 13 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system 1 - ETICS System What is it? The software released under Apache 2.0

14. INFSO-RI-223782 14 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system ETICS System Open Questions See DSA2.3 (extension of services to submission engine) SA2 for Cloud What are the HW/Infrastructure requirements for the ETICS system? Do we have a self contained software package that can be downloaded and used by the open source community or even other projects? Can we identify a core of the system and separately plug-ins without which the system can still run What are the third-party constraints that we have (Metronome? Other?) Will we have a self-extracting and self–installing piece of software? Will we be able to use Cloud-like infrastructures?

15. INFSO-RI-223782 15 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system Conclusion (?) what have to be sustainable The ETICS system need maintenance and evolution, Allowing Any ETICS partners to provide services with ETICS

16. INFSO-RI-223782 16 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system Conclusion (?) what have to be sustainable IF the ETICS system may be used by ETICS partners for their own service-based busines model Then make sense to have the ETICS consortium need to find a sustainable strategy for the ETICS system,

17. INFSO-RI-223782 17 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system Strength and weaknesses

18. INFSO-RI-223782 18 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system Well known (!?) From current users Strengths Build/test/certification bundle Parallel testing Shared infrastructure (ready for cloud world) Quality standards (for Industries) Automation Weaknesses Too long learning curve Usability Formality (for Academies) Public access to results Need to maintain an infrastructure Opportunities Growing interest in automation Cost efficiency (going into cloud) High quality sw Threats Time to market? How long to…? Initial large investment in infrastructures (How long the current one will be available)

19. INFSO-RI-223782 19 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system Which market, Which competitors

20. INFSO-RI-223782 20 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system The ETICS market some thoughts EU and national research projects Research projects usually have distributed development teams and few effort to no-core activities: These projects will benefit from:  lower costs thanks to standardised and automated procedures  the possibility of efficiently use the funding and  share the results with other projects and communities

21. INFSO-RI-223782 21 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system The ETICS market Open issue Large software companies Large software companies often have large projects with large development teams and look for cost/efficiency These companies will benefit from:  availability of software engineering resources and repositories of historical information  general and specialized tools to make any software more reliable and interoperable  specialized tools to check the quality of their software and be compliant with Quality standards  lower costs thanks to standardised and automated procedures

22. INFSO-RI-223782 22 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system The ETICS market Open issue Large research centres Large research centres work a lot with public funds. They may run multiple projects. They need to share results among projects.  the availability of a shared infrastructure and repositories of historical information  general and specialized tools to make any (new) software more reliable and interoperable  lower costs thanks to standardised and automated procedures  the possibility of efficiently preserve the intellectual property and reuse the results within other projects

23. INFSO-RI-223782 23 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system The ETICS market Open issue SME associations or incubators Specialised (ICT) SME associations may offer also ITC services or data center facilities. The services could be (among other) :  Build and Test  Quality certification

24. INFSO-RI-223782 24 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system The ETICS market Any more? Service re- sellers Not having proprietary infrastructure they could even provide services with ETICS

25. INFSO-RI-223782 25 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system The ETICS competitors An initial analysis Continuu m Cruise Control ETICSHudso n AntHill Pro BambooCruis e Free/OS XXXX Commercial XXX SCM support XXXXXXX Issue Tracker X (lim) XX QA testing support X (lim) XXXXX Parallelized build XXXXXXX Distributed build XXXXXXX Time-based runs XXXXXX Test-based runs XXXXXX SCM tag-based runs XXXXXX poll-based runs XXXXX Manual triggers XXXXXXX Runs in native and virtualized environments XXX Resolving of dependencies between different projects XXXXXX Sec: Authentication XXXXXXX Security: Autorization XXXXXX Notification about the building/testing/pack aging status XXXXXXX build from source/binary X package repository X multi-platform X external-support X Restrictions on languages or project types

26. INFSO-RI-223782 26 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system (Business) Scenarios

27. INFSO-RI-223782 27 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system (Business) Scenarios What and How WHAT: Maintenance and further development of the ETICS System HOW: Open Source or Commercial product Public funding Merge with other consortia or activities Autonomous commercial exploitation

28. INFSO-RI-223782 28 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system (Business) Scenarios Open Source vs Commercial ETICS was Apache 2.0 due to the EC grant model But How we prevent to third-party exploit our investment (if any!?) ?

29. INFSO-RI-223782 29 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system (Business) Scenarios Public funding The possibility of establishing an ETICS 3 project has more or less explicitly been excluded. Any other proposal need to be focused depending on workprograms Eng is exploring opportunities in ICT and CAPACITY Workprograms. Also CIP will be considered.

30. INFSO-RI-223782 30 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system (Business) Scenarios Merge with other Consortia or Activities ETICS Infrastructure and Services could be maintained by including them is other Consortia, Projects or Activities that may exist after the lifetime of the ETICS 2 Project. Examples of this scenario are given by the gLite Consortium and the egi.org organization.

31. INFSO-RI-223782 31 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system (Business) Scenarios Autonomous Commercial Exploitation Each partner is free to engage in commercial exploitation activities of the knowledge and technology created during the ETICS projects the partners can provide and charge for any service based on the ETICS System, including for example the provision of standard ETICS Services, consultancy, support, training, customization, creation of additional plugins

32. INFSO-RI-223782 32 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system Post-Project Cooperation

33. INFSO-RI-223782 33 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system Post-Project Cooperation the ENG proposal Step 1 Signing of Cooperation Agreement Aim create a shared laboratory for maintenance and improvements Financing seed funding from the participating partners about one year Duration

34. INFSO-RI-223782 34 Darmstadt, 18 - 20 FebruaryTowards a self sustainable ETICS system Post-Project Cooperation the ENG proposal Step 2 The shared laboratory could become the basis of the “ETICS Company”, Aim support the maintenance of the ETICS System Financing Fees payed by users for the services offered Till it lasts ;) Duration