1. iSOCO DIP meeting Richard Benjamins Director R&D richard@isoco.com www.isoco.com

2. 2 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 The founding group of 5 scientists start operations at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC). General Electric and Ya.com trust iSOCO for its technological expertise The Santander Central Hispano Group (SCH) and VC firm BCNEmpren become shareholders of iSOCO. 64% of the share capital is now in hands of employees and family and friends of iSOCO Pressing space constraints move iSOCO to change to a larger office in Barcelona. The Spanish Minister of Science & Technology gives the inaugural address. Introduction to iSOCO Profile and history iSOCO opens offices in Madrid and Valencia to be closer to its clients and the knowledge pools of the universities iSOCO consolidates its position as a reference of the application of innovative information technology to the solution of business problems 1999 2000 2001 2002 JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC MBA MSc Others PhD 18% 10% University degrees 62%

3. 3 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 iSOCO in the Market Our Focus iSOCO focuses its research and development efforts towards innovative technologies and solutions that can deliver strategic value for its clients

4. 4 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 iSOCO combines two differentiated areas of expertise, iSOCO Solutions and iSOCO Lab, that generate valuable synergies by expediting innovative leading edge solutions to the market. iSOCO in the Market Technology Owners

5. 5 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 Areas where we act iSOCO Solutions Procurement, sourcing, elextronic negotiation, integration of platforms eLearning, Intranet and knowledge management. ecommerce, personalization, aggregation, search and information analysis. iTRADEiKNOWiCARE

6. 6 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 Areas where we act iSOCO Products iSOCO’s product and services offering has, at its core, a very strong technological component that ensures its differentiation in the market. iSOCO’s Aggregation product line is designed to fulfil the need of simplifying the process of retrieving heterogeneous information from multiple sources and acting upon it. iSOCO Quotes allows companies to streamline their strategic sourcing processes while gaining substantial product and services cost reductions through the use of Smart Negotiation techniques Secure Workflow is iSOCO’s family of workflow management products designed to dramatically enhanced the productivity of professionals in their interactions with the different certification bodies. Intelligent Data consolidation Real Cost Reduction Tangible process improvements AGGREGATION PROCUREMENT SECURE WORKFLOW vis@do

7. 7 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 Summary of Clients Building value based relationships iSOCO ha desarrollado soluciones tecnológicas y creado relaciones de valor con clientes que comparten nuestra pasión por la innovación

8. 8 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 R&D The Mission: Bring the future to the present Relevant technologies  Semantic Web: add meaning to the Web  Web Services: make applications interoperable  Intelligent Agents: reasoning with heterogeneous web sources  Why those technologies? Dedicated funding actions from EU and US governments for Semantic Web Large industries invest in Web Services Monitored by Forrester, McKinsey, Gartner, etc.

9. 9 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 DESCRIPTIONFINANCINGCOORDINATOR EXTERNALLY FINANCED PROJECTS (PUBLIC FUNDINGS)  ESPERONTO (2002) -Application Service for Semantic Annotation and Aggregation of Multilingual Web Content.. iSOCO PARTICIPATION IN INNOVATION NETWORKS Innovation meets the marketplace International Projects and Innovation Networks  European Union -€547.600 funding over 2,5 years.  iSOCO -Total funding of €2.000.000.  European Union -€432.100 over 3 years.  CIMNE (*) -Total funding of €1.813.375.  iBROW (2000) -Intelligent Brokering Service for knowledge-component reuse on the World Wide Web.  European Union -€105.000 over 3 years.  University of Amsterdam -Total funding of €1.100.000.  Ontology-based information exchange for knowledge management and electronic commerce  www.ontoweb.org www.ontoweb.org ONTOWEB  Europe's Network of Excellence for Agent- Based Computing.  www.agentlink.org www.agentlink.org AGENTLINK  Initiative aiming to build a worldwide, publicly accessible, test bed for the deployment of dynamic, composable, agent based services  www.agentcities.org www.agentcities.org AGENTCITIES  European Network of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Planning.  www.planet-noe.org www.planet-noe.org PLANET  SIMWEB (2002) -Exploring innovative business models through integrated e- Commerce strategies. (*) Centre d’Investigació i Mètodes Numèrics per Enginyeria  SWWS (2002) -Semantic Web Enables Web Services  European Union -€340.000 funding over 2,5 years.  University of Innsbruck -Total funding of €2.000.000.

10. 10 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 DESCRIPTIONFINANCINGCOORDINATOR EXTERNALLY FINANCED PROJECTS (PUBLIC FUNDINGS)  Quotes (2002) -Platform for electronic negotiation Innovation meets the marketplace Spanish R&D Projects  PROFIT/MCYT -€300.000 credit.  iSOCO  PROFIT/MCYT -€12.000 funding, 2 months.  Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) -Total funding of € 35.000.  VAUCTIONS (2000) -Secure Auctions.  Science & Tech. Ministry -€96.162 over 2 years.  Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) -Total funding of €500.000.  Iuriservice (2002) -Intelligent FAQ for new judges  Aggregador iSOCO (2002) -Automatic aggregation of financial and non-financial online information  PROFIT/MCYT -€300.000 credit.  iSOCO  Onto-H (2002) -Intelligent access to cultural content.  Science & Tech. Ministry -€32.500 3 months.  Residencia de Estudiantes -Total funding of €.120.000.

11. 11 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 Our Role in DIP Type of Research/Work  Our strength and interest is developing innovative technology and proof of concept applications/prototypes using semantic web services, e.g. Personal assistant that aggregates online information using web services Orchestrating web services in higher-level services: mortgage recommendations, company performance tracker, etc. KM applications, EAI, ecommerce Source: EC

12. 12 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 Our Role in DIP Interests: improving our products to enhance client satisfaction iSOCO products form a natural technology transfer to the market through early adopter clients From early SW to full SW Personal profile based content delivery eGovernment From local to provincial to state to country Content aggregation Service orchestration From private market places to open market places Open automatic negotiation Sector: food, utility Apart from digitising also automatic interoperation of processes Intelligent Data consolidation Real Cost Reduction Tangible process improvements AGGREGATION PROCUREMENT SECURE WORKFLOW vis@do

13. 13 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 Our Role in DIP Web Services, Semantic Web, Intelligent Agents

14. Overview of IST project iSOCO is currently involved in

15. 15 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 European Project IBROW (IST-1999-19005)  Partners UvA – Coordinator (NL) UKa (DE) OU (UK) CSIC (ES) Stanford (USA) iSOCO (ES) VU (NL)  Data 1.1 Million Euros 2000-2003 www.ibrow.org  Objectives Intelligent broker for plug and play of knowledge systems Annotation of reasoning components on the Web 2 1 1 2 1 1

16. 16 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 European Project SIMWEB (IST-2001-34651)  Partners CIMNE – Coordinator (es) University of Surrey (uk) Universität Koblenz-Landau (de) iSOCO (es) FNAC (fr) Publico (pt)  Data ~2 Million Euros 2002-2005 www.cimne.upc.es/simweb  Objectives Provide European businesses with insights and tools which will enable them to take informed business strategy decisions by adapting their traditional business models to the new, demanding reality 2 1 1 1 1

17. 17 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 European Project Esperonto (IST-2001-34373)  Partners iSOCO – Coordinator (Spain) UPM (Spain) UdS (Germany) UNILIV (United Kingdom) Univ of Innsbruck (Austria) Biovista (Greece) CIDEM (Spain) Residencia de Estudiantes (Spain)  Data ~2 Million Euros 2002-2005 www.esperonto.net  Objectives Building a bridge between the current Web and the Semantic Web Provide added-value knowledge- based services on top of the SW 4 1 1 1 1

18. 18 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 European Project: SWWS (IST-2002-37134)  Partners Univ of Innsbruck – Coordinator (Austria) FZI (Germany) iSOCO (Spain) Sirma AI Ltd.(BG) HP Bristol (UK) National University of Ireland (IE) HP Galway (IE) BT, Ipswitch (UK)  Data ~2 Million Euros 2002-2005 www.swws.semanticweb.org  Objectives Combining Web Services into complex services Relieve business from burden of expensive software integration Build on SOAP, WSDL, UDDI 1 1 1 1 1 2 2

19. 19 © Intelligent Software Components, S.A. 2003 iSOCO Valencia Tel +34 96 3467143 Oficina 305 C/ Prof. Beltrán Báguena 4, 46009 Valencia Spain iSOCO Barcelona Tel +34 93 5677200 C/ Alcalde Barnils 64-68 St. Cugat del Vallès 08190 Barcelona Spain iSOCO Madrid Tel +34 91 3349797 C/Francisca Delgado 11, 2 o Alcobendas 28100 Madrid Spain For more information on iSOCO, please contact us at richard.benjamins@isoco.com www.isoco.com Intelligent Software Components, S.A. Contact Information