1. 1 SO 2.4.13 – eBusiness Perspective Gérald Santucci Head of Unit INFSO-D5 ‘ICT for Business’ European Commission

2. 2 Evolution of eBusiness Access | Publish | Transact | Integrate Internally | Integrate Externally | Adapt Dynamically Access Enterprise Integration On Demand Get on the Net Buying not browsing Optimise operations Working not surfing Dynamically respond to the needs of customers, employees, partners, and suppliers

3. 3 To support mid- to long-term, high-risk collaborative RTD, among European players in the field of ICT-based business and manufacturing, as well as relevant EU policies and international co-operation, in order to advance towards “Pervasive eBusiness” and “Enterprise Networking” Our Vision

4. 4 4 Clusters in ICT for Business

5. 5 ATHENA INTEROP VE-FORUM TrustCoM DBE ILIPT CrossWork MyTreasury ECOLEAD SATINE Spider-Win XBRL in Europe Co-DesNet V-CES NO-REST VERITAS Legal-IST MOSQUITO MyCarEvent AmI for the Product Lifecycle; Reference Models and Technologies for Business Networking; Digital Ecosystems; Enterprise Interoperability Clustered IST-FP6 Project Portfolio

6. 6 eBusiness tools and technologies –Better fusion of ERP, SCM and CRM applications to enable integration of inter-enterprise information value chains –  integration standards, computing processing power, data storage capacity, network bandwidth capacity Web Services based application –The focal point for the next generation eBusiness –Enables a dynamic eBusiness model that fosters collaboration with heterogeneous business services –Solution areas: business-to-business integration, business process integration and management, content management, eSourcing, composite Web Services creation, design collaboration for computer engineering, multimedia communication, digital TV, and interactive Web Solutions Grid –Leveraging Web Services to define standard interfaces for Business Grid services and generic reusable Grid resources Emerging Technologies

7. 7 SO 2.4.13 in WP 2005-2006 General Objective –Strengthening the integration of IST ERA eBusiness –eCollaboration within SME clusters –Advanced B2B and B2C eCommerce –Connection of CRM applications to back- office applications of ERP and SCM Obstacles to eBusiness take-up –Within the enlarged Europe