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Ecologia del Valore e DRUPAL@Engineeringl’esperienza di un grande integratore ICT Europeo

Gabriele RuffattiEngineering Group

Open Source Competency Center Director

Rudy DemoEngineering International Belgium

Technical Director

OSS Competency Center Innovation & Research Division

Engineering Group

www.spagoworld.org

Wilmington

USA BRAZIL ARGENTINA BELGIUM

( ) São Paulo / Rio de Janeiro / Recife Belo Horizonte / Curitiba

BrusselsBuenos Aires( ) ( ) ( )REPUBLIC OF

SERBIA

Belgrade( )

Business integration ConsultingOutsourcing Products and solutions

A global player

31 branches in ITALY

7.2%

1,000Large accounts about 7,300

Professionals

822.8 mn€

Italian market

Italy: Bologna,

Milano, Napoli, Roma, Padova, Palermo e Torino

New York, NY,USA

São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Brussels,Belgium

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BUSINESS UNITS

PA & HEALTHCARE

TECHNICAL UNIT

COMPETENCY CENTERS

SOFTWARE LABORATORIES

ENGINEERING

R & D

• Automation & Control

• BI & DataWareHouse

• ECM

• ERP

• GIS

• Managed Operations

• Mobile

• Open Source & SpagoBI

INDUSTRY & SERVICES

TELCO & UTILITIES

FINANCE

MARKETS

PRODUCTION

TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS & INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS

RESEARCH

IDEAS FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS

INNOVATION

EXPERIMENTAL CHECKS

RESEARCH PROJECTS RESULTS

Participation in European research programs and creation of a network of collaborations

25mn€/year

I N V E S T M E N T S in I N N O V A T I O N

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GROUP / RESEARCH

LABORATORIES

6 Some INNOVATION PROJECTS

SINTESYS, CUbRIK, PHAROS, CHORUS+, I-SEARCH

SEARCH

NETWORKINGAgrEvolution

VENUS-C, VISION Cloud, OCEAN, ARTIST, CLIPS

CLOUD COMPUTING

FI-WARE, TEFIS, OUTSMART, SEQUOIA, FINSENY, SOFI

FUTURE INTERNETAristotele, ERINA+E-LEARNING

MARKOS, QualiPSoOPEN SOURCE

BIVEE, MSEEMANUFACTURING

SMARTiPSMART CITIES

GAMESENERGY EFFICIENCY

I-DONT-FALLE-HEALTH

LIVE PROJECTS

70

250 RESEARCHERS

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Economically

efficientTechnically efficient

Strategically

efficient

Socially efficient

Source: OW2, Cédric Thomas, 2014

Source: OW2, Cédric Thomas, 2014

Innovation is giving shape to ideas

OSS is a powerful tool for innovation

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INTEGRATOR

INNOVATOR

knowledge as a commons

collaborative projects

OSS Competency Center

PURE PLAYER

global communities

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FOSS as a competitive lever

Cost reduction

Flexibility

Innovation

Source code availability

Independence from software vendors

Focus on skills and knowledge share

Waste of money/time/effort reduction

Focus on results

Suistainable growth

System integrators DO NOT sell “licenses”

but skills and know-how

INTEGRATOR

COMPETENCES AND SERVICES

Development and management of open source projects and

solutions: business intelligence, SOA/BPM, digital libraries,

service-centric systems, quality, grid and cloud computing,

big data, future internet

Certified professional competences on third-parties open

source solutions in the infrastructures and applications

domain

Software selection and support services delivered to

enterprises adopting open source solutions and components

Technical and professional services supporting Engineering

Group’s and third-party’s solutions

Migration of existing infrastructures to open source solutions,

according to specific assessment, test and benchmark

methods, risk management and start-up of pilot projects.

PURE PLAYER

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user-oriented, flexible and scalable

A comprehensive business

intelligence suite

Innovative themes and

solutions

“Since 2010 we have been using SpagoBI suite in the research and scientific domain, to improve our data quality and key

performance indicator management. […]” - INRIA (Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique), France

“It's great to see such a massive application in the open source arena. Looks like a lot of effort has gone in the development

of it.” - Software architect for a global provider of integrated software solutions

Users

Testimonials

Chi la supporta

Italia Belgio

USA, CA

Brasile

CinaColombia Australia

Francia Brasile

Cloud

Big Data

Future Internet

Privacy/Security

INNOVATOR

Networks and behaviors

dynamismComplete re-desing

of IT processes

New approaches for

information management

A new way to

acquire technology

Value-chainUpstream flow of added value

Vendor-buyer relationships

Quantitative rationale

Network/EcosystemValue-added sharing

Coopetition relationships

Qualitative and quantitative rationale

Efficiency – Differentiation – Customer relations Network externalities

source: OW2, Cédric Thomas, 2008

from profit-based to value-based economic models

EnterprisesEnd users

Developers

Network aggregators

IntegratorsService providers

Community and Network coexistence

ECOLOGY OF VALUE

PRODUCT-CENTRIC PROJECT-CENTRIC

dual-licensing/open-core

Sale of software licence

Software rights locked in services pure open source

No licensing fees

Software rights separated from services

Users expects market-ready offeringsi.e.: code complemented by: packaging services, training,

maintenance, support, etc.

Users want a full business proposal, not just

bare code.

Source: OW2, Cédric Thomas, 2014

Code is only a fraction of the

software value-chain that delivers

market-ready offerings

Source: OW2, Cédric Thomas, 2014

Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Kevin Roberts

to SuperVUCAFrom VUCA

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Prepare the environment and build the ecosystem

Stimulate creativity

Help bring innovation into market

Deliver market-ready offerings

Measure, assess, and value the results

We don’t need a prescriptive approach to innovation, from design to

release, but a pro-active approach in order to feed and stimulate the

proper digitalization of the world, providing everyone with new VALUE,

promoting PARTICIPATION by using our INFLUENCE.

We really need smart people, smart rules, smart education!

LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN!

OPEN SOURCE HAS NOT INTRINSIC VALUE PER SE

DRUPAL@Engineering

Rudy DemoEngineering International Belgium

Direttore Tecnico

⁄ Engineering International Belgium

⁄ European Commission

⁄ EC Communication Requirements

⁄ Why Drupal?

⁄ EC – Europa and Next Europa project

⁄ Drupal@EII The Beginning

Our Projects Today

Our current Teams

Tomorrow

⁄ Conclusions

Engineering International Belgium

⁄ Start: 2007

⁄ First EC project: 12/2008

⁄ Today 200+ people (60% working in Italy)

20M+ €

⁄ Services IS Maintenance

Project Management

Consultancy

European Commission

⁄ Executive arm of the EU (with the Council)

⁄ 43 DGs and 40 agencies

⁄ Budget: 120-130B€/year

⁄ Staff: +33K staff for the EC

EC Com. Requirements

⁄ Various typologies of communications

⁄ Various info consumption modes (computers, mobiles, tablets, etc.)

⁄ Multilingual aspects and translation process

⁄ Cost effective

⁄ Covering EC functional needs…

Why Drupal?

⁄ Open Source technology

⁄ Supported by company(ies)

⁄ A platform… not a product

⁄ Governance possibilities

⁄ Integration

⁄ Benchmarked by EC/DIGIT

⁄ Europa: EU Web portal 400+ websites

2M web pages

165M views/month

europa.eu portal

Next Europa - 1

⁄ All EC Com. Digital Transformation

More relevant, more coherent, cost-efficiency

• web sites cut by 50% and content by 30%

Digital and dynamic communication

Mobile information consumption

Social publishing system

Next Europa - 2

Locallymanaged

CorporateFederated/Coordinated

Corporate

As-Is Proposed Target State

Federated/Coordinated

Locallymanaged

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONGovernance

Drupal@EIB – The Beginning

⁄ Over the last 2 years as part of our overall services to the EC

1. Flexible Platform (FOSS based platform)

2. Drupal JRC portal

3. MultiSite V1.x

4. NextEuropa

Drupal@EIB – Our projects today

⁄ Platform Architecture Consultancy NextEuropa : architecture & governance recommendations,

development

⁄ Fixed-price development projects: EPSO Service Desk: Maintenance

EIP-Agri Portal development: Analysis, Devel. & Maintenance

ENRD-Agri portal: Analysis, Devel. & Maintenance

JRC-Hub Portal development: Refactoring & Maintenance

ESTAT: Analysis, Devel. & Maintenance

⁄ Times & Means activities: 7 people working at DIGIT, HOME/JUST, JRC, etc.;

Drupal@EIB – Our Drupal teams

• Rome 1 Team Leader

1 Lead DRUPAL Architect/Developer

2 DRUPAL Developers

1 Junior DRUPAL Developer/Tester

⁄ Ispra 5 DRUPAL developers

⁄ Brussels 1 Project Manager

1 Lead DRUPAL Architect

1 Analyst

3 Developers

Drupal@EIB - Tomorrow

⁄ More knowledge and services User Experience

Front-end developments

⁄ More System Integration Workflows, document Mgt, GIS, etc

⁄ Migration Strategies & Tools

⁄ Drupal 8

⁄ Drupal on CLOUD

Conclusions

⁄ 2014 is the start…

⁄ Potential? Double each year during at least the next two years…

⁄ More integration projects

⁄ More services around Drupal

⁄ Better UX driven projects

… all this with partnershipS

Questions?

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