Software Technologies:
Current Research &
Future Directions
Arian Zwegers
DG Information Society and Media
Software Technologies

Overview
• ICT in EU
– Trends in business and ICT
– ICT market in EU
– Software and services market in EU
• Current research in Software Technologies
– FP6 project portfolio
– Studies
– Other documents
• Software Technologies in FP7
– (ICT) R&D expenditure
– Towards FP7
– FP7 outline
– ICT WP2007-2008
– NESSI Technology Platform
– Funding rules

Business and ICT transformations
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Mainframes mini-computers PC client-sever Internet Convergence
Company level Departmental Personal Pervasive global Anytime, anywhere;
information Empowerment Freedom & integrated groups Platforms and
& automation ecosystems
Automated Speed; Business Supply Globalisation, customisation,
Support; Costs Logistics Process chains outsourcing
Re-engineering

Trends in Business and ICT
• Business trends • ICT trends
• Do it all yourself • Convergence
• Outsourcing • Broadband
• Open Innovation adoption
• Ecosystems • Consumerisation
• Connect and of technology
Develop • RFID
• Crowdsourcing • Open Source
Software
• SOA
• SaaS

ICT Market, 2005
By region and by product
• Europe is world’s largest ICT market
• Europe has a large software and services market
Office equipment,
1.3%
Rest of World, Computer hardware,
23.5% 12.7%
IT services, 20.0%
End-user
Europe, 33.8%
communications
Europe equipment, 4.5%
33.8%
Software, 10.7%
Japan, 14.7%
Datacom and
network equipment,
6.5% Carrier services,
44.2%
US, 28.0%
Total value = Total value =
€ 1,949 billion € 659 billion
Source: EITO, 2006

Increasing awareness of ICT
contribution
• Significant contribution ICT to
productivity and growth
• Direct contribution ICT sector to
GDP, indirectly by take up and
exploitation in other sectors
• ICT improves quality of life of
citizens
• ICT is one of the key ingredients of
sustainable development
• ICT contributes to Lisbon agenda

Software and services market in EU15
• Almost 200 B€ SITS market in Europe
• Different software / services ratio across Member States
Software (Market volume 2005e)
EU151 SITS 2005e in bn EUR
Market volume: 165.0 bn EUR
Software
12,6
8,8 7,8
46,9 4,5 4,4
(28,4%) 2,6 2,4 1,3 1,0 0,9 0,6
Germa- UK France Nordic2 Italy Spain Nether- Austria Bel- Other3 Por-
ny lands gium tugal
118,1 IT services (Market volume 2005e)
(71,6%)
IT services 35,1
24,1
Data missing – only EU15
18,8 available
11,5
8,6 7,2
1 Includes Norway 5,6
2 Includes Norway, 2,7 2,0 1,8 1,0
Source: PAC Sweden, Finland
and Denmark
3 Includes Greece, UK Germa- France Nordic2 Italy Nether- Spain Bel- Others3 Aus- Por-
Ireland, Luxem- Market vol-
burg 1.2 ume in bn EUR ny lands gium tria tugal
Source: PAC
http://www.softwareleadership.info/

Top100 suppliers serving the Western
European Software & IT Services market
• 60% of companies come from Europe
• 43% of revenues stay in Europe
ByBy number of companies (in1 %,
number of companies (in %, 2004) 2004) By revenue (in % ofrevenue (in %, 2004)
By Top 100 revenue, 2004)
SE RoE
Asia IT
UK
4 NL 1 3
20 3 1
US/
DE
Canada
These Euro- 11
pean compa-
36 nies account
61% of for only 43% US/
companies 54
13 FR of the overall Canada
come from Top 100 FR 13
Europe companies’
revenues
10
10
6 DE 3
3 4 5 UK
RoE NL Asia
SE IT
Source: PAC
http://www.softwareleadership.info/

Software and Services
• A key industrial sector
– 1 Mio specialists in EU
– 200 B€ market (70 B€ Software)
– EU ICT market growth mainly driven by
software and IT services (EITO ’06): 5.8% for
2006-07
• The engine room of the Information
Society
– Important EU industry sectors depend on S&S
– 70% of software development takes place in
non-software companies

Current research in Software Technologies
FP6 project portfolio
SODIUM STASIS
WS2 SECSE
ASG SIMS OPUCE SMS
AMIGO INFRAWEBS PROMISE PLASTIC
MUSIC COMET MIDAS QUALIPSO
MADAM SELF
TRUSTCOM TOSSAD
FLOSSWORLD
FLOSSMETRICS
EVOTEST DEDISYS TEAM CALIBRE
SHADOWS EDOS
SELFMAN MODELPLEX SQO-OSS PYPY
CREDO GORDA COMANCHE QUALOSS
REDSEEDS MOMOCS MODELWARE AMPLE AOSD VIDE
RODIN
ROADMAPPING
Fassbinder, NessiSoft, 3S
http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/st/projects.htm

Current research in Software Technologies
FP6 project portfolio
18 projects, 156 / 92 M€
7 projects, 54 / 32 M€ 11 projects, 37/25 M€
20 projects, 108 / 67 M€
46 projects + 4 studies
275 M€ (Total investment)
ROADMAPPING 168 M€ (EC funding)
Fassbinder, NessiSoft, 3S, Studies
3 projects, 4 / 3.5 M€ 525 Participants
2400 Person/year
http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/st/projects.htm

FP6 projects
Ongoing projects
Call 2 Call 5 FP7
€ 14,000,000.00
€ 12,000,000.00
€ 10,000,000.00
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€ 6,000,000.00
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Project portfolio
Emerging features
• Service delivery
– Development of platforms to support the creation
and composition of seamless and innovative
services
• Laying Foundations
– Future and long term vision on software engineering
(self-healing, evolvable systems, requirement
engineering,..)
• Handling software and systems complexity
– Including software validation, testing and self-
adaptability
• Quality
– Improving trust and confidence in software and
services including OSS
• Productivity
– Increase software efficiency and productivity
• Roadmapping
– Vision and research agenda for 2020…

Studies
• Strategies and Policies for Global
Leadership
• The Effect of Allowing Patents on
Computer Implemented Inventions
• The Effect of Public Administrations
Publishing Open Source Software
• Impact Assessment
http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/st/studies.htm

Other documents
• The Software and Services Challenge
• Service-Oriented Computing Research Roadmap
• NESSI Strategic Research Agenda
• The Networked Future Folder
• The service engineering area (V2)
• Enterprise Interoperability Research Roadmap
• Future for European Grids: GRIDs and Service Oriented
Knowledge Utilities
• Various workshop reports and other reports
http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/st/reports.htm

R&D Expenditure
as % of GDP
• Other regions spend more on R&D than Europe
• Large differences within Europe
Sweden 4.27
Finland 3.51
Japan 3.15
US 2.76
Korea 2.68
Germany 2.50
France 2.19
EU15 1.99
EU25 1.93
UK 1.87
Czech Republic 1.35
China 1.31
Spain 1.11
Hungary 0.97
Cyprus 0.33
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5
Source: Eurostat
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-NS-05-002/EN/KS-NS-05-002-EN.PDF

R&D expenditure by industry
• EU’s R&D by businesses
• Top 50 spenders in the world
Source: Financial Times, 21 March 2005

ICT R&D expenditure
Comparative spending on ICT R&D in 2000
(Billion Euro) Annual ICT R&D Expenditure (% GDP)
29.2
48.8 Japan
United States
European Union
Finland
93.3 Sweden
European Union USA Japan
The Netherlands
Spain
• Europe is spending less than United Kingdom
other regions in ICT R&D
• Public ICT Spending is Germany
Fragmented across Europe France
Framework Programmes
0.0% 0.2% 0.4% 0.6% 0.8% 1.0% 1.2%

Budgets of the EU Framework
Programmes (1984-2013)
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NB: Budgets in current prices
Source: Annual Report 2003, plus FP7 revised proposal

7th Framework Programme
(2007-2013)
Biotechnology
2. Food, Agriculture
9. Security & Space
Production Techn.
4. Nano, Materials,
Research
8. Socio-economic
COOPERATION
6. Environment
7. Transport
5. Energy
1. Health
3. ICT
€ 32 B
€ 7.5 B
IDEAS European Research Council
PEOPLE Marie Curie Actions
€ 4.7 B
Research Research for Regions of
Research Science in International
CAPACITIES Infrastruc- the benefit of Know-
Potential Society Co-operation
tures SMEs ledge
€ 4.2 B

ICT Work Programme 2007-2008
i2010 End-to-end systems for Socio-economic goals
Flagships
Digital ICT for Intelligent ICT for
content health car and independent
and sustainable living and
ETPs knowledge growth inclusion
Network and
Technology roadblocks
service
Future and Emerging
infrastructures
Technologies
Cognitive systems,
robotics and
interaction
Components,
subsystems and
embedded systems
Source: ICT WP2007-2008 (soon to be published)

ICT Work Programme 2007-2008
End-to-end systems for Socio-economic goals
Digital ICT for Intelligent ICT for
€ 14 M content health car and independent
and sustainable living and € 185 M
knowledge growth inclusion
€ 585 M
Network and
Technology roadblocks
service
Future and Emerging
infrastructures
Technologies
€ 193 M
Cognitive systems,
robotics and
interaction
€ 434 M
Components,
subsystems and
embedded systems
€ 203 M € 174 M € 159 M € 73 M

Challenge 1 ‘Pervasive & Trusted
Network & Service Infrastructures’
€ 150 M
€ 200 M
The network of the future Service & Software Architectures,
• Ubiquitous network infrastructures and Infrastructures and Engineering
architectures • Service architectures
• Optimised control, management and • Service/SW engineering approaches
flexibility of the future network • Strategies and technologies enabling
infrastructure mastery of complexity, dependability and
• Technologies and systems behavioural stability
architectures for the Future Internet • Virtualisation tools, system software and
network-centric operating systems
Secure, dependable and € 90 M • Integrated solutions supporting the
trusted infrastructures networked enterprise
• Security & resilience in network
infrastructures € 85 M
• Security & trust in dynamic and Networked Media
reconfigurable service architectures • Interoperable multi-media network &
• Trusted computing infrastructures service infrastructure
• Identity management and privacy • End-to-end systems
enhancing tools

Structure follows strategy?

European Technology Platforms
What are they
www.nessi-
www.emobility.eu.org Industry-led public-private
europe.com
partnerships that bring together
industry, research community and
public authorities in areas of strategic
economic importance for Europe
Large Scale EU
Partnerships Objective
World class performance in research
joining the future and innovation in ICT by closing the
gap with Europe’s leading competitors
Focus
on user value and end-to-end
solutions, on convergence, innovation,
www.isi-
www.nem-initiative.org standards, interoperability, spectrum,
initiative.eu.org/
IPRs, international cooperation
http://cordis.europa.eu/technology-platforms/home_en.html

NESSI
Aims to develop a visionary strategy for Software
and Services driven by a common Strategic
Research Agenda where innovation and business
strengths are reinforced.
Expected impact:
• standardisation, common service platform open
standards
• improve EU competitiveness in S&S
• reduce sector fragmentation and align R&D efforts
• openness: an open initiative mobilising SMEs,
http://www.nessi-europe.com academia and industry
• address key R&D and policy challenges in S&S

Funding rules
• General rule
– 50% for research, technology development,
and demonstration activities
– 100% for management and training
• Same for SMEs (and non-profit orgs), but
– 75% for research and technology development
• 60% flat rate for indirect costs
• No more 7% limit of management
• Guarantee Fund
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/participation.htm

Evaluations and selection
• Evaluation procedure similar to FP6
• Number of criteria reduced to 3
– S/T quality
• Clarity of objectives and quality of the concept
– Impact
• Contribution at the European level towards the
expected impacts listed under the relevant
topic/activity
• Broader beneficial impacts related to the
objectives of the theme
– Implementation
• Appropriateness of the management structure
and procedures
• Quality and relevant experience of the individual
participants
Source: ICT WP2007-2008 (soon to be published)

Other Programmes
• Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP)
– Downstream parts of research and innovation
• Technology transfer
• Implementation and market take-up of existing new technologies
– Budget: roughly 0.5 billion Euro per year
– Priorities ICT Policy Support Programme for 2007: eGov, eInclusion,
eHealth
• Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund
– Objectives:
• to reduce disparities in development and promote economic and social
cohesion in the European Union
• to improve the effectiveness of the Community’s structural assistance by
concentrating the assistance,
• to promote economic and social cohesion and solidarity between Member
States
– Budget: roughly 28 and 2.5 billion Euro per year
• Eureka
CIP: http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/enterprise_policy/cip/index_en.htm
Structural Funds: http://europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l60014.htm
Cohesion Fund: http://europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l60018.htm

Call to action
• Have a look at FP7
• Have a look at NESSI (and other ETPs)
– Have a look at NESSI Working Groups
• Influence future research agendas
• Participate to upcoming events
– 25-27 October 2006: eChallenges 2006
– 21-23 November 2006: IST Event 2006
– 1 February 2007: European ICT Proposers Day
in Cologne
– 7-8 February 2007: FP7 launch event for
information multipliers in Brussels
– 15-21 March 2007: Participation in CEBIT (in
preparation)
– Many, many events organised by INFSO units
and ETPs check web sites

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FP7
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http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/
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Software Technologies
Software Technologies
http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/st/index.html
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NESSI
NESSI
http://www.nessi-europe.com
http://www.nessi-europe.com
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