BEinGRID – BUSINESS EXPERIMENTS IN GRID

ABOUT BEinGRID

BEinGRID, Business Experiments in GRID, is the European Union’s largest integrated project funded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) research, part of the EU’s sixth research Framework Programme (FP6).
The BEinGRID consortium is composed of 75 partners who are running eighteen Business Experiments designed to implement and deploy Grid solutions in industrial key sectors.
Go through the different sections of our website and learn more on how this challenging project will establish effective routes to foster the adoption of Grid technologies across the EU and to stimulate research into innovative business models.

SALES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

The aim of this pilot is the application of DAIS Grid technologies to the field of Sales Management Systems (SMS) and Customer Relationships Management (CRM) services, the former focussed to the food services sector, the latter focused on the tourism sector.

WHAT IS THE EXPERIMENT ABOUT?

The main objective of this business experiment is to use Data Access and Integration technologies in order to provide a standardized and uniform layer for the access to distributed databases to the selected SMS and CRM application.

INDUSTRIAL INPUT/ADDED-VALUE OF THIS EXPERIMENT

Despite the fields of SMS and CRM services are quite different for their business implications inside Small and Medium Enterprises, the technological challenges are today similar. The transition of the existing lightweight implementations toward a more sophisticated coupling of the information systems, needs an effective enhancements of the database federation technologies. The sample applications considered by this pilot are representatives of the state of the art of the respective sectors: the SMS are typically deployed at the level of the single selling point, while the CRM is based on the traditional web technologies, without an effective coupling of the CRM information system managed by the service provider and the Business partners local databases.
The outcomes of this BE will allow SMEs to manage their activities more efficiently thanks to the new Grid-enabled software.

HOW IS THIS EXPERIMENT GOING TO BE HANDLED?

The experiment duration will be 18 months. After a preliminary requirement and design stage, a first prototype with basic features will be released and tested internally. In a second stage the final prototype will be implemented and tested by the end-users.

SITO:
http://www.beingrid.eu/index.php?id=be12