NESSI 2010 Introduction

NESSI - A shared vision of Services

NESSI is the European Technology Platform, launched in September 2005 by industry in support of the strategic area of software and services. The NESSI community includes leading players from industries, SMEs, Academia and users sharing the vision of a common long term strategy on software and services to contribute to Europe’s competitiveness, job sustainability and quality of life.

The overall activities of NESSI cover a wide range of areas, structuring research, building links to coordinate to national and international programmes, defining and fostering the creation of NEXOF, the open service framework.

Since the launch of NESSI, these activities have been supported by the 22 NESSI partners, by two FP6 support actions and by NESSI-Soft and NESSI-Grid.

Collectively, this financial support from industry and the European Commission enabled NESSI to achieve impressive results over the first 2 years of its existence, establishing an open model for participation in NESSI, gathering membership from more than 150 organisations over 2006-2007 to reach 300 members, defining its Strategic Research Agenda, creating a research structure to foster contributions by all, supporting the creation of 10 NESSI Working Groups which represent the heart of NESSI activities.

NESSI’s General Assembly 2007 – 290 attendees from 170 organisations

NEXOF – NESSI Open Service Framework
	The main output from NESSI is NEXOF, the Open Service Framework. NEXOF’s ambition is to deliver a coherent and consistent open service framework, ranging from the infrastructure up to the interfaces with the end users, leveraging research in the area of service-based systems to consolidate and trigger innovation in service-oriented economies for the benefit of the whole European Economy.

NESSI-2010 – Five Main Directions

To achieve its goals, NESSI has and will continue to be supported by all its partners and members, with direct financial support provided by the industrial partners and human resources provided by all.

In this context, NESSI-2010 contributes to NESSI focusing on five specific activities, operated by a subset of partners namely Atos Origin, Engineering, Thales and TIE to the benefit of all.

The five directions of support of NESSI-2010 include:

Supporting NESSI Strategy formulation and implementation, in building a Global Strategic Plan which will encompass all NESSI objectives and ensuring its implementation in the areas of communication and dissemination, interlinking with national and international initiatives and liaising with SMEs
Supporting the SME Community effort, in agreement with the SME Strategy paper that has been approved by NESSI in January 2007 and has led to the launch of the SME Working Group
Supporting the interlinking activities specifically oriented towards coordination with national and international research programmes
Supporting the continued awareness and participation building activity with the organisation of NESSI events, the support for participation to selected external events, the operation and evolution of the NESSI Web site, the provision of collaborative tools to facilitate NESSI working group activities
Supporting the labour resources of the NESSI Office, in particular linked to membership management & support and information and collaborative tools towards existing and new stakeholders

NESSI-2010 – Maximising the Impact

NESSI 2010 is a support action structured to have an impact in terms of:

Scope: its activities are positioned to the benefit of all stakeholders who are or will be involved in a service oriented model reaching out far beyond the active NESSI members
Effectiveness: NESSI 2010 is about supporting the momentum of an existing and growing community, through meetings and selected activities in an overall context that is wider, operating and ambitious, with identified goals of structuring research, supporting the delivery of the NESSI Open Service Framework, coordinating to national and international programmes, actively involving SMEs.