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TG7 - Grid Business Models and Service Level Agreements
Chair: Jörn Altmann (Intl. University of Bruchsal) and Steve Taylor (IT Innovation)
This Group will continue its activities as FP7 Collaboration Working Group - Business Models and SLAs
The Technical Working Group 7 has been established in September 2006. The objective of this working group is to provide a forum for exchanging new ideas and research around Grid business models and SLAs. The working group will foster discussions on topics related to business models and economics of not just Grid but also of software services. The major topics include business model analysis, quality of service, market dynamics, user needs, legal issues, economic models, regulatory and taxation aspects. Any EU project that deals with research on those topics is invited to join the TG7.
A summary of the work and achievement of the working group TW7 has been presented at the last concertation meeting in Brussels in September 2007. The presentation is here. The summary of the meeting is here.
Until now, TG7 has produced an initial White Paper, which provides a summary of all projects that address issues related to Grid business models, economics, and service level agreements (SLAs). The summary focuses on the differentiating approach that each projects pursuits. In addition to this, the white paper gives an overview on how the TWG communicates and works together.
In addition to this, the TG7 produced a list of future research challenges. This list has been given as input to the topic discussion for the FP7 Work Program 2009-2010. A common theme of all research challenges is the need to provide analysis, management and decision support tools related to business models for services. The list of tools comprises tools to relate business models and business processes, tools for trading services and enabling efficient markets for services, tools that can determine pricing of e-services dynamically, tools for risk management and insurances, and tools to advise on incentive structures for software vendors – support them in the transition from conventional software licensing business to an application hosting business.
The document describing the future research challenges and the tools is here.
Currently, the TG7 is preparing a standing agenda of research topics that will be discussed at future TG7 meetings. The preliminary list of topics are grouped into Business Models, Applications, Technology, and Collaboration. This is the draft version, which has to be approved at the next meeting in May 2008.
A summary of the work and achievement of the working group TW7 has been presented at the last concertation meeting in Brussels in September 2007. The presentation is here. The summary of the meeting is here.
Until now, TG7 has produced an initial White Paper, which provides a summary of all projects that address issues related to Grid business models, economics, and service level agreements (SLAs). The summary focuses on the differentiating approach that each projects pursuits. In addition to this, the white paper gives an overview on how the TWG communicates and works together.
In addition to this, the TG7 produced a list of future research challenges. This list has been given as input to the topic discussion for the FP7 Work Program 2009-2010. A common theme of all research challenges is the need to provide analysis, management and decision support tools related to business models for services. The list of tools comprises tools to relate business models and business processes, tools for trading services and enabling efficient markets for services, tools that can determine pricing of e-services dynamically, tools for risk management and insurances, and tools to advise on incentive structures for software vendors – support them in the transition from conventional software licensing business to an application hosting business.
The document describing the future research challenges and the tools is here.
Currently, the TG7 is preparing a standing agenda of research topics that will be discussed at future TG7 meetings. The preliminary list of topics are grouped into Business Models, Applications, Technology, and Collaboration. This is the draft version, which has to be approved at the next meeting in May 2008.
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