EGEE'06

Session

Business

26 Sept 2006, 11:00

CICG

Description

Grids & SMEs

SMEs, who often cannot afford the time or the
resources to research whether Grid could be a
potential solution for them, do nevertheless, think
fundamentally about their principal Business drivers
which are: Time to Market, Doing New Things,
Competition, Saving Money and Improving Performance.
This session looks at how SMEs can consider these
business drivers with Grid, specific case studies
included.

158. Antonio Puliafito University of Messina - SMEs and Grid computing: The PI2S2 approach

Antonio PULIAFITO

26/09/2006, 11:00

This presentation focuses on aspects such as exploitation and sustainability of huge public investments in computing and communication infrastructures. In order to fully justify research activities and to promote their adoption at the production level, industries and public administration should be involved and fully motivated in approaching new and more effective...

360. James Purvis, CERN - e-procurement, the Grid & SMEs – roles, relationships & rewards

James Purvis

26/09/2006, 11:20

Faced with the challenges of streamlining and efficiency, CERN has recently implemented a leading-edge e-procurement solution which generates savings by automating the high-cost business processes previously associated with recurrent low-value purchases. The solution, which benefits both the supplier & the customer, is rapidly expanding and we observe significant interest in other large...

159. Joel Courquet, CS Project Manager - Industrial partners in EGEE: Turning experience into business - From SME’s to large company

Joel COURQUET

26/09/2006, 11:40

The presentation will cover: SMEs: Describing the Grid environment developed for European Pole of Plasturgy and on the business model adopted. CNES (French Space Agency): Intraned grid prototype based on gLite. Fusion: Actions have been begun by CS SI with the TORE SUPRA CEA team and contact with the ITER project team, aimed at promoting the use of Grids by the fusion...

160. Alex Efimov,Qi3 - EGEE Technology Market Evaluation: SME Perspective

Alex EFIMOV

26/09/2006, 12:00

Our research showed that British SME consider Grid as a valuable instrument for achieving their business objectives. The TME report includes a number of business cases which demonstrate how Grid could help small companies to do new things and improve performance. However, opportunities for SME to benefit from Grid technologies are limited by the following factors: • Lack of...