Newsletter 04-2012

Newsletter 03-2012

RAZPIS

Nagrada EuroCloud Slovenija je namenjena ponudnikom storitev računalništva v oblaku, ki so dejavni na slovenskem trgu, in bo letos podeljena drugič. Zmagovalci slovenskega tekmovanja pa bodo tekmovali v konkurenci z drugimi sodelujočimi državami evropsko EuroCloudnagrado.

Nagrado EuroCloud Slovenija podeljujeta Gospodarska zbornica Slovenije – Združenje za informatiko in telekomunikacije in Zavod e-Oblak (EuroCloud Slovenija). Cilj nagrade je spodbujanje razvoja, trženja in uporabe rešitev v oblaku.

TEKMOVALNE KATEGORIJE

1. Najboljše slovensko Startup podjetje
2. Najboljša storitev v oblaku
3. Najboljši primer uporabe storitve v oblaku v gospodarstvu
4. Najboljši primer uporabe storitve v oblaku v javni upravi
5. Najboljši primer izboljšanja učinkovitosti podjetja z uporabo storitev v oblaku

Najboljše slovensko Startup podjetje z rešitvami v oblaku

V tej kategoriji iščemo najboljše slovensko Startup podjetje z inovativnimi ter naprednimi v oblak usmerjenimi rešitvami. Posebna pozornost bo namenjena izvirnosti, kreativnosti in potencialu rešitve na globalnem trgu.

Najboljša storitev v oblaku

Ta kategorija je namenjena storitvam računalništva v oblaku,ki imajo največji tržni potencial zaradi svojih specifičnih lastnosti. Ta dodana vrednost je določena s ponujenimi zmogljivostmi kot sta povezljivost in interoperabilnost storitve ter prilagodljiva in učinkovita uporaba podatkovnih centrov. Storitev mora upoštevati najboljše prakse s poudarkom na varovanje poslovnih in osebnih podatkov.

Najboljši primer uporabe storitve v oblaku v gospodarstvu

V tej kategoriji bomo ocenili in nagradili najboljši primer uporabe storitve v oblaku v gospodarstvu. Pri ocenjevanju bo največ pozornosti namenjeno doseženim koristim in njenim konkurenčnim prednostim za podjetje. Ocenjevali bomo tudi nove, pionirske načine trženja in prodajne koncepte.

Najboljši primer uporabe storitve v oblaku v javni upravi

V tej kategoriji bomo ocenjevali in nagradili najboljši primer uporabe storitve v oblaku v javni upravi. Prav tako bomo poleg privlačnosti storitve, njenih koristi in konkurenčnih prednosti za državljane in ustanove, ocenjevali tudi nove, pionirske načine trženja in prodajne koncepte.

Najboljši primer izboljšanja učinkovitosti podjetja zuporabo storitev v oblaku

Kategorija je namenjena podjetjem, ki so med prvimi uvedla storitve v oblaku in posledično občutno povečala svojo učinkovitost. Ocenjevale se bodo predvsem dosežene koristi z uporabo storitev v oblaku, kot so: dosežena stroškovna prednost pred konkurenti, večji dobiček ter večja produktivnost.

KDO SE LAHKO PRIJAVI?

Za nagrado EuroCloud Slovenija se lahko prijavijo vsa podjetja, ki imajo sedež v Sloveniji. To pomeni, da mora imeti podjetje svoj sedež oziroma vsaj eno pisarno v Sloveniji, njihove rešitve pa morajo biti prisotne na slovenskem trgu. Podjetja, ki kandidirajo za nagrado v kategoriji “Start-Up”, ne smejo biti dejavna na slovenskem trgu več kot 3 leta. Članstvo v EuroCloud Slovenija ni pogoj za sodelovanje.

SISTEM OCENJEVANJA IN NAGRADE

Žirija bo izmed prijav v prvem krogu izbrala 3 do 4 finaliste za vsako kategorijo.V drugem krogu izbora bo med finalisti izbran prejemnik nagrade Eurocloud Slovenija za vsako kategorijo.

Finaliste in nagrajence določijo ocenjevalci, katerih odločitev je dokončna. Odločitev žirije bo objavljena po izteku prijavnega roka na www.eurocloud.si. Če bodo v posamezni kategoriji manj kot tri prijave, si organizatorja pridržujeta pravico, da nagrade za to kategorijo ne podeli.

Nagrajeno podjetje oziroma rešitev bosta prejela plaketo ter znak Nagrade Eurocloud Slovenija v elektronski obliki za uporabo na svojih spletnih straneh. Nagrajene storitve oziroma podjetja bodo kandidati za Nagrado Eurocloud Evropa in bodo predstavljene junija na Evropskem kongresu Eurocloud.

OCENJEVALNI KRITERIJI:

Inovacije

razvoj za nove storitve

izboljšava trenutne ponudbe na trgu (cena, dostava, nove storitve)

Vpliv

končni uporabniki: produktivnost&cena

končni uporabniki:prodaja&marketing

ekosistem: dodatne IKT storitve, programska oprema, potrebna strojna oprema

Potencial

dostopnost trgov (lokalni, mednarodni, parnerski kanali,…)

poslovni načrt in vstop na trg – ne velja za primer uporabe storitve v oblaku v gospodarstvu

prisotnost rizičnega kapitala – ne velja za primer uporabe storitve v oblaku v gospodarstvu

odprtost storitve in skladnost (zakonodaja, varnost in interoperabilnost)

socialni vpliv- velja samo za primer uporabe storitve v oblaku v javni upravi

reference – ne velja za primer uporabe storitve v oblaku v gospodarstvu

NAČIN PRIJAVE

Prijavnico za razpis najdete in izpolnite na spletnem naslovu: http://si.eurocloud-awards.eu/

Vse oddane prijave morajo biti v angleškem jeziku.

Oddane vloge morajo vključevati:

• Kratek profil z navedbo razlogov, zakaj si vaše podjetje zasluži nagrado (največ 1 stran A4)
• Predstavitev produkta in podjetja.

Vsi prijavitelji imajo pri oblikovanju svoje predstavitve proste roke, vendar vas prosimo, da ocenjevalcem posredujete le najpomembnejše informacije. Naj bo iz vaše prijave jasno razvidno, zakaj si vaša storitev zasluži nagrado.

Prosimo, da pripnete le eno datoteko, ki vsebuje kratek profil in korporativno predstavitev. Sprejemamo samo PDF datoteke, ki niso večje od 10 MB in katere velikost ne presega 15 strani.

STROŠKI PRIJAVE

Prijava za nagrado EuroClouda Slovenija je brezplačna. Dobitniki nagrad EuroClouda Slovenija bodo imeli možnost sodelovanja pri podelitvi nagrad EuroCloud Evrope. Nagrajena podjetja oz. rešitve bodo predstavljene junija na Evropskem kongresu (Eurocloud.org). Stroške prijave za sodelovanje in takso za evropski izbor v višini 250 € bo poravnal EuroCloud Slovenija.

KLJUČNI DATUMI

• Rok za prijavo je 14. maj 2012, razen za prijavo v kategoriji za najboljše slovensko Startup podjetje. Rok za to prijavo je do konca meseca avgusta 2012.
• Finalisti bodo objavljeni do 18. maja 2012.
• Podelitev nagrad bo potekala 23. maja 2012, na dogodku “EuroCloud day” v hotelu Metropol v Portorožu.

VAROVANJE PODATKOV:

Vse vloge, dokumenti, podatki in predstavitve EuroCloud Slovenija so zaupni in se uporabljajo izključno za obdelavo in oceno vložene prijave.

Za vse dodatne informacije smo prijaviteljem na voljo na elektronskem naslovu:info@eurocloud.si

EuroCloud announces the First 2011 European Cloud Computing Awards

~ awards best efforts across the industry ~

Paris, December 13, 2011 — EuroCloud, the European organisation for cloud computing, has concluded its first pan-European Cloud Computing Awards in Paris by delivering trophies in four categories – Best Startup, Best Solution, Best Use Case in the Public Sector and Best Use Case in the Private Sector.

EuroCloud’s vision is to represent the cloud industry in Europe and be an accelerator of business and technological relationships. This led the organisation to create the awards as a way of recognising those organisations that encapsulate the heart of this vision and highlight best practice within the industry.

The Ceremony saw 150 attendees – the brightest cloud experts and practitioners from across the industry – gathering on the Paris en Scène boat for a trip through Paris. During the trip the European Jury named the winners of each of the four categories from among the 29 European competitors coming from nine countries including Austria, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and the UK.

The European Cloud Computing Award for the Best Startup goes to Severalnines (Sweden). This innovative startup provides automation and management software for cloud database platforms. Its products enable customers to easily deploy, manage, monitor and scale their clustered database platforms. Performance, flexibility and optimisation of multiple data sources inside the cloud have always been critical to the overall performance of the cloud and Severalnines is giving strong answers to this problem.

The European Cloud Computing Award in the Best Solution category goes to RunMyProcess (France). RunMyProcess is taking power from the cloud to an enterprise with an approach that can greatly improve productivity of PaaS in Design, Build and Run phases. RunMyProcess can also help users work in a way more closely aligned with the business processes. Those solutions can also be used by end-users. This company seemed to have the highest potential, and is using partnerships to achieve growth.

The European Cloud Computing Award in the Best Use Case in the Public Sector category goes to EBRC (Luxembourg). The Trusted Cloud approach of EBRC at IBBL proved very interesting as an open, easy and secure method of access for all the healthcare stakeholders, in a very regulated environment. It proves that cloud is secure for even for the most sensitive information. EBRC also managed all aspects of the project to speed up its completion and relieve complexity.

The European Cloud Computing Award for the Best Use Case in the Private Sector goes to eBuilder (Sweden). In this business case, the alignment of e-builder with its client Alfa Laval proved remarkable, and showed the potential of the cloud for distributed companies at a critical and end-to-end level for the client. E-builder was instrumental in enhancing the agility of its client in an ever changing and demanding market.

As well as celebrating these achievements, these prominent figures took the opportunity to discuss topics around innovation in the cloud, the impact of cloud on business practices and models, how to balance policy and regulation in order to protect end-users without hampering growth and deal with some of the cross-border issues that cloud computing raises.

Founder and President, Pierre-José Billotte, told attendees, “Through this amazing European programme, EuroCloud has demonstrated its capacity to be the key international organisation dedicated to the Cloud Computing in Europe. The capacity to achieve the missions and goals announced at its inception, as well as shed light on European cloud computing Industry and on European innovation, as well as showing that European cloud computing users are at the leading edge of technology to be more competitive is truly remarkable.”

Action plan

Based on this first huge success, EuroCloud has already put plans in motion for the 2012 European Cloud Computing Awards. Next year’s event will be organised as a two steps process. The first step is identifying the best Cloud Computing companies of the year 2012 in each countries participating in this program, and the second will see those selected go into the European final to compete with all the other local European winners. EuroCloud expects the participation of 15 countries.

About the Jury

The Awards selection committee was composed of nine prominent European experts: Mathieu Poujol, P.A.C and chairman of jury, Lutz Schubert, Head of ISI, HLRS, University of Stuttgart, Rapporteur of the White Paper on Cloud Computing of the European Commission, Matjaz Juric, Full Professor, Java Guru, University of Lujbljana, Peter Hagedorn, Director EuroCIO, Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of EeSA (European e-skills Association), Maryline Lengert, Senior Advisor ESA (European Space Agency), Responsible for the Cloud Computing, GBS Bindra, Chief Innovation Officer Logica Group, Managing Director Logica India, Alan Hardiman, EMEA Region Cloud Computing Lead at CSC, Bill McNee, President and CEO Saugatuck Technology, Peter Moebuis, VP business development, Orange.

Check here for the complete list of all local EuroCloud award winners: http://www.eurocloud.org/local-award-winners/

Best Solution 2011: RunMyProcess

skidder@runmyprocess.com

Best Startup 2011: Severalnines

vinay@severalnines.com

Best Use Case in the Public Sector 2011: EBRC

jean-francois.hugon@ebrc.com

Best Use Case in the Private Sector 2011: eBuilder

mikael.ekstrom@ebuilder.com

Please register here for this event (limited seats available)

(http://eurocloudaward2011.eventbrite.com/)

​​​​​​​​​​​​The EuroCloud Europe Award Ceremony for 2011 is launched! We can tell you that we have a spectacular location in Paris for this event. So be sure to be there for the following reasons:

​Contestants from 9 European countries strive for the award in the following catagories:

​Best Cloud Product, Best Startup, Best Cloud use case Private Sector, Best Cloud use case Public Sector​​

​All possibilities to network and get in touch with the European nominees and winners

During the event we made sure that enough time is reserved for everyone to network. Not only local award winners from the European countries will be present, but also members from the local EuroClouds, the industry and politics. The perfect opportunity to get to know eachother.​

​Learn more about EuroCloud from the board members present

Almost the full board of EuroCloud Europe and some coordinators from other countries will be present. The perfect opportunity to learn more about the EuroCloud Association.

​The nominees
​During the local EuroCloud award events, held in 12 countries across Europe, winners in the four catagories have been chosen. A number of them decided to join the European contest as well to go for the EuroCloud European Award. The nominees are:

​From Sweden: eBuilder, City network Hosting, Severalnines
​From France: WeAreCloud, RunMyProcess, PageOnDemand, OODrive
​From UK: FinancialForce, ReallySimpleSystems
​From Germany: VCloud, Cloudsafe, Eyeonhealth, PlexOnline
​From The Netherlands: Previder, Reflex-Online
​From Portugal: MuchBeta, Outsystems, Link, UTAD
​From Slovenia: Diventic d.o.o., XLab d.o.o., EuroPlus d.o.o.
​From Luxembourg: Wealth@work, LuxCloud, Telindus, ebrc
​From Austria,: Ikarus, EPU Net

​​The Program​
​The program itself promises to be exciting and spectacular at the same time;

​7:00-8:20 pm – aperitif (open bar)- boarding point is below St Michel bridge
8:20-8:30 pm – Welcome speech by EC Chairman
8:30-10:30 pm – Boat is starting for a 2 hours cruise on the Seine by night inside Paris
Trophies’ delivery during the cruise
10:30 pm – Boat comes back to the boarding point (St Michel bridge)
Afterwards; Desert + Champagne
00:00 End of the program
For a short impression regarding the location
http://www.restovisio.com/restaurant/le-paris-en-scene-330.htm
​Do you want to attend? Limited seats available!

​The event itself will be on Monday, December 12th from 7pm till midnight in Paris, France, boarding on a boat on the Seine below St.Michel bridge
​Make sure you are present in time and that you order your ticket today. Do not miss the boat!
The costs for this event will be
​- For EuroCloud members: EUR 144,50*
- For Non EuroCloud member: EUR 170,-*
(*VAT transferred, French attendees have to include 19,6% VAT))
Please register here for this event (eurocloudaward2011.eventbrite.com)

We are looking forward to meet you December 12th in Paris!

June 2011:

The local winners of the EuroCloud Award Program are known!
In every EuroCloud country an award program may have taken place in the first semester of 2011. The general purpose of this local and European award program is to promote innovation, promote the best products and to show how cloud implementation can be successfull and effective. If your company decides to sign up, then be aware that you also are applying for the finals; The European award event, where you can be a winner too! The program has a contest in three areas:

1.) Best European startups;
2.) Best European Cloud service/product;
3.) Best European cloud business case. This last catagory applies for business and public cases.

more info on http://www.eurocloud.org/events-2/award-program)

KC Class se bo predstavil na dogodku Vitel 2011 (http://www.ezs-zveza.si/vitel/26delavnica/program/)

RAZPIS JE ZAKLJUČEN

Gospodarska zbornica Slovenije – Združenje za informatiko in telekomunikacije in Zavod e-Oblak (EuroCloud Slovenija) sta podelila nagrade v naslednjih kategorijah.
1. Najboljša storitev v oblaku nagrado bodo prejela podjetja Xlab d.o.o.,
Intera d.o.o.
in podjetje
Nil d.o.o.

2. Najboljši primer uporabe storitve v oblaku v gospodarstvu – EuroPlus d.o.o., Špica International

3. Najboljše slovensko Startup podjetje – nagrado bo prejelo podjetje DIVENTIC d.o.o.

4. Najboljši primer uporabe storitve v oblaku v javni upravi – nagrada ni bila podeljena

Nagrade bodo podeljene nagrajenim podjetjem 15.junija ob 10.00 uri v prostorih GZS.

Podjetja, ki bodo sodelovala v evropskem tekmovanje EuroCloud pa so:
1. Najboljša storitev v oblaku nagrado bodo prejela podjetja – Xlab d.o.o.
2. Najboljši primer uporabe storitve v oblaku v gospodarstvu – EuroPlus d.o.o.
3. Najboljše slovensko Startup podjetje –podjetje DIVENTIC d.o.o.

Komisija, ki je glasovala je bila v sestavi prof. dr. Matjaž B. Jurič – Fakulteta za računalništvo in informatiko, prof. dr. Marjan Krisper – Fakulteta za računalništvo in informatiko, oba Univerza Ljubljana, Prof. dr. Miroslav Rebernik – Ekonomsko poslovna fakulteta – Univerza Maribor, Dušan Zupančič – direktor ZIT na GZS, Dalibor Baškovč – direktor Zavoda E-Oblak.

V Sloveniji je začel delovati Zavod e-Oblak, ki v javnosti postaja bolj prepoznaven po zmagi na natečaju MVZT za kompetenčne centre in novi nagradi EuroCloud Slovenija. O tem smo se pogovarjali z direktorjem zavoda Daliborjem Baškovčem.

V praktično vseh državah članicah EuroCloud v letu 2011 uvajamo Eurocloud Star Audit SaaS certifikacijski program. Namen tega programa je ponuditi možnost ponudnikom, da za svoje uporabnike dvignejo nivo varnosti in s tem stopnjo zaupanja v njihovo storitev. Ponudnik pristopi k izvajanju tega programa (podobno se v Sloveniji že izvaja tudi druge certifikacijske sheme, kot npr. ISO, PCI,…), ob tem da se že na začetku odloči, katri nivo kvalitete storitev želi ponuditi svojim kupcem/uporabnikom, tistega ki velja za pridobitev 3 zvezdic ali 5 zvezdic kvalitete. Program je torej zasnovan podobno kot program hotelskih verig, kjer kupec že vnaprej ve, kaj lahko od posameznega hotela pričakuje, odvisno od tega ali ima tri, štiri ali pet zvezdic.
V procesu certifikacije se preveri od splošnih podatkov o podjetju, skladnost ponudbe z lokalno in EU zakonodajo, področje varnosti ter še dodatno področje varovanja osebnih podatkov, infrastrukturo podatkovnega centra kjer deluje storitev (če je ta v eni ali več državah) , procese operativnega izvajanja podpore s strani ponudnika, posebno pozornost se posveti področju programskih rešitev in povezljivosti z drugimi storitvami istega ponudnika.

V okviru razpisa MVZT za kompetenčne centra je Zavod konec leta 2010 pridobil sredstva v višini okrog 6 milijonov evrov, člani Zavoda, ki so do teh sredstev upravičeni pa bodo dodali še nekaj več kot 3 milijone lastnih sredstev. Tako je ta triletni projekt eden večjih raziskovalno razvojnih evropskih projektov, ki v tem trenutku tečejo v okviru Evropske unije kot tudi ena večjih subvencij posamezne države v razvoj podjetij, ki se ukvarjajo z IKT področjem. Glavni cilj programa je razvoj storitev in izdelkov na področju računalništva v oblaku. Raziskave in izgradnja kompetenc bodo osredotočene na naslednje teme: varnost, mobilnost, skupna raba, upravljanje identitete, zanesljivost, upravljanje podatkov in odprtost vmesnikov s področij kot so e-zdravje, e-podpora in izvajanje učenja preko oblaka, e-logistika, e-podpora procesom za trajnostni razvoj in kakovost življenja.
To znanje bomo uporabili kot podporne tehnologije za izgradnjo nove generacije aplikacij za računalniški oblak. Več o projektu lahko preberete na straneh projekta – http://www.kc-class.eu/sl/

You are no doubt familiar with banking,  booking trips or buying goods through an  internet connection.  In each case, the vendor is exposing its application to you as a web-based service.  As long as the device you are using can run one of the popular browsers, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a Macintosh, a PC, a  netbook or a mobile phone.

It’s a short jump from such bespoke services to the idea of a standardised service which could be used by many companies or individuals.  Among individuals, standardised services for photo sharing, blogging, social networking and many others are already very popular.  You may
have heard of Flickr, WordPress and Facebook, for example.  Users can tweak the way their pages are laid out and which options are  activated but these services are essentially fixed in their scope, but subject to continuous  improvement, usually in the light of user  feedback.

You will find parallels and overlaps in the  business world where the delivered services have a more professional intent, but they are more or less equal in philosophy.  You may have heard of salesforce.com, one of the best known and most successful examples of what  is called Software as a Service, or SaaS.

In this paper, the authors (a group of SaaS  vendors, IT consultants and lawyers) have set out to illustrate why there is a growing interest in SaaS, why it is having such an impact on both the technology industry and its customers, and why it isn’t really about the technology at all but about service to customer organisation. This paper assumes that you are a board-level decision maker or purchaser of applications.  It shows how and where you may derive benefits from deploying SaaS in your own organisation.  It examines the commonly claimed benefits of SaaS such as lowering costs, reducing risk,  providing flexibility and reducing reliance on IT. However, it also takes a hard look at the  questions that need to be asked before  considering SaaS for your own organisation.

Intellect

Business Case for Software as a Service_Intellect