Jeremy Roche

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Jeremy Roche
4th European Business Summit March 16 17 2006
// Brussels
Building a Europe of excellence Turning
knowledge into growth

• Chairman of the European Software Association
• CEO of CODA Group

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Making Software work for SMEs

• Building an ICT infrastructure that helps SMEs
  and Growing Businesses

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Releasing the potential of ICT

• Better, cheaper and easier technology than ever
  before
• Do YOU take ICT for granted?
• SMEs lag in up-take of cross-enterprise
  technologies
• SMEs on more equal footing with larger companies
• Create business partnerships

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What part does Software play?

• Changes a computer from an interesting desk
  ornament into a useful business tool
• Provides the logic to drive the function
• Can provide the function behind the process

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Can Software make Europe more competitive?

• By fulfilling the real needs of Europes growing
  businesses
• By embedding best practice and legislative
  requirements
• By driving decentralisation through process
  automation
• Could do more by
• increasing capabilities for data interchange and
  system interoperability
• Promoting flexible licensing models

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Can Europe make Software more competitive?

• Provide an economic infrastructure that supports
  a light-footprint, high-skill workforce
• Increase harmonisation
• Promote a entrepreneurial culture
• Develop infrastructure that encourages innovation

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Action plan for the EU and the software industry

• Continue efforts to reach out to SMEs in all
  industries
• Create European Data Interchange and
  Interoperability Standards for business systems
• Strategy for skilled and mobile workforce

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Benefits of a Strong Software Community

• Growth of software SMEs
• Software estimated to create
• 1m jobs over next 4 years
• 40bn of tax revenue over next 4 years
• With right investment in skills no part of Europe
  need be excluded
• Creation of jobs and opportunity in people based,
  light footprint industry

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Jeremy Roche
4th European Business Summit March 16 17 2006
// Brussels
Building a Europe of excellence Turning
knowledge into growth

• Chairman of the European Software Association
• CEO of CODA Group