ITSUS

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ITSUS
siamo noi
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ITSUS
The alliance between research and design for a
radical innovation in the collaborative workplace
domain
..Libertà non è uno spazio libero, Libertà è
partecipazione... Giorgio Gaber La Libertà 1973
Freedom is not free space, freedom is
participation
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Foreword
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Out of the mainstream
As many are looking back at the personal
computing (operating systems, windows,
productivity tools, etc.) and at the
point-to-point communication (email, chat, etc.),
we are looking forward

• At Web 2.0 RIA (Rich Internet Application)
• At Web 2.0 workplaces and contents self-managing
• At Web 2.0 multi-point collaboration
• At Web 2.0 mesh-up of all kinds of productivity
  tool and application
• At Web 3.0 semantic information discovering and
  brokering

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Re-launching innovation in ICT

• With ancient PC and folder oriented storage - but
  also with legacy Web-browser and HTML based
  storage - we can not develop innovative
  applications.
• Recent developments on collaborative platforms
  (Lotus, Open Text, Microsoft, etc.) have
  increased the number of functions and features
  but not improved them.
• The Application-Servers and Portals are not
  suitable (serv-let, port-let, etc) for the
  dynamic services mesh-up, required by
  continuous e-business innovation.

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Is the market ready for what we propose?
People and enterprises are not expecting what we
propose, but the venerable personal computing
paradigm and the legacy web searching and
browsing also look more and more inadequate to
support producers and/or consumers in the coming
e-business world.
We have innovative ideas for changing the
fundamental cloud services can offer users. We
believe that if we present them effectively,
enterprises and consumers will react positively,
discovering that they need what we are offering.
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A new development and marketing strategy

• To promote the collaboration between software
  developers and service administrators, producers
  and consumers.
• Continuous developing (evolutionary maintenance
  and customization) with plug-in open.SOA,
  SOAP/REST compliant
• Employees ad managers involved in the deployed
  enterprise services at different levels and roles
• Opening a wide discussion on the perspectives of
  the business and information society
• Bringing research again the main game
• Bringing design into the high-tech industry.

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Our promise
Our initiative has a low risk profile, because a
software prototype and some business models are
at present available. The revenues are
guaranteed by the software patents and by the
royalties on deployed services.
We believe we can realize a new collaborative
workspace on the Internet, which enterprises
(small or medium too) will appreciate for
easy-effective support at the business, within
and between their.
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Leveraging on design
Innovative and business friendly technology,
collaborating and emulations!
Our initiative emerges at the crossroad between
software development and business experiences,
high-tech engineering and interaction design, ICT
and SME in Italy, business communities design and
stake-holders participation.
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The concept
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ICT is starving for innovation

• No real innovation in the last twenty years in
  operating systems, workstations and productivity
  tools.
• Also the Email and Web 2.0, the killing
  applications of these past years, are not really
  suitable for the enterprise (most of all small or
  medium) business automation.
• As well as the pandemonium of process and/or
  content and/or document and/or knowledge
  management systems and collaboration suites does
  not guarantee some business return of the
  investments.

What's more we accomplish the current draft
toward the webization of ICT applications.
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The limits of the personal and web computing
paradigms.
Personal computing and web searching and browsing
are really useful only for simple and ad-hoc
business jobs. Also enterprise portals
technology is unable to accommodate the
complexity of lots of business activities and
marketing relationships

• Where is the request customer John does me about
  that offer?
• Where did partner Rick tell my department that
  important thing?
• Which is the business critical part of this huge
  dossier?

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Beyond the desktop and webtop metaphors
The desktop metaphor is over thirty years old,
and webtop nearly ten !

• The display of todays PCs are either populated
  with a huge number of icons and data or require
  functional commands to find the useful
  information.
• In both cases, user frequently do not find what
  they are looking for, or find the wrong thing.

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A new paradigm affairs and dossiers in the
business communities

• Our life and work interweaves a large number of
  different affairs.
• Each affair has its participants and contents
  deliverable.
• Each affair has its dossier, where authorized
  persons can look at its participants and contents
• Each person works in several diverse interweaving
  affairs.
• The new paradigm is characterized by its being
  oriented to business communities, reflecting
  situated-ness of human life and work.

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ITSUS- a workplace based on community-affair-doss
ier paradigm

• At any moment, ITSUS presents, to the concerned
  personnel, the dossiers of the affairs, in with
  he or she is working jointly.
• ITSUS users do not need to search for things
  they have them ready at hand, in their own
  affairs-dossiers.
• ITSUS enables workers to directly create and
  update the content of their dossiers.
• ITSUS is not intrusive, but its behavior is
  gently pro-active

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ITSUS in synthesis

• ITSUS helps its users to manage the complexity of
  their life and businesses.
• ITSUS is not intelligent (so far!), increases the
  intelligence of its users.
• ITSUS embodies several groupware (directory,
  workflow, etc.) and process/content/knowledge
  management services.
• ITSUS opens new possibilities to the design of
  social and business networks.
• ITSUS represents a turning point in the cloud
  computing concept.

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The target users of ITSUS
Todays producers and/or consumers, who
accomplish a great number of affairs at the same
time, who have a great number of interactions
witch other people and enterprises, have to
manage overloads of information, but do not have
adequate support to manage the complexity of
their life and work

• Consumers
• Producers
• Employees
• Managers
• Professionals
• Designers

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The tip of an iceberg
ITSUS is the kernel of a new generation of
cloud-computing applications
Starving fields as personal computing, web
browsing, email systems, groupware and knowledge
management, will be encouraged to innovate
through ITSUS
ITSUS is an opportunity for a radical improvement
of the SaaS (Software as a Service)
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The product
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ITSUS components

• An business server, embodying the
  community-affair-dossier paradigm.
• Some procedures supporting the import/export of
  data/metadata from/to other applications in
  Semantic Web (XML/RDF) compliant way.
• A SOAP/REST compliant SOA, for plug-in further
  vertical services on the business server.
• A RIA (Rich Internet Application) compliant
  business client, with a radically new design

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ITSUS the community business server
A radically new content-management paradigm for
the cloud-computing, based on two simple rules

1. All contents created in some affair remain in its
   dossier
2. Contents of different dossiers are shareable in
   same affair-chain

In the dossier, personnel can access, on the one
hand their colleagues in the affair (or partner
in theextraprise affair-chain), on other hand
the contents delivered, exchanged and shared in
it.
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ITSUS the community business server

• Affairs-dossiers are organized by the current
  standards procedures (use cases) of each
  enterprise in the business community.
• That standards procedure are created and
  updated by managers of the related enterprise.
• A search engine for searching, across the
  dossiers, with the support of the enterprise
  standards procedures semantic.

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ITSUS the community business server

• The business-server is incorporated into a high
  performance object-oriented data-base, directly
  exposed to Internet (avoiding some application
  server).
• The business-client is efficiently coupled with
  the business-server with AJAX technology.
• The business-client is based on a newly conceived
  RIA interface design, allowing users to
  understand easily what is going on, even when
  changes are not generated by theirs.

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The integration services

• The ITSUS Legacy Wrapping Facility enables
  users to continue working on legacy applications,
  enjoying the ITSUS Work Flow.
• Supporting the import/export of data/metadata
  from/to other applications in Semantic Web
  (XML/RDF) compliant way (ex. business records
  download for its legal preservation).