Consortium

Sections: EADS | inspire | PAVONE | H&S | Unversity Paderborn | Unversity Essex | University Varna

EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Comp.) – France – End User

EADS is the second largest aerospace and defence company in the world with revenues of EUR 29.9 billion in the year 2002 and a workforce of more than 100,000. It is a systems integrator and as such one of the few companies worldwide capable of combining various products and technologies to form complete systems and offering the associated services. The EADS Group includes the aircraft manufacturer Airbus, the world's largest helicopter supplier Eurocopter and the joint venture MBDA, the second largest missile producer in the global market. EADS is the major partner in the Eurofighter consortium, is the prime contractor for the Ariane launcher, develops the A400M military transport aircraft and is the largest industrial partner for the European satellite navigation system Galileo. EADS has over 70 sites in France, Germany, Great Britain and Spain and is active in many regions worldwide, amongst them America, Russia and Asia.

EADS has already awarded several thousand contracts to sub-contractors and suppliers with the goal to increase the quality by shortening costs at the same time, especially within the cooperation of SMEs with the InterPROM ICCP.

Inspire AG – Germany – Consortium Management

Inspire's business is focussed on corporate finance, research and European funded projects in the areas of IT/software and automotive.

Project management:
Main focus is set on fixing milestones, professional task handling, and monitoring progress constantly. According to the experiences about a couple of years the project management is very successful in projects for e.g. Raiffeisen Central Bank, Deutsche Bank or target electronic.

European funded projects:
The teams has about more than 15 years experience in different roles, i.e. preparation of the 3rd framework program (JCF), evaluation of proposals, project reviews as an expert (MIRO-WEB, XML-KM, WEBS, I ASP-BP), development (IDPS, JCF, ATMOSPHERE, TALENT, TUDOR) and work package or project coordination (IDPS, TALENT, TUDOR, UP-TV). Therefore Inspire is very well experienced in managing international projects and will carry out the part of the project manager.

Market Analysis & Exploitation:
Within the InterPROM project Inspire will also be active in market and competition analysis with strong focus on exploitation strategies. This will minimize risks and enhance the competitive advantage for the project. Inspire has build up a high confidence level to evaluate and estimate innovations, technologies, research, and finally new inventions. Based on that Inspire provides related business plans and professional exploitations strategies. In addition, multiple technical due diligences as well as market due diligences were accomplished.
According to the experiences Inspire is highly specialized on financing of medium enterprises as well as of cooperated industrial projects. Many successful projects could be realized for e.g. Deutsche Bank, SAP or Metro. At the moment Inspire is responsible for the market and competition analysis as well as for the exploitation strategy within the EU project SIRENA for partners like Schneider, SIEMENS, EADS and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.

PAVONE AG – Germany – SME

PAVONE AG, based in Paderborn, Germany and with operations in Western Europe, North America and the Pacific region, is a leading supplier of team-oriented management tools and solutions for integrated Process, Project and Knowledge Management. As IBM Premier Partner, PAVONE has many years of project experiences supplying a comprehensive range of services, from business process analysis to successful implementation of tailor-made solutions. As a result PAVONE has already established several own products in the market, e.g. PAVONE Enterprise Office, PAVONE Sales, PAVONE CRM, PAVONE Project Management, PAVONE Supply Chain Management and PAVONE KnowledgeGateway®.

PAVONE accumulated considerable in-house interdisciplinary technological and scientific know-how in the fields of project and process management with many SMEs and blue chip clients like DKV, BMW, Bayer, DaimlerChrysler, LBS, Linde, Deutsche Flugsicherung, Porsche Engineering Services, ZVK (Zentrale Versorgungskasse) Wiesbaden or Eon.

By InterPROM PAVONE will start a new technology line open future business opportunities and will become independent from the currently used Lotus Notes platform.

H & S Heilig und Schubert Software AG – Austria – SME (H & S)

H&S, founded 1998 with head office in Vienna, belongs to Austria’s most important sales companies regarding process management and document management solutions. Together with its affiliated companies in Europe H & S has more than 20 sales offices at its command, offering a potential of over 5.000 potential InterPROM customers.

Within the scope of the ISO 9000:2000, VDA 6.X, QS9000 and TS16949 (re-)certification
H & S is familiar with the needs and problems of the SMEs and will use this specialised know-how for the sales process.

H & S will be the sales responsible for Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and East Europe.

University of Paderborn – Germany – RTD (Uni PB)

The Groupware Competence Center (GCC), founded 1991 at the University of Paderborn and led by Prof. Dr. Ludwig Nastansky, is mainly engaged with the investigation and prototypic development of collaborative technologies. As a result of this activity and the consequential transfer of technology several spin-offs have been building up since the founding, further developing the concepts within a commercial framework. As an example GCC created the conceptual basis and first prototypes of IBM Lotus Workflow from 1992 to 1994.

GCCs outstanding scientific qualification became documented by international research projects and successfully accomplished projects with industrial partners like Allianz, Daimler, Deutsche Telekom, IBM, VEW Energie or Siemens.

As an expert for J2EE/WFE (ICCP engine) the University of Paderborn is an excellent partner for developing the process engine of ICCP.

In coopeartion with Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Wilhelm Dangelmaier, also University of Paderborn, the connection to project management and supply chain management systems will becarried into execution. Prof. Dangelmaier has excellent know-how in this field and cooperates in many projects with the Fraunhofer Center for logistic-oriented business economics (ALB). The objective of his work for the consortium is the analysis of weak points, the testing of solutions, the optimisation of single processes, procedures and networks. Not in vain, his work was awarded with the German Science Award Logistics.

University of Essex – UK- RTD (Uni Essex)
The University of Essex is among the leading research institutions in the UK with a ranking of 10'th place in the 2001 national RAE league tables. It has an international reputation in the area of web architectures and persistence layer design. In particular, the University hosts the UK Data Archive which has pioneered efficient web access to large archives of statistical data. This achievement has been made possible thanks to EU funding for several large projects. Apart from EU and EPSRC funding, work in this research area has also attracted sponsorship from industry partners such as British Telecom, HSBC Bank, UK Post Office, National History Museum, and others. Here are the titles of some recent relevant research projects:

* LIMBER: Language Independent Metadata Browsing of European Resources
* NESTAR: Networked Social Science Tools and Resources
* INSPIRE: Intelligent Support for People Orientated Process
* Efficient Knowledge Discovery in Databases
* Characterising Data Sets Difficult for Data Mining
* VIADOCS: Versatile Interactive Archive Document Conversion System
* Development of a flexible and low cost e-Commerce toolkit for UK SMEs

The department has been one of the first in the UK to offer a postgraduate degree scheme in the field of E-commerce. The university conducts research activities and possesses excellent know-how in the following fields:
· E-commerce Programming [including J2EE]
· XML and Related Technologies [including web services and interfaces]
· Enterprise Component Architecture
· Advanced Java and Software Engineering
· Advanced Relational and Object-Oriented Databases

Department of Computer Science and Technologies at Technical University of Varna – Bulgaria – RTD (Uni Varna)
The Computer Science & Technologies Department of Varna was established in 1982 and is one of the most prestige and excellent educational and scientific centers in Bulgaria.

The members of the Computer Science & Technology Department are actively participating in international organizations:

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, USA) and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, USA). One of the professors is the chairman of the Bulgarian chapter of ACM (ACMBUL), another one is the chairman of the Bulgarian chapter of IEEE Communications Society.

Prof. Dr. Anatoliy Antonov earned his doctorate in Germany and possesses outstanding experience in the following fields through international research and industry projects with excellent customers, e.g. HypoVereinsbank, BBB or ProSYTEC:

· Document Management Systems,
· Design for special types of viewers,
· Development and maintenance of ERP-Systems and Connectors, and
· Discerning company processes.