Retour aux communiqués de presseNew International Recognition for EUROPEAN DYNAMICS Athens, August 5, 2004: New International Recognition for EUROPEAN DYNAMICS
The European Commission (EC) funded R& D project (project
acronym: ICTE-PAN) of EUROPEAN DYNAMICS, has been announced by the EC
as the project of the month.
ICTE-PAN is a major e-collaboration and knowledge management
application in the field of e-government. The application is based on
the company platform MERMIG (www.mermig.com).
ICTE-PAN e-Government R& D project of the month August 2004
ICTE-PAN (Methodologies and Tools for Building Intelligent
Collaboration and Transaction Environments in Public Administration
Networks) has been selected as e-Government R& D project of the
month August 2004.
This reward proves the successful path followed in the project
during the last 3 years, resulting to the generation of an innovative
process modelling methodology and of three distinct software products
(Open-Source Software Applications), as outlined in the following:
* PA-OMIM is a Process Modelling methodology following the WfMC
specifications and offering to Administrators the capability to
describe all the necessary parameters of the business process in the
required format, mainly referring to the modelling of multi-participant
collaborative activities. Such description is then used for automating
the configuration and customisation of the MERMIG Platform modules.
* The Dynamic Model Generator (DMG) constitutes a Workflow
Process design application, used for the modelling, parameterisation,
and deployment of PA Processes to the workflow engine, embedded in the
MERMIG collaboration platform. DMG employs the XPDL standard and the
WfMC specifications, as a common (thus interoperable) exchange format
for transferring workflow process definitions.
* The ICTE-PAN Collaboration Platform, where EUROPEAN
DYNAMICSʼ MERMIG (www.mermig.com) provides the core e-Government
collaboration functionalities. Apart from basic services such as
document management, asynchronous and synchronous communication means
(forum, email, chat) and search engines, the platform provides the
appropriate tools to manage (complex) workflow processes created in DMG
and uploaded to the platform, using a workflow engine. The platform is
entirely configurable and customisable through a complete set of
administration services.
* The Web Content Management Tool (WCM) is a web-based
application seamlessly integrated with the ICTE-PAN collaboration
platform, providing tools and support for Portal and Content
management. Its functionality spans from portal structure creation and
content population to efficient portal deployment and operation.
Practical implementation
ICTE-PAN offers practical solutions to European public
administrations, allowing them to re-design and fully automate existing
e-Government processes. The primary objective of the ICTE-PAN
consortium is to provide at the end of the project a product that will
be distributed to public administrations throughout Europe, free of any
charge, while necessary customisations and localisations, further
extensions, additional functionality and APIs to interface with the
existing legacy systems of the administrations will be charged
separately.
To support interoperability with heterogeneous PA applications and
back-end systems, MERMIG provides the necessary tools and interfaces,
comprising APIs via SOAP, XML, multiple ODBC and LDAP connections, and
EJBs, and is the resulting from the in-depth experience of EUROPEAN
DYNAMICS in developing collaborative tools and environments. In this
respect, MERMIG can be used as the front-end and the middle-layer
environment for G2G collaboration between administrations, utilising
their existing data residing in heterogeneous legacy systems. MERMIG
has recently been introduced as the core platform in commercial
projects undertaken by European PAs, while further agreements have been
made for its exploitation as a communication platform in a number of
new IST projects.
Additional information
Further information is available at the MERMIG website
(www.mermig.com) and the ICTE-PAN website (www.eurodyn.com/icte-pan).To
explore and experiment with the collaboration functionalities provided
by the MERMIG platform, everyone can freely access the “External users
demo” public workgroup through http://ictepan.eurodyn.com/edos/.
To contact project representatives, please send an e-mail to Dr.
Nikitas Tsopelas (nikitas.tsopelas@eurodyn.com) or to Mr. Karel Van
Isacker (karel.van.isacker@eurodyn.com).Both can also be contacted via
the following address:
EUROPEAN DYNAMICS 209, Kifissias Av. & Arkadiou Str.
151 24 Maroussi, Athens
GREECETEL: 00 30 210 8094 500
FAX: 00 30 210 8094 508