FLUIDOPS IN NEWPROT

Peter Haase, Michael Schmidt, Andreas Schwartefluid Operations AG

fluidOps NewProt Team

• Peter Haase• Lead Architect R&D• PhD in Computer Science from University of Karlsruhe• Long experience in national and EU research projects• Expertise in semantic technologies, knowledge representation,

ontologies and cloud computing• Co-author of the W3C OWL 2 standard

• Michael Schmidt• Senior Architect R&D• PhD in Computer Science from University of Freiburg• Expertise in databases, query optimization, semantic technologies

and cloud computing

• Andreas Schwarte• Development Engineer R&D• MSc from University of Saarbrücken• Expertise in data federation, self-service portals

fluid Operations (fluidOps)Software company founded Q1/2008 by team of serial entrepreneurs, privately held, VC funded

Headquarters in Walldorf / Germany, SAP Partner Port

Currently 40 employees

eCloudManager Product Suite introduced in Feb 2009

Information Workbench introduced in Jan 2010

Start of CollabCloud project together with German Ministry of Research Nov 2009

Chosen by the German Ministry of Research to supply standard interface and self-service cloud portal for German D-Gride-Science backbone initiative Jun 2010

Named “Cool Vendor for SAP 2010” by Gartner Mar 2010

Global reseller agreement with EMC focus large enterprise customers Apr 2010

Chosen NetApp Advantage Alliance Partner Oct 2010

Cloud Computing - Everything as a Service

• Abstract from physical implementation details and location of resources

• Regardless of geographic or organizational separation of provider and consumer

• “In the cloud”• Web based• Virtualized• On-demand• Self-service• Scalable• Pay as you go

Infrastructure as a Service

Platform as a Service

Software as a Service

Data as a Service

Enterprise Clouds – the eCloud Vision

All resources of an adaptive, cloud-enabled IT environment can be set up, monitored, and maintained from a single, unified, and intuitive management console:

Internal and external IT resources accessible across stack without vendor lock-in High degree of automation and IT provisioning at click of button on the level of enterprise

landscapes Internal portal of private/public IT services with e.g. pay-as-you-go cost models

eCloudManager in a Nutshell

Enterprise Storage

Semantic Integration

Unified APIAccess to

heterogeneous resources

Unified monitoring of resources

Extendable provider architecture

AutomationAutomated, on-

demand provisioningPolicy engine for

error-trackingAvailability monitoring

Orchestration workflows

SecurityUser management

Role conceptUtilization monitoring

Error- and Failure detection and

handlingAudit Log and Jobs

Self-Service Portal

Multi-user architecture

One-click provisioning

Utilization and (Service-) Availability

monitoringMetering and billing

AnalyticsHistorical data managementSearch and exploration

Collaborative documentationDashboards and

reporting

Service Definition

Template LibraryZone definitionSLA definition

Resource reservation and management

Network Virtual Compute Physical Compute Enterprise Application Landscapes

Linked Data and Semantic Technologies

Linked Data• Set of standards, principles for publishing, sharing

and interrelating structured knowledge• From data silos to a Web of Data• RDF as graph based data model• Ontologies to describe the semantics

Benefits of Linked Data• Data Integration: Semantically integrate and

interlink data scattered among different information systems

• Simplified publishing and sharing of data: Increase openness and accessibility of Enterprise Data

• Enrichment and contextualization through interlinking: Value add by linking to Linked Open Data

• Improved user experience: Leverage semantic technologies for better search and presentation, address more expressive information needs

Linked Open Data Cloud

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Information Workbench - Linked Data Platform

Information Workbench: Semantics- & Linked Data-based

integration of private and public data sources

Intelligent Data Access and Analytics

Visual Exploration Semantic Search Dashboarding and Reporting

Collaboration and knowledge management platform

Wiki-based curation & authoring of data

Collaborative workflowsSemantic Web Data

Semantic Wiki + Widgets as Self-service Linked Data Frontend• Semantic Wiki for linking of

unstructured and structured data • Declarative specification of the UI

based on available pool of widgets and declarative wiki-based syntax

• Widgets have direct access to the DB• Type-based template mechanism

Wiki Page in Edit Mode … … and Displayed Result Page

Information Workbench – Linked Data as a ServiceApplication Areas

Knowledge Management in the Life Sciences

Digital Libraries, Media and Content Management

Intelligent Data Center Management

fluidOps Customers

Won Customers

Example: Linked Data in Pharma

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Public Data Sources

Search, Interrogate and Reason

Capture and Augment Knowledge

Visualize, Analyze and Explore

Integrated data graph over all data sources

Private Data Sources

Main Use Cases• Integrate data from

company-internal data silos

• Augment company-internal data with Linked Open Data

• Collaborative knowledge management

• Support of internal processes (drug development)

Information Workbench for Dynamic Semantic Publishing at BBC

Information Workbench for DSP

• Collaborative authoring and linking of unstructured and structured semantic data

• Ontology and instance data management• DSP editorial workflows• Automation of content creation and

enrichment

Olympics 2012 requirements• A lot of output... Page per Athlete [10,000+], Page per country [200+], Page

per Discipline [400-500], Time coded, metadata annotated, on demand video, 58,000 hours of content

• Almost real time statistics and live event pages with too many web pages for too few journalists

Dynamic Semantic Publishing (DSP) architecture to automate content aggregation

Role of fluidOps in NewProt, Expectations

• Development of a Self Service Portal

• Based on Information Workbench and eCloudManager technology stack(See also presentation on the portal this afternoon)

• Gain experience in the life science domain

• Potential commercialization of the portal

CONTACT:fluid OperationsAltrottstr. 31Walldorf, Germany

Email: peter.haase@fluidops.comwebsite: www.fluidops.comTel.: +49 6227 3846-527