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pilot application focusing on a specific business opportunity and addressing current
customer needs and requirements. The involvement of all actors in a representative
value chain including consumers and service providers has been considered crucial
for producing successful case studies that build on the experiences of early adop-
ters. Consequently participation of representative consumers and providers able to
take a solution to the market has been ensured in each of the BEs. The BEinGRID
Business Experiments have been classified according to their main vertical market,
the business model they exploit, and the technological innovations they validate.
These classifications are discussed in the next sections.
2.2.1 Vertical Market Sectors
Each BE addresses concrete business issues in a particular vertical market. Each of
the main actors of a grid value network was represented. From this perspective, the
25 BEs of BEinGRID cover the following sectors:
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Advanced Manufacturing
. This class comprises BEs that apply Grid technology
to the design of products or components that are later manufactured, or to opti-
mize some part of the production processes.
•
Telecommunications
. This sector covers the BEs that use SOI in order to improve
existing or offer new innovative services that can improve the operational effi-
ciency and the quality of services offered by network operators. These include
services for sharing data and services among network operators and detecting
fraud.
•
Financial
. This sector includes the solutions used by financial organizations to
optimize existing business activities or to produce new and innovative services
to their customers.
•
Retail
. This sector includes BEs that improve the business activities related to
management of goods (acquisition, delivery, transformation ...).
•
Media & Entertainment
. This sector consists of BEs related to the manage-
ment and processing of media content (capture, rendering, post-production,
delivering) and, more broadly, the provision of on-line entertainment services
including scalable and high-performing collaborative gaming.
•
Tourism
. This sector covers the BE that is used by the tourism industry in order
to optimize existing business activities or to produce new and innovative services
to their customers.
•
Health
. This sector is represented by the BEs that focus on processing of medical
data, compute intensive algorithms for medical science and provision of services
that optimize the quality and the cost of medical treatment covering all actors
contributing to the treatment.
•
Environmental Sciences
covers the BEs that focus on processing geophysical
data and applying compute intensive algorithms to analysis which will help
avoid damage to the environment and offer protection against natural disasters.
Different BEs use different middleware in the same sector in order to solve specific
real-world challenges. The anticipated commercial and social impact and innovation
