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19.1 Introduction
The core developer team of the WS-PGRADE/gUSE framework comes from an
academic research institute, MTA SZTAKI from Hungary. Early collaborators and
adaptors, for example, the University of Westminster or the Middle Eastern
Technical University, are also academic and research institutions. Therefore, the
first use-cases and targeted end-users of the WS-PGRADE/gUSE technology were
researchers.
On the other hand, accessing distributed computing resources in a flexible way
and from user-friendly interfaces is not a requirement that is restricted to academia.
Many industry and business applications require access to DCIs, and many com-
panies would like to offer services on top of these resources to their employees or
customers as end-users.
Although the majority of SCI-BUS related use-cases described in this topic are
academic and research applications, there are a growing number of companies also
interested in this technology. This chapter provides an introduction to some of the
commercial use-cases implemented on top of WS-PGRADE/gUSE. All these use-
cases target SMEs in various application domains and implement user-friendly
access to mainly cloud computing resources. While the majority of the academic
use-cases still utilize cluster or grid computing infrastructures, not surprisingly, the
commercial implementations focus on easily accessible cloud resources that do not
require large up-front costs from the company.
The three examples presented in this chapter come from diverse application
domains. The Build and Test Portal is the product of a software company which
provides a flexible build and test environment for software developers. The eDOX
Archiver Gateway is a solution for electronic document management, replacing and
processing current paper-based document stores. Finally, CloudSME (Taylor 2014),
a European project, and some of its commercial use-cases are introduced that
implement a cloud-based simulation platform and one-stop-shop solution for
manufacturing and engineering SMEs.
19.2 The Build and Test Portal
The Build and Test Portal is an out-of-the box web application for
building/testing software projects continuously, making it easier for developers
to integrate changes to the project and for testers to run tests just after the build,
monitoring jobs and detailed reporting of results,
providing a repository for software packages and reports.
The Build and Test Portal, developed and operated by 4D Soft (
http://www.
4dsoft.hu/
)
, a Hungarian SME (small and medium enterprise), existed before the
SCI-BUS project as a GWT-based (Google Web Toolkit) web application
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