FLUIDOPS IN NEWPROT Peter Haase, Michael Schmidt, Andreas
Schwarte fluid Operations AG
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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 Saarbrcken Expertise in
data federation, self-service portals
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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-Grid e-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
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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
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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
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eCloudManager in a Nutshell Enterprise Storage Semantic
Integration Unified API Access to heterogeneous resources Unified
monitoring of resources Extendable provider architecture Automation
Automated, on- demand provisioning Policy engine for error-tracking
Availability monitoring Orchestration workflows Security User
management Role concept Utilization monitoring Error- and Failure
detection and handling Audit Log and Jobs Self-Service Portal
Multi-user architecture One-click provisioning Utilization and
(Service-) Availability monitoring Metering and billing Analytics
Historical data management Search and exploration Collaborative
documentation Dashboards and reporting Service Definition Template
Library Zone definition SLA definition Resource reservation and
management Network Virtual Compute Physical Compute Enterprise
Application Landscapes
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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
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Linked Open Data Cloud
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Information Workbench - Linked Data Platform 9 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 workflows
Semantic Web Data
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Self-service Deployment Data Discovery, Data Integration
Self-service deployment of the Information Workbench in the cloud
Pay-per-use Scalability on demand On demand access to private and
public data sources Virtualized data access Pay-per-use data
integration Self-service UI & Analytics Living UI, composed
from semantics-aware widgets Ad hoc data exploration,
visualization, analytics Advanced Customizing Extensible Platform
Various interfaces and SDKs User-defined widgets, providers, etc.
Provisioning, Monitoring and Management Infrastructure Layer (IaaS)
Virtualization Layer Network Computing Resources Netw.-Att. Stora
ge Open Data SourcesEnterprise Data Sources Application Layer
(SaaS) Developer Interfaces & APIs Data Layer (DaaS)
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Information Workbench: Federation of Virtualized Data Sources
Application Layer Virtualization Layer Data Layer Data Source
SPARQL Endpoint Metadata Registry See also: FedX: Optimization
Techniques for Federated Query Processing on Linked Data
(ISWC2011)
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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
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Information Workbench Linked Data as a Service Application
Areas Knowledge Management in the Life Sciences Digital Libraries,
Media and Content Management Intelligent Data Center
Management
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fluidOps Customers Won Customers
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Example: Linked Data in Pharma Integ 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)
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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
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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