Presentation about the FIspace platform, how it could be used and exploited.

1. Future Internet
Business Collaboration
The FIspace story
Krijn J. Poppe
LEI Wageningen UR

2. The business challenge / opportunity
• Large organisations mostly have gone digital, with ERP and other
systems
• But between organisations (and especially with SME) data
transfer is often on paper
• While more data exchange to monitor business processes in the
chain would be welcome
FIspace will solve this challenge

3. Envision that....
 Firms could find each other and connect like in social media
(LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress)
 Also to specify their contracts in a ‘conversation’.
 Firms then could start to stream data between each other– like
you upload a photo or video on Google+ to one of your ‘circles’
 Data: invoices, ‘Internet of Things’ sensor data,
 Making a choice in using standards like EDI, XBRL etc.
Although compared to Facebook firms might like to have more
control on access to their data (possible with web services and
access rights),
 and do not need storage of their data
 Firms could buy apps to work with the data streams and enrich
such “open” (and big) data for their own use or for selling advice
THAT IS WHAT FIspace WILL DELIVER

4. Agile formation of business networks:
finding & binding before facilitating data exchange
 Buyers and sellers of goods and services (‘firms’) can find each
other and connect like in social media (LinkedIn, Twitter,
Facebook)
 Including social rating with reviews, stars, ‘likes’, etc.
 Also to specify their contracts in a ‘conversation’.
 Especially of interest to business communities with a lot of
dynamics and many small players: creative industry, selfemployed, city food webs, regional construction industry etc.
 Industries with a lot of stable relations (e.g. farmers and their
cooperatives and government agencies) will be more interested
in the options of data sharing (next slides)

5. Seamless collaboration and data exchange
 Firms connected in FIspace can give each other access to their
own data
 Data:
 Administrative: contracts, delivery notes, invoices, etc.
 Operational: ‘Internet of Things’ sensor data etc.
 Using standards like EDI, XBRL etc.
 For Back-end ICT integrators FIspace provides a mapping
service for linking the internal systems of firms via standards.
 Keeping control on access to their data and specifying
conditions of use (possible with web services and access rights),
 FIspace does not storage this data

6. Deployment of Apps and Services
 Firms can buy apps to work with the combined data flows of
their business partners
 From an ‘App Store’ in which ict companies and service
providers sell their apps
 To enrich such “open” and big data sets for their own use
 Or to provide apps for business collaboration (that are not easy
build in internal ERP or Management Information Systems)

7. App developers provide services:
Specialised service providers who sell advice can provide apps in
the App Store to support their service
 e.g. smart spraying advice, an app to run a specific (type of)
auction, tracing and tracking app for a food item, calculation
dynamic ‘best for’ date, sales prediction model, etc.....
For App developers we provide.....
 A development toolkit
 An eco-system of app developers where you can link and learn
 Testing and certification service for apps
and
 A business community (with critical mass) to extend you market,
at a European level (“market place”)
 Statistics for market research

8. Benefits for the government(s)
Government as a data user and data
provider: interaction with business
• There is a lot of data exchange
between business and
government, certainly in
agriculture and food
• Governments benefit from using
FIspace in exchanging data with
business. In this respect B2G
collaboration is similar to B2B
Government as governing the
economy at large.
 FIspace creates or strengthens
markets for IT platforms, for apps
and for data
 It lowers transaction costs in
doing business, especially for sme
 It brings innovation (and
economic growth)
 It helps to solve public issues like
food safety, sustainability etc.
with ICT

9. In conclusion: the benefits for users
• FIspace provides an business eco-system of:
– Buyers
– Sellers
– Service / app providers
• Who
– are able to connect better with each other in the
digital world
– to exchange data from each other businesses
– and can enrich those data with specific services in
apps

10. What are the costs for users of FIspace ?
 Depends on the business model the FIspace Operator(s) use
 There could be one or several (industry specific) FIspace
platform(s)
 Like there are several internet browsers like Chrome, IE, Safari
 It is most likely that a FIspace platform is run by
 an independent industry-organisation (probably with an ICT
company as a service provider) on a not-for-profit basis
 an ICT company as a commercial venture
 Or perhaps: a dominant party in a business network / food chain
(e.g. large dairy company, retailer)

11. How will FIspace be introduced in the market?
• FIspace can work for any industry
• But is very suited for agriculture and logistics
– Internet of things options in FIspace are attractive
– Trials have been in those sector: basis for ‘stealth’
introduction in Phase 3
• Reducing transaction costs in business collaboration with
dedicated apps should appeal to the large partners in the
supply chain (with an ERP)
• Apps (on smart phones) for enriching the exchanged data to
new information should appeal the sme in the food chain
• Getting access to a large (international) market of clients
should appeal to the ICT-developers.

12. How will FIspace be introduced in the market?
• We think we can illustrate this proposition (and calculate benefits) for
each of the trials.
• If we can calculate that in each trial there is a business case that will lead
to a willingness to pay yearly e.g. 100.000 euro a year as a fee to the
technology provider
• There would probably then also be 12 cases outside Fispace (to be found in
the Phase 3)
• 20 cases = 2 mln euro a year >> should convince a Technology Provider to
invest 7 to 10 mln in the generic platform, once the FIspace project is
ended (with an alpha release)

13. The FIspace story for investors: we offer....
• The open source specifications of FIspace
• With access to FI-Ware’s Generic Enablers (some IPR issues to
be solved ??)
• An alpha release of FIspace that has been tested in 8 trials
• Access to interested firms and app developers in the 8 trials
that want to expand the trials
• X projects in the FI-PPP Phase 3 that organise eco-systems of
app developers and write X*40 apps for the app store of
FIspace

14. FIspace platform High Level Architecture
Trial 1
Front-End
FIspace
Store
GENERIC ENABLERS
Real-time B2B
Collaboration
Core
I2ND
IoT
IoC
IoS
System & Data Integration
S&T
Security, Privacy, and Trust Management
DEVELOPMENT
TOOLKIT
Operating Environment
Validation
Trial 2
Development Toolkit
Base Technologies
Trial 3
Trial 4
Trial 5
Trial 6
Trial 7
Trial 8

15. Use Case Trial Experimentation Sites
Farming in the Cloud
Intelligent Perishable
Goods Logistics
Smart Distribution
and Consumption
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4
6
2
8
7
1. Crop Protection
Information Sharing
2. Greenhouse Management
& Control
3. Fish Distribution and (Re-)
Planning
4. Fresh Fruit and Vegetables
Quality Assurance
5. Flowers and Plants Supply
Chain Monitoring
6. Meat Information
Provenance
7. Import and Export of
Consumer Goods
8. Tailored Information for
Consumers

16. The end
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