GLOBE II - The Impact of IT on European Industry

In order to facilitate the evaluation of Information Technology Impact the project provides the "Constructive Evaluation" method, as well as a database with case reports, and six (6) extended case reports. The Globe-II project has produced the following results: (a) Developed a detailed IT evaluation method, termed "Constructive Evaluation". This method can be used to make a quantitative assessment of any IT system in any context. (b) Constructed and populated a database of more than 300 case reports of organisations gaining real business benefits from IT. The database includes cases from many countries and many different sectors of industry and commerce. Each case includes hard measures of the benefits that were obtained. (c) Prepared extended reports on six selected cases. While the case reports in the database are necessarily concise, these extended reports provide a fuller explanation on the precise means by which business benefits were achieved.

IDA-DSIS - Support the Introduction of Electronic Transfer of Statistical Data

The objective of this project is to support and assist DSIS organisations and end-users in the introduction of electronic communications for the exchange of statistical data. This will be achieved by determining the current statistical data transfer situation and, for a number of data flows that are not currently well supported by electronically data transfer, to assess the requirements, recommend an implementation plan for improvements and support the introduction of electronic transfer of statistical data.

InfoSocGr - Main strengths and weaknesses of Greece in regards to the transition to Information Society

The objective of the project is to investigate the main strengths and weaknesses of Greece in regards to the transition to an Information based Society. The study has been elaborated on behalf of the European Commission, to assess the situation in Greece related to the Information Infrastructure. The topics examined include: - networks: information appliances, applications, human resources, interconnected, interoperable telecommunications, - information appliances: computers, televisions, fax machines, telephones, etc. - applications: software, information services, and information databases and - human resources: trained people who can build, maintain, and operate these systems.

INTELDOC - Intelligent Document Creator

The project builds on the results of the ESPRIT project SUPERDOC. It aims at the creation of a unique distributed system, for the creation and communication of documents that have a formal structure and their content depends on the value of certain variable parts. The consortium includes Greek IT companies as well as Greek and Swedish pilot users.

ISMES - Integrating SME Supply chains (A Pilot Project in the Automotive Sector)

ISMES is a pilot project, which will re-engineer the way in which SMEs in the automotive sector manage their subcontractors’ networks, through a tighter integration of the actors in the supply chain. ISMES is implementing EDI in a new area of the automotive industry. It integrates existing hardware and software wherever possible, and develops software for the security system and the rescheduling. It deals with information transfer, sales, some aspects of distribution, payment, pre- and post-sales support, and the definition and management of co-operative processes. ISMES includes two SME end-users who have an existing trade relationship: a first level contractor (OMR); and a second-level subcontractor (FMB). Two IT companies are involved: BMT (working on executive information systems and scheduling), and ARCHIMEDIA (communications and data acquisition).

IUN2 - Inter-University Network for OMI Technology

The IUN2 project has one primary global objective, to disseminate the OMI technologies through the Universities all over the world. The objectives are: - to operate the IUN established in the OMIDIS project, - to extend the network to non-EU European Countries as well as to the rest of the world, - to promote the use and fast dissemination of technologies emerging from the OMI initiative.

MAGNET - Multimedia Action Groups NETwork

MAREXPO - Information Dissemination on Maritime Industry related ICT Projects

MAREXPO is committed to the dissemination of maritime RTD results and to the building of the Maritime Information Society. It will improve awareness of ICT and its potential to improve the industry's competitiveness in different maritime business processes. MAREXPO supports the Commission's RTD programs and stimulates the rapid take-up and implementation of EC-RTD results in industry, particularly by SMEs. The MAREXPO consortium, consisting of leading companies from the most relevant sectors in maritime industry with significant experience from more than 30 successful European research projects, will perform four working-modules. One module for overall technical guidance including general PR activities and a second module for the preparation of showpieces (handouts, multi-media presentations, physical demonstrators. As a third module a set of fairs and conferences will be participated to present the prepared showpieces. An interface offers co-operation and show-materials to complementary dissemination activities. As a final module MAREXPO culminates in a dissemination activity at EXPO ' 98 with the motto The Oceans, Heritage of the Future.

MCube - Multimedia Support Centre for Culture and Arts

The project aims to create a Multimedia Support Centre, based on a network among four (4) Mediterranean regions, dedicated to foster the development of European multimedia applications with particular regards to the area of Culture and Arts.
Web Site: MCube.

METAFORA - A Major European Testing of Actual Freight Operations Using RTI on an Axis

The project’s primary objective has been the combination of satellite based Mobile Data Communications and EDI for combined road transport operations. The project includes numerous pilot installations and has achieved successful results. ARCHIMEDIA S.A. has undertaken the work-package related to the design and specification of an integrated data network, to connect a large number of Greek ports and to be accessible by transportation and maritime companies, so that these can benefit from modern telematics technology in order to enhance the combined-transport related communication procedures.

NAUTILOS - Improvement of Safety and Quality in the Maritime Industry

The objective of this project is the effective use of advanced management theories and of the software MultiFlow for the improvement of safety and quality of the operations performed in the Maritime Industry according to the requirements of ISO-9000 and ISM Code. The project also aims at the implementation of business process modelling and redesign as well as office automation technologies will aim European Shipping Companies to comply with IMO safety and Quality standards.

PRINIDIS - Technology for Business Processes Dissemination

The aim of this action is to promote dissemination activities in all member states on "Technology for Business Processes". TBP is an accompanying measure of the ESPRIT programme aiming at supporting the European Enterprises to compete effectively in global market through the facilitation of business best practice pilots, systems integration projects and dissemination actions. ARCHIMEDIA is responsible to implement relevant activities in Greece, Spain and Portugal. It has also the mission to establish contacts with countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Five European consulting companies including TODITEC, FIF, ETHNOTEAM and BRAINSTORM carry it out.

Rapport - Rapid Prototyping of Object Oriented Production Planning and Control Systems

The objective of the project is to provide a set of tools and a methodology to support the implementation of Production Planning and Control System (PPC) for industrial SMEs of Central and East European Countries. The system will enable CIME designers to develop quickly, model and prototype applications based on specific needs of the manufacturing enterprise. The consortium includes Research Institute for Informatics (Romania), UTAL SA (Romania) and Joseph Stefan Institute (Slovenia). ARCHIMEDIA has undertaken the overall project management as well as consulting in regards to production methodology. The project will develop a prototype of the tool-set and evaluate it through pilot applications. The applications may act as simulation tools or serve as a basis for developing a final solution or selecting and adapting existing software. The tool set will consist of a requirement workbench enabling the designer to formally describe the production system and generate PPC/DSS requirements, a knowledge based configurator module assisting the derivation of the final model and a prototype generator. The tools will allow the formal description of PPC requirements, the derivation of Object-Oriented Models of production systems and the rapid prototyping of the PPC applications through the configuration of a generic application. The process will be assisted by a knowledge base capable of adapting a generic object-oriented model of PPC Systems to specific user needs.

RECITE - Refinement of Constructive IT Evaluation

The RECITE project aims to further test the Constructive IT Evaluation method developed during Globe II project. This testing will be by means of case studies at five (5) different organisations who wish to evaluate either an existing IT system or one that is to be purchased or developed. Working closely with those organisations, RECITE will apply the Constructive Evaluation method to their IT systems. Based on the experience with the case studies, the method will be refined. It will then be documented in a Method Handbook giving detailed instructions on using the method in various contexts and including all five case studies. Once it has been demonstrated and refined through the five case studies, and fully documented in the Method Handbook, the Constructive Evaluation method will be of benefit to any organisation aiming to fully exploit the potential of IT. The overall objective of Constructive Evaluation is to provide a full and accurate picture of the impact of an IT system on all stakeholders at all levels, whether inside the organisation or outside. By delivering this capability, the method will support organisations of all sizes in making key decisions and hence in realising the full potential of Information Technology.

VAMP - Voice Adapted Multipurpose Peripherals

The project aims to introduce new voice facilities into existing products/processes and to disseminate, with a uniform approach, the best practice and advantages obtained through the undertaken innovations. The main objectives of the project are: 1. To use selected microelectronic technologies in Best-Practice experiments to introduce new voice interface into a set of the users organizations portfolios with the purpose of increasing the commercial value of the products and to stimulate new market opportunities. 2. To effectively monitor the experiments, provide assistance in the execution of the experiment and to capture of the experiences and the best practices adopted during the development cycle. 3. To bring together the contributions of users and expertise centres to develop a common dissemination plan able to reflect the uniform telematic actions (i.e. the introduction of new voice facilities) and to present the results of all the experiments with the same strategies and promotion tools. 4. To encourage the wider use of voice adapted peripherals by addressing several different industrial sectors in the planned experiments, while facilitating the replication of the adopted best practice methodologies to other well identified business communities.

WONDERMAR - Wide Open Network for Development & Research in the Maritime Industry

WONDER MAR is a user group in the maritime sector. It is a "wide-open" working group co-ordinating the activity of existing projects and actively seeking new partners, sharing both in the existing results and in the development of new knowledge that would be of invaluable benefit to the industry as a whole. Based on the experience and results of the project MARVELOUS (Maritime Virtual Enterprise Linkage - Open User Syndicate) WONDER MAR is concerned with improving the systematic exchange of information and forging links between teams working around a common RTD theme. The RTD themes mainly comprise the use of advanced IT and CT in manufacturing and engineering across the maritime industry. WONDER MAR ensures that existing and future maritime IT projects have at their disposal a forum for the exchange of views, the sharing of experiences and the formulation of common approaches. At the same time WONDER MAR ensures the representation of such views at existing international forums. Finally, WONDER MAR helps to disseminate the results of the individual projects and further the wide-open nature of the undertaking. New participants are sought actively and innovation is promoted aggressively.
Web Site: WONDERMAR

Y-NET - Y-Net Pilot OSI Network Service / Greek NOU

Y-Net has been an initiative of the European Commission and major European IT manufacturers since 1991, aiming at establishing a European-wide telematic network based on OSI (X.400), as well as promoting the use of OSI services, especially in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Participants in CEC funded RTD Programmes from both industry and academia, have formed the pilot users group. A number of National Operation Units (NOUs) responsible for the operation of the Y-Net OSI nodes and direct end user support at national level has been set up in most EU countries. ARCHIMEDIA S.A. has undertaken the operation of the Greek NOU (technical administration and management), as well as user support, monitoring and evaluation, marketing and dissemination activities in Greece.

Y-Net Expansion - Expansion of Y-NET in Rumania, Bulgaria and Albania

ARCHIMEDIA has been involved in the execution of three separate studies for the expansion of OSI services offered by the Y-NET network to Rumania, Bulgaria and Albania. Y-Net has been an initiative of the European Commission and major European IT manufacturers since 1991, aiming at establishing a European-wide telematic network based on OSI (X.400), as well as promoting the use of OSI services, especially in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Biological DB - A flora database application

A Java based flora database application developed for the Biology department of a Greek University. The application provides capabilities to record botanic, geographical, and imaging information, to import/export data in various formats and finally to generate comprehensive reports based on the recorded information.

DEH/Y2K - Y2K porting of the human resources management systems for Greek Public Electricity Company (DEH)

ARCHIMEDIA S.A. performed the system transition of the accounting, personnel payment, human resources management and personnel insurance systems for the Greek Public Electricity Company (DEH). During this projects all the COBOL source code modified to a newer version (Microfocus COBOL) to remove Y2K dependecies. During this project, all the database infrastructure changed from the old style Network/Hierarhical Database to Relational Database, specifically Oracle RDMS.

MGFI - IS - IS Specifications for Goulandris museum of Natural History

The project objective is the analysis, specification and implementation of an integrated Museum Information System, based on multimedia databases for Goulandris museum of Natural History.

OMI NEWS-Pad - OMI Multimedia Interactive Newspaper Applications and distribution

The design and pilot implementation of a multimedia news broadcasting system, where information is disseminated via digital communication means (such as satellite/terrestrial digital broadcasting and ISDN) and delivered through a low cost, small size, low weight, fully-featured portable multimedia device. ARCHIMEDIA S.A. has been involved with the development of a multi-user authoring, news linking and filtering tool, and has provided consultancy for the telecommunication infrastructure needed.

TREP - TRaineeship for Electronic Publishing

DBE-EDI - EDI System for a Textile Manufacturer

Design and implementation of a pilot EDI system for a textile manufacturer, including EDIFACT message design.

MACS - Management & Decision Support with Artificial Neural Networks

An INNO-TTN sub-project.

MACVIS-E - Machine Vision for the Electronics Industry

An INNO-TTN sub-project.

MACVIS-TE - Machine Vision for the Textile Industry

An INNO-TTN sub-project.

QUATEX - Quality Control for the Textile Industry

An INNO-TTN sub-program.

GEOCAST - Multicast over Geostationary EHF Satellites

The GEOCAST project purpose is to come up to a better definition of multicast satellite systems. It encompasses segments (terminals, gateways and satellites) as well as ISO layers (radio, access, network and services) definition in order to match the needs of multicast systems. The objectives are then to define next generation multicast satellite systems, demonstrate their feasibility and optimise their performance thanks to an emulator, realisation and validate their performance thanks to live experiments, which can only bring the best practise experience necessary for a wide adoption by operators. ARCHIMEDIA S.A. is involved with the network management of the GEOCAST network as well as the definition of a set of multicast applications that could be effectively realised by a multicast satellite network.

FRESH - A Food industry RE-engineering pilot to achieve Supply cHain integration

FRESH aims at re-engineering the supply chain of the Pilot end-user Parmalat and at providing organizational models and IT solutions, which will enable to replicate the Pilot experiment in the Food Sectors, in the context of both large enterprises and SMEs. One method that has come into prominence in recent years is Supply Chain Management. By integrating material management throughout the supply chain, from raw material suppliers to customer delivery, companies can significantly reduce lead-times and increase flexibility. The integration includes suppliers, sub-contract suppliers, in-house production processes, shipping, transportation, distribution warehouses, and closes the loop with the end customer. The main activities will be: - to find optimal supply chain structure and organization. - to develop best procedures for all supply chain operations. - to understand and find out how innovations in products and production processes interact with changes in supply chain structures and operations. - to understand and find out how innovations in services and techniques, such as transportation and information technology interact with changes in supply chain structures and operations.

IHRMIS - Integration Human Resources Management Information System

The project entails intervening on the processes, on the human resources and on the information technologies, in order to create a new Integrated Human Resources Management Information System (IHRMIS). The project intends to address the following specific objectives: - to define and set a new organisational model for the change management. - to design, develop, install and validate an IT infrastructure exploiting the edge information technologies to enable the managing of the new organisational model.

QUAFIN - Vision Quality Control for the Food Industry

The major objective of the project is to develop and install an HPCN-based machine vision quality error detector. This is an INNO-TTN sub-project.

HYPERTOUR - Hypermedia Applications for Tourism

The project provides a hypermedia platform combining an organisational framework and a methodology for the exploitation and promotion of tourism in Europe of 2000. The principal aim is to develop a business-centred approach for the production of multimedia applications promoting tourism. The key point is that the organisational structure will be planned in such a way as to enable the applications to be self-financing. The overall objectives are: - To set up six pilot sites which will address the business and technical aspects of producing and distributing multimedia applications for the promotion of tourism. - To define an organisational and business methodology by which organisations in the tourism industry and other related organisations can establish a business association and provide the funds for the development of multimedia applications for tourism. - To validate the organisational and business methodology in each pilot site. - To organise the collection, preparation and commercial exploitation of a multimedia asset database in each pilot site. - To develop one multimedia application in each pilot site using the technological results of the project, and distribute them.
Web Sites: Hypertour-Corfu, Hypertour-Epirus .

EPET_II/FOOD QUALITY CONTROL - Automated visual recorgnition for food quality control

Development of a food quality control device that uses automated visual recognition technology. Target of the project is to provide better food quality services as well as to increase productivity.
Web Site: Quality Control.

ODISSEIA - Operational Development Integrated Strategic Scheme of Employment In Attica

A project on innovative measures financed under Art. 6 of the European Social Fund Regulation, "Local employment strategies and innovation". The work in ODISSEIA aims to elaborate an integrated local employment strategy in the framework of the Greek National Action Plan on Employment (NAP), maximise its impact at the regional level and create new structures for expanding the breadth of employment opportunities. The coordinator is the Region of Attica and the partners include major municipalities and prefectures in Attica. The role of Archimedia comprises the analysis of the current situation, monitoring, benchmarking, evaluation of labour market development models, networking and focused dissemination of project results, as well as the provision of software applications pertaining to the management of the project task. These include the project's web site and intranet portal. Both are database-driven dynamic applications with emphasis on easy administration and customisation. Web pages are component-based making extending the existing feature-rich basis and easy task. Both the intranet portal and the web site are based on PHP, a popular and portable web technology. The database backend is based on MySql. Consequently, both web systems are vendor and platform independent.
Web Site: ODISSEIA.

WS-Talk - Web services communicating in the language of their user community

The Web Service (WS)-Talk interface Layer is a structured natural language interface for the inter-service communication that extends service virtualisation to strengthen consumer self-service. The WS-Talk service then consists of a transport layer representing a typical web service interface and a context layer resorting to WS-Talk features for capturing the enterprise talk. The WS-Talk Layer enables service consumers and providers to design and implement ad-hoc new services or fine-tune existing ones. The resulting wrapper, WS-Talk, helps to establish interoperable web services across platforms.ARMD will develop the WS-Talk Interpreter. The scientific and prototypical groundwork for this tool comes from FORTH-ICS. The platform will be tested in a number of evaluation circles addressing both internal and external users (i.e. SME proposers and external software companies).

ADIGOS - Analysis of the Distribution of Goods and Services on Scattered Sites in Greece

This study concerns the investigation and analysis of the distribution chains of goods and services in Greece, with emphasis being placed on the intricacies of large-scale distribution on scattered sites. It presents an overview of the distribution of goods and services in Greece and provides an overview of the world-wide trends and state-of the art concerning distribution business processes as well as information technologies that can be used to enable re-engineered distribution processes. An overall IT framework for distribution is presented, comprising two major axes: IT integration with the distribution process and key application systems in distribution. Finally, conclusions and recommendations, including a proposal for specific actions to be taken up, are also presented.

EDIFLOW - Development of EDIFLOW

CLIENT
The Statistical Office of the European Communities in Luxembourg ("Eurostat") is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. Its mission is to provide the European Union with a high quality statistical information service. Together with the national statistical services, Eurostat is responsible for the system of Community statistics (Council Regulation EC N° 322/97 of 17 February 1997). Eurostat implements standards, methods and classifications for the production of comparable, reliable and relevant data. Users of Eurostat’s output include the Commission and other institutions of the European Union, national governments of the Member States, international organisations, businesspersons, universities and a wide range of other users. Eurostat also supports non-member countries, including those of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC), in adapting their statistical systems.
OBJECTIVES
EDIFLOW is a repository of the statistical data flows received regularly by Eurostat. The project intends to enhance, within three annual phases, the central repository of the data flows together with the associated access services via Web interface. Related international and European agreements and legislation must be taken into consideration during this process. The expected benefits include increased efficiency in data delivery and exploitation, reduced user error, faster detection of missing data and better realisation of EDIFLOW as a common repository for Eurostat and its national partners, containing all necessary information for every party involved.
SOLUTION
The team of ArchiMedia’s experts is skilled in working with very large databases and Internet and Web technologies such as Oracle, ColdFusion, Java and others necessary to implement the extensive revisions to the EDIFLOW database schema and user interface. The team also has a deep knowledge of statistics and ample experience working in a multinational, multilingual environment. ArchiMedia will design and develop a more efficient database schema and user interface for EDIFLOW, enriched with profiling, reporting, interconnecting, monitoring and special services capabilities.

ASP-NET - Application Service Providers Network

The project investigated the technical and financial viability of transforming software from a product into a product-service system. This encompassed transferring three critical business applications to the ASP (Application Service Provider, and Web Services) model, namely e-messaging, enterprise project management and human resource management. The ASP-NET partners designed and developed a core platform to distribute the applications, ensuring integration, interoperability and a high level of service while accounting for billing, mobile access and security issues. The results were tested and evaluated in two business sectors: Information Technology (IT) and Airport Operations (at the new Athens International Airport).
Web Site: ASP-NET.

VERITAS - Virtual Enterprises for Integrated Industrial Solutions

VERITAS project overall objective is to increase the dynamics of European Industrial Enterprises by transforming them, where appropriate and possible, to more flexible and re-active companies that use the Virtual Enterprise concept in a manageable and effective way. The ambitious goal is to help manufacturing companies with high production-related costs to understand and implement the concept of virtual enterprise, enabled through smart organisation and process restructuring and supported by the use of Information Technology, cross-organisation Work Management solutions in particular.VERITAS' concrete and verifiable objective will be the permanent creation of three stable networks. VERITAS will not force a VE initiative within its time horizon, but will provide all the necessary prerequisites and knowledge to form a VE in the future. This includes comprehensive training in configuration, co-operation and competence management for VE as well as the development of tools to monitor and manage VEs.

BROOM - Banking Process Re-engineering Through Object-Oriented Modelling

The overall objective of the BROOM project is to investigate the potential of redesigning core banking processes, using object-oriented (OO) business modelling techniques and tools. The OO banking business process model and the associated techniques and tools, could also prove to be a significant first design step in the development of future banking information systems. The BROOM project will concentrate on the banking processes that take place in the bank's branches and will aim in using object-oriented models and techniques in order to re-engineer these processes.

CEBOS - Cost Effective e-Business Operating Services

CEBOS is a Best Practice Pilot project, partially funded by the European Commission under the IST program (Information Society Technologies). It will cover a period of eighteen months commencing on the 1st of July 2001. Its main objective is the establishment and evaluation of four Electronic Marketplaces in Greece, Spain, United Kingdom and Romania, which will progressively minimize the gap between SMEs and the International on line market. By deploying international standards, CEBOS enables the formation of regional digital communities as well as their interconnection in the context of e-Europe. An SME that becomes user of a regional CEBOS market place, exploits the opportunity for concentrated marketing activities and becomes a part of a wider network of digital market places with global impact.
Web Site: CEBOS

ENLARGE - Entrepreneurship Laboratory for Eastern European Regions

ENLARGE is a European project that addresses the IST Action line II.1.5 by promoting broad adoption of eCommerce and eWork in regional and sectoral settings of Eastern Europe and Balkan countries. ENLARGE will develop a methodology for devising and putting into action an eBusiness strategy, customised in nation specific and local characteristics of the participating countries. The project will also produce training courses that target SMEs managers and aim at stimulating their exploitation of eBusiness opportunities.
Web Site: ENLARGE

ROBOPARK - Development and Deployment of a Parking Management Systems

Development and operation of software solutions for the automated management of a Parking Facility.
Web Site: ROBOPARK

XML-OPOCE - Public Procurement - Public Procurement XML Message Design

Study, production and management of electronic forms used for publications in the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union. Development of XML messaging specifications. XML technologies consulting.

WEBHOSTS - Web Hosting Study

Socio economic study of the web hosting market with a five to ten years outlook, focusing on the market’s adaptation to the requirements and needs of European SMEs. This study is used to provide guidance to new market entrants, SMEs looking to outsource their IT needs and policy makers.

Εφαρμογή Ηλεκτρονικής Χαρτογράφησης Πρωτοβουλιών

Η εφαρμογή βασίζεται στο προϊόν Roadmap Document Server – (Διαχείριση Δημοσιότητας Έργων) και περιλαμβάνει το σύστημα καταχώρησης και διαχείρισης εγγράφων και περιεχομένου και το δικτυακό τόπο, που παράγεται από το σύστημα και περιλαμβάνει παρουσίαση της Περιφέρειας και των έργων- πρωτοβουλιών για την αναβάθμισή της.
Web Site: Ηλεκτρονική Χαρτογράφηση Πρωτοβουλιών