Business Models

Grid Business Cases with a clear performance-associated benefit

• Computational Fluid Dynamics and Computer Aid Design (BE1)
• Movie Post-Production Workflow (BE2)
• Retail Management (BE5)
• Groundwater Modeling (BE6)
• Risk Management in Finance (BE11)
• Sales Management System (BE12)
• New Product & Process Development (BE14)
• Logistics & Distribution Optimisation (BE17)
• WOW2GREEN (BE23)
• BEinEIMRT (BE25)

This category of scenarios represents those cases that their implementations primarily aim at addressing one of the following problems/limitations:
a) additional CPU power needed for executing a demanding application (typical high-performance computing scenario)
b) huge amount of data storage/memory is required
c) access to heterogeneous, geographically distributed data resources is required.

Grid Business Cases with a highly collaborative benefit

• Integration of Engineering and Business Processes in Metal Forming (BE8)
• Distributed Online Gaming (BE9)
• Collaborative Environment in the Supply Chain Management for Pharmaceutics (BE10)
• Textile Grid Portal (BE13)
• Seismic Processing and Reservoir Simulation (BE18)
• Anti-money Laundering in Grid (AMONG) (BE19)
• TAF-Grids (BE20)
• AgroGrid (BE22)
• Grid2(B2B) (BE24)

i.e. benefit arising from sharing complementary resources among participating organizations. In this case the resulting benefit from Grid adoption comes from sharing data, power and resources utilized for a common scope. Typical examples of this category are intra-organisational grids and Virtual Organisations and the expected economic benefit in this case could be shared among all participants in contrast to the first category where the main economic benefit is anticipated from the end-user where the service or application will be provided/sold. Also, the services of this category cannot be provided by a single provider since data or other resources are necessary to be obtained from other providers.

Grid Business Cases exploiting new software paradigms

• Visualisation and Virtual Reality (BE3)
• Financial Portfolio Management (BE4)
• Earth Observation (BE7)
• Data Recovery Service (BE15)
• Ship Building (BE16)
• TravelCRM (BE21)

This category comprises those business scenarios exploiting new software paradigms such as the Service Oriented Architectures or the component-based development along with new models for provisioning of their services such the pay-per-use or Software as a Service (SaaS) one. For example, a service provider could applications on a pay-per-use basis rather than by means of licensing or long term static agreements and, thus, exploiting to the most the concepts of these new software paradigms.