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SUMMARY
The Cloud Software programme aims to significantly improve the global competitive position of the software-intensive, Finnish industry in the areas of operational efficiency, user experience, web software, open systems, security engineering and sustainable development. As software becomes increasingly web-based, cloud software is fasting becoming one a basic infrastructure of the future internet. The Cloud Software Programme especially aims to pioneer in building new cloud business and lean software enterprise models as well as developing innovative open cloud software infrastructure.
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SOLUTIONS
Cloud Technologies:
- Collecting a compilation of best practices for cloud computing
- Developing a toolbox for cloud computing application development
- Building a cloud demonstration environment
- Defining guidelines for openness in the cloud
- Developing sample applications that benefit from cloud computing and content mashupping
Lean Software Enterprise
- Developing a framework for applying the lean principles towards an enterprise transformation.
- Conducting Lean Enterprise Transformation. Making lean applicable in cloud software organizations.
- Scaling Agile Software Development. Perfecting & automating the cloud software R&D engine.
- Developing Integrated Software R&D Approaches. Seeking for competitive edge.
Superior User Experience
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Creating a common UX framework that supports the overall objectives of the cloud SW research and development:
- Cloud computing and Web services with excellent UX
- Better security with improved UX
- Market success of green SW with good UX
- Developing, through industrial case studies, efficient and integrated methods and tools for UX design and evaluation, including SW development tools that provide good UX both for end users and developers
- Providing tools for using UX as a business factor by development of measures and tools to communicate UX to decision makers
Cloud Security
- Producing a feasible Secure Development Lifecycle methodology supporting agile and lean SW development, and
- Designing vulnerability, complexity and robustness management and risk-driven security metrics methodologies and tools that help developers to achieve adequate security, trust, dependability and privacy goals cloud computing environment.
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LINK: http://www.cloudsoftwareprogram.org/
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