# Project Aims and Benefits

#### Project Aims

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<span lang="EN">The aim of DOME to support businesses and public organisations digital transformation making available a catalogue of cloud-to-edge offerings in Europe.</span>

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-infrastructure-deplo" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 257.6px; border-width: 1px;"><colgroup><col style="width: 20.6377%;"></col><col style="width: 79.3376%;"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 34.8px;"><td style="height: 34.8px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">INFRASTRUCTURE</span></td><td style="border-style: solid solid solid none; border-image: initial; padding: 5pt; width: 76.866%; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt initial;" valign="top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Deployment of a customer-oriented and user-friendly marketplace platform infrastructure, following inclusion and equality principles.</span>

</td></tr><tr style="height: 34.8px;"><td style="height: 34.8px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">OPERATION</span></td><td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 76.866%; border-width: initial 1pt 1pt initial;" valign="top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Operation of the marketplace platform according to security, energy and resource efficiency, data protection, ethical standards and portability requirements.</span>

</td></tr><tr style="height: 34.8px;"><td style="height: 34.8px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">TRUSTFULNESS</span></td><td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 76.866%; border-width: initial 1pt 1pt initial;" valign="top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Integration of state-of-the-art distributed identity and access management services to support the marketplace platform operation.</span>

</td></tr><tr style="height: 34.8px;"><td style="height: 34.8px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">CURATION</span></td><td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 76.866%; border-width: initial 1pt 1pt initial;" valign="top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Design of a vetting process for services offered on the marketplace for specific services in regulated sectors (e.g. health, energy, finance, etc.).</span>

</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.6px;"><td style="height: 29.6px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">INTERCONNECTION</span></td><td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 76.866%; border-width: initial 1pt 1pt initial;" valign="top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Implementation of interconnections with similar marketplaces and service catalogues that already exist in some European Member States.</span>

</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.6px;"><td style="height: 29.6px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">COMPLIANCE</span></td><td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 76.866%; border-width: initial 1pt 1pt initial;" valign="top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Single EU portal to access cloud-to-edge based service offerings compliant with a set of EU rules of the forthcoming EU Cloud Rulebook.</span>

</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.6px;"><td style="height: 29.6px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">TRANSACTIONS</span></td><td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 76.866%; border-width: initial 1pt 1pt initial;" valign="top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Implementation of a service brokerage functionality to enable transactions between providers and users to take place on the DOME marketplace.</span>

</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.6px;"><td style="height: 29.6px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">OPEN SOURCE</span></td><td style="border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 76.866%; border-width: initial 1pt 1pt initial;" valign="top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Massive adoption of an open source, vendor-neutral reference framework to facilitate the offering of cloud-to-edge bundled products.</span>

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##### Benefits

Different stakeholders will benefit from the DOME catalogue of cloud and edge services in different ways.

<table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" id="bkmrk-cloud-services-provi" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 631.125px; border-spacing: 0px; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-image: initial;"><tbody><tr style="height: 106.125px;"><td style="border-width: 1px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-image: initial; padding: 5pt; width: 14.7042%; height: 106.125px;" valign="top">**<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Cloud Services Providers</span>**

</td><td style="border-width: 1px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-image: initial; padding: 5pt; width: 85.2711%; height: 106.125px;" valign="top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">ORGANISATIONS CREATING AND OFFERING CLOUD APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Automated deployment, configuration and management of cloud services, seamless integration and interoperability with different cloud service providers. Robust security and compliance. Comprehensive performance monitoring and analytics. </span>

</td></tr><tr style="height: 83.3125px;"><td style="border-width: 1px; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 14.7042%; height: 83.3125px;" valign="top">**<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Data Owners &amp; Providers </span>**

</td><td style="border-width: 1px; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 85.2711%; height: 83.3125px;" valign="top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">ORGANISATIONS THAT GENERATE AND SUPPLY DATA TO CLOUD SERVICES</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Ability to access data markets across different industries and geographies, discovering new opportunities to monetise data assets. Data handled securely and protecting privacy. Interoperability for smooth data exchange.</span>

</td></tr><tr style="height: 83.125px;"><td style="border-width: 1px; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 14.7042%; height: 83.125px;" valign="top">**<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">"As-a-Service" Providers</span>**

</td><td style="border-width: 1px; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 85.2711%; height: 83.125px;" valign="top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">ORGANISATIONS OFFERING UNDERLYING INFRASTRUCTURE, PLATFORMS OR SOFTWARE</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Capacity to enrich the portfolio of cloud applications and easily reach a critical mass according to the number of cloud-to-edge application services offered. Smooth integration, efficient allocation and management of computing resources.</span>

</td></tr><tr style="height: 83.3125px;"><td style="border-width: 1px; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 14.7042%; height: 83.3125px;" valign="top">**<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Supporting Services Providers</span>**

</td><td style="border-width: 1px; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 85.2711%; height: 83.3125px;" valign="top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">ORGANISATIONS PROVIDING INTEGRATION OF APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Access to widely supported middleware technologies and standards, allowing to leverage existing tools and adapters. Comprehensive set of APIs for interoperating across services. Ability to customise and extend existing services.</span>

</td></tr><tr style="height: 84px;"><td style="border-width: 1px; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; height: 84px; width: 14.7042%;" valign="top">**<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Marketplaces Providers</span>**

</td><td style="border-width: 1px; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; height: 84px; width: 85.2711%;" valign="top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">ORGANISATIONS OFFERING MARKETPLACE FUNCTIONALITIES</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Ability to aggregate and combine own or third parties Data, Cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS or Supporting Services into a unified offering within a centralised management of services lifecycle. Accurate, transparent billing and accounting.</span>

</td></tr><tr style="height: 85.125px;"><td style="border-width: 1px; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 14.7042%; height: 85.125px;" valign="top">**<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Cloud Services Consumers</span>**

</td><td style="border-width: 1px; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 85.2711%; height: 85.125px;" valign="top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">ORGANISATIONS CONSUMING / UTILISING CLOUD APPLICATIONS &amp; SERVICES</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Easy discovery and selection of cloud services. Seamless provisioning and deployment of flexible and scalable cloud services. Ability to track the performance, health, and utilisation of deployed services. Robust security and compliance.</span>

</td></tr><tr style="height: 106.125px;"><td style="border-width: 1px; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 14.7042%; height: 106.125px;" valign="top">**<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Data Consumers &amp; Aggregators</span>**

</td><td style="border-width: 1px; border-style: none solid solid none; padding: 5pt; width: 85.2711%; height: 106.125px;" valign="top"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">ORGANISATIONS ACCESSING, PROCESSING, UTILISING OR AGGREGATING DATA</span>

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Montserrat;">Capacity to provide added value services accessing and/or aggregating data from multiple sources. Access to and easy discovery within a wide range of diverse and high-quality datasets supported by a transparent data governance framework.</span>

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