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The founding group
of 5 scientists start
operations at the
Artificial Intelligence
Research Institute (IIIA)
of the Consejo Superior
de Investigaciones
Cientificas (CSIC).
General Electric and
Ya.com trust iSOCO for
its technological
expertise
The Santander Central
Hispano Group (SCH) and
VC firm BCNEmpren
become shareholders of
iSOCO. 64% of the share
capital is now in hands of
employees and family and
friends of iSOCO
Pressing space
constraints move iSOCO
to change to a larger
office in Barcelona. The
Spanish Minister of
Science & Technology
gives the inaugural
address.
Introduction to iSOCOProfile and history
iSOCO opens
offices in Madrid and
Valencia to be closer to
its clients and the
knowledge pools of the
universities
iSOCO consolidates
its position as a
reference of the
application of innovative
information technology to
the solution of business
problems
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MSc
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University degrees62%
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iSOCO in the MarketOur Focus
iSOCO focuses its research and development efforts towards innovative technologies and solutions that can deliver strategic value for its clients
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iSOCO combines two differentiated areas of expertise, iSOCO Solutions and iSOCO Lab, that generate valuable synergies by expediting innovative
leading edge solutions to the market.
iSOCO in the MarketTechnology Owners
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Areas where we actiSOCO Solutions
Procurement, sourcing, elextronic negotiation, integration of platforms
eLearning, Intranet and knowledge management.
ecommerce, personalization, aggregation, search and information analysis.
iTRADE iKNOW iCARE
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Areas where we actiSOCO Products
iSOCO’s product and services offering has, at its core, a very strong technological component that ensures its differentiation in the market.
iSOCO’s Aggregation product line is designed to fulfil the need of simplifying the process of retrieving heterogeneous information from multiple sources and acting upon it.
iSOCO Quotes allows companies to streamline their strategic sourcing processes while gaining substantial product and services cost reductions through the use of Smart Negotiation techniques
Secure Workflow is iSOCO’s family of workflow management products designed to dramatically enhanced the productivity of professionals in their interactions with the different certification bodies.
Intelligent Data consolidation
Real Cost ReductionTangible process
improvements
AGGREGATION PROCUREMENT SECURE WORKFLOW
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Summary of ClientsBuilding value based relationships
iSOCO ha desarrollado soluciones tecnológicas y creado relaciones de valor con clientes que comparten nuestra pasión por la innovación
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R&DThe Mission: Bring the future to the present
Relevant technologies
Semantic Web: add meaning to the Web
Web Services: make applications interoperable
Intelligent Agents: reasoning with heterogeneous web sources
Why those technologies?
•Dedicated funding actions from EU and US governments for Semantic Web
•Large industries invest in Web Services
•Monitored by Forrester, McKinsey, Gartner, etc.
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DESCRIPTION FINANCING COORDINATOR
EXTERNALLY FINANCED PROJECTS (PUBLIC FUNDINGS)
ESPERONTO (2002)- Application Service for Semantic
Annotation and Aggregation of Multilingual Web Content..
iSOCO PARTICIPATION IN INNOVATION NETWORKS
Innovation meets the marketplaceInternational Projects and Innovation Networks
European Union- €547.600 funding over 2,5 years.
iSOCO- Total funding of €2.000.000.
European Union- €432.100 over 3 years.
CIMNE(*)
- Total funding of €1.813.375.
iBROW (2000)- Intelligent Brokering Service for
knowledge-component reuse on the World Wide Web.
European Union- €105.000 over 3 years.
University of Amsterdam - Total funding of €1.100.000.
Ontology-based information exchange for knowledge management and electronic commerce
www.ontoweb.org
ONTOWEB
Europe's Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing.
www.agentlink.org
AGENTLINK
Initiative aiming to build a worldwide, publicly accessible, test bed for the deployment of dynamic, composable, agent based services
www.agentcities.org
AGENTCITIES
European Network of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Planning.
www.planet-noe.org
PLANET
SIMWEB (2002)- Exploring innovative business
models through integrated e-Commerce strategies.
(*) Centre d’Investigació i Mètodes Numèrics per Enginyeria
SWWS (2002)- Semantic Web Enables Web
Services
European Union- €340.000 funding over 2,5 years.
University of Innsbruck- Total funding of €2.000.000.
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DESCRIPTION FINANCING COORDINATOR
EXTERNALLY FINANCED PROJECTS (PUBLIC FUNDINGS)
Quotes (2002)- Platform for electronic negotiation
Innovation meets the marketplaceSpanish R&D Projects
PROFIT/MCYT- €300.000 credit.
iSOCO
PROFIT/MCYT- €12.000 funding, 2 months.
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB)
- Total funding of € 35.000.
VAUCTIONS (2000)- Secure Auctions.
Science & Tech. Ministry- €96.162 over 2 years.
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB)
- Total funding of €500.000.
Iuriservice (2002)- Intelligent FAQ for new judges
Aggregador iSOCO (2002)- Automatic aggregation of financial
and non-financial online information
PROFIT/MCYT- €300.000 credit.
iSOCO
Onto-H (2002)- Intelligent access to cultural
content.
Science & Tech. Ministry- €32.500 3 months.
Residencia de Estudiantes- Total funding of €.120.000.
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Our Role in DIPType of Research/Work
Foundational
research
Component-
level research
System level integration
I P Yes Yes Yes
NoE Yes Poss. NR
STRP Poss. Yes Poss.
NR = Not recommended Poss. = Possibility, if clearly justified Yes = Highly recommended
Our strength and interest is developing innovative technology and proof of concept applications/prototypes using semantic web services, e.g.
• Personal assistant that aggregates online information using web services• Orchestrating web services in higher-level services: mortgage
recommendations, company performance tracker, etc.• KM applications, EAI, ecommerce
Source: EC
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Our Role in DIPInterests: improving our products to enhance client satisfaction
iSOCO products form a natural technology transfer to the market through early adopter clients
From early SW to full SWPersonal profile based content delivery
eGovernmentFrom local to provincial to state to country
Content aggregationService orchestration
From private market places to open market placesOpen automatic negotiation
Sector: food, utility
Apart from digitising also automatic interoperation of processes
Intelligent Data consolidation
Real Cost ReductionTangible process
improvements
AGGREGATION PROCUREMENT SECURE WORKFLOW
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Our Role in DIPWeb Services, Semantic Web, Intelligent Agents
EmailsDocuments
Static Websites
Online Database(Schemaunknown)
Businessapplications
Web Services
DynamicWebsites
Current Web
Ontology
Agent
Semantic Web
Real World
Password protectedWebsites
Agent Agent Agent
IntelligentAgents
Web Services Web Services Web Services
Users Businesses
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European Project IBROW (IST-1999-19005)
Partners• UvA – Coordinator (NL)
• UKa (DE)
• OU (UK)
• CSIC (ES)
• Stanford (USA)
• iSOCO (ES)
• VU (NL)
Data• 1.1 Million Euros
• 2000-2003
• www.ibrow.org
Objectives• Intelligent broker for plug and play
of knowledge systems
• Annotation of reasoning components on the Web
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European Project SIMWEB (IST-2001-34651)
Partners• CIMNE – Coordinator (es)
• University of Surrey (uk)
• Universität Koblenz-Landau (de)
• iSOCO (es)
• FNAC (fr)
• Publico (pt)
Data• ~2 Million Euros
• 2002-2005
• www.cimne.upc.es/simweb
Objectives• Provide European businesses with
insights and tools which will enable them to take informed business strategy decisions by adapting their traditional business models to the new, demanding reality
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European Project Esperonto (IST-2001-34373)
Partners• iSOCO – Coordinator (Spain)
• UPM (Spain)
• UdS (Germany)
• UNILIV (United Kingdom)
• Univ of Innsbruck (Austria)
• Biovista (Greece)
• CIDEM (Spain)
• Residencia de Estudiantes (Spain)
Data• ~2 Million Euros
• 2002-2005
• www.esperonto.net
Objectives• Building a bridge between the
current Web and the Semantic Web
• Provide added-value knowledge-based services on top of the SW
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European Project: SWWS (IST-2002-37134)
Partners• Univ of Innsbruck –
Coordinator (Austria)• FZI (Germany)• iSOCO (Spain)• Sirma AI Ltd.(BG)• HP Bristol (UK)• National University of Ireland
(IE)• HP Galway (IE)• BT, Ipswitch (UK)
Data• ~2 Million Euros• 2002-2005• www.swws.semanticweb.org
Objectives• Combining Web Services into
complex services
• Relieve business from burden of expensive software integration
• Build on SOAP, WSDL, UDDI
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iSOCO ValenciaTel +34 96 3467143Oficina 305C/ Prof. Beltrán Báguena 4,46009 ValenciaSpain
iSOCO BarcelonaTel +34 93 5677200C/ Alcalde Barnils 64-68 St. Cugat del Vallès08190 BarcelonaSpain
iSOCO MadridTel +34 91 3349797C/Francisca Delgado 11, 2o
Alcobendas 28100 MadridSpain
For more information on iSOCO, please contact us at
www.isoco.com
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