SERVICE SUPPORT ENVIRONMENT

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The definition and prototyping of services is made easy within the Service Support Environment (SSE), a neutrally managed, open and distributed platform.

SSE offers an exclusive opportunity to integrate a wide range of heterogeneous EO and Geospatial information services, including product catalogues.

Experiment excellence joining the community of developers and value adders which exploits SSE, its unique test bed, and the best available technologies and standards.

The SSE environment supports service prototyping and demonstration processes, allowing to design automatically executed workflows. This avoids the manual replication of the same task, with a valuable decrease of the overall development effort.In this way SSE streamlines both the time to get the EO data and that to deliver the service to the end-user.

SSE works to:• Orchestrate synchronous and asynchronous Web Services for online and offline processes• Provide an overarching infrastructure, neutrally managed by ESA• Integrate the access to EO data within service prototyping and delivery• Empower service providers through a business process management platform• Minimize service providers’ upfront investments• Allow the use of Open standards to facilitate adoption and evolution• Facilitate the integration of satellite data and geospatial information within the

processing and exploitation chains

DevelopersExperiment fast prototyping and service design processes automating the task execution, work with the best technologies and standards, find mutual support for most development problems, improve skills by sharing ideas with other professionals.

Service ManagersSpeed up service delivery to the end-user, leverage the investments in IT and find new business opportunities.

Service DesignersCreate new services by integrating a wide range of heterogeneous EO and Geospatial information services, including product catalogues, innovate the EO field by sharing ideas and skills with its best professionals.

SSE for:

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How SSE can help

Through the SSE platform each service and data provider gets an enhanced possibility of prototyping and a notable reduction of the development risk.

The control of the services remains with the owners and developers which, at the same time, retain the IPR and can benefit by a considerable cut of their investments in IT tools to support service deployment.

Moreover SSE allows to:• Easily access multiple sources of Earth Observation data• Chain basic services into a complex one directly deliverable to the users• Browse a distributed digital library of EO, Meteorological and Geospatial information services• Join and share knowledge with the best professionals of the field• Find new partners to innovate products• Disseminate R&D projects, skills and value• Advertise and integrate new and existing services• Support the evolution and maintenance of services• Integrate services from multiple domains, e.g. geospatial, meteorological, in-situ, EO

“The availability of the Service Support Environment tool has been critical to the achievements of the HMA-I project, providing a test environment and solving most of the SOA technological issues, allowing most of the effort to be put on the service definitions and interface testing. The versatility of the environment is such that little bespoke development was necessary to bread-board the Data Access Integration Layer and the access to the partner service interfaces.”

Franck SeryEnd-to-End Systems, EADS-Astrium

“Once the SSE portal has become available, we have immediately evaluated the potentiality of a web-based distributed and chainable architecture. Now MEEO has more than 20 services installed on the SSE portal. This has carried out many advantages in terms of direct accessibility of our products by customers at any time and using any software module they want, possibility to publish demonstration version with limited effort and high impact on the market.”

Stefano NataliMEEO - Meterological and Environmental Earth Observation

Join and share excellence

To innovate there’s nothing better than to share ideas and competencies with other professionals and companies of the field.

The “Join and Share Area” helps to find colleagues and partners to boost development and business and tools to spread the knowledge and skills present in the SSE network.

The “Join and Share Area” helps to:

• reach excellence in one’s work;

• get in touch every day with other professionals;

• find new opportunities to develop technologies, standards and services.

The services available in the area are:

• Forums: mutual support for the developers, resources & expertise sharing, partner searching, and more.

• Wikis: where experience is consolidated into excellence.

• Blog: led by the best professionals of the field, it gives precious food for thought about the many opportunities for use of the SSE platform.

Example of the data delivery by satellite process

The SSE technology approach and solution

The SSE platform is based on different technologies that have been integrated into a unique and powerful environment.

To orchestrate the supply chain of EO and Geospatial Information, SSE provides the best available technologies and standards:

• SSE supports the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm and simplifies the integration of Web services through the Toolbox environment (accessible as a free download from the SSE portal) which converts any legacy service in a SOA based one, dramatically reducing the coding problems.

• The service chaining is supported by an orchestration engine that provides a Standard workflow definition language. The service provider can decide, without restraint, to capitalize on a workflow editor or to use its default workflows.

The Service output can be published in different ways exploiting a wide set of geospatial information tools and services either on the provider or on the SSE side, including an interface to the ESA DDS for data delivery via satellite.

This approach allows the service provider to offer the functionalities either as individual Web services or aggregated at a single interface and:

• foster the development of reusable services

• avoid the duplication of frequently used processing software

• facilitate the combination of any services to business processes (“Orchestration”)

Four simple steps to experiment and create new excellence

To publish a service into the SSE Platform a company must be registered on the portal filling in an organization form and asking to be qualified as a “Service Provider” i.e. recognized as professional.

After this procedure the “Service Provider” can:

1. register services on SSE Portal to start development and testing;

2. orchestrate services;

3. when ready, publish services either directly or through the Toolbox;

4. monitor service execution through a dedicated Console.

All the registered users can improve their knowledge and exploit new opportunities, taking part in the “Join and Share Area”.

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Join the SSE network nowand start experimenting excellence!