Pre-proposal    	Pre-proposal/Full proposal for
     	Full proposal		grants from "VINST" programme

Applying university and department or applying institute (with full address)

Royal Institute of Technology
The Department of Computer and Systems Sciences
Forum 100
SE-164 40 Kista, Sweden	For VINNOVA's/SSF's needs	
Scientific leader for the project envisaged at the above university/institute (Name, title, position, address if not as above)

Prof. Benkt Wangler 
	Year of birth
	Date for planned start of project: 020401	Date for planned conclusion of project: 050401

  male
  female	Overall project manager:
    Scientific leader
•	Company's project leader (name below)
	
Telephone
08-16 20 00	Telefax
08-703 90 25	e-mail address
benkt@dsv.su.se	URL address (www)
http://www.dsv.su.se/~benkt/	
Co-applying company  (Name, Address, Swedish organisation No, Ownership, Turnover 2000, R&D expenditure 2000, Existing products developed within company, Year of introduction of latest product generation)
Visuera Integration AB, Sankt Eriksgatan 121B, 113 43 Stockholm, 

	
Company's project leader  (Name, title, position, telephone, e-mail address, URL address (www)
Jan Törnbohm, executive vice president of product operations,
08-545 49 439, jan.tornebohm@visuera.com, www.visuera.com
	
Project title  (max 120 characters)
Rapid integration of network-based business processes  
	
Company's motive for initiating the project. Project's objectives and expected results  (material and immaterial)
The project will give Visuera Intergration AB valuable support to further developing and enhancing its product Visuera Process Manager (PM). PM is a leading edge software based on process broker technologi, which enable visualisation and rapid integration of manual and network-based business processes. The co-operation with DSV will give further theoretical knowledge in the areas of knowledge management for business processes and process interoperability. This will be the foundation for creating additional components, which will make it faster to implement business processes from survey to deployment.

The purpose of the project is to further develop a new type of information technology, so called process brokers, that is used for supporting manual and network-based business processes. The result will be an improved version of the product Visuera Process Manager, in form of a process repository, a prototype to automatically generate user interfaces, methodology and tool support for translation between different business process standards, like Edifact, ebXML, cXML and RosettaNet, and a refined component (or methodology or technology?) for monitoring, analyse and continuously improve executed processes. The project will also strengthen the co-operation between high tech innovative IT industry providing new technology with the mature academy of research qualifying the same. [Kanske även något om att kunskap och tänkande från high tech industrin kan spridas till forskare och studenter]

For Pre-proposal only:                                   Estimated VINST Project costs 	
	2002 (TSEK)	2003 (TSEK)	2004 (TSEK)	Total (TSEK)	
Salary costs
Running costs
Indirect costs
Total costs	

	

	

	

	

For Full proposal:                            Costs for which a grant is applied for from the VINST programme	
	2002 (TSEK)	2003 (TSEK)	2004 (TSEK)	Total (TSEK)	
Salary costs					
Materials and other running costs					
Travel costs					
Miscellaneous (specify in text part)					
Indirect univ/inst costs (rent, etc)					
Total costs					
					
Organisation of the project  (for pre-proposal including planned financing)

Organisation:

The organisation consists of the project leader, the company´s project leader, and an operational group.

Project leader: Benkt Wangler, 10% (funded by KTH)
Company´s project leader: Jan Törnebohm, 10% (funded by Visuera Integration AB)

Operation group:
Janis Stirna, 50% (funded by the project)
Anne Persson, 50% (funded by the project)

	

Keywords

Business processes, Process repository, Process Brokers, Application integration, Knowledge management, Interoperability

Give main applicant and title of projects related to the work in this (pre-)proposal, that already have been granted  means from research councils, sector agencies, (VINNOVA/NUTEK m fl), foundations (SSF, KK m fl), the EU and other public external funding bodies.  NB: This could be relevant for co-applying companies as well.	

Funding body
	
Main applicant	
Project title	                Amounts  (TSEK)
      2001             2002             2003	

EU

Teknikbro-stiftelsen

ProcessBroker

Verbundtplan AG, Austria

IbisSoft

KTH
	
HyperKnowlegde

FlexDriver

ProcessBroker
	
350

100

500	
700

	

	

Give main applicant and title of projects related to the work in this (pre-)proposal, for which applications have been submitted  to research councils, sector agencies, (VINNOVA/NUTEK m fl), foundations (SSF, KK m fl), the EU and other public external funding bodies.  NB: This could be relevant for co-applying companies as well.	

Funding body
	
Main applicant	
Project title	

SSF

	
Benkt Wangler, Skövde University	
ESSENCE – Network as the basis for process-oriented and interorganisational business systems integration and management	

Earlier contacts and/or co-operation between the Company and the Scientific leader, incl. his/her department or institute

The team forming Visuera Integration AB and Benkt Wangler at DSV/KTH have carried out a NUTEK supported project called “Process Broker”, during 990101-990830.

	

Suggestions for possible international reviewers in areas of relevance for the full proposal  
(non-committing; please give Name, Organisation/Department, e-mail address, field of expertise)

Jan Dietz, business and process engineering 
Arthur ter Hofstede, arthur@icis.qut.edu.au, workflow and process systems 
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, jm@cs.toronto.edu, enterprise engineering 
Colette Rolland, Univeristé de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, rolland@univ-paris1.fr, process design 
Veda Storey, Georgia State University, vstorey@gsu.edu, database and knowledge management 
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, weigand@kub.nl, information systems

Enclosures - please see instructions for application!
For pre-proposals as well as full proposals:

1 	CV for participating persons

2 	List of publications

3 	Company´s latest Annual Report

	For full proposals only:

4a 	Complete project description

4b 	Detailed budget and financing plan

	

Any further information or comments that the applicants would like to give 

	

Signatures
Scientific leader

	
Signature

Paul Johannesson	
Typed name		Company's project leader

Signature

Jan Törnebohm	
Typed name
	
Prefekt (Department chairman or corresponding)

	
Signature

Anita Kollerbaur	
Typed name		Firmatecknare för företaget

	
Signature

Christer Wåhlander	
Typed name	

Send pre-proposals and full proposals to

Verket för Innovationssystem
Att: "VINST SSF-VINNOVA"
101 58  STOCKHOLM

First deadline is October 15, 2001 at 16.00 hrs