Annual Projects Review 1998 - Project MOSAIC (Contract Nr 45527)

I wish to thank you for the co-operation given by your project team in participating to the TEN-Telecom annual projects review.  Please find attached the review report of the project MOSAIC as it results from the review panel assessment.

The project was generally well received by the reviewers, and the overall recommendation is to continue without substantial changes, the work currently on progress.

However, to achieve the expected results at the end of the project, the review panel made comments and recommendations (sections E1, E2 and F of the report), which I would like to bring to your attention. In particular:

  1. The business plan, should address, in a professional way, investments, revenues, public funding, sponsoring, technology, etc. A credible business model should be developed (actors, products, services, processes, activities), a range of CSC should be defined and quantified.
  2. Plans to create an international MOSAIC organisation should be presented in the business plan.
  3. As a part of the business plan, a clear and concise manual to support potential collaboration/partnership to MOSAIC network should be produced.
  4. Where possible, the project should use existing technologies, adapted and integrated to achieve the requirements of MOSAIC.
  5. The architecture of MOSAIC in terms of access to distributed heterogeneous databases should be developed.
  6. The added value should be clearly defined in terms of contents and access.
  7. The project should take in consideration the technical aspects of the services implementation.
  8. The 6 month project extension requested by the project team should be accepted.
I would like to invite you to reflect on these recommendation and to report to us how they will be implemented in practice in the next progress report scheduled for the end of May 1998.

Regarding point  8. above, a proposal for a rescheduling of the tasks and of the deliverables has to be submitted to the European Commission before 31 May 1998 at the latest. This proposal, once agreed by the Commission, will be acted as an amendment to the contract.

The implementation of these recommendations and the rescheduling of the activities will have no impact on the contractual conditions and costs.

Mr. Oleksy will continue to be your contact point if you would wish to receive further explanation for these recommendations.

Yours sincerely,

Annex: MOSAIC Review Project
cc: Mr. M. Cilli, Banco di Roma Spa

 

PROJECT ASSESSMENT

A. Work Done

 

Comments
1. Does the project significantly contributes to TEN-Telecom objectives ?

Yes

 
2. Is it 'State of the Art' work, in terms of its content ?

Yes

 
3. Is it 'State of the Art', in terms of the technology used ?

Yes

 
4. Are the objective of the project being met?

Yes

 
5. Are there definite plans for exploitation of results?

Yes

The intentions are there but need to be established and demonstrated in the business plan
6. Is there a reasonable balance between the work done and the financial investment in the project ?

Yes

 

B. Current Results

Scores (*)
(1 to 5)

Comments
7. Are the user needs properly reflected in the user requirements and/or the implementation

4

 
8. Quality of Euro-ISDN approach

3

 
9. Level of potential interoperability

3

 
10. Content quality of deliverables in relation to project objectives

4

 
11. Potential for deployment of services in a competitive market

3

 

C. Project Management

Scores (*)
(1 to 5)

Comments
12. Realistic time scales and resource allocation

3

 
13. Effectiveness of project management techniques

3

 
14. Level of the project quality control

4

 

(*) Scores: 1=Unsatisfactory, 2=Poor, 3=Satisfactory, 4=Good, 5=Very Good

1998 TEN-Telecom Project Review

Contract N.45527

Acronym: MOSAIC

 

D. Modification and Developments since the last Review (if applicable)

 

E1. View on project Status

The project has created a wide public awareness and political support, which opened for corporate sponsoring and business activity at the professional level. However the business model is still unclear.

E2. Exploitation/Implementation potential

At this time the level of exploitation/implementation, potential of the project is linked to the results obtained from items expressed as recommendations (Point F. Recommendations for future work).

F. Recommendation for future works:

  1. The business plan should address, in a professional way, investments, revenues, public founding, sponsoring technology, etc. A credible business model should be developed (actors, products, services process, activities), a range of CSC should be defined and quantified.
  2. Plans to create an international MOSAIC organisazion should be presented in the business plan.
  3. As a part of the business plan a clear and coincise manual to support potential collaboration/partnership to MOSAIC network should be produced.
  4. Were possible, the project should use existing technologies, adapted and integrated to achieve the requirements of MOSAIC.
  5. The architecture of MOSAIC in terms of access to distributed heterogeneous databases should be developed.
  6. The added value should be clearly defined in terms of contents and access.
  7. The project should take in consideration the technical aspects of the services implementation.
  8. The 6 month project extension requested by the project team should be accepted.

G. Overall recommendation (select one)

G1r Continue

 

G3 Red Flag

G2 Modify