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Apr 1, 2000
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Spin-offs from CERN and the Case of TuoviWDM
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Ari-Pekka Hameri
CERN
Speaker:
Ari-Pekka Hameri
This presentation outlines the catalyzing events, key obstacles and
other influences at CERN during the four-year journey of the TuoviWDM
software project from its initiation in 1995 to the launching of a
spin-off company in late 1998. The TuoviWDM software is a WWW-based
extended enterprise interface to product data management systems and to
data vaults residing in proprietary information systems. A group of
organizations uses this integrated whole to store and access information
and to manage operational processes. The large projects and global user
base at CERN provided the development team with an ex-tremely flexible,
occasionally surprisingly benign, and always challenging environment to
develop the system. The opportunities to exploit the diversity hidden in
the world's largest particle physics laboratory are immense. However,
this case has again demonstrated that in a public sector organization
the climate, the procedures, and the decision-making bodies, which are
related to creation of technology and to technology transfer, may be
supportive, irrelevant or even counter-productive.
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