BMK project FRED-T project MSI project PKP project Sales Agent project TSDD project A Virtual Public Services Consultant system e-learning project | “Correlating Machine Construction”
No. WKP 1/1.4.1/1/2006/90/90/645/2007/U
under the “Sectoral Operational Programme – Improvement
of the competitiveness of enterprises, Measure 1.4: Strengthening of co-operation between the R&D sphere and the economy, submeasure: 1.4.1
The aim of the project is to conduct industrial research, and verify the results in practice by constructing a prototype correlating machine – an IT system that will:
- accept events from any external system, including technical systems
- analyze the events basing on pre-defined deduction and correlation rules
Results of the research will be used to create a commercial solution, market it, and then sell and deploy at customers as an event correlating system.
Project timeline: January 1, 2007 – August 31, 2008
Total project spending: PLN 6,786,713.86
Amount of qualified expenditures: PLN 4,997,257.68
Amount of industrial research aid: PLN 1,610,656.24
Amount of pre-competitive research aid: PLN 1,007,730.00
- Asseco Poland SA – current Beneficiary of the Agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The original Agreement with the Ministry has been executed by Prokom Software SA. On April 2, 2008, Asseco Poland SA became the legal successor of Prokom Software SA
- NET Technology – subcontractor for selected items of industrial and pre-competitive research
- DAC System – deployment subcontractor
Industrial research
As part of the industrial research, a number of theoretical papers were created. The papers defined the practical solution anticipated for the next project stage that would meet the requirements specified in research assumptions, including the correlating machine, machine operation algorithms and external system cooperation principles.
Pre-competitive research
As part of the pre-competitive research, a prototype (software) of the Correlating Machine was developed, followed by functional, performance, overload, networking, and failure resilience analyses and tests. As a result of the project, a correlating machine was created. In line with the Applicant’s assumptions, the prototype included the following functional elements:
- Main application – system kernel – responsible for providing main system functionalities and an API for input, output and processing modules
- Input modules (text files, system logs, SNMP traps)
- Output modules (text files and SNMP traps).
The tests have shown that the functional and performance requirements (number of correlation rules performed per unit of time) specified in the assumptions have been met.  “Detecting telecommunications anomalies and abuse, and verifying the ability to identify threats in real time” No. WKP 1/1.4.1/1/2006/87/87/642/2007/U
under the “Sectoral Operational Programme – Improvement
of the competitiveness of enterprises”
Measure 1.4: Strengthening of co-operation between the R&D sphere and the economy, submeasure: 1.4.1
The aim of the project was to acquire new knowledge and develop a model for improving an existing ICT system, and next to apply such knowledge by designing and developing prototypes of modules based on the models, including their pilot deployment.
The main research tasks in the project include examining the effectiveness of the developed methods of detecting and analyzing telecommunications anomalies and abuse in real time.
Project timeline: May 1, 2007 – July 31, 2008
Total project spending: PLN 6,709,650.00
Amount of qualified expenditures: PLN 6,042,750.00
Amount of industrial research aid: PLN 4,867,250.00
Amount of pre-competitive research aid: PLN 1,175,500.00
- Asseco Poland SA – current Beneficiary of the Agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Originally, the Agreement with the Ministry has been concluded by SPIN SA. It was then continued by ABG SA, as the legal successor of SPIN SA, and, since October 1, 2008, by Asseco Poland SA, as the legal successor of ABG SA
- POSTINFO Sp. z o.o. – project implementer under a consortium agreement concluded with ABG SA
- Instytut Innowacji i Społeczeństwa Informacyjnego Sp. z o.o. – subcontractor responsible for conducting research and supporting reporting and settlements required by the Ministry
- Warsaw University of Technology – Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics – subcontractor responsible for conducting research
Industrial research
Industrial research was aimed at explaining, whether the theoretical solution designed for the project is feasible in technical and economical terms. The research resulted in developing the models of the system’s core, data structure, processing structure, and interfaces.
Pre-competitive research
Pre-competitive research was aimed at creating a prototype that would not be transformed or used directly in any industrial or commercial project. The technical prototype was tested in a production environment of a telecommunications carrier. The tests were aimed at evaluating the ability to apply the prototype in practice (acceptance tests).
As a result of the works under the “Detecting telecommunications anomalies and abuse, and verifying the ability to identify threats in real time” project, a prototype of the FRED-T system (an improved version of the FRED 5.188 system) was created.
In line with the assumptions of the Applicants, the following new modules were implemented in the prototype:
- FRED-T.Analizator_fingerprinting
- FRED-T.Analizator_profili
- FRED-T.Analizator_SS7
- FRED-T.Grid
- FRED-T.Komunikator
- FRED-T.Rdzen
The system’s prototype was deployed in a testing environment at SFERIA SA. (a telecommunications carrier). This allowed for conducting detailed tests based on real data provided by the operator. The tests lasted for 2 months. The data used covered six months of the year 2008, what allowed for conducting both performance tests and validating the developed engines, such as the prediction engine, that require a considerable amount of historical data for analyzed accounts/phone numbers.
The functionality of individual modules of the prototype was modified during the tests in order to adjust the initial module testing methodology, and to remove bugs found during the tests.
The tests have proven that the assumptions and the solutions meet all the project requirements, and deliver the assumed functionalities. Therefore, it can be expected that the modules developed as part of the project will be used in a production version of the FRED-T system in the future.
 “Development and creation of a flexible and scalable Medical Information Technology System (Polish: Medyczny System Informatyczny — MSI)”
No. WKP 1/1.4.1/1/2006/83/83/638/2007
under the “Sectoral Operational Programme – Improvement
of the competitiveness of enterprises”
Measure 1.4: Strengthening of co-operation between the R&D sphere and the economy, submeasure: 1.4.1
The project is aimed at developing and creating a complete concept of a flexible and scalable “Medical Information Technology System,” and then at verifying its potential usefulness and the possible scope of application.
The project includes a number of interdisciplinary arrangements and activities that combine medical, IT and organizational knowledge.
This concept corresponds to the strategic national and European programs related to developing “e-health” solutions (implemented under European Union “e-Europe 2010” strategy).
Project timeline: May 1, 2007 – November 30, 2008
Total project spending: PLN 4,149,058.00
Amount of qualified expenditures: PLN 3,779,889.14
Amount of industrial research aid: PLN 832,487.98
Amount of pre-competitive research aid: PLN 837,343.21
- Asseco Poland SA – current Beneficiary of the Agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- Originally, the Agreement with the Ministry has been concluded by SPIN SA. It was then continued by ABG SA, as the legal successor of SPIN SA, and, since October 1, 2008, by Asseco Poland SA, as the legal successor of ABG SA
- Asseco Poland SA – main deployment organization for the MSI project
- Instytut Innowacji i Społeczeństwa Informacyjnego Sp. z o.o. – subcontractor responsible for conducting research and supporting reporting and settlements required by the Ministry
- S-Project – subcontractor responsible for specific research activities
- TIP Sp. z o.o. – subcontractor responsible for research and pre-competitive activities related to linguistic solutions
- University of Szczecin, Institute of IT Applications in Management – research on the effectiveness of economic and organizational changes in a health care institution, and expert opinion on the research conducted as part of the MSI project
Research conducted as part of the project was related to evaluating the effectiveness of the methods and rules developed during the project with regard to enabling flexible and easy communication of an employee of a local health care institution using the hospital IT system. Effectiveness will be measured for efficiency of process-oriented organization management, and for compliance of the organizational culture of a typical health care unit with culture open for process-based management and change management.
Industrial research
The industrial research resulted in obtaining new knowledge that was applied by the applicant and its subcontractors in development of a new system in the later stages of the project. This knowledge included a set of theoretical papers (models, research results) that set the ground for practical applications foreseen for the next project stages (aimed at solving social and economic pain points, including technical and economical aspects). During the research, models and rules for organizing business process and aggregating medical data at a health care institution were developed. These models and rules were aimed at achieving the ultimate goal of the project, i.e. developing a new system that would support health care institution operations.
Pre-competitive research
During the pre-competitive research, the applicant and its subcontracts converted industrial research results into plans, assumptions and designs of a new hospital IT system, referred to as the “Medical Information Technology System,” including prototypes of the system’s architecture, core, database, communications engines and individual modules (of no commercial use), aimed at creating a test series. The test series was then deployed in the next stage of the project in the Deployment Environment.
Results of the pre-competitive research will not be transformed or used directly in any industrial or commercial systems. They will serve as a basis for future (post-project), similar activities that were planned in the activity scenario aimed at putting the project’s results into business use.
As a result of project activities, the MSI system was developed in JEE5, using a 3-layer architecture. The system is accessed via a Web browser using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) – a standard for secure communication between the user and an online Web server.
MSI components:
- An integration platform that serves as middleware between separate medical systems developed by ABG
- eRegistration
- Hospital clinic
- An application for MobiLek – a mobile device
The integration platform offers the following functionalities:
- Service registration
- Routing
- Transformations – simple and complex transformations (re-coding as extensible activities)
- Communication – point-point connections
- Operation monitoring – status monitoring, operation logging
eRegistration is a system that uses the integration platform’s solutions. Therefore, it will be able to cooperate with any medical system. The module facilitates access to medical services for health care institution that use services of external organizations, such as medical diagnostics or patient data management. The prototype version of the eRegistration portal covers three functional areas:
- CONTRACTOR SUPPORT
- PATIENT CARE
- CONFIGURATION
The prototype system for supporting patient check-in at the hospital clinic’s reception desk has been designed for use together with the Hipokrates system. In the future, it is also planned to enable its integration with other medical systems offered by ABG.  “Model solution of an IT vertical patient card, based on experience of Polish psychiatric institutions” No. WKP 1/1.4.1/1/2006/53/53/578/2006/U
under the “Sectoral Operational Programme – Improvement of the competitiveness of enterprises”
Measure 1.4: Strengthening of co-operation between the R&D sphere and the economy, submeasure: 1.4.1
The aim of the project is to strengthen the potential of medical services sectors by creating a knowledge database based on IT mapping of patient care events, and then distributing the results to relevant sector supervision authorities.
Project activities are compliant with EU guidelines “Community framework for state aid for research and development,” and are aimed at acquiring new knowledge that may be used in developing new solutions, processes and services.
Project timeline: January 01, 2007 – May 31, 2008
Total project spending: PLN 6,260,888.89
Amount of qualified expenditures: PLN 5,790,888.89
Amount of industrial research aid: PLN 2,550,533.33
Amount of pre-competitive research aid: PLN 539,000.00
- Asseco Poland SA – current Beneficiary of the Agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Originally, the Agreement with the Ministry has been concluded by SPIN SA. It was then continued by ABG SA, as the legal successor of SPIN SA, and, since October 1, 2008, by Asseco Poland SA, as the legal successor of ABG SA
- Consortium of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, and Impulsy Sp. z o.o. – subcontractor responsible for research activities
- Instytut Innowacji i Społeczeństwa Informacyjnego Sp. z o.o. – subcontractor responsible for research activities and supporting reporting and settlements required by the Ministry
- S-Project – co-operation on application preparation. Initially, the company was to be responsible for reporting and settlements required by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. However, this task has been taken over by Instytut Innowacji i Społeczeństwa Informacyjnego Sp. z o.o.
Industrial research
Industrial research was aimed at explaining, whether the theoretical solution designed for the project is feasible in technical and economical terms.
During the research, a model of an organizational and technical solution for mapping customer care events, and distributing metadata and collective data to supervision authorities was developed.
Pre-competitive research
Pre-competitive research was aimed at creating a prototype, the first demonstration project and a pilot project that will not be transformed or used directly in any industrial or commercial project.
The model prototype of the organizational and technical solution was tested in a laboratory provided by the Testing Environment. The tests were aimed at evaluating the ability to apply the prototype in practice (acceptance tests).
As a result of the PKP project (Polish: Psychiatryczna Karta Pacjenta – Psychiatric Patient Card), a prototype IT system has been created. The system supports the creation and transfer of legally required documentation at specific reporting institutions. The scope of the system includes:
- support for unit reports MZ-15, MZ-19 and MZ-30
- support for collective breakdowns MZ-15, MZ-19 and MZ-30
- support for collective reports MZ-15, MZ-19 and MZ-30
- support for the psychiatric statistical card (MZ-Szp11b)
- PKP system management
The PKP system supports the process of creating and transferring documentation with:
- automated information flow between the units
- automated creation of collective breakdowns and reports
- validation of registered data already at the level of the reporting institution
- fast and easy access to data from any location (including support for multi-level access rights)
- data archiving
 “Development and deployment of a system supporting the process of selling banking products and services at franchise networks of intermediaries and banking institution agent networks”
No. KB/105/12818/IT-C/U/08
under a project of the Minister of Science and Higher Education “Technology Initiative I”
The project is aimed at developing and deploying a prototype of the Sales Agent system. The Sales Agent system is a concept of an end-to-end Web workflow application for supporting loan applications for retail customers of banks and other financial institutions. The system will be used both at the branches of the project’s sponsor, and at intermediary network franchise branches. It will be ready to interface with external systems used for registering a loan application. By integrating with the bank’s Main System, the system developed under the project is to serve as a module for supporting direct sales.
Project timeline: June 1, 2007 – August 31, 2008
Total project spending: PLN 4,149,058.00
Amount of qualified expenditures: PLN 3,779,889.14
Amount of industrial research aid: PLN 832,487.98
Amount of pre-competitive research aid: PLN 837,343.21
- Asseco Poland SA – Applicant and Beneficiary of the Agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- Rzesz0w University of Technology – subcontractor responsible for research tasks specified in the project support agreement, covering development of the workflow module that is a component of the prototype Sales Agent system, allowing for creating definitions and managing the business process of banking product sales
The project consisted in conducting pre-competitive research covering the following stages associated with specific scopes of work:
- Conducting research associated with developing and ensuring basic functionality of the prototype system in the area of selling cash loans in the bank’s sales network
- Extending the prototype system with the functionality of providing the loan in the form of a debit card, and ensuring cooperating with the card authentication center
- Extending the prototype system with functionalities allowing for distributing a broad range of banking products in an extensive sales network
- Tests of the prototype Sales Agent system
- Creating documentation of the prototype Sales Agent system
Pre-competitive research, conducted by the Rzeszow University of Technology, included developing the workflow module – a component of the Sales Agent system that enables creating definitions and managing the business process of banking product sales. The scope of research conducted by the Rzeszow University of Technology included:
- Analyzing the standards of describing and implementing workflow processes
- Performing a technology and functional analysis of workflow solutions available on the market
- Verifying and choosing an optimum solution for building the workflow module
- Performing analytical works aimed at adapting the selected solutions to the needs of building a prototype workflow module for the Sales Agent system
- Conducting design works, including designing the architecture and functionality of the mechanism used for developing the prototype workflow module for the Sales Agent system
- Conducting design works related to integrating the prototype workflow definition module using the mechanism for developing the workflow process in the prototype Sales Agent system
- Conducting software development works based on the developed design of the prototype workflow module.
- Performing tests of the prototype workflow module for the Sales Agent system
- Creating documentation for the prototype workflow module
The developed prototype of the Sales Agent system was based on a 3-layer J2EE architecture. The workflow system is a Web application launched in a Web browser that does not require installing any additional software on the workstation. It allows for complete integration with the bank’s Main System. It supports direct sales in the branch and partner network of a B&F institution, as well as in the network of intermediaries and agents operating under franchise agreements. The Sales Agent system was developed to provide comprehensive support for the process of selling consumer loans, consolidation loans, mortgage loans and car loans. The system prototype developed as part of the project ensures remote control over the entire sales process, from submission of a loan application at an agent or franchisee, through support for the Approval Center at the bank’s relevant department, to registering an agreement directly in the bank’s Main System online. Prototype system architecture and offered business functionalities:
- System prototype architecture: 3-layer J2EE
- Technologies used: Oracle (database), EJB (business layer), JSF (presentation layer)
- Tool used: Oracle JDeveloper
- The system (Web application) is launched in a Web browser, without the need to install any additional software at the workstation
- The prototype’s layers and modules are clearly separated, making system extension easier (also by the customer himself)
- The prototype provides a number of services that enable attaching brokerage systems
The research on the workflow module (a component of the Sales Agent system), conducted by the Rzeszow University of Technology, allows for creating definitions and managing the implementation of the banking product sales business process. By employing a workflow module, we make modeling of the customer care process and loan approval procedures very flexible, and ensure support for loan applications regardless of the time and place of their submission, using only a workstation with Internet access. The Sales Agent system prototype developed as part of the project allows for introducing a model for providing mobile sales services in the scope of banking product sales, thus decreasing costs related to travel and preparation of traditional hardcopy documents, as well as eliminating location-related restrictions. “Fast data access technology (TSDD)”
No. WKP 1/1.4.1/1/2006/166/166/723/2007/U
under the “Sectoral Operational Programme – Improvement of the competitiveness of enterprises, Measure 1.4: Strengthening of co-operation between the R&D sphere and the economy, submeasure: 1.4.1
The aim of the project is to conduct industrial research, and verify the results in practice by constructing a prototype TSDD (Polish: Technologia szybkiego dostępu do danych – Fast data access technology) – an IT system that will:
- convert source data
- support user communication
- filter the data based on requests sent by the users
Results of the research will be used to create a commercial solution, market it, and then sell and deploy at customers as a TSDD system.
Project timeline: January 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008
Total project spending: PLN 4,443,600.00
Amount of qualified expenditures: PLN 3,813,600.00
Amount of industrial research aid: PLN 419,160.00
Amount of pre-competitive research aid: PLN 1,090,250.00
- Asseco Poland SA – current Beneficiary of the Agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The original Agreement with the Ministry has been executed by Prokom Software SA. On April 2, 2008, Asseco Poland SA became the legal successor of Prokom Software SA
- Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling (ICM) at the University of Warsaw – as the consortium’s science partner
- DAC System – deployment subcontractor
Industrial research
As part of the industrial research, a number of theoretical papers were created. The papers defined the practical solution anticipated for the next project stage that would meet the requirements specified in research assumptions. At this stage, research was aimed at developing and evaluating the system’s model, data structures, architecture and algorithms. A model architecture of a hardware accelerator for some of the system model’s functions was created. Additionally, a model for communication between software and hardware components was prepared. At the end of the industrial research stage, scientific analyses of the TSDD model’s correctness and optimality.
Pre-competitive research
As part of the pre-competitive research, a prototype of TSDD was developed. The prototype was then thoroughly examined and tested. Functional, performance, overload and resilience tests were conducted by the consortium’s scientific partner with regard to both the basic solution, and to the solution using a hardware accelerator.
As a result of the project, a TSDD prototype was created. In line with the Applicant’s assumptions, the prototype included the following functional elements:
- Source data converter (for converting source data to TSDD’s internal format)
- Basic TSDD server (for processing client requests using only software operating on universal CPUs)
- A TSDD server with hardware acceleration (for processing client requests using a hardware accelerator created on the basis of Nvidia graphics adapters used as specialized computation cards)
- A communication server (for converting the data, queuing requests and supporting multiple system connections).
The tests have shown that the functional and performance requirements (number of requests processed per unit of time) specified in the assumptions have been met. “A Virtual Public Services Consultant system for regions based on semantic technology”No. 6 ZR9 2005C/06668
under a Special Purpose Project
co-financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education
The purpose of the project is to build a personalized IT system that would provide public administration services on the regional level using a Virtual Public Services Consultant based on semantic technology.
Project timeline: January 1, 2007 – May 31, 2008
Total project spending: PLN 16,940,000.00
Amount of qualified expenditures: PLN 7,990,000.00
Amount of industrial research aid: PLN 2,550,533.33
Amount of pre-competitive research aid: PLN 539,000.00
- Asseco Poland SA – current Beneficiary of the Agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Originally, the Agreement with the Ministry has been concluded by SPIN SA. It was then continued by ABG SA, as the legal successor of SPIN SA, and, since October 1, 2008, by Asseco Poland SA, as the legal successor of ABG SA
- Asseco Poland SA – main deployment organization for the MSI project
- Instytut Innowacji i Społeczeństwa Informacyjnego Sp. z o.o. – subcontractor responsible for research activities and supporting reporting and settlements required by the Ministry
Industrial and pre-competitive research were focused on building a system based on SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) and using Web services. Individual system components were developed in line with open technical and semantic interoperability standards. The research and development work resulted in creating:
- a set of Polish language ontologies specific for public services
- a set of technical and semantic interoperability standards
- a Virtual Public Services Consultant
- a Semantic Integration Broker
- a common functionality set software (depending on the level of implementation of the government e-PUAP program)
- software for two selected public services
“Development and deployment of an e-learning training service for supporting trainings organized for the employees of a bank with regard to main system operation”
No. WKP 1/1.4.1/1/2006/83/83/638/2007
under the “Sectoral Operational Programme – Improvement
of the competitiveness of enterprises”
Measure 1.4: Strengthening of co-operation between the R&D sphere and the economy, submeasure: 1.4.1
The purpose of the project is to develop and deploy an e-learning training service for supporting trainings organized for the employees of a bank with regard to def2000 main system operation. It is aimed at developing training programs to be delivered via the Internet using a hardware platform of Asseco Business Solutions S.A.’s Data Center.
Project timeline: May 1, 2007 – April 30. 2008
Total project spending: PLN 770,471.93
Amount of qualified expenditures: PLN 690,039.63
Amount of pre-competitive research aid: PLN 172,509.91
- Asseco Poland SA – Applicant and Beneficiary of the Agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- Asseco Business Solutions SA – subcontractor for research specified in the project aid agreement, and main deployment organization
The project included two stages: the preparation stage, and the electronic training development stage.
The preparation stage included:
- analysis of existing training methods used in def2000 operation trainings
- training path map creation
- platform configuration assumptions specification
The training development stage included:
- training assumptions specification
- creation of a prototype training
- training scenario development
- training verification and development
- electron training development
- testing and finalizing the trainings
Each of the developed trainings consists of three modules:
- Demonstration – for demonstrating a specific functionality
- Exercise – allowing the user to practice a specific action
- Testing – for verifying the acquired knowledge
After installing the training environment in the Data Center, the trainings have been made available to end users via the Internet.
The training environment’s installation included:
- training environment configuration
- embedding the trainings on the platform and making the platform available
- creating user accounts
- the users accessing the trainings by logging into the training environment using an encrypted online channel
- verifying the knowledge acquired by the users in the trainings (after the trainings were completed – as part of the pilot project)
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