NEANIAS is delivering innovative services including cross-cutting thematic and interdisciplinary core ones in three major sectors: Underwater research, Atmospheric research and Space research. However, NEANIAS is not only aiming to address the needs of the specific sectors but also to enable cross-sectoral collaboration as well as the engagement of both the scientific and professional communities unlocking a number of opportunities in the new EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) era.
Thus, NEANIAS will address the fragmentation of current eScience as well as research technologies and infrastructures ecosystem by enabling access to EOSC hub ecosystem including numerous useful resources, collaboration instruments and interdisciplinary research means.
The services of NEANIAS started at a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 6 and are expected to reach TRL8 where the system is complete and qualified. Hence, NEANIAS is being prepared for the successful exploitation of the developed services. The main goal of this effort is to understand the main drivers that will affect their market adoption and evolution. For this purpose, a market analysis was initially performed by analyzing the market dynamics, key players and trends in an effort to place the diverse NEANIAS services to the appropriate markets in business terms. Based on the characteristics of the developed services, cloud computing, earth observation, SaaS and green sustainability markets were considered more relevant.
One major trend that is observed is the gradual migration of technical operations to the cloud, which can prove a positive influence towards scientific and industrial services. Considerably alleviating the difficulties that follow the need to setup advanced infrastructural components, services now should be available over the cloud in order to compete. Ease of access and use are very important to the end user, especially when the biggest cloud providers already provide resources very cost effectively. This trend is also aligned with the effort of the European Commission to promote cooperative cloud-oriented projects that aim to bring stakeholders closer together, innovating and disseminating, producing value that benefits the entirety of the European population. This trend is confirmed by the constantly increasing use of cloud computing globally and in Europe in particular. The European cloud computing market is expected to show significant progress following the rapid expansion of cloud services in the region along with the increasing prevalence of cloud computing platforms.