Project stories

Here you can find several real-world scenarios in which FAST Project will be solve common present problems.

User Centered (Digital Administration)

In the context of Digital Administration, citizens expect to easily locate and manage most of their administrative procedures –like tax payments, tax declarations or administration issues– by themselves, thanks to government Web portals and services. However, most transactions and tasks demand recurrent browsing, searching and discovering through a variety of websites and services allocated in disparate government portals. These tasks imply the performance of an implicit process flow. All this disparate information and functionalities would be more useful and valuable if they were presented together in a unique mashup-based interface. However, the achievement of these goals would require dynamic mashup-based user interfaces made up of a number of screens and support for the underlying process flow, which is a tough task with no help of specifically tailored visual development environments suitable for modelling such a powerful mashup and for deploying it on current mashup platforms.

By overcoming all these constraints, FAST will provide current and future mashup platforms with more powerful gadgets, so that they can allow people to agilely interact with administration, thus considerably simplifying their daily lives.

Enterprise Centered (Operational Support Systems)

In the context of Operational Support Systems (OSS), a failure supervisor usually collects and interacts with several information sources about possible failures, according to a pre-made business process. All this disparate information is more useful and valuable when presented together in a unique web portal supporting the underlying business process workflow.

In addition, the achievement of certain supervisor’s tasks closely related to a business process workflow often requires dynamic user interfaces made up of a number of screens. Each of them only makes sense in a concrete state of that workflow. Modeling these screens through a simple mash-up composition (involving a unique and static interface) would lead to poorly fitted dashboards with respect to her needs.

Creating this mash-up oriented solution represents a tough task. On the one hand, current gadgets do not face every complex requirement of a business process workflow. These are commonly supported by back-end business web-services. On the other hand, they are not capable of modeling a powerful screen-flow user interface.

FAST aims at facing these shortcomings by providing software developers with an environment to create complex gadgets that address workflow’s requirements from the functional perspective of the user.