ICE

Founded in the late 1990s ICE started as a specialist consultancy assisting partners on commercial, RTD, software development and RDI activity, Its domain is sector generic but is orientated towards the business integration, business partnership, data value, project management and the RDI outsourcing sector.

ICE is an SME providing support and services to leading organisations such as TIE, Vintura, Riverland, EAN International, Offis, the European Standards Institute (CEN), Ascora, and the European Commission. It also providing reseller and support for Foresight and TIE, CMASS, integration products. 

Key ICE personnel have been active in multiple large-scale EU projects, including as coordinator, project manager and WP/Tasks leads; these include SAM, ALFRED, STASIS, NESSI 2010, ARUM, NEXOF-RA, SOA4All and Adventure amongst others.

In addition ICE personnel have been active in multiple voluntary bodies; for example:

• Big Data Value Association  (BDVA) where it is providing resources as Secretary General
• European Interoperability Forum (eBIF)
• The Networked Software and Service Initiative (NESSI) where it has been vice-chair and is currently the SME lead

Several standardisation initiatives in ISO and CEN/ISSS, such as ISO10303-236, eBiz-TCF, funStep, etc.)