Agora Resource Portfolio Management Tool

Resource portfolio management tool.


AGORA is a tool for managing a “service portfolio”. It is addressed to the management board of an organization, to oversee all services, tools and products that it either uses internally or provides to its customers. Interrelationships of services and possible external dependencies are also described. The tool automatically generates a list of services available to customers.

AGORA operates under an umbrella organization whose members are various academic institutions, as is the case with the European project EOSC-HUB. Its users are representatives of Institutions that record through this tool the services they have developed and provide. The tool supports the detailed recording of a service, including a) its available versions, b) the level of maturity, and c) user support. It also supports the recording of so-called service components. The architecture of the tool is based on the FitSM protocol and implements the service description template (Service Description Template SDT v1.1) as jointly agreed by EGI, EUDAT & eInfracentral.

Institutions are listed as service providers by the tool administrator. Ordinary users are then registered in the system and identified using the federal AAI and SAML. The administrator undertakes their assignment with the institutions – services. Then a user can register a service on behalf of his institution. From the logs in the tool emerges a list of available services, which is posted on the page of the umbrella operator. This list is aimed at researchers looking for available services.

Resource organization

Resource providers

ON-BOARDED 
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National Infrastructures for Research and Technology

7 Kifisias ave., 11523 Athens, Greece (EL)

ON-BOARDED 
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National Infrastructures for Research and Technology

7 Kifisias ave., 11523 Athens, Greece (EL)

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ON-BOARDED 

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Website

https://agora.ni4os.eu/

Readiness

TRL8

Domain

Generic Engineering & Technology Other

Subdomain

Electrical, Electronic & Information Engineering Other

Category

Data Operations & Infrastructure Management Services Data Analysis Data Management Development Resources

Subcategory

Coordination Tools Data Archives Statistical Data Utilities Online Service Data

Target users

Research Groups Resource Provider Managers Research Managers Policy Makers Research Projects Providers Research Infrastructure Managers Resource Managers Research Organisations Research Communities

Access type

Virtual

Access mode

Free Conditionally Other

Tags

agora catalog resource provider portfolio management catalogue

Contact

Agora Team, Development
email: agora@grnet.gr
phone: +302107474274

Helpdesk e-mail

agora@grnet.gr

Security contact e-mail

agora@grnet.gr

The NI4OS-Europe project is funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 European research infrastructures grant agreement no. 857645.