About Us
The SSE platform was born in October 2004, from an ESA General Support Technology Programme (GSTP) project - know as MASS / Multiple Application Support Service System. Due to the interest it has generated, SSE has become an operational system since 2005, known as the “Service Support Environment”.
Today SSE is a neutrally managed, open and distributed platform that streamlines the definition and prototyping of services, offering an exclusive opportunity to integrate a wide range of heterogeneous EO and geospatial information services , including product catalogues.
The SSE environment is an advanced test-bed that supports service prototyping and demonstration processes, allowing the design of automatically executed workflows, with a valuable decrease of the overall development effort.In this way SSE streamlines both the time to get the EO data and that to deliver the service to the end-user.
SSE works to:
- Orchestrate synchronous and asynchronous Web Services for online and offline processes
- Provide an overarching infrastructure, neutrally managed by ESA
- Integrate the access to EO data within service prototyping and delivery
- Empower service providers through a business process management platform
- Minimize service providers’ upfront investments and development risk
- Allow the use of Open standards to facilitate adoption and evolution
- Facilitate the integration of satellite data and geospatial information within the processing and exploitation chains
SSE offers a service directory giving access to a continuously expanding set of basic and more complex Earth observation and GIS services, at demonstration or operational level. Some services are free of charge while other need a quotation. To access the full set of available services, you should Register as SSE portal user.
SSE aims at building a real community of people who want to reach the excellence in their work:
- Developers to experiment fast prototyping and service design processes automating the task execution, work with the best technologies and standards, find mutual support for most development problems, improve skills by sharing ideas with other professionals.
- Service Managers to speed up service delivery to the end-user, leverage the investments in IT and find new business opportunities.
- Service Designer to create new services by integrating a wide range of heterogeneous EO and Geospatial information services, including product catalogues, innovate the EO field by sharing ideas and skills with its best professionals.
To reach this goal SSE has designed and implemented the "JOIN&SHARE" initiative , a web area that includes a list of community tools like forums, wiki, and blog.
