Project · European infrastructure
Simpl
The European Commission’s open-source middleware, to connect data spaces.
The common foundation of European data spaces.
Simpl is the European Commission’s open-source middleware. It provides reusable building blocks to access and exchange data securely across Common European Data Spaces and cloud-to-edge federations.
In short: a vendor-neutral backbone to connect data spaces under shared standards. Identity and trust, catalogues, usage policy enforcement, connectors and monitoring: everyone shares under common rules while keeping their sovereignty.
Simpl in three parts.
- Simpl-Open: the open-source software stack.
- Simpl-Live: deployments in real data spaces.
- Simpl-Labs: a sandbox to test interoperability.
The InfrateX consortium.
The Commission selected two consortia, Sovereign-X and InfrateX, under a multi-year contract estimated at around €150M. Led by Sopra Steria with NTT Data, InfrateX brings together 26 partners from 14 countries: data space technology providers, software vendors, cloud providers, academics, associations, certification bodies and SMEs.
Onecub co-initiated InfrateX with Sopra Steria and the Digital New Deal think tank, and coordinated the technical aspects of the proposal. We provide architecture and feasibility studies, governance patterns and component integration to make Simpl deployable in operational data spaces.
- Sopra Steria
- NTT Data
- Digital New Deal
- PwC
- Innovalia Metrology
- deltaDAO
- Docaposte
- CloudFerro
- Dawex
- OVHcloud
- imec
- Eclipse Dataspace Components
- Cleyrop
Adopting Simpl, step by step.
- Assess.Map Simpl to your current stack and assess feasibility.
- Design.Select components: connectors, identity and trust, policy engine, catalogues.
- Integrate.Plug Simpl into your infrastructure and collaboration tools.
- Go live.Launch a first use case, measure, secure, scale.
- Evolve.Runbooks, monitoring, audits, upgrades in step with releases.
- Architecture and deployment plan
- Rulebook alignment
- Interoperability profile
- Pilot with KPIs
- Handover and training
Onecub’s role.
- Co-initiator of the InfrateX consortium, with Sopra Steria and Digital New Deal.
- Technical coordination of Sopra Steria’s Simpl proposal.
- Architecture and feasibility studies.
- Support for data spaces adopting Simpl, within a sector or across sectors.
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