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What Makes a Service Valuable for the Helmholtz Cloud?

Indicators

These indicators demonstrate that your service would be a valuable contribution to the Helmholtz Cloud:

  • Your user base can extend from your own Helmholtz Center to at least one other center and/or research area.
    • Services that meet this requirement can support research at other centers, adding value to the services.
  • The popularity of your service increases by presenting it in public (in the Helmholtz Cloud Portal).
  • The Helmholtz Cloud Portal can showcase an interesting selection of services to specific research communities (e.g., data hub services for the research field Earth & Environment), which may have been unknown to users before (using keywords/tags).
  • Unified access (for services with login) for all Helmholtz Centers (and beyond) is provided through Helmholtz ID.

Not Required

HIFIS does not specify requirements for:

  • The content of the service (what is actually offered) and service levels (e.g., availability, limitations, number of users, etc.).
  • Whether the service is open to all Helmholtz Centers or only to dedicated centers or user groups.
  • The minimum duration for which a service must be provided (the service provider is only obliged to adhere to the minimum provision time indicated during service onboarding).
  • Obligations (if and to what extent) the using center needs to fulfill (e.g., licenses, hardware) to use the service.

Exclusion Criteria

Due to legal and organizational reasons, a service must fulfill specific exclusion criteria to become a Helmholtz Cloud service. These exclusion criteria are defined in the Process Framework and integrated into the Application Form in Plony (login required).

The exclusion criteria are the “hard facts” – services that cannot meet this basis cannot become a Helmholtz Cloud service. There is no further evaluation beyond checking the exclusion criteria. You can find all criteria from the Application Form in the Process Framework, Chapter Onboarding process for new services.

Besides exclusion criteria, there are no further requirements a service needs to fulfill – it is up to the service provider to define the conditions for service usage (e.g., limitation of users, availability, support times).