In recent years, the global market has seen a tremendous rise in utility computing, which serves as the back-end for practically any new technology, methodology or advancement from healthcare to aerospace. As part of that market, however, many trends, such  as Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things (IoT), promise to push the resources of the EU off the rails if these trends’ requirements are not properly managed and supported by needed specific ICT software technology.

SODALITE vision is to support Digital Transformation of European Industry through increasing design and runtime effectiveness of software-defined infrastructures, to ensure high-performance execution over dynamic heterogeneous execution environments; increasing simplicity of modelling applications and infrastructures, to improve manageability, collaboration, and time to market. This  is achieved by providing application developers and infrastructure operators with tools that abstract their application and infrastructure requirements to  enable simpler and faster development, deployment, operation, and execution of heterogeneous applications reflecting diverse circumstances over heterogeneous, software-defined, high-performance, cloud infrastructures, with a particular focus on performance, quality, manageability, and reliability.