The main goal of DataBench is to design a benchmarking process helping European organisations developing BDT to reach for excellence and constantly improve their performance, by measuring their technology development activity against parameters of high business relevance. To achieve this goal, the project will pursue the following objectives:

• Provide the BDT stakeholder communities with a comprehensive framework to integrate business and technical benchmarking approaches for BDT.
• Perform economic and market analysis to assess the “European economic significance” of benchmarking tools and performance parameters.
• Evaluate the business impacts of BDT benchmarks of performance parameters of industrial significance.
• Develop a tool applying methodologies to determine optimal BDT benchmarking approaches.
• Evaluation of the DataBench Framework and Toolbox in representative industries, data experimentation/ integration initiatives (ICT-14) and Large-Scale Pilot (ICT-15).
• Liaise closely with the BDVA, ICT-14 and 15 projects to build consensus and to reach out to key industrial communities, to ensure that benchmarking responds to real needs and problems.

DataBench consists of six European partners from both the private and the public sector.
With organizations from four different Member States (Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Spain) and one EFTA country (Norway), the Consortium pulls together a set of strong complementary skills in research, development and innovation, while representing a variety of sectors including industry, research and academia.

This project has received funding from the European Horizon 2020 Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement n° 780966.