The Open Service Compendium. Business-pertinent Cloud Service Discovery, Assessment, and Selection

TL;DR

The paper introduces the Open Service Compendium, a practical information system that aids businesses in discovering, assessing, and selecting cloud services through a dynamic description language and matchmaking features.

Contribution

It presents a novel, user-friendly system with a simple description language and matchmaking, improving practical cloud service selection compared to existing approaches.

Findings

Supports business-oriented cloud service discovery and assessment

Offers a dynamic, simple service description language

Provides matchmaking functionality for better service selection

Abstract

When trying to discover, assess, and select cloud services, companies face many challenges, such as fast-moving markets, vast numbers of offerings, and highly ambiguous selection criteria. This publication presents the Open Service Compendium (OSC), an information system which supports businesses in their discovery, assessment and cloud service selection by offering a simple dynamic service description language, business-pertinent vocabularies, as well as matchmaking functionality. It contributes to the state of the art by offering a more practical, mature, simple, and usable approach than related works.