Services Computing has become a cross-discipline that covers the
science
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...
and
technology
Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in medicine, science, ...
of bridging the gap between business services and
IT services
Information technology service management (ITSM) is the activities that are performed by an organization to design, build, deliver, operate and control information technology (IT) services offered to customers.
Differing from more technology-or ...
. The underlying technology suite includes
Web services and
service-oriented architecture
In software engineering, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that focuses on discrete services instead of a monolithic design. By consequence, it is also applied in the field of software design where services are provide ...
(SOA),
cloud computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mul ...
, business consulting methodology and utilities,
business process modeling
Business process modeling (BPM) in business process management and systems engineering is the activity of process modeling, representing processes of an enterprise, so that the current business processes may be analyzed, improved, and automated. B ...
, transformation and integration. This scope of Services Computing covers the whole life-cycle of service provision that includes business componentization, services modeling, services creation, services realization, services annotation, services deployment, services discovery, services composition, services delivery, service-to-service collaboration, services monitoring, services optimization, as well as services management. The goal of Services Computing is to enable IT services and computing technology to perform business services more efficiently and effectively.
References
External links
Technical Committee on Services Computing, IEEE Computer Society (TCSVC)IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES)IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD)IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE)IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH)IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC)IEEE International Conference on Smart Data Services (SMDS)
Computer programming
Service-oriented (business computing)
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