The Open Service Compendium. Business-pertinent Cloud Service Discovery, Assessment, and Selection
It addresses challenges in cloud service selection for companies, but appears incremental compared to existing works.
The paper tackles the problem of cloud service discovery, assessment, and selection for businesses by presenting the Open Service Compendium (OSC), an information system that offers a dynamic service description language, business-pertinent vocabularies, and matchmaking functionality, resulting in a more practical and usable approach.
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.