Services Computing covers the science and technology that underlie Business Services and bridge the gap between Business Services and IT Services. The core technology suite includes Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services, and business process integration and performance management.
Services Computing has become a strategic area of scientific study at IBM Research. IBM Research has a distinguished history in the science and technology of service-oriented business consulting, modeling, transformation, execution, monitoring and management. Foundational contributions have been made in a number of important areas, including: Web services standards, Web services hub framework, federated Web services discovery, dynamic Web services composition, semantic Web services, business performance management, extended business collaboration, business transformation solutions, component business model and SOA, multi-channel e-commerce architecture, access control and security, and industry solution frameworks. IBM researchers have also been actively working with the worldwide research communities to help define the research directions of Services Computing.
Projects
- Advanced Enterprise Middleware
- Agent Building and Learning Environment
- Asset Locator
- Business Explorer for Web Services (BE4WS)
- Business Rules
- Charting the Web's transition to XML
- Conversation Support for Web Services
- Electronic Music Management System
- Electronic Payments
- Emerging Technologies Toolkit
- Merchandise & Inventory Management
- SysBRIK
- Transactional Attitudes
- Web services outsourcing manager
- Web Services Security
- Websphere Commerce Suite