IBM has launched research consortium in collaboration with the European Union, industry and academia, which it aims to enable businesses take advantage of Internet-based services – or ‘e-services’ to create collaborative business operations and achieve shared business goals. The consortium will undertake research that could lead to the development of new computer science models that bring together managed Internet-based services from diverse hardware and software environments in a flexible cloud environment, IBM said in a statement.
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Using new and existing open-source software, the ACSI (Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation) project will try to solve problems that businesses face in streamlining the use of separately managed e-services into a centrally managed platform. The ACSI project will focus on “the development of a new computer science model that will enable organizations to greatly accelerate the typically time-intensive processes” that bogs down coordination of cloud services, IBM said.
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Dr Fabiana Fournier, consortium leader and scientist at IBM Research, said: “Up until now, organisations have had to invest significant time and money in conventional, mostly manual blending and customising efforts to enable their e-business service operations to communicate and work collaboratively. “ACSI represents a new combination of computer science principles that are designed to enable businesses to retain a laser focus on operations and goals as they achieve new efficiencies in blending and interleaving e-services.”
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