SNAP: An End User Service Composition Tool Based on Recommendations

SNAP is a research prototype developed by Orange Labs that aims to improve users´ web experience by making possible for them to combine and chain in a straightforward way various useful web services. The composition and execution system is based on service recommendations delivered step by step, starting from web pages. The target users are non skilled people in professional sphere or in ordinary day´s-life. This demonstration will show a concrete exploitation of SOA applied to the plethora of web services and APIs that service providers are nowadays publishing. It also illustrates how intelligent a system need to be to make potentially complex processes look very simple to end users.