ARES: A Semantic Solution for Business Collaboration

Service industry is a major constituent of developed economies. Providing services is a knowledge-intensive, customer-specific, on-demand business. In the business information systems domain, service-oriented architectures (SOA) and Web services (WS), as an emerging approach to moving services into the computing world, are two of the most discussed topics in the areas related to Internet research. Today, technical questions of distributed computing, service description, composition, architectures and utilisation prevail, particularly, new forms and dimensions of intra- and inter-enterprise integration, coordination and availability of resources. In this paper, we present the ARES platform, a new promising approach developed together with Indra SoftwareLabs, one of the biggest Spanish software technology provider, integrates service-centric applications to provide a solution to the development of value-added tasks to be carried out by different organizations.