SAVOIR: Coordination of Collaboration as a Service

Today’s open Internet protocols and extensible standards give rise to enhanced collaboration. But the scope of collaboration is too complex for any single vendor to be able to provide all the pieces. Rather than basing a collaboration platform on a single application, heterogenous resources arising from multiple sources should be plugged into a shared framework. Thus there is a demand for a collaboration framework that is open, extensible and modular. We introduce such a framework: Service-oriented Architecture for a Virtual Organization’s Infrastructure and Resources (SAVOIR). Built on the concept of Software as a Service (SaaS), SAVOIR provides Coordination of Collaboration as a Service(CCaaS) that supports interaction of resources from different suppliers as well as scheduling and provisioning them; thus it provides a single entry point to coordinate participants and resources into collaborative sessions. Author