Service Design Studio (SDS) - the execution environment for the service design studio

Cloud computing, virtualization and Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) enable a synergistic combination of IT and logistics services to use flexible, cost-saving and innovative logistics solutions especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The joint project Service Design Studio (SDS) is a research project of the Leading-Edge Cluster EffizienzCluster LogistikRuhr, contributing to the topic Logistics-as-a-Service. The project has the primary goal to develop a Web-based, cloud-oriented service platform which allows utilizing existing logistics IT services as secure and billable commercial products via cloud solutions and/or softwareas- a-service platforms like, e.g., Amazon Web Services or the Logistics Mall (Fraunhofer Innovation Cluster, 2012). In this article, we present a prototypical execution environment for the SDS as the result of a Proof-of-Concept implementation to demonstrate the feasibility of the approach.