The SITIO project deals with the problem of the increasing number of Business Processes available as Services on the Web, which gives rise to a new challenging problem: the integration of heterogeneous applications. Semantic Technologies deal with adding machine-understandable and machine-processable metadata to Web resources through its key-enabling technology: ontologies. Ontologies are a formal, explicit and shared specification of a conceptualization. The breakthrough of adding semantics to Business Processes for SaaS leads to an architecture to integrate various Information Systems from the perspective of emerging scenarios which benefit from the use of such technologies.

The aim of SITIO is gathering these emerging concepts (SaaS, Semantic Technologies, Business Process Modelling, Cloud Computing) to foster dramatic evolution of a new platform oriented towards interoperability and cost reduction which can impact significantly in industry. Accordingly, a second aim of the project is to develop a platform for reliable, privacy-aware, secure and cost-efficient Semantics-based Software as a Service Creation, Integration and Management.