Service discovery is a fundamental concept underpinning the move towards dynamic service-oriented business partnerships. The technology for integrating service discovery and underlying registries into business relationship management, procurement and project management processes is an essential capability required today.

GRIA's business registry service is part of the Client Management package and supports contextualised service discovery allowing complex queries for resources such as "Find SLAs providing Application X where there are more than 4 hours of CPU time available and the usage of disk space is lower than 500MB". The registry model is extensible permitting it to record and query any service or resource that has metadata written in XML. It supports the dynamic addition of new business contexts and new relationships between these contexts.

A new paper "Contextualised B2B Registries"  is now available describing how GRIA's registry supports B2B procurement processes. The paper is to be presented at the International Conference on Service Oriented Computing 2007.