  When trying to discover, assess, and select cloud services, companies face
many challenges, such as fast-moving markets, vast numbers of offerings, and
highly ambiguous selection criteria. This publication presents the Open Service
Compendium (OSC), an information system which supports businesses in their
discovery, assessment and cloud service selection by offering a simple dynamic
service description language, business-pertinent vocabularies, as well as
matchmaking functionality. It contributes to the state of the art by offering a
more practical, mature, simple, and usable approach than related works.
