  Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering in the near forward kinematic region is the
golden access to Generalized Parton Distributions. We studied the O(alphaS)
corrections to the scattering amplitude for both spacelike and timelike
kinematics relevant respectively to the leptoproduction of a real photon and to
the photoproduction of a lepton pair. It turns out that these corrections are
phenomenologically important and that the gluonic contributions are by no means
negligible, even in the moderate energy range of JLab12 and of the COMPASS-II
experiment at CERN.
