Business service providers (BSPs) are companies that offer state-of-the-art business applications over the Web. These are Application service providers where applications are built as service-based applications. A service-based application is composed of a number of possibly independent services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA), which perform the desired functionalities of the architecture . BPS are delivered as Web services , designed with modern security, management, and identity standards to facilitate the plug-and-play integration of these services with other BSP services or with internal corporate Web services. The integration platform for BSP services within a company is the enterprise service bus, a standardized communication platform built on top of service-to-service messaging.

A Business Service Provider can also provide a combination of web-based software with the additional support of outsourced human administrative services.

1. ^ S-Cube Knowledge Model: Service-Based Applications
2. ^ S-Cube Knowledge Model: Enterprise Service Bus