Patent ID: 7778888

Claim:
A method for dynamically and automatically setting up offerings for IT services by a service provider, said method comprising the steps of: identifying, at a server of the service provider, resource types that are part of the service provider's resource infrastructure, wherein each IT service to be offered to a customer is described by a service environment description, wherein each service environment description defines the resource types needed to execute a corresponding service environment, wherein said service environment descriptions as well as descriptions for the resource types available in the service provider's resource infrastructure are included in a resource catalog; creating, at the server, a timetable for each resource that indicates when each resource is available; accessing the timetable for each of the identified resource types to identify resource types sharing a common free time slot with other resource types; automatically comparing the identified resource types sharing a common free time slot to said service environments described in the resource catalog; and creating an offering for at least one of the service environments based on the identified resource types sharing a common free time slot matching the resource types needed to execute the at least one or more of the service environments.