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(n.) Traditional client-server applications, grid applications or multitier web services. In a general sense, services are applications that fulfill a discrete business function. A service is a set of actions that satisfies a request. Examples could include an e-banking service, an ERP service, a CRM service, an online bookstore, or a weather simulation service. They can also include an operating system service when a customer wants to install and manage their own applications and services on a remotely managed server.
The term service is also used in a more abstract sense in describing something that undertakes some work on behalf of a client. In this case, the nature of the service is made clear within the text (for example, a database ...
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