Fecha de publicación: 08/10/2015 Fuente: WIPO "apis" The disclosed embodiments include methods and systems for providing information-technology (IT) assets in an open environment. In certain aspects, an IT system may provide an online portal that presents an IT self-serve store of IT assets that a user may select for access or use. The IT system may, for example, determine that the selected IT assets comply with one or more compliance and permissioning policies, and based on the determination, may assemble the selected IT assets to generate or “spin-up” instances of applications executable by various hardware platforms. The IT system may also perform processes that perform automated operations relating to certain IT assets, such as testing, modeling, recommendations, etc.