System and method for relating applications in a computing system

A system for relating application in a computing system, comprising:

• a discovery engine operable to generate a plurality of ontologies associated with the applications, each ontology comprising one or more ontology elements representing one or more application components chosen from a list consisting of:
• application services and parameters for associated application services;
• an ARC backend operable to generate a meta-ontology associated with the plurality of ontologies, the meta-ontology comprising one or more meta-ontology elements representing one or more relationships between at least some of the ontology elements;
• and
• a repository operable to store the ontologies and the meta-ontologies.

A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium and operable to be executed by a processor, the computer program comprising computer readable program code for:

• generating a plurality of ontologies associated with a plurality of applications in a computing system, each ontology comprising one or more ontology elements representing one or more application components chosen from a list consisting of:
• application services and parameters for associated application services;
• and
• generating a meta-ontology associated with the plurality of ontologies, the meta-ontology comprising one or more meta-ontology elements representing one or more relationships between at least some of the ontology elements.