(1) An enrollable item made available through the offerings catalog. These include course offerings, curriculums, learning events, and certificates.
(2) A logical unit of software packaging and sharing that has a managed development and maintenance life cycle and customer visible attributes (offering features, product IDs, licenses, maintenance contracts, and so forth). An offering is a serviceable software asset that is orderable by an IBM customer. It can be a collection of common components, assemblies, and other offerings. See also common component, feature, assembly, serviceable software asset.
(3) A template used to describe one or more services, with guaranteed service levels, which forms the basis for service level agreements (SLAs).