This service provides a collection of IT tools that Council participants and/or user communities may require to manage their work. This service provide a repository of software provided by the EGI Technology Providers and validated by the EGI Software Provisioning process. The software distributed through the repository follows the quality criteria and the staged-rollout rules defined in the EGI Software Provisioning process. Software Provisioning allows for: Great visibility of the software published and integrated with EGI. Automatic updates of software packages. Reduced overall time needed in package management. Improved reliability of the software passing through the verification chain. Great visibility of the software published and integrated with EGI, reduced overall time needed in package management.