The phrase 'serving as a platform' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe the role of something as a platform for something else. For example, "Cloud computing is serving as a platform for businesses to improve efficiency."
SOCIAL MEDIA AS ITS OWN FRIEND Facebook wants to be your cultural operating system, providing recommendations and serving as a platform for music, movies and news.
There's also Plinth, a new art shop and gallery hybrid that stocks obscure British objets and periodicals while serving as a platform for local creatives.
It would give the I.C.C.'s staff members an opportunity to engage directly with the society for which they are doing their work, while serving as a platform for the international community to help Libya rebuild the rule of law.
Supposedly, what distinguished Web 2.0 from Web 1.0 was user control, and user collaboration, with the network serving as a "platform," but that wasn't really a new idea: Krizelman and Paternot had fastened upon it years earlier, as had the founders of GeoCities and other Web-hosting ventures.
Beyond providing narrative assists and serving as a platform for huge crowd-pleasers like "Dreamgirls," pop music is built on a vast series of rabid, self-defined tribes, who will scoop up any and all products about a given artist or group.
She sits in her own elaborately imagined pavilions — some intimate, some gaudy — each one serving as a platform for art or spectacle and together turning this thick, steaming, argumentative city into a cross between an open-air museum and a sprawling amusement park.
The castle had served as a platform for P.L.O.
The gatherings served as a platform to discuss controversial issues.
The Aegis, they say, might eventually serve as a platform for a regional missile defense.
The Datsun 510 has served as a platform for road racers for decades.
The two companies also hope that their merger will serve as a platform for future deals.
