A brief look into a midmarket enterprise’s application portfolio and stratety and the role of SOA, highlighting the importance and value of SOA Governance. From the Resource: “Psst. While you’re batting around the general concept of service-oriented architecture (SOA) with the CEO and the CFO, there’s a good chance it’s already working nicely downstairs in the data center using a federation of applications licensed via Software as a Service (Saas).” and “Bringing all these sources of information together, whether they’re from SaaS vendors, mashups, supply chain management applications etc., will be crucial. Ideally, SOA puts into place the governance piece of this, noted Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions LLC, a technology consulting firm in Nashua, N.H. Rule-based policies could meld or separate data sources according to the needs of the business. Making sure those ‘recipes’ for data are useful is vital. But making sure that data streams go to the appropriate users — the governance side of the coin — will also be an important part of the SOA management function.”

Resource: SOA, SaaS Models Pair Up Nicely for Bosley Medical

Source: Sarah Varney, TechTarget

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