“…SOA governance is about managing business services. Services to customers, services to internal business operations, services to other business partners. Furthermore, in a service oriented enterprise, everything the enterprise does should be characterized as a service. A business service will typically involve other services directly or indirectly, to maintain its capability and deliver its results. This is where the real value of SOA is, and it is the business value of SOA that should be the focus of SOA governance.”

Resource: SOA Governance Is Not IT Governance Reborn

Source: Fred Cummins, EDS

SOA Governance Resource Guide Section: SOA Governance – What is it?

Posted: November 13th, 2009

“[SOA Governance] might be the most underestimated piece of the entire SOA financial model. Implementing SOA Governance is a project within itself. It requires dedicated staff, training, and tools for enforcement. Don’t cut expenses here. Invest in governance because the success of your SOA implementation for years to come is heavily dependent on your ability to enforce policies and best practices. Buy a repository. Don’t try to manage this manually or you will drown.”

Source: Mike Kavis

SOA Governance Resource Guide Section: SOA Governance Quotes by Users

Posted: November 12th, 2009

“When the times are tough, the first thing most companies do is slash budgets. IT budget gets reduced just like everyone else’s. The focus shifts from the strategic initiatives to simply keeping the lights on and completing projects as quickly as possible. Enterprise Architecture efforts are usually the first ones to be eliminated or significantly reduced. Point solutions become the norm resulting in duplication of software, hardware, and overall efforts. Smokestack applications rise up from the ashes of the Enterprise Architecture… Governance becomes unenforceable and largely forgotten.”

Link to Resource: EA & SOA in Down Economy

Source: Leo Shuster, National City Bank

SOA Governance Resource Guide Section: SOA Governance Quotes by Users

Posted: November 11th, 2009

An interesting and useful look into the use of people, policies, and processes to create the behavioral change necessary for SOA adoption – all in context of SOA Governance. Covers key SOA Governance-specific organizational issues and best practices. From the Resource: “Proper articulation of the correct behavior between both the technical components of these services and their consumers and the human teams responsible for the definition, creation, and operation of them is what SOA governance is all about.”

Link to Resource: Implementing SOA Governance

Source: Todd Biske, Fortune 500 Enterprise Architect

SOA Governance Resource Guide Section: SOA Governance Organizational Impact

Posted: November 10th, 2009

As part of a presentation showing how SOA Governance relates and adds value to identity and access management, the author opines on why SOA Governance is relevant:
1) Software audits as legal requirements,
2) Managing risks – business processes are at the core of risks,
3) Reducing the costs of software development (avoiding unnecessary costs as part of governance), and
4) In general – not only business processes, but secure business processes.” (See slide 14)

Link to Resource: IAM – GRC – SOA

Source: Martin Kuppinger, Kuppinger Cole

SOA Governance Resource Guide Section: SOA Governance Benefits

Posted: November 2nd, 2009

Best practices to enforce SOA Architecture Governance:
1) Define SOA reference architecture
2) Identify the infrastructure capabilities it will have
3) Evaluate and identify vendor technologies that the SOA architecture will be built with
4) Specify management, security, reliability and availability characteristics for the SOA infrastructure.

Link to Resource: Why SOA Needs a Governance Framework

Source: Igor Khurgin, Saurabh Verma, ITWorldCanada

SOA Governance Resource Guide Section: SOA Governance Best Practices

Posted: October 29th, 2009

A solid look into how to get SOA Governance right, including:
1) Governance is a human-oriented program
2) Governance infrastructure supports the program
3) Governance must be part of the normal process
4) Governance must address the entire service lifecycle, and
5) Governance should be helpful and automatic.

Get ready for 44 slides of Governance goodness.

Source: You Can’t Buy Governance

Author: Anne Thomas Manes, Burton Group

SOA Governance Resource Guide Section: SOA Governance Best Practices

Posted: October 28th, 2009

A detailed look at Telecom Italia’s adoption of SOA, including the role played by SOA Governance. Full of diagrams and rich content, this Resource also highlights the importance of design-time and runtime SOA Governance. From the Resource: “Flexible Governance (authoritative vs. authoritarian): SOA is a strategic, multi-year initiative, interfering with the in-place software projects driven by time-to-market and tactical nature.”

Link to Resource: SOA Meets Telecommunications: The Telecom Italia E-SOA Framework

Source: Telecom Italia

SOA Governance Resource Guide Section: SOA Governance User Implementations and Success Stories

Posted: October 28th, 2009

The first SOA Governance Solution Profile is now available. These profiles help people learn more about SOA Governance solutions, going beyond the information available at vendors’ Website to help users, evaluators, implementers, partners, researchers, journalists, and others gain important insights into leading SOA Governance solutions.

The Profile home page is available at: http://www.soagovsource.com/soa-goverance-solution-profiles.html

The first Profile is available at: http://www.soagovsource.com/software-ag-soa-goverance-profile.html

Learn more about our Solution Profile approach at: http://www.soagovsource.com/software-ag-soa-goverance-about-profile.html

Posted: October 28th, 2009