Experience with Governance for SOA

SOA is like old wine in a new bottle. SOA concepts have been around for quite a long time in the IT industry. But it is only recently that it has gained attention as a way of aligning the business strategy and imperatives of an enterprise with its IT initiatives. What makes an enterprise that embraces SOA need to take governance more seriously is the distributed nature of services across various LOBs. The proliferation of more moving parts (that is, building blocks in the form of services) that need to be maintained by different organizations both within and outside the enterprise makes governance more challenging. This cross-organizational nature of business services and the potential composition of services across organizational boundaries can function properly and efficiently if, and only if, the services are effectively governed for compliance to requirements dictated by a service level agreement (SLA) for factors such as security, reliability, performance, and so on. Identifying, specifying, creating, and then deploying enterprise services thus needs SOA governance through a very strong, efficient body to oversee the entire life cycle of an enterprise's service portfolio.

Tracks: Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) & e-Business Solutions