Thursday, December 6, 2007

Phased Approach to SOA Governance

Establish a Need:

define appropriate policies and methods for enforcing them
establish governance frameworks
create centers of excellence (collect best practices)
develop operational procedures
Begin evaluating SOA management tools – Open Source options are available
Deploy management solutions incrementally
Monitor and manage the services and processes on an on-going basis


SOA Governance Players


SOA vendors have shown increasing focus on providing more effective SOA management and governance solutions as the market matures:

eSigma – Open Source SOA Registry
Mercury's Systinet – SOA governance
BEA's Flashline – SOA governance
Progress Software's Actional – SOA governance
webMethods' Infravio – SOA governance
SOA Software's Blue Titan – SOA governance
IBM's Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA - allows organizations to monitor and adjust resources for SOA applications
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