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Published on: October 2006
Type of content: WHITE PAPER
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) (136 kb)
Length: 8 pages
Price: FREE

Overview:
For most organizations, the major challenge of service-oriented architecture governance will be sharing reusable services across business units. However, methodologies and technologies must mature before IT organizations can successfully perform SOA governance.

What You Need to Know

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is about more than just services – it’s about the various artifacts and assets that relate to and affect a service or set of services. Each of these artifacts and assets are in various stages of their life cycles, including development, deployment, usage and governance. They must all be equally governed. SOA project owners should be discouraged from organizing around the traditional concepts of feature implementation, design-time and runtime. Similarly, they should refrain from buying governing technologies that are “limited” to design-time or runtime distinctions, and instead purchase governing technologies that enable them to direct an SOA’s multiple life cycles.

This whitepaper examines Gartner's three linked requirements for effective SOA governance: SOA testing and validation, SOA Registry-Repository and SOA policy management; and purchase recommendations for governance technologies that address SOA's multiple life cycles.