March 10, 2010

SOA Governance - What is it?

Concise, high-value definitions of SOA Governance by expert users, analysts, implementers and journalists. A great starting point to learn about SOA Governance, including functional and technical definitions and perspectives.


SOA Governance: Necessary Protection for a Strategic Business Investment
"Governance, broadly speaking, is a formal management discipline, defining an organization's roles, organizational units and processes, assigning decision rights and determining which policies to follow in making those decisions. IT governance defines the working relationship between business leaders and the IT organization in achieving information technology goals and objectives. SOA governance is an application of IT governance specifically focused on the lifecycle of services, metadata and composite applications in an organization's Services-Oriented Architecture. SOA Governance requires both a services development and runtime perspective and provides a framework for managing services as an IT asset."
Saugatuck Technology

Make SOA Governance A High Priority
"Governance involves the application of organizational mandates, best practices, and guidelines to IT projects, usually through a set of well-defined review checkpoints (e.g., requirements complete, design complete, predeployment) identified as part of the organization's software development lifecycle. SOA governance gives organizations the ability to track the life of each service from architectural inception, through design and development, and finally into its deployment environment. Effective SOA governance will be the primary way that companies can establish principles for the control of their organizations."
Greg Coticchia, Agile Journal

The Role of SOA Governance
"SOA governance is the set of solutions, policies and practices which enable companies to implement and manage an enterprise SOA."
Samih Fadli, Satyam Computer Service

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