With service-oriented architectures (SOA) on the rise, IT groups are increasingly discovering that they need to add SOA governance into the mix as a means of controlling what services are deployed and how those services are used.
Without some level of architectural governance in place, organizations can quickly end up producing overlapping and redundant point services that add minimal value to the business as a whole.
Conversely, once a proper level of governance is in place, many enterprises discover that they are finally able to effectively begin aligning their IT assets with high-level business objectives.
