With power comes responsibility. The promise of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) offers significant opportunity for service reuse and the realization of a fully integrated enterprise. But left unchecked, the flexibility enabled by an SOA will result in a Wild Wild West of enterprise IT. To properly harness the power of SOA while delivering value for the enterprise, certain controls are essential. Incorporating service discovery, service security, service management, and policy governance in a ubiquitous and transparent framework is essential to the success of any enterprise SOA deployment.
With power comes responsibility. The SOA computing model offers tremendous promise to integrate the enterprise and enable reuse. But with this power comes the responsibility for its proper use. If an organization doesn't exercise sufficient control over the flexibility enabled by SOA principles, chaos will ensue.
