While governance is a necessity for any IT endeavor, the open and potentially chaotic nature of SOA makes governance either a showstopper or a magic bullet for success, depending on how it's approached. This article will look at SOA governance from both a technological and business perspective, highlighting the need for a complete governance model - a closed loop that spans design time to runtime, policy definition, enforcement, and audit.
The Goal: Business Optimization through SOA
Encounters with today's endless discussions about Service Oriented Architecture bring to mind the old Hollywood phrase, "Cut to the chase." Forget the endless ruminations on containers, service buses, standards, and IDEs. What are we really talking about when we get granular with Web Services and their attendant minutia? We're talking about money.
