Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) helps businesses respond more quickly and cost effectively to changing market conditions. It is a business-driven software architecture that allows you to share and reuse services within your company and with strategic partners.
Going a step further, enterprise SOA governance is an all-encompassing application framework that acts as a force multiplier. This is particularly relevant in a scenario of inorganic growth where multiple legacy systems need to be quickly pulled together and orchestrated to grow further.
The term 'enterprise SOA governance' refers to the processes, policies and associated control mechanism a company establishes in order to steer the adoption, implementation and evolution of SOA in line with business needs. These governance principles provide SOA initiatives with structure and control, resulting in the reusability of enterprise services.
