SOA Operations Excellence with Progress

To keep an SOA up and running smoothly and meet service-level agreements (SLAs), IT organizations must be able to monitor service interactions, understand dependencies, and quickly pinpoint the root causes of performance bottlenecks or failures…

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Why Runtime Governance is Critcal for SOA: A SOA Primer

With SOA services now in production within many organizations, system architects are realizing that the most critical control and governance issues take place in runtime. This SOA primer explains the details of Actional’s comprehensive Web services governance solution. Read this free white paper and understand the various kinds of Web services management, their importance, and how to get started with what you need now.

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The current state of SOA Governance

As organizations begin to adopt service-oriented architectures (SOA), the topic of SOA governance — the articulation and enforcement of policies related to Web-service lifecycles, implementation protocols, service access, information protection and…

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Planning for an SOA Optimized Application lifecycle

This report examines the effectiveness of IT investments in three areas of a SOA: operations management; design and operations governance and underlying changes in project management, development, testing and application lifecycle management tools.

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Defining SOA Governance

Considering that there are really two flavors emerging for SOA Governance: Design time and runtime. It’s important to understand the differences, and that you may indeed need two SOA governance products, at the end of the day

Rethinking SOA Governance

Rethinking SOA governance comes down to understanding and addressing two primary and complementary factors: cost and profit. This article presents a discussion on recognizing the incentives for organizations to undertake an effective SOA governance model through a pragmatic approach of addressing cost and profit.

Governance, the key to SOA success

Few would argue that SOA is inevitable and has become a strategic imperative for organizations today. Those without a strategy for SOA risk being outpaced and outperformed by competitors who are better equipped to serve customers, seize opportunities and respond to change.

SOA Governance and Service Lifecycle Management

SOA governance is an extension of IT governance that focuses on the lifecycle of services and composite applications in an organization’s service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Making SOA Governable

What advantage does governance provide to SOA, besides acting as a central clearinghouse for vetting services? For one, governance boards or centers of excellence assure that projects are put into motion based on their merit to the organization, versus individual political agendas. This helps keep SOA decisions above the political fray.