Saturday, July 21, 2007

SOA Governance

I'm trying to research to understand what SOA governance is. Everyone writes about it as if everyone else already understands what it is. So I went to a vendor to try to understand.

At first glance, the word governance speaks to rules and control. Some of the writing I've seen led me to believe that in the SOA world, it wasn't rules and control from a human perspective, but from some type of technology implementation.

The more I read though, I learn that it is a mix of both. I can't seem to find anything definitive on what technology tools there are or what they do, but there is more indication of the human side of the governance process.

Yes, it appears someone has to set some standards, make appropriate decisions about what to implement and what not to implement. But there may be ways to monitor and/or control how it it is implemented on a network.

I guess I'll keep reading.

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/solutions/soa/gov/

3 comments:

EMIS17 Andy said...

Yes standards are good; no rules no governance. BTW, nice pic.

Chipperkee said...

Good Article - IBM is spending lots of money to understand SOA. Great Pic! You need to take a before and after shot.

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