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Using ITIL V3 as a Foundation for SOA Governance

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SOA
Topics
Governance

Those familiar with only ITIL V2 often scoff at the thought that ITIL could serve as a governance framework for SOA. Based on their perspective, they would be correct since V2 focused more heavily on operational processes rather than service lifecycle. With ITIL V3, the focus of the framework shifted toward what can only be accurately described as service-orientation.

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What Is More Important: Run-time or Design-time SOA Governance?

Community
SOA
Topics
Cloud Computing,
Governance

The importance of SOA governance still remains the question of heated debate. The new spin on this is introduced by merging SOA with cloud computing. Several recent posts discuss this issue stressing the importance of governance, but shifting its focus from design-time to run-time

Does Effective SOA Governance Require a Registry and a Repository?

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SOA
Topics
Governance

Everyone agrees that SOA governance is required for a successful SOA implementation. At the same time the question of whether Registry and/or Repository is required for a successful governance implementation is still subject to debate.

Practical Advice for SOA Implementers

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Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Design,
Governance,
Web Services,
ESB,
REST,
Data Access

In his new post, Ganesh Prasad tries to describe the most complex issues of an SOA implementation and provides recommendations on how to solve them.

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mySOA: Agile, Governed and Sustainable

Community
SOA
Topics
Master Data Management,
Governance,
ESB,
SOA Platforms,
Messaging,
Model Driven Engineering

William El Kaim, Lead Architect at Carlson Wagonlit, provides a rare glimpse at all the choices, and the rationale behind them, he and his colleagues have made while building their organization's Service Oriented Architecture. How does your SOA compare? What will be the major evolutions in the next few years? How will the Cloud impact current SOAs?

SOA Governance: Achieving and Sustaining Business and IT Agility

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SOA
Topics
Business Process Management,
Governance

The chapter presented in this article, Governing the Service Factory, of the book "SOA Governance: Achieving and Sustaining Business and IT Agility" offers practical advice on governing such a Service Factory including a case study and guidelines for defining, developing, testing, deploying and operating services and business processes.

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The Agile PMO: Real Time Governance

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Agile
Topics
Agile in the Enterprise,
Governance

The PMO needs to be aware of how well each project is performing at any given time. Agile practices give transparency, with clear reporting of what’s done, its cost, and how well constructed it is. Learn how you can create a real-time governance capability that anticipates challenges, makes timely course corrections, and seizes opportunities to maximize the business impact of IT investments.

Using REST to aid WS-* - building a RESTful SOA Registry

Community
SOA
Topics
REST,
Governance,
Web Services

In this presentation, WSO2 co-founder Paul Fremantle talks about the experience of creating an open source SOA registry solution for WS-* web services using RESTful HTTP and Atom/AtomPub and talks about the challenges that were faced. In addition, the talk addresses the use of a pure REST solution by a team with a strong focus on WS-* solutions.

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Anne Thomas Manes on SOA, Governance and REST

Community
SOA
Topics
REST,
Governance,
Web Services

In this interview, recorded at QCon London, Anne Thomas Manes, research director at Burton Group, talks to Stefan Tilkov about the state of SOA, explains different ways of getting funding for SOA initiatives, the value of SOA governance and governance tools. Another topic covered is the applicability of REST to SOA, the need for a RESTful description language, and REST support in SOAP toolkits.