The Key to SOA Governance: Understanding the Essence of Business
The true benefits of an SOA are achieved when top-down business goals meet bottom-up IT development, with an SOA governance and management solution, such as an SOA registry-repository, that seamlessly joins the two. The start of any SOA initiative should be better collaboration and communication between business and IT on objectives, processes, implementation plans, and optimization. This whitepaper focuses on Fujitsu's approach to distilling the "essence" of a business into business services that can then be used and governed using a SOA Governance and Management solution.
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SOA Governance and CentraSite: Ensuring SOA success with effective, automated control throughout the lifecycle
Technology should always be an enabler, not an inhibitor, of achieving business goals. The inability of inflexible, tightly coupled legacy systems to respond quickly and effectively to business needs is a key reason companies have invested in flexible, loosely coupled SOA. But without proper control, the flexibility of SOA can devolve into chaos. By definition, SOA brings a dramatic increase in the number of interdependent moving parts in the systems environment. In turn, an increase in the number of parts is accompanied by an exponential growth in the number and complexity of interdependencies.
This white paper looks at the fundamentals of SOA Governance, the different lifecycle stages a service goes through, and the importance of aspects such as policy-enforcement points. It also suggests criteria you should follow when evaluating an SOA registry/repository.
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Your Guide to SOA Success
This high-level white paper, created by the SOA Competency Center, gives you insights into key considerations that can help you successfully launch an SOA. Use this guide to understand best practices that can get your organization off to the right start.
More and more organizations are turning to a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to increase productivity, enhance operational efficiency and agility, and align their IT infrastructures with business strategies. To help enterprises take advantage of these significant benefits, Software AG has created a unique SOA Competency Center - an organization with dedicated and extensive SOA expertise. The SOA Competency Center exists solely to help organizations:
- Understand the value of SOA in their unique environments
- Develop and implement an SOA strategy
- Measure the benefits of SOA based on business objectives
- What is a Service-Oriented Architecture?
- Building an SOA Roadmap
- Software AG's Approach to Implementing SOA
Real-World SOA: Definition, Implementation and Use of SOA with CentraSite™
This paper provides an overview of SOA, describing basics of web services and how to approach an SOA project. Key SOA technology is described including tools to build those services, repositories and governance policies to manage those services, and registries to advertise them for discovery. The paper concludes with three sample case studies and common scenarios where SOA can be used to solve some of today's common issues, and how CentraSite™ is a powerful enabler for delivering SOA solutions.
Rule your SOA
Could your SOA Governance strategy be described as incidental, accidental, or even non-existent? And, if so, should you care?
This whitepaper underscores the fact that SOA Governance is no side issue - but rather the key factor to overall SOA and business success! Effective SOA Governance supports your IT organization, aligns business and IT, and provides the foundation for compliance management. Business benefits from your SOA initiative can be monitored and optimized, providing you with traceable business goals and the appropriate service implementations and operations. A well-founded and executed SOA Governance avoids the "chaotic growth" of an enterprise's SOA and allows an organization to supervise and manage the entire SOA lifecycle.
Snapshots from SOA Governance
This white paper is part of a collection of documents about SOA Governance provided by Software AG and the CentraSite™ Community. Here we develop several use cases using the general discussion in SOA Governance: Rule your SOA as a foundation, going into more detail about the benefits to be realized with a Registry/Repository such as CentraSite, the role SOA Governance has on SOA artifacts and how people connect during the process of implementing SOA Governance.
The CentraSite Community: A Holistic Approach to SOA Governance
This white paper created by leading SOA analyst ZapThink explores the role of the CentraSite Community and its open standards approach, which helps fast track integration with complementary technologies. It recognises that there is no such thing as SOA Governance in a box, and that the extensible nature of SOA requires a similarly extensible strategy for Governance. Examples of Community partners and how they complement CentraSite are included.