Contents – June 2008
Section 1: Management Summary 9
1.1 Management Summary 11
Section 2: Business Issues Around SOA Governance 17
2.1 Report Objectives and Structure 19
2.2 Setting the Context for SOA Governance 21
2.3 What Makes SOA Particularly Challenging? 26
2.4 Setting the Bounds for SOA Governance 31
Section 3: Governance in the SOA Planning Phase 35
3.1 Aligning the SOA Deployment with Business Aims 37
3.2 Understanding the Roles Involved in SOA Governance 41
3.3 Putting the Right People in the Right Roles 43
3.4 Building in Incentives for Sharing Resources 45
3.5 Establishing the SOA Centre of Excellence 49
3.6 Governance in Multi-organisational SOA Projects 51
3.7 Implementing a Methodology to Guide the SOA Deployment 54
3.8 Establishing the Technology Requirements for Later Phases 58
Section 4: Governance in the Design and Development Phase 65
4.1 The Aims of Governance in the Design and Development Phase 67
4.2 Establishing a Framework for Interoperability 69
4.3 Ensuring Continuity of Thought Between Participants 72
4.4 A Reference Architecture for Services 75
4.5 Designing for Reuse 79
4.6 Managing the Service Portfolio 83
4.7 Impact on Application Selection 85
4.8 Managing Messages and Transformations 89
4.9 Managing Policies to be Enforced at Runtime 94
4.10 Performance and Availability Considerations 98
4.11 Creating a Testing Strategy 102
Section 5: Governance of the SOA Runtime Environment 105
5.1 The Aims of Governance in the Runtime Environment 107
5.2 Service Discovery 111
5.3 Monitoring and Reporting Across the Extended Environment 115
5.4 Policy Enforcement 120
Section 6: Governance of the Change and Retirement Lifecycle 125
6.1 The Aims of Governance in the Change Lifecycle 127
6.2 Service Change and Retirement 131
6.3 Discovering the Impact of Changes 134
6.4 Testing Changed SOA Artefacts 139
Section 7: Creating a SOA Governance Implementation Plan 143
7.1 Assessing Current Readiness and Maturity 145
7.2 Planning Short-term Organisational Change 148
7.3 Assessing Methodology Requirements 151
7.4 Obtaining Commitment to the Plan 153
Section 8: SOA Governance Case Studies 155
8.1 Case Studies 157
Section 9: Market Analysis 173
9.1 Market Dynamics 175
9.2 Vendor Strategies 179
9.3 Future Direction 181
Section 10: Vendor Profiles 185
Adaptive 187
AmberPoint 188
BEA 190
HP 192
IBM Corporation 194
Layer 7 Technologies 196
LogicLibrary 198
Managed Methods 200
MEGA International 201
Metastorm 203
Oracle 205
Progress Software 207
SOA Software 209
Software AG 210
Troux Technologies 212
Vordel 213
WestGlobal 215
Section 11: Glossary 217