SOA Governance

When choosing the right Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform, it's also critical to have the right SOA Governance frameworks in place to ensure you reach your business goals and allow for future growth. Strategic issues faced by organisations commencing SOA include:

• improving connections between IT and business
  
  
• demonstrating that IT is performing at optimal value
  
  
• improved IT risk management
  
  
• demonstrating the value of compliance.
  
  

Left ungoverned, SOA could allow anyone anywhere to deploy a new service at any time, and invoke and orchestrate that service - and thousands of others - into ever more convoluted messaging patterns. In such an environment, coordinated application planning and optimisation becomes extremely difficult.

What we do

At Intelligent Pathways, we place SOA Governance above all else. Our proven governance approach guides you from project initiation through to runtime monitoring and policy enforcement. We have conducted many large projects using several tools and associated repositories. We are able to guide you in the adoption of tools and associated internal processes to ensure that you can deliver quality, at a set standard - for the complete SOA lifecycle including:

• SOA Policy Management: to help you define and enforce your governance policies
  
  
• SOA Registries and Repositories: to assist you in achieving greater visibility and control of the provision of services with reporting, monitoring and analytics
  
  
• SOA Service Provisioning: to ensure that you retain complete control over the service development lifecycle as it impacts your composite application delivery
  
  
• SOA Q&A and validation technologies: to guide your enterprise IT in planning, developing, deploying, monitoring, optimising and controlling its distributed, heterogeneous application environments.
  
  

How you'll benefit

SOA has rapidly seized the momentum and centre stage because it is seen as the key for enterprises to achieve business agility, improved quality of service, lowered total cost of ownership and to align business objectives with technology.

Many of the Fortune 500 and top 200 Australian private companies have started to embrace a SOA approach for initial development and integration projects. Many analysts predict that companies are now ready to take the next step - a more systematic adoption of service-oriented architecture. Those already down that path using the SOA Intelligence approach have better management of their roles, responsibilities and ultimate project success.