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SOA Process - Governance
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byPurpose of SOA Governance
Here is a selection of views about the purpose of SOA Governance.
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Driving Better Business Results
e.g. IBM1 point
Reinforce good behavior, help avoid bad behavior
e.g. Nick Malik of Microsoft1 point
Preventing Rogue Services
e.g. James Kobielus (Network World, June 2006)0 points
SOA Security and Compliance
e.g. Progress Software0 points
Business Continuity
e.g. WebLayers (PDF)0 points
Track Development Progress, Measure Return on Investment
e.g. BEA Systems0 points
Achieving SOA Objectives
e.g. CBDI (subscription required)0 points
Balancing Order and Complexity
e.g. in some of my own articles0 points
Responsible Reuse
e.g. Alex Maclinovsky of Sun0 points
My articles and posts on SOA Governance
- Metropolis and SOA Governance. Part 1: Towards the Agile Metropolis
- Article in Microsoft Architecture Journal (with Philip Boxer). Free access
- Metropolis and SOA Governance. Part 2: Taking Governance to the Edge
- Article in Microsoft Architecture Journal (with Philip Boxer). Free access
- Business-Driven SOA
- Article in CBDI Journal (corporate members only)
- Business Driven SOA - Part 2 - Governance
- Article in CBDI Journal (corporate members only)
- SOA Governance -from Chaos to Order - The Transformation of Enterprise Architecture
- Article in CBDI Journal (corporate members only)
- Twin-Track Governance
- Blogpost from September 2005. Free access.
Posts from my SOA blog
on Governance
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- The "G" word
- Tony Baer compares SOA governance (service-oriented architecture) with SOX governance (Sarbanes-Oxley). "While SOX is intended to prevent bad things from happening to data, if SOA is implemented properly, it provides new ways of exposing data."
- SOA Governance Only Solving Part of the Problem
- Dave Linthicum advocates a holistic view of SOA governance.
Blog Posts from Google
- InfoQ: "SOA Governance" Revitalized
- This article by Miko Matsumura discusses why people are pursuing SOA, whether SOA is dead, what SOA...
- A Fresh Look at SOA Governance | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com
- Honestly, I'd rather write about anything besides governance, particularly SOA governance. I'm not s...
- Don't reinvent the wheel -- applying SOA Governance to all types ...
- Find out about the hot topics in SOA governance and management directly from our experts at HP Commu...
- InfoQ: Wonderland Of SOA Governance
- Michael Poulin elaborates on the differences between of governance and management and tries to explo...
Books on SOA Governance
Not many books about this topic. This is all I can find - one very technical and one not yet available.
Fast SOA: The way to use native XML technology to achieve Service Oriented Architecture governance, scalability, and performance (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
looks very technical
Amazon Price: $49.95 (as of 12/02/2009) 
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise
not yet available
Amazon Price: $43.87 (as of 12/02/2009)
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